Competitive Eating category

The latest podcast of Indiana Public Media's Earth Eats has an interview with former IFOCE MC Ryan Nerz (starts at 10 minute mark), who cites "elements of unhealthfulness" as a reason he left that job. The interview makes no mention of Marijuanamerica, Nerz' latest book.
ESPN Sportsnation will host an online chat session with Joey Chestnut today at 2:30 ET / 11:30a PT.
Rich Shea will be on Mike & Mike this morning at 9:15 eastern.
TriStateHomePage has a video about the hot dog eating contest held at Mo's Mustang Market in Morganfield, KY won by Dale Boone. Joe LaRue also competed.
Thrillist has an interview with Matt Stonie and Dr. Connor O'Brien of Stanford about the best strategies for finishing eating challenges.

2013 Nathan’s qualifier winners

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In a comment on his facebook page, Pat Bertoletti says he does not expect to return to Major League Eating, citing contract issues for the termination of the relationship.

Joey Chestnut 2010-2012 earnings analysis

This post updates a post from last year comparing Joey Chestnut’s winnings from contest prizes with his annual earnings according to ESPN Magazine, which have dropped from $218,500 in 2010 to $161,400 last year according to that periodical. The new poll asks what you think is the main reason for that decline.
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Takeru Kobayashi will attempt to set a record for Tim Horton's Timbits at the University of Waterloo (Ontario) on Canada Day, July 1.
Last year's cupcake eating contest held at Coney Island will be televised on the July 1 episode of DC Cupcakes on TLC at 7pm ET/PT. Stephanie Torres ate 71 cupcakes to win the contest.
Randy Santel produced a video of him eating 27 meals in 27 different Omaha-area restaurants on his 27th birthday. The total calorie count is estimated to be 16,353.
Business Week reports that Nathan's Famous sales are up 17% from last year and cites the hot dog contest as a reason. This goes against a decline of 3% for the overall hot dog market.
A press release has more information about Takeru Kobayashi's July 4 event where he will attempt to break his personal record of 69 hot dogs and unveil his line of "Kobi Dogs". None of the seven "accalaimed competitive eaters" that will also participate are listed by name. Kobi Dogs will be available for mail order on www.KobiDog.com starting July 4 (that website currently shows a generic Go Daddy page).
Visalia Times has a video of Pablo Martinez displaying techinques for competitive hot dog eating.
Naader Reda has a video of an unnamed wing eating contest where he was credited with 32 wings after he ate 25. (gallery of a wing contest held in California this past weekend)
Miki Sudo has posted a video of a one minute hot dog training session she did with "Cardboard Shell".
Jeff "The Beastman" Butler appeared on Fox 10 today to talk about competing in the Nathan's finals. (via email)

Mirror.co.uk picks up parody story as factual

update June 24 Huffington Post UK has an article about the parody.

The Mirror has pulled its story without any commentary. The Daily Mail and The Sun have also ran the story and quietly deleted their articles.

The Globe and Mail and MSN ran the story, but have corrected their articles.

Uncorrected articles are still accessible on Examiner PerezHilton.com Daily Star and NewsTalkFlorida.com .

Mirror.co.uk reports that Kevin “The Mighty Rib” Shalin passed into a coma after eating 413 biscuits at Red Lobster. The story originated on Rock City Times, which bills itself as Arkansas 2nd most unreliable news. Kevin Shalin admitted the story was a parody on his facebook.

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Dale Boone won the Big Kahuna Wing Eating Competition held at World's Fair Park in Knoxville, TN yesterday.
A fake Matt Stonie twitter has been started at https://twitter.com/MattStonie_. The real one is at https://twitter.com/MattStonie.
Kevin Ross has started a facebook fan page at https://www.facebook.com/CromulentKevin
Naader Reda appeared on KTLA this morning to promote the start of qualifying for Farrell’s Splendiferously Superific Summer Spectacular Ice Cream Eating Challenge.
MediaBistro's post about DietBet includes Joel Podelsky's testimonial.
A link for the webcast of the "Stuffed" finale has been set up at http://whatstrending.com/2013/06/trending-live-noon-stuffed-food-filled-finale/, but it is currently showing the final taped episode where Miki Sudo and Jimmy Lin face off in a corn dog eating contest. update Link to webcast video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE47xxGTSCk

ESPN2 to show Sportscenter instead of Nathan’s womens finals

The 2013 Nathan’s TV schedule is now out (scroll down to “Great Events”). ESPN2 will start live coverage of the men’s finals at noon EDT while ESPN televises Wimbledon. The broadcast will be rerun on ESPN at 1 pm EDT and 7 pm EDT and on ESPN2 at 5 pm EDT.

The women’s finals will be webcast on ESPN3.com starting at 11:30. ESPN2 will be showing Sportscenter at that time, so the women’s finals could be televised live if the Sportscenter starting at 7 am EDT on that channel was truncated from five hours to 4:30.

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