Mike & Mike contest webpage and podcasts
A web page about the upcoming eating contest on the Mike & Mike show has been set up on espn.com. The page announces that the third IFOCE eater will be Pete Davekos. (from email)
A an audio and video podcast are also available. Richard Shea, who will provide commentary for the contest, appears on the audio podcast and announces that the contest will be three minutes long. The competitive eating segment of the podcast begins at the 9 minute mark with a parody of “Wing Beneath my Wings”. (Mike-Greenberg.com has the lyrics) Richard Shea says that Mike Greenberg will receive an MLE poncho to wear during the contest which will be available for sale this summer.
The video podcast consists of reading and answering emails about the contest.
On the webpage, Mike Golic describes his interest in competitive eating:
Back in the day, when Golic was playing for the Eagles, he was an avid fan of the Wing Bowl, an annual eating contest in Philadelphia. “I’m no stranger to mass quantities of food,” says Golic, “but I am a stranger to the speed I would have to eat [in the contest.]”
According to his Wikipedia page, Golic’s stint with the Philadelphia Eagles ended in 1992. The inaugural Wing Bowl took place in 1993.
Mike & Mike eating contest May 1
Mike-Greenberg.com announces that Mike Golic’s eating contest will take place on May 1 between 8:05 and 8:20 am eastern. The contest will be simulcast on ESPN2 and ESPNRadio.com. The food will be wings from Buffalo Wild Wings. Golic’s opponent was not listed.
update A video clip of the announcement is available. Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti and at least one other unnamed eater are expected to be Golic’s competition. Mike Greenberg wants to use the hottest wings on Buffalo Wild Wings’ menu.
Crazy Legs interview on the Mike & Mike show
A video clip of Crazy Legs Conti’s phone interview on the April 1 “Mike and Mike” show can be viewed on ESPN.com. A graphic lists Crazy Legs’ first name as “Kevin”. That video clip is available for download.
The full interview is available in an audio podcast. Crazy Legs’ interview starts around the 30 minute mark. Crazy Legs will probably be a commentator for Mike Golic’s contest and he suggests Krystal burgers as the food. Conti says that Sonya will not defend her 2005 title at the Acme Oyster eating contest.
Mike Golic to do on-air eating contest
Competitive eating will apparently appear on ESPN / ESPN2 before July 4. According to Mike-Greenberg.com, Mike Greenberg won his NCAA bracket challenge with Mike Golic. Golic’s penalty for losing will be competing in an eating contest against pro eaters during his radio show which is simulcast on ESPN2. It will be interesting to see who Golic faces in his contest.
Mike Golic (ESPN radio) vs. pro eaters?
Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg of ESPN radio and ESPN2 are finalizing the details of their 2008 NCAA tournament wager. A poll on ESPN.com is currently available to determine Golic’s fate if he loses the wager. The five choices in that poll are:
- Dress in drag for an entire show
- Get a full body waxing on the show
- Receive a botox shot in the forehead during the show
- Participate in a competitive eating contest vs. the pros on the show
- Follow a vegan diet for an entire week
The winning choice will be revealed during tomorrow’s show.
updated corrected Mr. Golic’s first name (thanks Wing Tut)
Update March 13 Mike-Greenberg.com reports that the eating contest was the winning choice.
Micheal Springer interview in PC newspaper
The website for the newspaper of Providence College has an interview with Michael Springer. Springer was prohibited from competing in the finals for the “Eat The Meat” wing contest after winning a qualifier, but that ban was not mentioned in the interview.
In other news about big eating Friars, this Rhode Island Monthly article about former Providence basketball player, and current ESPN announcer, Doris Burke, reports she is the second biggest eater in women’s basketball:
She’s hungry, and as she parks in the darkness of a casino garage she hopes she isn’t too late for the crew lunch. She works out ninety minutes most days at a gym near her house, and she is as slender as she was twenty years ago when she played at PC. You wouldn’t know it from looking at her, but she can out-eat any woman on the basketball circuit but one, and she’s half Burke’s age.
Joey Chestnut currently #9 in ESPN.com ranking
The current top 10 in ESPN’s All-SportsNation Team of 2007
64.7% Randy Couture
30.2% Floyd Mayweather Jr.
