Competitive Eating category

PicsinPics.com has a gallery of Nina Berman's competitive eating photography titled "In the hell of eating contests".
Multichannel.com reports that the Food Network will produce 6 episodes of Ginormous Food, a program about restaurants' oversized meals starring comedian Josh Denny. The pilot episode featuring San Antonio eateries was televised on July 22.
LosAngeles.Craigslist.org has a request for a competitive eater to star in a series of one minute documentaries. There will be no monetary compensation.
In her latest video, Kate Ovens attempted to eat a 28 ounce "Glam Burger" covered in gold leaf and milkshake from Honky Tonk in London.
Yuka Kinoshita has released a mobile video game starring herself: iPhone | Android
Nathan's Famous will line up 1916 hot dogs in Grand Central Terminal on September 2 to set a Guinness Record. Joey Chestnut will oversee the event.
Bradzrt has uploaded what appears to be the entire series of Man vs. Food (in low quality) to youtube.
sde.co.ke reports that a man named Otange passed away after choking at an eating contest held at a funeral in the Nyang’iela area in Homa Bay County in Keyna. Feasts are commonly held at Kenyan funerals as a way of honoring the deceased.
Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco discusses pie eating contests on KCRW's Good Food podcast.
A video of the full ESPN broadcast of the 2016 Nathan's finals is available on youtube.
Bob Shoudt produced a video about his collaboration project where eaters will consume a unit of food for every medal won by team USA at the Olympics. Molly Schuyler, Nate Figueroa, Wayne Algenio and the "Ukraine Train" will also participate and others are welcome to join.
Courthouse News reports that the family of Debra Harbeck is suing Fire & Ice nightclub in Santa Fe, NM after she choked to death after participating in a corn dog eating contest held on January 27. In the competition, entrants simulated oral sex by eating a corn dog held near the groin area of a another person. Before competing, Debra Harbeck drank at least 7 alcoholic beverages and her blood alcohol level was between .127 and .138. update ABQ Journal also has an article.
MuscleFood.com has an interview with Kate Ovens. She is currently in Los Angeles and might make an appearance on Comedy Central.
Capewood's Collections has a post about the Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie and Sonya Thomas trading cards produced by Allen and Ginter.
Yesterday, Robert McKinney uploaded a video the Gringo Bandito Chronic Taco Challenge held last month in Las Vegas. Carmen Cincotti noticed that Molly Schuyler's counter did not get updated after she finished a tray at 9:06 and at the 15:11 mark, Kobayashi had his tray swapped with a new one. Kobayashi says that the trays were recounted accurately after the contest. Molly Schuyler has yet to comment.
The Guardian reports that Howard Lorber, chairman of Nathan's Famous, has been announced as a member of Donald Trump's economic policy team.

Yahoo! Movies interviews Andy (Lard-Ass) Lindberg

Yahoo! Movies has an interview with Andy Lindberg (Lard-Ass) about filming the famous regurgitation scene for the pie eating contest in “Stand By Me”. There is also a quote from author Stephen King about the movie:

It was beautiful, because the puking was done in a way that was so surreal, it didn’t make anyone feel ill. Not tasteful — you can’t really make projectile vomiting tasteful — but it really was very funny.

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Val Bromann has uploaded galleries of the men's and women's 2016 Nathan's finals.
Guinness has certified the 325 participants in today's eating contest at the Ohio State Fair as the largest field for an ice cream eating contest.
The appearance of Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran and Marc "Bottomless" Pitt can be viewed online.
Manila.coconuts.com reports that some Chinese consider Yuka Kinoshita's recent video where she ate bananas as an insult to their country. One viewer theorized that the 137 bananas Yuka ate was intended to be a reference to the Chinese population of 1.37 billion.
Brian Seiken is offering stakes in his potential poker winnings at the Borgata Summer Poker Open this weekend.
A burger eating contest will be held Thursday at the Coney Island location of Wahlburgers. The competition will be recorded for an upcoming episode of "Wahlburgers" and Donnie Wahlberg will serve as judge.
Emma Dalton has produced a video of her eating two Empire State Burger Challenges at Tinseltown in under 9 minutes.

Draft Kings fantasy competitive eater salaries

In honor of National Hot Dog Day, Draft Kings posted ratings for six competitive eaters. Interestingly, Miki Sudo has a higher rating than Takeru Kobayashi.

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