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AOL Weird News has an article about the Nathan's women's division with quotes from Larell Marie Mele confirming that the female contest will not be televised on ESPN; live coverage will be available online on ESPN3.

June 29, 2011 at 11:33 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2011 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, ESPN, Larell Marie Mele, Women | Permalink * Comments (1)

The National Collegiate Competitive Eating Association has posted its first rankings listing Eric "Silo" Dahl as the top competitive eater in college. (People had to submit a "resume" to be considered for the rankings.)

June 29, 2011 at 11:25 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:College Contests, Colorado, Eric Dahl, Rankings | Permalink * Comments (1)

The women's contest at the Nathan's finals may not appear on ESPN. IFOCE.com lists the start time of the female division at 11:30 am eastern and the ESPN broadcast will start at 12 noon eastern. (Grace Lee has planned a watch party, hopefully the women's contest will appear on some channel)

June 28, 2011 at 4:36 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2011 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, ESPN, Women | Permalink * Comments (23)

Randy Santel has started a twitter at http://twitter.com/atlaszeuspromos

June 28, 2011 at 3:32 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Randy Santel, Websites | Permalink * Comments (2)

Mickey Duzyj has produced "A Patriot's Guide to the Hot Dog Eating Contest" with graphics inspired by the 1980s video game Mike Tyson's Punch Out.

June 27, 2011 at 9:05 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2011 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Video Games | Permalink * Comments (2)

The Daily has an article about eating challenges attempted by workers in Manhattan's financial district with a quote from former day trader Tim Janus. Ian Roncoroni, an energy options broker, won $3,500 after winning a bet that he could not eat 244 raw oysters.

June 27, 2011 at 1:03 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, New York City | Permalink * Comments

Todd "The Hungry Genius" Greenwald, founder of The National Collegiate Competitive Eating Association, has started a blog at http://thehungrygenius.blogspot.com/

June 25, 2011 at 7:32 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Websites | Permalink * Comments

"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has uploaded an interactive competitive eating seminar to youtube in which he describes his techniques for eating hot dogs, burgers, wings and pizza.

June 24, 2011 at 11:39 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Videos | Permalink * Comments (11)

Eric "Badlands" Booker's appearance at K104 this morning to promote tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier in Fishkill, NY can be viewed online.

June 24, 2011 at 5:07 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2011 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Hudson Valley, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Lum Dim Sum has a gallery of Joey Chestnut's trip to China. Joey visited the Great Wall of China and the Compassion for Migrant Children (CMC)’s Pingxifu Center in addition to performing an exhibition at the Beijing Nathan's qualifier where he ate 39 hot dogs in 5 minutes.

June 24, 2011 at 10:51 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2011 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, China, Galleries, Joey Chestnut | Permalink * Comments (2)

Grace Lee has started a tumblr page at http://maneatergrace.tumblr.com/.The "About Me" section describes Grace as an undefeated food eating champion.

June 24, 2011 at 10:19 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Websites | Permalink * Comments (17)

The 2011 Nathan's finals will be televised live in the United Kingdom on ESPN America and Paul Page will return as announcer despite calling the defending champion "Joey Chitwood" on last year's broadcast.

June 23, 2011 at 8:53 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2011 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, ESPN | Permalink * Comments (18)

Joel "The Cannon" Podelsky's appearance last night on America's Got Talent can be viewed online. Joel ate a pumpkin pie in 70 seconds.

June 23, 2011 at 8:22 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

The Wall Street Journal's Health blog reports that the delegates at the American Medical Association annual meeting voted in favor of a resolution calling competitive speed eating a "an unhealthy eating practice with potential adverse consequences." The vote was 312 to 158.

June 21, 2011 at 7:43 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health | Permalink * Comments (29)

Grace Lee has started a twitter about competing in the Nathan's finals at http://twitter.com/ManeaterGrace Scott Bickel has also started a new twitter at http://twitter.com/thescottbickel

June 20, 2011 at 2:39 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Scott Bickel, Websites | Permalink * Comments (18)

With one qualifier left, it appears that at least one Nathan's finals streak will be broken. Crazy Legs Conti has competed in the last nine Nathan's finals and I believe that Eric "Badlands" Booker has appeared in all Nathan's finals he has attempted to qualify for since 1997. (Booker took a hiatus in 2007.) The only way both Conti and Booker could reach the finals is if they both exceed 37 hot dogs in Saturday's qualifier in Fishkill, NY.

