(From Dr Big Time) An article on Dr. Juris Shibayama appears in the Nashville Medical News:

Throughout medical school, Shibayama competed in body building. While he doesn’t have the time for that anymore, he’s up at 5 a.m. for an elliptical workout daily and lifts three or four times a week. His best bench press was an impressive 500 pounds when he was 22. “I got it on videotape, because I knew I’d never be able to do it again,” he said.

Shibayama approaches competitive eating with a similar drive, preparing for last month’s competition by expanding his stomach. When training first began, he could drink a gallon of water in about six minutes, “and I felt terrible for like an hour. But now I’m to the point where I can drink it in 45 seconds, and I feel pretty good after about two or three minutes,” he said. Once he mastered that, he would drink a gallon of water in the parking lot of an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant, and then head inside to eat all he could eat.

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Results of tonight’s “Wedges & Wings” contest obtained from an AP article are available after the jump.

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Steakbellie will compete in the “Wedges & Wings” contest in Las Vegas tonight. He verifies that Kobayashi is present. Steakbellie reports that three separate TV specials will be recorded at the same session, which will fulfill the Spike TV contract.

I think this leaves 6 unknown slots in the contest.

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The WWE pizza eating contest between Matt Hardy and MVP can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=i8877OmYJ_U

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LiveLeak has contest footage from the waffle eating contest, the grits eating contest, the Buffalo Wing Festival and the Philadelphia Nathan’s qualifier.

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Las Vegas Advisor has information about tomorrow’s “Wedges and Wings” contest.

Kobayashi’s blog reports that he got a new hairstyle and is not sure when he will be able to update his blog, so he will probably attend.

STBW says that October will be a “very very light month” CE-wise for Sonya, so she will probably not attend.

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The fifth episode of eatcast is available. Chip Simpson is a guest and Beautiful Brian calls in to tallk about the Dale Boone cookie controversy (Direct MP3 link) (corrected 10:45, thanks anonymous)

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ProWrestling.com reports on a pizza eating contest between MVP and Matt Hardy on the recent WWE pay per view:

MVP guarantees he’s going to win this competition. Tazz goes over the rules. He says they have two minutes to eat as much pizza as they can. They set the time, and they are off.

Time expires and MVP didn’t even eat one pie. Matt Hardy ate two. After the competition Matt Hardy threw up on MVP and left.

Maybe Pat Phibin can sue the WWE for violating his intellectual property 😉

update A slideshow is available on the WWE website.

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From MosesNews.com

DON LERMAN AND HIS GIRLFRIEND SHARON WAS INVOLVED IN A SERIOUS AUTO ACCIDENT FRIDAY NIGHT HIS CAR HIT IN THE REAR THE FRAME LOOKS LIKE ITS BENT BEYOND REPAIR. LERMAN AND HIS GIRLF FRIEND SPENT THE NIGHT A NUMC HOSPITAL WHICH SUPPLIED THE WORST CARE POSSIBLE LERMAN MAY HAVE A CONCUSSION AND POSSIBLY BROKEN NECK AS WELL AS BURST BLOOD VESSEL IN HIS EYE , TOMORROW LERMAN AND HIS GIRL FRIEND WILL SEEK FURTHER MEDICAL CARE

Let’s hope Don & Sharon have no permanent injuries & return to good health as soon as possible.

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The scene from “The Great Outdoors” in which John Candy attempts a 96 ounce steak is available on youtube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=qGhBsFZWUks.

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A subtitled program in which Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Natsuko “Gal” Sone receive a medical examination to determine what gives them their eating ability can be seen at http://subtitle.in/w/j0qT_UGSSYQ/IbI___wRkiD

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In a recent comment Carey Poehlmann mentioned the lawsuit of seven poker professionals against the World Poker Tour as being analogous to a possible case against the IFOCE. The World Poker Tour’s wikipedia page describes the suit:

On July 19, 2006, seven poker professionals sued WPTE, alleging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act, the California Cartwright Act, and intentional interference with contract (Complaint and Response). The professionals (Chris Ferguson, Andy Bloch, Annie Duke, Joe Hachem, Phil Gordon, Howard Lederer, and Greg Raymer) allege that WPTE’s standard release forms, required for participation in WPTE events, are anti-competitive and designed to interfere with their contractual obligations to other companies. The anti-competition claim is based on the fact that WPTE’s contracts with the casinos that host its tournaments bar those casinos (and other casinos owned by the same parent companies) from hosting non-WPTE poker events. The claim of interference with contract is based on the releases’ claim to perpetual rights to the players’ likenesses for any use WPTE wishes. The players claim that this would put them in violation of other contracts (such as Ferguson’s Activision Games contract or several players’ contracts with online poker sites).

The suing poker players have set up a web site at http://wptlawsuit.com/ The last action in the case was a request for summary judgement made in March.

Unlike the IFOCE, the World Poker Tour does not limit its members solely to its own events; they are allowed to do non-WPT tournaments such as the World Series of Poker.

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From The Austin Film Festival blog:

Join Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg on October 13, at 2:30 p.m.for clips and stories from their cult hit Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and find out more about the soon to be released Harold & Kumar 2. See how this writing duo has taken the buddy comedy to a higher level and made the transition from writers to writer/directors.

