Jill Stoler has a blog entry containing three videos about competing in the burger eating contest held during Sunday’s Bowie Baysox game. David Mitolo and Tim “Obi Wing Kenobi” Cain also have videos.

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Digital Sports has an article about the undercard for the Three Brothers Pizza contest in which four person teams from De Matha and St. Vincent Pallotti high schools faced off. The DeMatha team won the contest 24 slices to 15.75. The top individual was Nick Rivers of DeMatha who ate 7 slices in 10 minutes.

There are several interviews at the bottom of the page, including an interview with Sonya Thomas. Sonya says she has done an eating contest in Korea.

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Pizza results from US Male via Steakbellie comment and IFOCE.com report:

Pat Bertoletti 20 (third straight victory in 3 brothers)
Tim Janus 16
Sonya Thomas 16
Bob Shoudt 16
Juliet Lee 13
Crazy Legs Conti 11
Pat Philbin 11
Sean Gordon 11
Dave US Male Goldstein 8.75

update Jill Stoler has a blog entry and some videos

Pat Philbin has uploaded some pictures to myspace

update #2 Beautiful Brian has a contest video and near complete results He is disappointed that some of the eaters did not pay sufficient respect to his performance of “Black and White”

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Pizza Marketing Quarterly has a press release about Saturday’s contest at Three Brothers Pizza in Greenbelt, Maryland. There will be no amateur competition this year; the undercard will consist of a contest between two local high schools. Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus, Bob Shoudt, Sonya Thomas, Juliet Lee and 13 unnamed professionals are listed as expected entrants. There will also be an autograph session for eaters along with a pizza tossing exhibition.

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SuperSizedMeals.com has a gallery from the May 17 Bigger Mac Daddy Burger eating contest. The captions state that Ian Hickman was the winner.

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SupersizedMeals.com announces that a 19 pound “Bigger Mac Daddy Burger” eating contest will take place at the Burger Joint in Bethesda, Maryland on May 17. Prizes and other details are not listed. The restaurant has a burger listed at 15.4 pounds on its regular menu which is free if completed.

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The Baltimore Sun has an article about University of Maryland student Brian “Eatin'” Keaton. Like Sonya Thomas, