The Man vs. Food home page has a list of season 2 episodes containing featured cities and projected air dates. The episodes for Boise, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Detroit, Brooklyn, Anchorage, Little Rock, Tuscon and New Jersey have yet to be recorded. At the conclusion of season 2 recording, Milwaukee, Buffalo, San Diego, Dallas, Houston, Nashville, Kansas City, Phoenix and Miami will not have been visited.

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BND reports that Adam Richman of Man vs. Food will attempt “Baseball’s Best Burger” at tomorrow’s Gateway Grizzlies game in Sauget, IL (East St. Louis area). The sandwich uses a split Krispy Kreme doughnut as a bun. This will be the third time Man vs. Food has recorded at a minor league stadium (Charleston, SC, W. Michigan) and St. Louis will become the third metropolitan area to be visited twice (SF Bay area, Raleigh-Durham)

SJ-R has a report (no spoiler) about Adam Richman’s attempt at a bowl of Firebrand Chili in Springfield, IL yesterday.

update The article reports that Jim Hamrick, who has been ranked in the IFOCE top 50, set the Firebrand Chili record of 5 bowls last week.

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According to The First Men in the Moon, the winner of an oatmeal eating contest (John Coyle from Ireland w/23 bowl in 10 minutes) was one of the earthside news items relayed to the crew of Apollo 11. Michael Collins responded that he would like to enter Buzz Aldrin in the next oatmeal eating contest (via http://twitter.com/AP11_SPACECRAFT/)

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NJ.com has information about the July 24 bout between Bill “El Wingador” Simmons and Jose Canseco sanctioned by the Celebrity Boxing Federation. The fight will take place at the Ice Works in Ashton, PA. Sugar Ray Leonard Jr. will fight on the undercard. Tickets are $45 ringside / $30 general admission and the fight will consist of three one minute rounds. The official website for Celebrity Boxing has yet to be updated with any new information.

NJ.com also reports that El Wingador will star in a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial with 4 other unnamed competitive eaters. Documentarian Errol Morris, who has produced other commercials for KFC, posted about meeting El Wingador on his twitter. The advertisement is expected to debut on the west coast on July 26.

update It will be interesting to see who are the other four eaters appearing with “El Wingador”. The date of the filming in Los Angeles was apparently July 2, same as the Nathan’s weigh-in.

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Ken Hoffman of the Houston Chronicle has a column about serving as Pete Davekos’ judge in the recent Nathan’s finals which reports that officials were told to look out for hidden regurgitation:

“The thing you have to look for,” the head judge told us, “is when the eaters hold a big cup of water to their mouth. Some of the eaters have been spitting hot dogs into the cup, and some have been vomiting in the cup. That’s against the rules, and they have to be penalized.”

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