The duo recently wrapped production on their directorial debut, the much-anticipated sequel in the Harold & Kumar franchise set to be released in early 2008. As producers, they are currently in development on All You Can Eat, a comedy set in the world of competitive eating.

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Hall Hunt has compiled the results of this month’s IFOCE top 25. The top 10 in that list are:

1. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (6) (174) [1]
2. Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (0) (162) [3]
3. Takeru “The Tsunami” Kobayashi (1) (155) [2]
4. “Humble” Bob Shoudt (141) [7]
5. Tim “Eater-X” Janus (140) [4]
6. Chip “The Phenom” Simpson (137) [6]
7. Sonya “The Blackwidow” Thomas (132) [5]
8. Rich “The Locust” LeFevre (128) [8]
9. Hall “Hoover” Hunt (121) [9]
10. Erik “The Red” Denmark (105) [12]

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BeautifulBrian.com and MosesNews.com have updated entries about the Major League Eating DVD.

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(From So Good Blog)Manuel Lora makes the following proposals in his blog:

Eating contests must be closely watched by a regulatory agency. I propose the following pieces of legislation:

A) Participants must be licensed. If we license automobile drivers, why can’t we license competitive eaters? Some of them often receive monetary and in-kind prices and as such they are employees subject to regulation.

B) Participants must be insured. Because the eaters might have a higher than average incidence of heart burn and other complications, it makes perfect sense of them to have primary and secondary insurance otherwise hospitals will have to bear the cost of the eating fetishists.

C) Competitive eating organizers shall be required to provide to audiences brochures and other instructional material about healthy eating. Children who witness these monstrous spectacles could very well be disturbed, their lives forever changed. Society must do whatever possible to prevent damaging the children.

D) Whether it is pies or hot dogs, organizers must provide nutritional information to eaters and the public. This way everyone can see the insane number of calories that they are consuming. Perhaps a “shock and awe” campaign is what we need to eliminate obesity once and for all.

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Whitd has some videos recorded from the audience from Saturday’s grits eating contest. A news video is also available.

Hall Hunt has some pictures and a report from the contest.

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The new poll asks what you think the result would be if the IFOCE contract was challenged in court.

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PRNewsWire.com has a press release about the second MLE event to be televised on Spike TV:

Spike TV and Major League Eating present JOEY CHESTNUT vs. KOBAYASHI (and the other top eaters in the world) in chicken wing (Buffalo Wild Wings(R)) and potato wedge consumption in Las Vegas, Tuesday, October 9 from the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas.

This one hour special, MLE Chowdown: Wedges And Wings, will air Thursday, October 18 at 11:00pm ET/PT on Spike TV.

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Joining Chestnut and Kobayashi will be the top Major League Eaters in the world including Patrick Bertoletti (winner of Spike TV’s St. 2007 Patrick’s Day Chowdown), Tim “Eater X” Janus, “Humble” Bob Shoudt, Richard LeFevre, Juliet Lee, and Hall Hunt.

This event marks the second MLE on Spike TV. The first, The St. Patrick’s Day Chowdown, featuring corned beef and cabbage, green donuts, and jalapenos, drew a robust 739,000 viewers on March 17.

The press release says that 16 eaters will compete, leaving 8 unnamed.

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The Eagle Tribune has an article about Andover, MA resident Paul MacInnis, who is on a quest to ban all eating contests.

After he stops the Nathan’s contest, he said he’ll move to ban all professional competitive eating.

He has the option of introducing a bill to the Massachusetts Legislature — which he’d have to do by January. Andover Town Clerk Randy Hanson said it wouldn’t be possible to ban competitive eating locally because the Board of Selectmen would have no authority to uphold such a ruling, even if it were voted in at town meeting.

But one thing’s for sure: MacInnis is one tough cookie, and he’s willing to do whatever it takes.

“I will not be ignored,” he said. “I will become such a pain in the neck to these people. I may be on a fool’s errand here, but I’m not going to let it go.”

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The final round of this year’s Gluttonous King contest, in which Shirota, Yamamoto and “the Artist” competed, has been uploaded to youtube. It will probably not be there very long so watch it soon if you are interested.

Yomiuri.co reports that the program received a 19.7% audience share, which peaked at 28.8% just after “Gal” Sone was eliminated.

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(From Levi Oliver) A documentary about Levi Oliver’s competitive eating career has been completed and a website for it has been set up at http://eatinglevi.com/ A trailer is available.

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A video of Joey G attempting to win a free meal by eating two three pound burritos at Pinata’s on Long Island has been uploaded to youtube. Cookie Jarvis’ record in the challenge is mentioned at the start of the video.

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This message appeared recently on the old Yahoo group:

Hi,

I just joined your group. I am currently making a documentary film on competitve eating and it would be amazing if I could include insight from a female perspective. If anyone is interested in helping us with content, I would really appreciate it!

Thanks,

Darren Sikorski

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IFilm has a video from the 2005 MTV popcorn eating contest and also has the escarole meal from the Krazy Kevin Lipsitz episode of Beautiful Brian’s corner.

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