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The Daily Beast has a report on Eric "Badlands" Booker ordering the endless appetizers offer at TGI Friday's. update July 23 Gawker.com also has a blog entry about an attempt at unlimited mozzarella sticks.
2014 Chicago Nathan’s qualifier
update June 3 WGN has a podcast of an interview with Michelle Lesco ChicagoNow calls for a Chicago style hot dog eating contest
update June 2 Val Bromann has a contest report
update #2 The Daily Herald has a contest report where George Shea incorrectly claims Michelle Lesco set the Nathan’s Illinois record; Patrick Vandam ate 31 hot dogs in Matteson in 2008.
update Juan Rodriguez has the winners & runners up
Men
1) Badlands Booker 27.5 HDB
2) Yasir Salem 26
? Thomas Coats Jr. 10
Women
1) Michelle Lesco 28.5
2) Niki Rodriguez 10, new women’s wild card leader
? Val Bromann 4
Siblings Juan (31 HDB) and Nikki (10) Rodriguez are currently the wild card co-leaders.
Yasir Salem and Val Bromann appeared on NBC Chicago this morning.
The turkey eating contest between Badlands Booker and Crazy Legs Conti held on yesterday's episode of Crowd Goes Wild on Fox Sports One can be viewed online.
2013 San Gennaro cannoli contest
update Sept 15 Tania Fuentez has a flickr gallery
update Sept 13-2 Gothamist has a gallery with full results.
update Sept 13 The NY Daily News has a report.
update Joe Depace has a video
Crazy Legs Conti has a preview for the Huffington Post that was posted after the contest was finished according to the timestamp.
Demotix has a gallery
The Top 3
1) Yasir Salem 31.75, 1st non-qualifier victory
2) Marcos Owens 31
3) Eric “Badlands” Booker 28
4) Crazy Legs Conti 20
NPR has a podcast of Eric “Badlands” Booker and Crazy Legs Conti appearing on Ask Me Another.
Eric "Badlands" Booker appeared on WKBW this morning to promote the Buffalo Wing Festival.
Badlands Booker wins 2013 Meadowlands Nathan’s qualifier
update July 2 #2 Crazy Legs Conti has a contest report for Huffington Post where he calls the contest site a “crappy flea market”
update July 2 North Jersey has a gallery (via Dan Mangiapane)
update July 1 SFMVideo has a video
update Jun 30 Full men’s results have been entered into the database
| 1st | 28.5 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 2nd | 24.33 | Kevin “LA Beast” Strahle | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 3rd | 24 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 4th | 23.5 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 5th | 22 | Crazy Legs Conti | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 6th | 18 | Basil Elamir | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 7th | 15.25 | Tommy DeVito | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 7th | 15.25 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 9th | 12 | Jordan Rothman | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 10th | 11 | Kevin Sekulic | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 11th | 7.5 | Dan Mangiapane | East Rutherford, NJ |
Jim Reeves reports Terri Reeves won the women’s contest with 8 hot dogs
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Badlands Booker and Crazy Legs Conti will be competing in NPR's Ask Me Another trivia show tonight. Tickets to the live taping at the Bell House in Brooklyn are $10.
Brian Seiken has uploaded the Travel Channel's Battle of the Buffets program from 2002 where competitors including Rich & Carlene LeFevre, Ed "Cookie" Jarvis and "Badlands" Booker chowed down on a variety of foods at the Aladdin in Las Vegas.
Johnny Biggs in Ontario, OH says it will pay "top dollar" to Eric "Badlands" Booker to recreate the photo of him holding a giant burger taken at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub.
The Syracuse University student newspaper has an article about Eric "Badlands" Booker accompanying ToTs, a peformer who bills himself as the "potato rap pioneer".
Rake & Herald has a interview with Eric "Badlands" Booker in honor of his birthday today. Other recent Rake & Herald interviews: Hungry Haydo | Joe Park | Jo "Gavonne" Rose | "Beautiful" Brian Seiken | Aaron Wakamatsu
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A press release announces that Sonya Thomas, Eric "Badlands" Booker and George Shea will be inducted into the Buffalo Wing "Hall of Flame" on August 31.
Brian Seiken has uploaded Gut Busters in Alaska which starred Crazy Legs Conti, Charles Hardy and Dale Boone. Videos of The LeFevres appearance on the Jay Leno Show along with Eric "Badlands" Booker on the Jimmy Kimmel Show are also available.
Brian Seiken has uploaded a segment about competitive eating from the Sally Jesse Raphael show that originally aired in 2002. Eric "Badlands" Booker, Don "Moses" Lerman, Rich Shea and Lorraine Arrol appear.
Eric "Badlands" Booker Surf & Stillwell EP is available for free download at BandCamp.com.
Badlands Booker has uploaded a segment from the Travel Channel's Battles on the Beach about the 2004 lobster eating contest in Kennebunkport, Maine won by Sonya Thomas.
Eric "Badlands" Booker has started a new web site at http://badlandsbooker.me/
Eric "Badlands" Booker has a video of him drinking 1.5 liters of "purple stuff" in 9 seconds.
IFOCE.com has an interview with Eric "Badlands" Booker about his new CD, Big Man Mentality.
Eric "Badlands" Booker's new CD Big Man Mentality is now available for purchase.
Gourmet.com has a Guide to Thanksgiving Overeating by Eric "Badlands" Booker. (via twitter)
Meredith Boxberger became the first woman to finish the 7.5 pound Kookamonga burger today at Kooky Canuck in Memphis with a time of 40:40. Eric "Badlands" Booker also finished the burger with a time of 37:10. The Kooky Canuck lockerz gallery has some pictures.
Eric "Badlands" Booker has uploaded a video of him drinking a half gallon of Gatorade in 14 seconds.
Newsday has an article about Long Island competitive eaters featuring Eric "Badlands" Booker, Patrick "The Viper" Viviano, Mike "The Real Skinny" Hoffman, Allen "Shredder" Goldstein and Paul "Porkslap" Arcaria. (via Badlands Booker).
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