Competitive Eating category

CBSAtlanta.com has a video of a contest Paul Barlow did to promote Saturday's Atlanta area Nathan's qualifier. update Part 2 is now available.
Youtube has a promo for I'm a Major League Eater, which will be televised on the Biography Channel on July 8. Tim Janus, Crazy Legs Conti, Juliet Lee and Tim Brown will be the featured eaters.
The WLOCE myspace page has a picture of Joe LaRue under the heading of "WLOCE new members"
Eagle's Deli in Boston will hold a 3 pound burger eating contest tomorrow to promote The Museum of Science new Black Holes exhibit. The winner will receive naming rights.
USAToday.com reports that the East Boston Italian Festival will not be held in 2009 due to the recession. Previous festivals hosted an Italian sausage eating contest.

Man vs. Food in Hawaii June 29

IsleConcierge reports that Man vs. Food will be filming at Mac 24-7 on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii on June 29. Reservations by June 26 are requested for people who would like to attend the recording. The challenge will be 3 fourteen inch pancakes.

Man vs. Food recorded at Ike’s Place in San Francisco yesterday. I have not been able to track down any other Bay Area locations.

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A web page for the Austin veggie hot dog contest has been set up at http://veggiedogcontest.com/. This year's contest will take place on July 4.
A video of Joey Chestnut's hot dog eating contest versus three production assistants on Comcast Sports Net Bay Area is available
The Nathan's finals broadcast now appears on TV listings. Like previous years, the program will start at noon eastern and last an hour.
Beanstockd has a short interview with Joey Chestnut from the Guy's Choice Awards which will be televised tomorrow night at 10 pm. Spike TV also has a page and video about the Chow-lenge
WXII12.com has a video reporting the results of Jennie's attempt to eat 100 wings during a newscast to promote the wing eating contest to be held at tomorrow's Wingfest at the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market in Colfax, NC.
Penthouse.com asks Crazy Legs Conti whether he thinks an average person could qualify for the Nathan's finals after 6 weeks of training. (page safe for work)
Chronicle Productions has a twit pic of Joey Chestnut's contest on Chronicle Live today. The Chronicle Live twitter has some posts about the appearance.
Joey Chestnut will appear on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area on Chronicle Live tonight.
Levi Oliver has an interview on youtube in which he provides tips for competitors in the raw onion eating contest to be held at the Texas Testosterone Festival on August 9.
The official Man vs. Food twitter reports the next two sites will be San Francisco and Oahu.
A video of Ian Hickman's victory in Saturday's contest at the grand opening celebration of Fractured Prune donuts is available.

Heart Attack Grill twitter started

The Heart Attack Grill has started a twitter at http://twitter.com/DoubleBypass Recent posts report a 350+ pound diner received seven free Single Bypass Burgers in one visit, that no 350+ pound woman (as of June 12) had accepted the free food offer and that one diner ate 2 Quadruple Bypass burgers in 45 minutes.

The CBS Sunday Morning segment about the Heart Attack Grill was rerun yesterday.

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Reuters Big Money section has an article about Nathan's Famous which reports that profits for fiscal year 2009 are up 14%.
The Competitive Eating Examiner has mini-profiles of the IFOCE top 10.
Pat Bertoletti has uploaded videos from the calamari contest at Mallie's to his youtube page.
The Big Texan's website has restored the list of 72 ounce steak finishers. The restaurant would like customers who finished the steak before 1991 to send a copy of their finisher certificate to restore records lost in a fire.
NewsVideoWeb has an interview of Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi at the Guys Choice Award after the P'Zone Chow-lenge
The new poll asks that if a competitive eating Hall of Fame was started and top eaters were alleged to have used performance enhancing drugs, should that affect their chances for Hall of Fame entrance.

Man vs. Food clone proposed on ESPN.com podcast

In a recent podcast, Bill Simmons of ESPN.com (not El Wingador) proposes a program called “House Record” in which his friend Joe House would travel the country and attempt to break restaurants’ eating challenge records. After being informed the concept is basically the same as Man vs. Food, Simmons calls Adam Richman “annoying” and claims his program would be better.

(“House Record” segment begins around the 32 minute mark)

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