USA Today reports that 1.2% United States households watched the 2010 Nathan's finals (corresponding to 1.677 million viewers) This is an audience increase of about 400,000 from last year, and about the same number of viewers as in 2007.
ESPN.com Page 2 has an interview with Joey Chestnut and CNN's Eatocracy has a video.
ESPN.com's Page 2 has posted some eating stories that were requested on Monday. Bethany P's tale of eating 71 pigs in a blanket in 20 minutes at a law firm's reception was declared the winner.
Youtube has a video of an interview Joey Chestnut did on ESPN's First Take today. update Joey also did a hot dog contest with Michelle Beadle on SportsNation today.
ESPN.com's Page 2 is requesting readers to submit their best food and sports stories before noon Wednesday. The best stories will be published on ESPN.com on Thursday.
The broadcast of the 2010 Nathan's finals is now listed in the ESPN schedule. As in previous years, the program will start at noon eastern and last an hour.
Adam Richman on ESPN June 16
Adam Richman will do a chat session on ESPN.com to promote the debut of the third season of Man vs. Food at 12:30 pm update a transcript is available
update videos from Adam Richman’s appearances
Gatorade challenge on First Take
Penalty kick challenge
Michelle Beadle offers the following proposal to Adam: “you, me, and 1000 rice krispie treats….u scared??? Let’s do this…”
The video of Pat Bertoletti competing against Philadelphia Eagle Brent Celek and other ESPN personalities in a one minute jalapeno eating contest on First Take is available on ESPN.go.com
Pat Bertoletti vs. Eagle Brent Celek on ESPN2’s First Take Friday
Philadelphia Eagles tight end Brent Celek will do a jalapeno eating contest on First Take on ESPN2 Friday. He is holding a contest on his facebook that will award an autograph to the fan who submits a video eating the most jalapenos in a minute.
update May 13 Celek’s competition will be Pat Bertoletti and four other ESPN employees. The MLE facebook says that the contest should start around 11:45 eastern.
Wide receiver D Yergey of the Philadelphia Liberty Belles says she can outeat any of the linewomen on her team in an eating contest.
Bill “SportsGuy” Simmons calls for new “Man vs. Food” host
Bill “SportsGuy” Simmons of ESPN.com makes the following criticism of Man vs. Food and its host in his NCAA tournament chat session (scroll to the 1:04 entry):
The host is a 1 out of 10. Could be sooooooo much better. We want to take over the show. Stage a show d’ etat.
Adam Richman of Man vs. Food will appear on ESPN2's First Take today to rank the top 8 breakfast cereals.
Michelle Beadle of ESPN's SportsNation concurs with columnist Jemele Hill that if she could trade jobs with anybody for a day, it would be Adam Richman of Man vs. Food
ESPN.com has a video of Adam Richman's appearance on SportsCenter Thursday to talk about Super Bowl foods.
Man vs. Food live episode links
Some links about Wednesday’s live episode of Man vs. Food from Miami:
- ESPN.com interview
- ESPN Mobile Five Minutes for the Fans
- Pictures from Adam Richman’s appearance on ESPN’s SportsNation
- Associated Press interview
ESPN's Sportsnation has a poll asking if Adam Richman of Man vs. Food is more reckless with his body than snowboarder Shaun White.
Adam Richman ESPN chat session
Adam Richman’s chat session on ESPN.com has started. He says he would like to retry the Carnivore Challenge pizza in Atlanta with Greg “The Great Moomsi” Maloomian as his partner. Some pictures from Adam Richman’s appearance on ESPN First Take earlier this morning are available on twitpic.
A podcast of Adam Richman’s appearance on the Paul and Young Ron Morning show is also available.
update A video clip of Adam Richman’s appearance on First Take is available.
Here is information about the Hall of Famer burger challenge attempted by Adam Richman and John Ritchie on First Take.
Adam Richman will do a chat session on ESPN.com tomorrow starting at 1 pm eastern to promote next week's live episode of Man vs. Food.
Youtube has the commercial for the February 3 episode of Man vs. Food that will televised live from Miami. Adam Richman will appear on ESPN January 27 to promote the episode.
William Beutler reports that Kobayashi appeared in ESPN's highlights of the decade montage. (I have not been able to find the video online)
Zimbio has a gallery of the Martorano's Masters Meatball Championship update ESPN and RawVegas.tv have videos.
The Sklar brothers of ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats have produced a sketch for youtube about reacquiring a stolen pair of Lou Gehrig's pants with the assistance of competitive eater "Louis Farra-Cannibal". An image of Sonya Thomas appears in the video.ESPN SportCenter cookie contest
There was a cookie eating contest on yesterday morning’s SportCenter on ESPN in honor of the Man vs. Food turkey leg challenge at Indianapolis Motor Speedway making the Top 10 plays of the week. A video of the segment can be downloaded below:
SportsMediaWatch reports that the 2009 Nathan's finals broadcast received a 0.9 rating corresponding to 1.3 million viewers. The 2007 contest reportedly drew a 1.3 rating and 1.632 million viewers. (I have not been able to find last year's rating)
Sportnation debuted on ESPN2 today, and one of the topics they discussed was whether there should be more televised competitive eating. You can vote on a poll on the program's web page (from anon comment) and also follow the twitter responses.
This evening's ESPN Sportcenter had a long story on competitive eating which can be viewed online. The segment originally ran on E:60 in October and a reporter roundtable about the clip is also available.
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