SportsMediaNews reports that all five previous Nathan's broadcasts from 2004-2008 will be rerun on ESPNU on July 3 between midnight and 5 am eastern.
Joel Stein has a column for ESPN.com's Page 2 about his attempt to consume 9,000 calories in a day as Tour de France competitors do.
Joey Chestnut's chat on ESPN.com has just started. Crazy Legs Conti is also participating.
The Nathan's finals broadcast now appears on TV listings. Like previous years, the program will start at noon eastern and last an hour.
A clip from ESPN2's First Take about the Fifth Third burger can be viewed on ESPN.com
ESPN Krispy Kreme Challenge videos
A segment about the Krispy Kreme Challenge race held at North Carolina State was broadcast on ESPN Sportcenter yesterday. Raw footage of Greg Garber competing and doing the “Kobayashi shake” is also available.
Fifth Third burger videos
CNBC has a video clip of Darren Rovell assembling and sampling the Fifth Third burger, which was mailed from Michigan packed in dry ice. The ESPN Sportscenter clip about the sandwich is available on youtube.
update WZZM13 has a video of its traffic reporter attempting to eat the burger during its morning news show.
Greg Garber has a report on ESPN.com's Page 2 about competing in the Krispy Kreme Challenge last month. The contest will also be covered by Sunday's Sportcenter according to a sidebar.
ESPN.com's Page 2 has a tournament with 64 different types of meat.
Man vs. Food NC locations (filming Jan 27)
NewRaleigh.com has information about the three Raleigh-Durham restaurants where Man vs. Food will film on January 27: Mama Dips (Chapel Hill), The Pit (Raleigh) and The Roast Grill (Raleigh). Adam Richman will attempt to eat 15 hot dogs, 15 buns, a half pint of mustard, one pint of chili sauce, and three drinks at The Roast Grill, which does not appear to have an official eating challenge.
In other Raleigh televised competitive eating news, a twitter update says that the Krispy Kreme Challenge on February 7 will be covered by ESPN.
Mike & Mike contest gallery on ESPN.com
A gallery of the wing eating contest held during Mike & Mike in the Morning in which Tim Janus, Crazy Legs Conti and Pete Davekos competed against co-host Mike Golic is available on ESPN.com
E:60 reporter roundtable extended version
The video clip of the roundtable meeting of E:60 reporters and producers on ESPN.com is considerably longer (8:37) than the segment that was televised. The meeting consists mainly of a discussion on whether competitive eating is a sport. Jeremey Schaap cites competitive eating on the Versus network (which has never televised eating contests, as far as I am aware) as evidence of its popularity. He also says he has never seen such passion as he saw at last month’s cannoli contest and was genuinely moved by Brad Sciullo’s crying at the end of that competition.
E:60 teleblog
I will teleblog the competitive eating segment on the E:60 episode currently being broadcast. It appears the competitive eating segment will be the last to air and start around 7:40-7:45 pm eastern.
The episode will be rerun on ESPN2 at: 10/23 8:00 PM, 10/27 3:00 PM and 10/27 11:00 PM (all times eastern), but the segment will be available on e60.com.
update The competitive eating segment and the reporter roundtable are now available on ESPN.com. There is a also a page where viewers can submit videos to comment on the episode.
The teleblog is available after the jump
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E:60 competitive eating segment preview
ESPNMediaZone has a press release about Tuesday’s E:60 that will be televised on ESPN at 7pm eastern which will have a segment about competitive eating:
In a sport replete with colorful personalities, E:60 correspondent Jeremy Schaap takes an in-depth look at competitive eating and addresses some of the sport’s salient health and social issues. Highlights include interviews with some of the greatest eaters in the world such as Takeru Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut, Juliet Lee, Crazy Legs Conti and Tim “Eater X” Janus.
Juliet Lee to appear on ESPN’s E:60
Juliet Lee has updated her WriteNow page with news of her trip to New York City to compete in the Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest and record her appearance on Guy Fieri’s “Big Show” on the Food Network.
Juliet also recorded a segment for ESPN’s E:60 news magazine program, which is expected to be televised on October 21.
Jalapeno contest makes ESPN top 10
The La Contena “Feel the Heat” jalapeno eating contest in Chicago yesterday was listed at #7 in the Sportscenter top 10 plays of the weekend.
2008 Nathan’s rerun tonight
The Nathan’s finals will be rerun tonight on ESPN at 3am eastern. This is the only rerun that currently appears in the online TV schedules.
Nathan’s rerun July 11 3am
A rerun of the last Friday’s Nathan’s finals will be televised on ESPN on July 11 at 3am eastern.
ESPN.com competitive eating game
There will be a new competitive eating video game released in time for the Nathan’s finals. Page 2 on ESPN.com has a flash based game which involves clicking and dragging hot dogs moving at variable speed into an eater’s mouth.
2008 Nathan’s reruns on ESPN
According to Zap2It.com, ESPN’s telecast of the 2008 Nathan’s finals will rerun immediately after the original program. This will be the only additional showing in the week following July 4.
The 2007 Nathan’s finals were rerun 7 times between July 4 and July 12.
Newsday: “Feast on the First” boosts “Mike & Mike” searches
Neil Best’s sports media blog reports that there was an increase in the number of internet searches for the “Mike & Mike” radio show on ESPN radio on May 1, the day of the wing eating contest between Mike Golic and three IFOCE members.
“Feast on the First” results and links
Results from the wing eating contest on the “Mike & Mike” show on ESPN radio:
1. Tim “Eater X” Janus 31 wings in 3 minutes
2. Crazy Legs Conti 23
3. Pete Davekos 22
4. Mike Golic 15
Video and audio podcasts of the contest are available. A live blog is also available on mike-greenberg.com.
The Hartford Courant has an article about the contest
Mike & Mike pre-contest interviews
The home page for ESPN Radio has interviews with Tim Janus and Pete Davekos about competing against Mike Golic on the “Mike & Mike” show tomorrow morning. There is also a message board about the contest.
Mike & Mike “Feast on the First” press release
The press release for tomorrow’s wing eating contest between Mike Golic of ESPN radio and Tim Janus, Crazy Legs Conti and Pete Davekos follows after the jump:
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