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Vimeo has four clips from the documentary "Hungry" including segments featuring Takeru Kobayashi, Brad Sciullo and Dave "US Male" Goldstein. Tickets remain available for the films debut tomorrow at DOC NYC.
Medium.com has a transcript of the segment of Fox TV's Man vs. Beast where Takeru Kobayashi faced off against a bear in a hot dog eating contest.
Takeru Kobayashi will appear at Portland (OR) State's basketball tournament on November 22 and 23 and take on students in eating contests. This might be Kobayashi's first appearance in the Pacific Northwest.
For Halloween, a couple is dressing up as Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi.
eBay has several autographed pictures of Takeru Kobayashi for sale (most taken at Monday's Chompionship in Toronto). The minimum bid for a picture is $34.95 and the buy it now price is $54.95. Bidding ends November 5.
Takeru Kobayashi will appear on the Canadian sports channel TSN today at 5 pm eastern.He ate 4 hot dogs in 30 seconds.
Takeru Kobayashi will participate in the finals of the JustEat.ca Campus Chompionship at the Drake Hotel in Toronto tonight (competitor list). update Kobayashi ate 32 slices of pizza in 3 minutes. update Oct 29 Smoke's Poutinerie amateur champion, Steven "The Clutch" Dorgo, representing the University of Guelph, won the collegiate contest. update Nov 1 Ignite News.ca article
At tonight's Big East Tip Off at Seton Hall University, Takeru Kobayashi ate 11 hot dogs in 10 1 minute and drank a gallon of milk in 15 seconds. update Oct 26 A video of the event is available (from NBC Sports)
The Toronto Star has an article about a dinner with Takeru Kobayashi and "Furious" Pete Czerwinski.
Just-Eat.ca has a list of 10 factoids about Takeru Kobayashi extracted from his facebook chat session last week.
Seton Hall Athletics is seeking a competitor to take on Takeru Kobayashi at the Big East Tip Off Party on Friday.
Takeru Kobayashi will do a live Q & A session at 8 pm on the JustEat.ca facebook. update A transcript of the session
A new trailer for the "Hungry" competitive eating documentary focusing on Takeru Kobayashi and Brad Sciullo is available on youtube. The caption lists a release date this fall.
2013 Pie Wood Fired Pizza Let em Eat IV
update Oct 7 GSHLTV has a video
update #2 The Star and ctvnews have articles
update Kobayashi has defended his title with a total of 42 slices (10.5 pizzas)
From anonymous comment
1) Takeru Kobayashi 42
2) Pat Bertoletti 39
3) Jamie McDonald 38
Pat Bertoletti and Takeru Kobayashi are 2 of 3 people to have eaten more than 55 hot dogs in a 10 minute contest. This will be their first meeting of the decade of the 2010s. A listing of their meetings is avaiLable after the jump.
“Furious” Pete Czerwinski has withdrawn
Simcoe.com has a preview of the contest
Takeru Kobayashi will compete in a hot dog eating contest at Seton Hall's Midnight Madness on October 25 in South Orange, NJ. The event will be televised on Fox Sports 1.
For Entreprenuer Magazine, Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner offers 3 lessons in problem solving that can be drawn from Takeru Kobayashi's record breaking perfromance at the 2001 Nathan's finals.
The student newspaper for Concordia University of Montreal has an article about the "chompionship" for Canadian college students. Takeru Kobayashi will be a guest competitor in the finals in Toronto on October 28. update http://chompchompchomp.ca/challengers accepts votes for entrants who have submitted videos.
Pie Wood Fired Pizza in Barrie, Ontario announced Let em Eat 4. Takeru Kobayashi, Pat Bertoletti and Jamie McDonald are expected to compete in the pizza eating contest. update September 17 The facebook event page announces that the contest will take place on October 6 and award $4500 ($3000 to the winner). Entrants will need to qualify and the top 11 will receive spots.
Takeru Kobayashi appears in a video promoting ChompChompChomp.ca, a contest for Canadian college students. Entrants will submit videos and five finalists will be chosen to compete in Toronto on October 28. The winner will receive $5000 in cash and $20000 in prizes for his/her school.
The Japanese television segment about Takeru Kobayashi's victory in his Nathan's hot dog contest contest debut has been uploaded to youtube. "Badlands" Booker, Charles Hardy, Don Lerman, "Cookie" Jarvis and Kevin Lipsitz are others appearing in the video.
The Impulse Buy has a review of the hot dogs endorsed by Takeru Kobayashi.
Pat Bertoletti says he hopes to face Takeru Kobayashi at the upcoming contest at Pie Wood Fired Pizza in Barrie, Ontario. This would be the first matchup between the two since the 2009 Krystal Square Off Finals.
Takeru Kobayashi repeats as Gringo Bandito taco champion
Takeru Kobayashi repeated as champion of the Gringo Bandito Hot Sauce taco eating contest with a total of 87 tacos in 10 minutes at the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, CA today.
Kevin Ross (comments) & Matt Cohen have more results
1) Takeru Kobayashi 87 Tacos
2) Furious Pete Czerwinski 45
3) Kevin Ross 43
4_ Damon Wells 42
5) Jimmy Lin 29
6T) Matt Cohen 25
6T) Aaron Ybarra 25
update July 22 OCWeekly has a gallery
update July 23 Kobayashi has a gallery
Uncle Bob's Self Storage has uploaded a video of Takeru Kobayashi drinking a gallon of milk in under 25 seconds recorded at Saturday's cupcake record attempt. (via Deadspin)
Takeru Kobayashi will attempt to set a record for most cupcakes eaten in one minute ate Uncle Bob's Self Storage Facility in Upper Saddle River, NJ tomorrow. update July 13 Kobayashi ate 30 cupcakes in a minute.
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