The Star Tribune has an article about the challenge burger offered at the restaurant owned by former Olympic gold medalist Rulon Gardner in Afton, Wyoming. Rulon Gardner is appearing on the current season of NBC's "The Biggest Loser" in a quest to reduce his weight from 474 pounds.
Boston.com reports that Shaquille O'Neal has joined the Oreo Double Stuf Racing League and competed in a contest at the Prudential Center last night. A mystery competitor nicknamed "The Hooded Menace" will be revealed this weekend.
Brush News Tribune has a report on Outrageous Food recording a "State Champion Burger" eating contest at Digger's Diner. Two person teams of high school athletes and their coaches competed against each other.
A video of the Bardzilla burger eating contest held at Bard's Burger in Covington, KY is available. Bodybuilder March Lobliner won the contest with a time of 17:46
Furious Pete won a RXMuscle.com eating contest held at the Tender Trap Gentlemens Club in Huntington, New York by eating a 4 pound burger in 3 minutes and 45 seconds. (short video | long video | gallery) Maria "The Incredible Sulk" was originally scheduled to compete, but withdrew.
Bodybuilder Marc Lobliner faced off against Trevor Canfield of the Detroit Lions and two other former football players in a "Bardzilla" burger eating contest at Bard's Burgers in Latonia, KY. Results have not been publicized, but a record was reportedly broken.
Results and a video from the Team Scivation "Big A" Eating Challenge are available. Bodybuilder Marc Lobliner won the contest with a time of 13:45.
The Wall Street Journal has an article about the diets of the offensive linemen for the University of Wisconsin which claims that Dallas Lewallen is the team's biggest eater even though Travis Frederick ate seven prime rib steaks (and wanted an eighth) at Lawry's Beef Bowl.
The Los Angeles Times has an article about the "Beef Bowl" prime rib eating contest held at Lawry's in Beverly Hills for members of Rose Bowl teams which reports that TCU defeated Wisconsin in this year's contest 670 pounds to 650. In the Brazilian buffet contest for Chick-fil-A Bowl teams, South Carolina defeated FSU 3.19 pounds / person to 3.1.
TarHeelFootball reports players from the University of North Carolina football team defeated players from the University of Tennessee in the Music City Bowl pre-game rib eating contest 58 ribs to 55. Quinton Alton of UNC was the individual winner with 21 ribs in 2 minutes.
Video of Natsuko "Gal" Sone defeating MMA fighter Alistair Overeem in a sushi eating contest (via MiddleEasy)
RX Muscle is holding a Porker Burger eating contest on December 10 at Dom and Luigi's Smokehouse Restaurant in Syosset, NY.
A report on tonight's sushi eating contest held at the Mr. Olympia bodybuilding contest in Las Vegas has been posted. "Furious" Pete Czerwinski did not compete.
Indy Cornrows reports that somemembers of the Indiana Pacers took on the Big Ugly burger challenge at Bub's in Carmel, Indiana. Roy Hibbert has some pictures and one of his captions says that Lance Allred ate at least two burgers.
BetaBrand will webcast "The Gravy Mile" tomorrow at 3pm eastern (noon Pacific), in which Tim "Gravy" Brown will try to eat as many snack cakes as possible while running a sub-8 minute mile on a treadmill. Betabrand shoppers will receive a discout based on the number of snack cakes eaten
RxMuscle will hold a sushi eating contest in Las Vegas on September 23. (The contest date might be changed to allow Mr. Olympia competitors to participate after their contest.) update The contest has been moved to September 26.
SF Weekly has a brief mention of ultramarathoner Chikara Omine, the top amateur in last month's gyoza contest in Los Angeles, who will try to defend his title at the spam musubi eating contest tomorrow.
Last night's episode of Shaq vs. where a team led by Shaquille O'Neal faced off against Joey Chestnut can be viewed at abc.go.com. Tim Janus serverd as the coach for Team Shaq. (The eating contest segment begins at the 12 minute mark.)
The facebook for EFX reports that US Sumo Champion "Sumo" Dan Kalbfleisch will be compete against "Furious" Pete Czerwinski in the Muscle Beach Hot Dog Eating Challenge on September 6.
Full results for this year's gyoza contest are available on ifoce.com. Chikara Omine, who tied for the top amateur spot, is a successful ultramarathoner who has won a 50 mile race.
Shaquille O'Neal's hot dog eating contest against Joey Chestnut will be televised on the August 24 episode of Shaq vs.. Shaq's other opponent for that program will be Charles Barkley (in golf).
In the press conference announcing his signing with the Boston Celtics, Shaquille O'Neal stated he intends to compete against Glen "Big Baby" Davis in a chowder eating contest. NESN lists Crazy Legs Conti as another possible eating contest opponent for Shaq.
Tim Hola has a blog entry about attempting the Wing King challenge in Boulder (50 wings in under 30 minutes) after competing in the Ironman Boulder 70.3 triathlon.
Vanity Fair has an interview with Shaquille O'Neal who says that Joey Chestnut taught him to dunk hot dogs in water before his competition on Shaq vs..
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