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Amy K. Nelson of SBNation has a video interview with Takeru Kobayashi and his translator / manager Maggie James about the MLE contract he rejected, which he claims would have included both the 2010 and 2011 Nathan's contests and gave him a base pay of $40,000.
NY Daily News has a article and video of Takeru Kobayashi offering advice on competitively eating hot dogs.
UndergroundEats.com is offering a private lunch with Takeru Kobayashi for four people for $1000. The package includes a VIP ticket to the Crif Dog Classic.
Matt Cohen has uploaded a video of Takeru Kobayashi eating 30 tacos in one minute at Chronic Tacos in Huntington Beach, CA during the CD release party for The Offspring.
NBC Sports Off the Bench blog has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi about competing in the Crif Dog Classic.
Damon Wells won the taco eating contest held yesterday during the release party for the new Offspring CD at Chronic Tacos in Huntington Beach, CA by eating 30 tacos in 4 minutes. Takeru Kobayashi ate 30 tacos in one minute. Naader Reda reports that Chronic Tacos will hold a taco eating contest on August 1. update OC Weekly has a slideshow.
TheBigLead.com interviews Takeru Kobayashi – says Nathan’s prizes not payed out
TheBigLead.com has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi about competing in the Crif Dog Classic. Kobayashi says he never received winning prize money from Nathan’s, but during his 2001-06 winning streak Nathan’s did not award prizes. In the years Kobayashi was runner-up, 2007-09, $5,000 was awarded for second place. It is unclear if he received those amounts.
update Team Kobayashi says the runner-up prizes were not payed out in a twitter response.
update June 28 Rich Shea says that Kobayashi is not telling the truth, but he does not explicitly state that the $5000 prizes designated for the Nathan’s runner-up were paid out.
Takeru Kobayashi will appear at a CD release party for the band The Offspring in Huntington Beach, CA on June 26. An amateur taco eating contest will be held at the event.
Takeru Kobayashi's appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon can be viewed online. Kobayashi ate 54 cocktail sausages in a minute to claim a world record.
TeamKobayashi announces that Takeru Kobayashi will appear on Friday night's episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC.
A press release announces that Takeru Kobayashi will partner with Large Animal Games to promote the Nomsters mobile video game. When 100 million virtual fruit items have been collected in the game, Takeru Kobayashi will attempt an eating challenge in New York City. update The Kickstarter page for the project needs to raise over $18,000 by June 6.
Takeru Kobayashi ate 10 hot dogs in one minute during yesterday's RailCats game in Gary, Indiana (video). The day before, he ate a Brat-a-Boom 2 foot bratwurst in 1:55 (gallery) at the Boomers game in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Julie Di Caro reports that Takeru Kobayashi ate 6 Italian beefs before a team of five Chicago Now bloggers could finish a single sandwich each. (via Kobayashi) update May 27 A video and report on the Italian beef contest are available. Kobayashi did a pizza eating contest in Chicago yesterday.
Takeru Kobayashi appears in a recent College Humor video (language may not be safe for work.)
Takeru Kobayashi will compete against a team of five Chicago Now bloggers in an Italian beef eating contest in Chicago on Friday.
Totally Driven TV has a report on Takeru Kobayashi's appearance at Harrah's Philadelphia today where he broke two record: he broke his previous cheesesteak record of 24 seconds by 0.4s and a new Harrah's Food Challenge record (1:52) consisting of a cannoli from Varallo, a 10†Margherita pizza from Caffe Napoli and macaroni & cheese from BarleyQue. (video) update May 13 DelCo Times has a report from the event and timed Kobayashi's cheesesteak attempt at 24.7 seconds.
Takeru Kobayashi appears in a new video promoting Eight O'Clock Coffee where he drank 42 cups. Comedian Jim Breuer, formerly of Saturday Night Live, served as co-host.
Philebrity reports that Takeru Kobayashi will be at the renaming ceremony for Harrah's Philadelphia (formerly Harrah's Chester) on Friday and will attempt to break his cheesesteak record. Tony Luke will also create a 20 foot long cheesesteak for the occasion.
Kobayashi to compete in Crif Dog Classic in NYC July 4
(via Darren Rovell) CrifDogClassic.com has a press release announcing that Takeru Kobayashi will compete in a hot dog eating contest at Roberta’s in Brooklyn on July 4. Other listed competitors are Stephanie Torres, Tom Gilbert, Johnnie Excel, Dave “US Male” Goldstein and Brad Sciullo. No prizes or qualifiers are listed; two entrants will be selected using reddit.com. The competition will be streamed on SI.com.
Takeru Kobayashi announces that he will attend the NFL draft tonight. (It is ironic that a big advocate of competitors' freedom would endorse a mechanism that restricts the rights of performers.)
Takeru Kobayashi claimed a world record after eating 25 peeps in 30 seconds at the Buzzfeed office. update Pat Bertoletti has a video of him eating 30 peeps in under 35 seconds.
Takeru Kobayashi will appear at minor league baseball games in Schaumburg, IL on May 26 and Gary, Indiana on May 27.
Yahoo's PostGame has a report on Kobayashi at the South-By-Southwest festival in Austin where he dined with Greg Jennings of the Green Bay Packers and an unnamed venture capitalist. Kobayashi claimed he ate his first non-competitive hot dog at the event. (He dined with Freakonomics author Stephen Dubner at Gray's Papaya hot dog stand in 2008.)
Takeru Kobayashi thanks everyone who has sent him birthday wishes. (He turns 34 today.)
Takeru Kobayashi ate 13 grilled cheese sandwiches in a minute at SXSW in Austin today and claimed a world record (video)
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