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2013 St. Elmo’s Shrimp Cocktail eating contest
update Dec 12 He Eats She Drinks has a contest video
Crazy Legs Conti has a blog entry for the Huffington Post
update Dec 10 CT News has a contest report
update #2 The Indy Star also has a gallery. WISH TV has an article and video. Big City Photography has a facebook gallery.
update The Indy Star has a video
The top 6: (Part 1 | Part 2)
1) Joey Chestnut 9.25 lb 8 minutes
2) Yasir Salem 5 lb.
3) Crazy Legs Conti 4.25
4) Matt Raible 4
5) Tracy Goode 3
6) Craig “The Doctor” Evans 2
This might be the coldest outdoor contest in IFOCE/MLE history. The current temperature in Indianapolis is 25F
Joey Chestnut appeared on ESPN College GameDay earlier today and picked the Big 10 championship game.
Ray Steele has interviews with Joey Chestnut and Tracy Goode.
There was a Thanksgiving leftover eating contest on last night's episode of WWE Smackdown won by Titus O'Neil resulting in two on-stage reversals after he was forced to enter the ring after his victory. (Post match reaction | episode recap)
There will be a Thanksgiving food eating contest on the November 29 episode of WWE Smackdown according to PW Mania.
Yasir Salem appeared on the Australian program The Daily Edition.
Variety reports that The Writers Guild of America is wants to unionize programs produced by Sharp Entertainment including Man vs. Food. The final episode of that show was recorded in late 2011; its termination was announced in February 2012.
Red House TV has placed a casting call for the biggest eaters in the United Kingdom.
Articles by the Irish Independent and Mid Ulster Mail both list Randy Santel as the star of the now cancelled program Man v Food. Randy is currently doing an eating challenge tour of Europe and was the second person to finish the breakfast challenge at Murphy's Law in Athlone, Ireland.
According to TheWrap.com, Tim "Eater X" Janus appears in the background of the latest "This Is SportCenter" commercial on ESPN (around the 15 second mark).
Medium.com has a transcript of the segment of Fox TV's Man vs. Beast where Takeru Kobayashi faced off against a bear in a hot dog eating contest.
CNN.com has a video of Anderson Cooper 360 crew members competing in a White Castle Burger eating contest.
In tonight's episode of Hotel Impossible (10 pm eastern & Pacific on the Travel Channel), host Anthony Melchiorri will compete in the Nugget Rib Eating Championship held in Sparks, NV in August. Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie and Juan Rodriguez appear in a screen capture..
Takeru Kobayashi will appear on the Canadian sports channel TSN today at 5 pm eastern.He ate 4 hot dogs in 30 seconds.
Good Day Sacramento is seeking three women to compete in an on-air eating contest at Rivers Edge Cafe on Sunday.
NYCastings has a request for "sexy and cute types to portray girls in a hotdog eating contest" to be filmed in New York City tomorrow for an episode of the new series "Deadbeat".
Pat Bertoletti will attempt the egg yolk challenge on Friday's episode of the Steve Harvey Show (via OregonLive) update Oct 25 Pat's segment can be viewed online
Molly Schuyler appeared on WOWT to eat donuts from WOWT at Uptown Bakery in Bellevue, NE.
Tomorrow's episode of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central will feature a video of a reversal experienced by a diner attempting a spicy sushi challenge. update The whole entire competitive eating segment can be viewed online. Joey Chestnut appears in the segment.
Halftime promotion Little Arlene, billed as the "hot dog queen" made a brief appearance in "Free Spirits", a documentary about the St. Louis Spirits of the ABA that debuted tonight on ESPN. According to a 1986 LA Times article, she ate 23 hot dogs, 22 large slices of pizza and 16 large Cokes during a Philadelphia 76ers game.
WXYZ.com has an article about DeSean Whipple, who defended his coney eating title at American Coney in Detroit on Thursday and will appear on the game show Let's Ask America tomorrow.
In the "Lactose Intolerant" episode of Mystery Diners, the undercover customers attempt to determine why the grilled cheese sandwich at Cheesie's Pub & Grub in Chicago had such a high success rate. The episode will be televised on the Food Network on September 13, 14 and 15.
Joey Chestnut will appear tonight on E! News at 7 and 11:30 to promote tomorrow's gyoza contest. Matt Stonie has uploaded a video of his training for that event.
Ken Douglas appeared on Good Day Sacramento this morning to attempt the burger challenge at Chuck's Place Sports Cafe in Manteca, CA (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3)
In an outtake video from ESPN's Around the Horn, Pablo Torres talks about his attempt at the Fifth Third burger challenge available at West Michigan Whitecaps games.
Vulture.com has produced an animation of the Star Trek pie eating contest described in last night's episode of Breaking Bad.
The Steak and Catfish Barn in Edmond, OK, site of the catfish challenge in the Oklahoma City episode of Man v Food will close at the end of this month so its owners can retire in Italy.
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