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Las Vegas Weekly reports that Joey Chestnut and Shaquille O'Neal consumed a total of 60 hot dogs in recording a segment of Shaq vs. on Saturday. The episode will be televised in August.

July 13, 2010 at 9:23 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Las Vegas, Male Athletes, Television | Permalink * Comments (6)

NYCZombieCrawl has a gallery of the Zombie Crawl held at the Nathan's finals in support of Tim "Gravy" Brown.

July 12, 2010 at 10:57 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Galleries, New York City, Tim Brown | Permalink * Comments

WGRZ reports that Man vs. Food will record in two Niagara Falls restaurants in Canada this weekend. The challenge for the Niagara Falls episode will be the 48 ounce rib eye at the Riverstone Grill in Grand Island, NY. Buffalo News reports septuagenarian Marilyn Gratto has completed the challenge steak 8 times.

July 9, 2010 at 11:30 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Buffalo, Man vs. Food, Niagara Falls, Steak Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments

CalorieLab interviewed Mark Conrad, associate professor of business law at Fordham University School of Business and author of The Business of Sports: A Primer for Journalists about the IFOCE contract. Conrad says thinks the contract might be an antitrust violation, but is unable to decide without seeing the entire document.

July 9, 2010 at 9:43 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contracts | Permalink * Comments (22)

The Colbert Report did a segment on the 2010 Nathan's finals.

July 9, 2010 at 12:58 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2010 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Humor, Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Joey "Jaws" Chestnut competed against Jules "Jabberjaw" Ahearn in a contest on KOIN Studio 6 to promote Sunday's rib eating contest at Chinook Winds.

July 9, 2010 at 12:38 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Videos | Permalink * Comments

In a comment to William Saletan's column about competitive eating for Slate, Conan776 compares the IFOCE contract to the World Poker Tour release forms. Several poker pros sued the World Poker Tour over the release forms, which resulted in an out of court settlement and a change in the release forms for all entrants.

July 8, 2010 at 11:03 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contracts | Permalink * Comments (4)

The Las Vegas Sun has more information about Joey Chestnut competing against Shaquille O'Neal Saturday for an upcoming episode of Shaq vs. The site will be Serendipity 3 in Caesar's Palance and the competition food will be hot dogs.

July 8, 2010 at 10:17 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Las Vegas, Male Athletes, Television | Permalink * Comments (12)

USA Today reports that 1.2% United States households watched the 2010 Nathan's finals (corresponding to 1.677 million viewers) This is an audience increase of about 400,000 from last year, and about the same number of viewers as in 2007.

July 8, 2010 at 8:53 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2010 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, ESPN | Permalink * Comments (6)

CBSNews.com has a video of "The Joey Chestnut Story" which was televised on the most recent CBS Sunday Morning.

July 8, 2010 at 7:24 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

Frogger561 has more videos of the Escondido, CA Nathan's qualifier.

July 7, 2010 at 10:29 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2010 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, San Diego, Videos | Permalink * Comments (15)

Shelby Kerin reports that Man vs. Food is recording in Buffalo, NY today. DazzleMeFormal confirms

July 7, 2010 at 11:46 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Buffalo, Man vs. Food | Permalink * Comments

Man vs. Food July 7, 2010 (Salt Lake City) episode links

July 7, 2010 at 11:30 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food, Salt Lake City, Spicy Eating Challenges, Sushi Eating Challenges

This week’s episode of Man vs. Food has an appropriate location for the eating challenge: Kobe Sushi in Salt Lake City. The sushi is not free if completed; the award is a T-shirt or large ice cream. 😉

Travel Channel episode guide | gallery

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Salt Lake Tribune article about Utah eating challenges
List of Salt Lake City eating challenges & contests in the eatfeats database

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A Takeru Kobayashi facebook fan page has a link to purchase "Free Kobi" T-shirts.

July 7, 2010 at 10:08 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Merchandise, Websites | Permalink * Comments (1)

Press Herald has an article about Man vs. Food recording in Portland, Maine this week. The challenge will be the "Manimal Challenge" at Tradewinds Cafe in Arundel, ME. (A gallery of the recording)

July 6, 2010 at 11:39 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food, Portland, ME | Permalink * Comments

LandTWorld.com has a podcast of an interview done by Joey Chestnut today on the Lamont & Tonelli show.

July 6, 2010 at 11:20 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments

KXAN has a news video from the July 4 veggie hot dog eating contest in Austin Texas. Bill "The Weiner Cleaner" Chedsey was the winner with 17.875 veggie dogs.

July 6, 2010 at 9:31 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Austin, Contest Results, Unafilliated Contests, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

A website calling for a boycott of Nathan's until Takeru Kobayashi is allowed to compete against Joey Chestnut has been launched at http://freekobi.com/. A corresponding facebook and twitter have also been started. The gallery associated with the twitter probably verifies that it is by the actual Kobayashi.

July 5, 2010 at 10:04 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kobayashi (小林尊), Websites | Permalink * Comments (33)

Ken Hoffman has a column for the Houston Chronicle where he describes serving as Juliet Lee's judge in yesterday's Nathan's hot dog contest. He recorded her total as 23 hot dogs (after giving her credit for three "chipmunked" hot dogs), but her official total is listed as 27.

July 5, 2010 at 5:37 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2010 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Competitive Eating, Judging, Juliet Lee | Permalink * Comments (12)

A facebook caption announces Dale Boone won yesterday's hot dog eating contest at Fish Tales in Ocean City, MD with a total of 31 hot dogs. Defending champion Joe Menchetti was the runner-up with 29 and David "Tiger Wings" Brunelli came in 3rd with 24.5.

July 5, 2010 at 3:27 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Competitive Eating, Contest Results, Ocean City, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (3)

Eat This Book, published in 2006 by Ryan Nerz (an IFOCE employee at the time) has a chapter about the IFOCE contract and the competitive eaters who refused to sign it which can be read on Google Books. Calorie Lab has a post about competitive eating contracts (via gastroboy).

July 5, 2010 at 11:36 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contracts | Permalink * Comments

The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that Joey Chestnut will compete against Shaquille O'Neal in an upcoming episode of Shaq vs.. The recording on Saturday at a currently undetermined location in Las Vegas.

July 5, 2010 at 8:33 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Male Athletes, Television | Permalink * Comments (7)

Takeru Kobayashi & Joey Chestnut appear in CNN's preview of tomorrow's Nathan's finals, which can be viewed online.

July 3, 2010 at 10:54 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Kobayashi (小林尊), Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

The blog for the Melissa and Bob Show has a podcast of an interview with Bryan "Big Sexy" Beard.

July 3, 2010 at 7:25 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Bryan Beard, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments

The New York Times and Salon.com have articles about George & Richard Shea.

July 3, 2010 at 7:12 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Organizations | Permalink * Comments (7)

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