AOL fanhouse has a report and gallery from a hot dog contest held in honor of Dollar Dog Night at yesterday’s Washington Capitals game in which students from several area colleges competed. Virginia Tech student Alex Malycke won a pair of Southwest Airline tickets by eating 7 hot dogs in 3 minutes. Sonya Thomas served as judge and also performed a one minute exhibition.

The Washington Post DC Sports Bog and On Frozen Blog also have reports about the contest (thumbnails above are from On Frozen Blog). On Frozen Blog also has a video of Sonya’s exhibition. Sonya’s moratorium on dunking food in water was not in place during the exhibition.

The owner of the Capitals, Ted Leonsis, is also an executive at AOL, which probably helped in the contest receiving the publicity it did.

In other news about the NHL’s Southeast division, if the Nathan’s qualifiers start at a Florida Panthers game in March as they have the previous two years, we are about a month and a half away from the beginning of that series.

update A longer video is available on youtube which begins with an interview with Sonya.

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A hot dog eating contest will be held at M’Dawg Haute Dogs in Washington, DC tomorrow. First prize is a 15 inch LCD TV.

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From WashingtonPost.com:

A few months ago, the Palace of Wonders was sold to the owners of Mount Pleasant’s Radius Pizza and Tonic Restaurant. They’ve decided to resurrect the H Street funhouse’s competitive eating events, but with a twist: Instead of racing to eat hot dogs, 10 contestants have to finish an entire large pizza from Radius, crust and all. There will be gift certificates for the winners

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The Washingtonian has a brief article about a pizza eating contest to be held at the Palace of Wonders tonight:

Anyone can sign up at 9pm; the eating competition commences at 10:30. Winner gets a free bar tab, and free pizza—that is, if you even want any more, ever again.

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