A video clip of Natsuko “Gal” Sone attempting to exceed the 15000 calories that it is believed Elvis Presley consumed daily near the end of his life is available at http://youtube.com/watch?v=nNP7rf2WVCg

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There are two new videos on http://www.spiketv.com/#shows/mle/index.jhtml, the Pro vs. Joes segment in which Crazy Legs Conti took on three novices in donut eating and a “Sexy Eating Competition” which was not televised.

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NYTimes.com reports that Takeru Kobayashi will appear in Coors Light’s new advertising campaign:

The [Silver Bullet] train shows up at the end of the commercials that are to begin running next week, which present men of superlative achievement offering humorous endorsements of Coors Light as “the world’s most refreshing beer.”

The endorsers include Michael Johnson, identified as “the world’s fastest man,” and Takeru Kobayashi, identified as “the world’s fastest eater.”

The commercials are in a funny way a counterpoint to a successful radio campaign for Bud Light beer, sold by Anheuser-Busch, which offers mock salutes to “real men of genius” who are actually imaginary magnates of dubious achievement.

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Brian Seiken has emailed me that he is producing a “State of IFOCE/MLE Address” video for beautifulbrian.com to express his frustrations with that organization. He believes that the video might result in the termination of his involvement with IFOCE/MLE and possibly the end of his website altogether.

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Jim Driscoll attended the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown and wrote a blog entry about it and filmed a video of the final contest between Patrick Bertoletti and Joey Chestnut.

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Steve DePino photographed the Eat the Meat wing eating competition held in New Haven, CT Saint Patrick’s Day and placed his pictures in a slideshow. Apparently Joe Menchetti did not compete (the winner wore a bird costume), nor does he appear in the finalists list, so he might have been banned for being a professional.

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Deresque was disappointed to learn that a picture of himself at a contest was placed on the back of the candy endorsed by Nobuyuki Shirota and Tomoko Miyake without his permission and more upset when he realized that the candy manufacturer had obtained the legal right to do so without his awareness:

When… with you think, the occasion where it occurs to the certain conference

‘All image photographs of the conference revert to the conference. ‘

With applying, you say, you sign to the letter of consent.

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Shawn Allison has a flickr gallery of the Savannah Saint Patrick’s Day festivities which includes a lot of pictures of the Chowdown.

There has not been many articles about day 2 of the Chowdown. This entry from a San Jose Mercury blog about Joey Chestnut is the only news coverage I have been able to find.

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(Thanks Liz K) Patrick Michels has some great pictures from contests in Texas and Oklahoma, including last weekend’s rattlesnake meat eating contest, on his home page and flickr gallery.

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The Saint Patrick Day episode of Brian Seiken’s TV show can be viewed at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/patrick.html

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The Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown will rerun at 2pm eastern tomorrow on Spike. A 15 second commercial for that showing with Sonya Thomas and Tim “Eater X” Janus can be seen at sonyajanusstpatspromo.wmv (.7 MB)

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(from afoodfanatic) MajorLeagueEating.com has launched with a Flash-heavy website with profiles of about 20 eaters and several videos. The upcoming contest list looks the same as the list on IFOCE.com.

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If you would like something competitive-eating related to watch while you are waiting for the St. Patrick’s Day Chowdown to air, spikedhumor.com has a clip of the pie eating/vomiting contest from “Stand By Me” at http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/90517/Stand_By_Me_Pie_Eating_Contest.html I am not sure if the clip is copyright compliant, so it might be removed in the near future.

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(From GarysBasement.com) If I told you that Japanese television showed a clip of a man playing a synthesis of Pac Man and Breakout, you probably would not be that interested. However, if I told you he played it without a computer, you might be more intrigued. The video can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD-RGpEQ6Ms

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Cool Hand Luke will be shown on AMC Friday night at 8 pm eastern. Paul Newman’s hard-boiled egg eating challenge in that film is probably the most famous competitive eating scene in cinema history. The movie will be rerun on March 28.

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(From ducminh) A trailer for 5 Dollar Baby, a parody of Million Dollar Baby in which the sport has been changed to competitive eating (and the gender of the competitor switched to male) can be viewed at http://www.demken.com/5dollarbaby/

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(From the Hangman) riverstreetsavannah.com has information about the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown, which will begin on St. Patrick’s Eve:

Spike TV will be on River Street filming eight of the world’s best eaters as Verizon Wireless presents St. Patrick’s Celebration on the River! The Competitions will take place Friday afternoon at 4 and Saturday afternoon between 2 and 2:30. The competition will air on Spike TV at 7pm on St. Pat’s night.

ConnectSavannah.com also has an article about the contest.

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Nikki Morillo has emailed that Joey Chestnut will appear on the NBC game show Identity on Friday night at 9 pm.

update Nikki says that Joey will appear on a later episode in a comment below.

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Darren Rovell, formerly of ESPN and now with CNBC reports:

This week, the IFOCE is changing is name to Major League Eating. “This is another step towards making our sport more mainstream,” said Rich Shea, who along with his brother George, popularized the sport of eating contests in this country. MLE is launching a new Web site this Friday and will have its first live event under their new name, this Saturday at 7 p.m. on Spike TV. The eating circuit offered $500,000 in prizes in 2006 and the MLE will continue to offer contests in various new disciplines, including peanut butter and jelly eating this summer.

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(Thanks Pat Bruss) A video of Pat Bruss competing in the semifinals of a 18 ounce burrito eating relay contest called the Boloco Burrito Brawl with his two brothers, Mike and Brett, can be viewed at:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5766977925415360194

The Brusses are on the far side of the screen and Pat’s 24 second time for the last burrito enables the brothers to overcome a half a burrito deficit. The brothers would win in the finals and claim a $500 prize.

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beautifulbrian.com reports that Liz Kellermeyer will be his guest for his television show on the 17th

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A news video of the 123 pound burger from Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub can be viewed at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17402466/

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IFOCE.com reports that the commercial for the St. Patrick’s Day Chowdown starring Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti can be viewed at http://www.spiketv.com/#/originals/index.jhtml?franchise_id=721&video_id=136875

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A clip from a recent “Las Vegas” episode has been uploaded to http://eatfeats.com/videos/LasVegasHotDogContest.wmv (2 minutes 5MB) The video shows Sam (Vanessa Marcil) winning a hot dog eating contest for casino employees by eating the contents of a tray filled with of 50-80 bunless hot dogs (We only see her eat about two or three)

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The “Las Vegas” episode with the hot dog eating contest will be rerun on TNT at midnight eastern tonight (9 pm Pacific)

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