Competitive Eating category

TheDayCT has a video of Joe Menchetti winning today's Jake's Burgers Chowdown Showdown qualifier by eating 5 double burgers in 1:50 (Furious Pete ate 5 burgers in 1:36 in his Jake's qualifier last year.)
Gershwin9 has a video of a Dairy Queen Blizzard eating contest won by Ron Koch with 18 Blizzards in 10 minutes. Andrew Lane was the runner up. The Las Vegas Sun has an article about the contest, held to benefit the Children's Miracle Network.
Takeru-Kobayashi.com has been updated with a lot more English content including a statement to his fans about declining to extend his contract with the IFOCE. (via email)
The Will Ferrell & Mark Wahlberg movie The Other Guys opening today has a scene at the Coney Island Nathan's where New York Yankee Derek Jeter plays a panhandler.
Flickr has a gallery of the "Competitive Eating Olympics" at last night's Lake County (Ohio) Captains game which required entrants to eat one food item (list) each innning. update The News-Herald has an article about the contest.
LJWorld has an article about Adam Richman's attempt at the "Ultimate Destroyer" barbecue sandwich at Papa Bob's Bar-B-Que in Bonner Springs, Kansas which will be the challenge in next week's Kansas City episode of Man vs. Food.
AdGrok has a blog entry by a former Goldman Sachs analyst with a section about eating contests at the firm. The top eater was Rich Rosenblum, who was credited with 26 White Castle burgers, but had some slider remnants in his dunking cup. (Via Business Insider)
A Pepto Bismol press release announces that Joey Chestnut will compete against a team of amateurs at the San Francisco Street Food Festival and Buffalo Wing Festival. The SF Street Food Festival takes place on August 21, same as the gyoza contest in Los Angeles, so Joey Chestnut might not be able to win his fourth straight gyoza contest.

Man vs. Food August 4, 2010 episode (Oklahoma City) links

Travel Channel: Slideshow | Episode Guide

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List of Oklahoma City eating challenges in the eatfeats database.

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twitter.com/BikiniBurgers/: The five pound chili dog at Parker's Hot Dogs will be featured in the Sacramento episode of Man vs. Food
A Rockford Independent article about the Rockford Corner Bar's quest to appear on Man vs. Food calls the host of that program "Adam Richardson" twice.
Chris "The Mad Greek" Abatsas has started a website at http://www.christhemadgreek.com/
LocateTV has the results of Shaquille O'Neal's hot dog eating contest against Joey Chestnut in an upcoming episode of Shaq vs.. Shaq's 4 teammates, reportedly with no competitive eating experience, ate 35 hot dogs.
SmileInAZ has videos of Chava Cannon becoming the first woman to finish the Jewish Slider Challenge at Chompie's in Tempe, Arizona (part 1 | part 2 | part 3). Chava is the fourth person to complete the challenge. Steve Roberson and his son Brent Roberson finished the challenge on July 24.
SuperUtilityMan has a video of Man vs. Food recording at Jim Denny's in Sacramento on July 31.

1999 / 2000 TV Champion eating contest videos

sahimoto51177115 has some videos from an eating contest on a TV Champion episode from 1999 or 2000. The contest might have served as the Japanese qualifier for the 2000 Nathan’s finals. The three Japanese to compete in Coney Island in 2000 appear in this program: Kaz Arai (32 on bib), Misao Fujita (46 on bib) and Takako Akasaka (44 on bib), the holder of the pre-Sonya Thomas Nathan’s record. Clip 1 | Clip 2

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WSBTV has a video about the Carnivore Challenge pizza at Big Pie in the Sky in Kennesaw, Georgia.
Joel Podelsky has started a twitter page at http://twitter.com/JoelTheCannon
VolitionTube has a video of the Guinness Mars bars record eating attempt by Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus.
Man vs. Food is reportedly recording in Sacramento according to the wife of a security guard assigned to Adam Richman.
The MLE youtube page has a new highlight video from the 2010 Nathan's finals with original footage. The video does not mention Kobayashi's absence from the competition or his post-contest arrest.
SimplyEverywhere has a gallery of the frozen yogurt eating contest held at the Grand Opening of The Wicked Spoon in Brooklyn Saturday.
TigerTheFrog has produced a video tribute to Sonya Thomas. (via Real Model Eater comment.) update A happy belated birthday (July 26) to Sonya.
The new poll asks what IFOCE rule change regarding liquids you would most like to see.

Man vs. Food July 28, 2010 (Long Island) Episode links

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List of Long Island eating challenges in the eatfeats database

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