17.7% Tom Brady
12.9% Alex Rodriguez
12.7% Brett Favre
11.2% Tiger Woods
8.6% LeBron James
7.9% Randy Moss
5.3% Joey Chestnut
5.3% Kobe Bryant
Joey Chestnut in ESPN All-SportsNation Team poll
Joey Chestnut is a choice in ESPN.com’s online poll to determine the 5 members of the 2007 All-SportsNation Team. If the poll is like last year’s, voters will be able to vote an unlimited number of times.
GJoe in college basketball ESPN.com article
Joe Menchetti appears in an ESPN.com article about fans of the University of Connecticut traveling to the Gulf Coast for the men’s and women’s Final Fours in 2004:
Another stroll down River Walk, and I run into “Big Red,” a really loud fan who always starts the crowd cheering “U-C-O-N-N!” He gives me the cell-phone number of a Joe Manchetti, another Huskie-maniac who is on the road somewhere between New Orleans and San Antonio.
“I flew on Friday from Hartford to Baton Rouge, and drove to San Antonio,” said Joe. “Took me about seven hours. We were tired. After the Saturday games, we walked back to the hotel — for about a mile. I took a shower and a power nap for a few hours. Totally forgot about Daylight Savings Time.
Krystal Square Off IV on ESPN Sportscenter
A clip from ESPN’s Sportcenter about the results of Krystal Square Off IV can be viewed at http://broadband.espn.go.com/ivp/splash2?id=3084545
Stacey Dales for 2008 Nathan’s sideline reporter?
According to this 2003 article link fixed Jan 12, 2015 in the Washington Times, Stacey Dales might be the ESPN sideline reporter with the best background for next year’s Nathan’s finals broadcast:
Dales-Schuman is at home behind both a microphone – she cut her promos flawlessly – and a dinner plate. Tough, double-session practices have burned off the calories and she works out on her own, but she still is one of those high-metabolism types who can live on the buffet line and stay maddeningly thin. Some mayonnaise with that? Absolutely. She proceeded to liberally apply the stuff, with apparent glee, from a squeeze bottle. “I’m a hog,” she said while chomping on a giant turkey hoagie.
“She eats like a madwoman,” said Indiana Fever coach Nell Fortner, who worked with Dales-Schuman in the studio during ESPN’s coverage of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament and is one of many who marvels at her appetite. “It’s hilarious. There was food all over the desk. Then with 20 seconds to go before we went on, it’s, like, clear the desk. I tell her she eats like a cow. She grazes all day long.”
Krystal Square Off IV broadcast notes
No reruns are scheduled on ESPN or ESPN2 for the Krystal Square Off finals in the next two weeks, so watch it or record it tomorrow at 2:30 pm eastern on ESPN if you are interested in seeing it.
A live bowling match precedes the Krystal finals, hopefully it will not run over.
With a 30 minute contest length, it does not appear there will be enough time for much more than introductions, the contest and a post-contest interview. From the schedule
2 p.m. – 2:40p.m. – Introduction of eaters by George Shea, Chairman of the IFOCE.
* 2:40 – 2:48 p.m. – 8 minute Krystal Square Off World Championship Final.
* 2:55 pm – Award Presentations
Liz will be counting for Pat Bertoletti, so she should appear on television.
Joey Chestnut on ESPN chat
Joey Chestnut is currently doing a chat session on ESPN.com which started at noon eastern.
update The chat session was made accessible only to paid subscribers of ESPN.com
Krystal Square Off IV broadcast information
From zap2it.com
ESPN 2007 World Hamburger Eating Championship
Sun, Oct 28, 2:30 PM | Run Time: 30 min.
Genre: Sports
Live From Chattanooga, Tenn.
There will probably be some reruns.
ESPN.com column: Nathan’s is highlight of summer
Bill Simmons (the Sports Guy) of ESPN.com lists Joey Chestnut’s victory as one of the few high points in a bleak summer for sports:
It’s impossible to rank these events from most depressing to least depressing, so I won’t even try. Making matters worse, the enjoyable moments have been few and far between. Basically, it’s been Joey Chestnut’s toppling Kobayashi, Stephon Marbury’s surreal Mike’d Up appearance and the actor who played Reggie Jackson in The Bronx Is Burning’s inadvertently looking like C. Thomas Howell in Soul Man.
