Youtube has a video of Natsuko "Gal" Sone eating a 5kg meal while dining with sumo wrestlers.
StarTribune reports that former heavyweight boxing champ George Foreman visited the Twin Cities for his birthday and dined at all three restaurants featured in the Minneapolis episode of Man vs. Food.
Grace Lee of Atlanta GSpots will compete against former NBA center Jonathan Kerner in a 5 pound burrito eating contest at the Cantina in Buckhead, Georgia on January 22.
Cincinnati Bengals kicker Shayne Graham, called the team's biggest eater in a 2008 article, might have the opportunity to switch to competitive eating full time after tonight's performance.
ESPNLosAngeles on Lawry’s “Beef Bowl”
ESPNLosAngeles has a column about the “Beef Bowl” held at Lawry’s Prime Rib for members of the Rose Bowl teams.
The truth is no one really knows which team eats more in the Beef Bowl anymore. The pre-Rose Bowl gorgefest has been around for 54 years, longer than all but five actual bowl games, but organizers haven’t kept official tabs on the exact amount devoured by each team since the 1970s when they stopped advertising it as an eating contest. Richard R. Frank, president and chief executive officer of Lawry’s Restaurants Inc., now admits that when someone asks for an exact number eaten by both teams, “someone will pull a number out of the air.”
AZstarnet has an article about Tuscon High offensive lineman Ben Cannon, who reportedly ate the Quadruple Bypass Burger from the Heart Attack Grill in about three minutes.
Boxer Manny Pacquiao reportedly eats 7,000 calories a day while training according to a New York Times article.
Derek Jeter & Will Ferrell film movie at Nathan’s
The New York Post has a gallery of Derek Jeter filming the Will Ferrell movie “The Other Guys” at Nathan’s Famous in Coney Island yesterday. The movie has the following plot summary:
In the comedy, Ferrell and notorious Red Sox fan Mark Wahlberg play cops who spend their careers as desk jockeys. The two are permanently benched after Wahlberg’s character wrongly shoots Jeter in the leg after seeing him walking around with a bat, sources said.
The scene shot at Nathan’s takes place years later, when a down-on-his-luck Jeter — wearing a filthy hobo’s jacket and sporting stringy gray hair — encounters the crime-fighting duo.
Go! Go! Curry, site of a curry eating contest, is mentioned in The New York Times restaurant blog and a WCBS segment due to the owner's devotion to World Series MVP Hideki Matsui.
Asylum.com has a blog entry about UFC fighter Tom Lawlor, who bills himself as "Central Florida's Number One Eater" after winning a pie and a wing eating contest
(from Brian Subich) WWE.com has a clip from the 1985 Halloween Special of a pie eating contest between King Kong Bundy and Captain Lou Albano, who passed away today.
The Freakonomics blog has an entry comparing Usain Bolt's track records with Takeru Kobayashi doubling the Nathan's record in 2001.
JaxDailyRecord reports that bodybuilder Chuck Jensen, winner of a rib eating contest at Woody's, can eat 13 chickens when he gets the all you can eat chicken special.
THE_REAL_SHAQ on Kobayashi
The most recent twitter update by THE_REAL_SHAQ:
How does tok a roo ko by ashi eat all dat dam food geeeez
(Apparently the Glutton Bowl was just rerun on Fox Reality). Shaquille O’Neal will be starring in Shaq vs. later this summer in which he will face off against star athletes in sports other than basketball. Perhaps competitive eating could be one of the events.
The Southtown Star reports that Pat Bertoletti, Tim Brown and former Green Bay Packer defensive lineman John Jurkovic will compete in the IFOCE taco contest on August 1.
The Denver Post has an article about 6'8" 390 pound strongman competitor Brian Shaw who eats 10,000 calories a day and is reluctant to go to restaurants for fear of breaking their chairs.
Joel Stein has a column for ESPN.com's Page 2 about his attempt to consume 9,000 calories in a day as Tour de France competitors do.
Philly.com reports that Bill "El Wingador" Simmons will face off against Jose Conseco in a boxing match on July 24.
The NY Boxing examiner has an article listing Takeru Kobayashi and Filipino boxing champion Manny Pacquiao as the only candidates for the title of Greatest Asian Athlete.
NewsObserver.com has a report on the Doughman "quadrathlon" held in Durham, NC. Adam Richman's team finished 18th.
NewsObserver.com has a preview of tomorrow's Durham, NC quadrathlon (triathlon + eating). Adam Richman of Man vs. Food is expected to participate.
New baseball burger challenges
BottomLineSox announces that the 1 pound 9 ounce McGreevy’s Beckett Burger will debut at McGreevy’s this afternoon. Josh Beckett will be present at the restaurant until 3 pm today and award Red Sox tickets. The burger weight was selected to honor of Josh Beckett’s #19 uniform number. The burger price is $30 and a portion of the cost will go to the Josh Beckett Foundation. All purchasers will receive one of two T shirts which will announce whether they succeeded or failed in the challenge.
The Trenton Thunder have also started the Thunder Burger Challenge which consists of three grilled cheese sandwiches separated by half pound burger patties. The burger is free if it is finished in under 30 minutes and all finishers will be invited to a contest on August 28. (Will this bring central New Jersey’s most famous burger eater out of retirement?)
I Love Las Vegas Magazine has a picture of Joey Chestnut and boxer Ricky Hatton taken at a Hooters restaurant on Sunday after Hatton was defeated by Manny Pacquiao.
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman and other participants in the Gumball 3000 transcontinental race stopped at the Big Texan. No racer attempted the 72 ounce steak.
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