June 20, 2011 at 7:11 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Crazy Legs Conti, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Statistics | Permalink * Comments (19)

Dave Wagner was interviewed for an upcoming documentary on competitive eating about recording a controversial video at last year's Nathan's qualifier in Escondido, CA. He thinks the documentary, which is hoping for a late August release, will be critical of the IFOCE.

June 19, 2011 at 8:55 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Documentaries, Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, San Diego | Permalink * Comments (25)

Hungry Todd Rungy has posted a video recorded at the 2010 Fantastic Fest in Austin of his attempt to confront actor Ryan Reynolds about a 2007 Huffington Post blog entry attacking competitive eating. Rungy has also set up a facebook group calling for a boycott of Reynolds' new movie The Green Lantern. (In the blog entry Reynolds calls Don Lerman "my main man")

June 18, 2011 at 9:53 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Austin, Movies | Permalink * Comments (2)

The MLE twitter has a list of entrants in tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier at Concord Mills omitting Hall Hunt: "Wing Kong, Crazy Legs, Subich, Boykin, Grace Lee". (Brian Subich announced he would not compete yesterday.) The high tomorrow is expected to be 95, hopefully the contest will be held inside. update Grace Lee's podcast about the contest is available (via eatingcontest) update #2 WCNC also lists Brian Szontagh, Travis Wheeler, Vanessa Lugo and Katie Fisher as expected entrants and Micah "Wing Kong" Collins announces that he is currently lacking transportation south.

June 17, 2011 at 12:18 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2011 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Charlotte, Contest Previews, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (25)

Matt Stonie has uploaded his videos of Sunday's Nathan's qualifier in Hawthorne, CA Part 1 | Part 2 (via comment)

June 17, 2011 at 11:43 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2011 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Los Angeles, Matt Stonie, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Aaron Osthoff vs. Adrian Morgan

June 16, 2011 at 3:05 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Aaron Osthoff, Adrian Morgan, Statistics

The IFOCE rookie of the year is usually someone who qualifies for the Nathan’s finals. The most likely current choices for that honor are Adrian Morgan and Aaron Osthoff. A head to head breakdown based on information in the eatfeats database follows.

The new poll asks who you think will be the 2011 IFOCE rookie of the year and the Aaron Osthoff is interviewed in the new MLE podcast.

Adrian Morgan

  • First IFOCE contest: January 9, 2010
  • Number of IFOCE contests: 19
  • Money won: $3,716.66
  • Average place: 3.68
  • Average Nathan’s qualifier performance: 23.5 HDB (5 qualifiers)

Aaron Osthoff

  • First IFOCE contest: September 18, 2010
  • Number of IFOCE contests: 11
  • Money won: $4250
  • Average place: 3.81
  • Average Nathan’s qualifier performance: 27.25 HDB (2 qualifiers)

Head to head results: 2 (Morgan) – 3 (Osthoff) Results listed after the jump
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An extended version of the Jeremiah Weed commercial where diners attempt a 10 pound burger challenge at Big Fred's Roast Beef in Clearwater, Florida can be viewed online. (via email)

June 15, 2011 at 3:06 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Tampa, Videos | Permalink * Comments

The BBC has a video of a cucumber eating contest held in Berlin to show that it is safe to eat vegetables after an E. coli outbreak.

June 15, 2011 at 1:14 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Germany, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has posted a video of him eating Big Jud's one pound burger and fries in 2:34 at the Bodybuidling.com expo in Boise, breaking the 15 year old mark of 3:41.

June 14, 2011 at 2:20 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Boise, Burger Eating Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments (5)

Don Lerman announces that he is dropping competitive eating coverage from his website due to lack of interest.

June 14, 2011 at 1:31 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Don "Moses" Lerman, Websites | Permalink * Comments (9)

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