Early Nathan’s TV rating – 1.5 million viewers
AOL FanHouse has an entry about competitive eating on television:
Richard Sandomir, the great sports TV reporter for the New York Times, explores the way Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest has become a big TV event, and he says that with about 1.5 million people tuning in (exact numbers have not been released), Major League Eating could become a major player on cable TV.
The entry also speculates that Nathan’s could move to Spike TV in 2008.
NY Times on C.E. on TV
Richard Sandomir, the television sports columnist for the New York Times, wrote about competitive eating on television. Cable network deals and ratings are discussed at the end of the column:
ESPN started carrying the Nathan’s event in 2004, and it drew 926,000 viewers. In 2005, it dipped to 860,000, but it leaped to 1.46 million last year, a level it probably reached on Wednesday.
“We’ve done other competitive eating contests,†said David Berson, an ESPN executive vice president. “But we focus on the hot dog. It’s the marquee event.â€
But with ESPN’s deal now expired, Spike wants to take gluttony (not entirely a male pursuit, as the M.L.E. star Sonya Thomas shows) to its male-focused network as a companion to its Ultimate Fighting Championship franchise. Spike has shown one Major League Eating event (the St. Patrick’s Day corned beef and cabbage, jalapeños and green doughnuts show from Savannah, Ga., attracted 739,000 viewers) and is scheduled to carry three more.
ESPN radio hosts mention reversal censorship
The excising of Kobayashi’s reversal from Nathan’s reruns noticed by MegaMunch was also commented on by the hosts of ESPN radio’s morning show according to Michael David Smith on AOL FanHouse
“There was an edict last night to stop showing the regurgitation,” said Gottlieb, filling in for Mike Greenberg on Mike and Mike in the Morning.
Co-host Mike Golic asked, “We can’t show that?” and Gottlieb replied, “We can’t show the puke.”
Golic said, “I’ve got an issue with that.” So do I. Vomiting is a part of competitive eating just as concussions are a part of football, and ESPN shouldn’t sugarcoat the truth.
Nathan’s reruns on ESPN/ESPN2
(From Dave Shoffner) Nathan’s finals reruns (all times eastern)
7/4 11pm ESPN2
7/5 2:30am ESPN2
7/5 7pm ESPN2
7/6 8pm ESPN
7/8 1am ESPN2
7/8 5pm ESPN
7/12 2pm ESPN
ESPN analysts on Kobayashi’s condition
On ESPN’s Sportcenter, several analysts in various sports provided commentary about Kobayashi’s jaw arthritis. Dave “MegaMunch” Shoffner provided a transcription for that segment which follows after the jump.
Eating contests on ESPN rankings of sporting events
(From Nathan Biller) In Jim Caple’s rankings of 101 sporting events for ESPN.com, the Nathan’s finals are #94. The Wing Bowl is #9 on the list of the top 10 events to avoid.
Juliet Lee makes ESPN’s plays of the day
Juliet Lee’s victory at the Norfolk Nathan’s qualifier has been ranked #8 on ESPN Sportcenter’s plays of the day.
Bill Simmons (not El Wingador) on Joey Chestnut
In his chat today, Bill “The Sports Guy” Simmons of ESPN.com was asked a question about Joey Chestnut:
Eric (New York City): Bill, did you read about that guy who broke the Japanese guy’s record for hot dog eating. Will you be tuning in to ESPN2 to watch USA vs. Japan in hot dog eating?
Bill Simmons: Heard about this! We really need to get behind this guy… it’s like the ’80 Olympic Hockey team all over again.
Joey’s wing victory is #2 “Play of the Day” on ESPN
(From Megamunch and Brian Subich) Joey Chestnut’s victory at the TripRewards wing contest yesterday was the #2 play of the day on ESPN Sportcenter.
Dueling competitive eating reruns tonight
In addition to the 4 hours of eating contests to be rerun on ESPN2 tonight starting at 7pm eastern, CBS will rerun the competitive eating themed CSI at 9pm tonight that was originally broadcast on Thanksgiving weekend 2005.
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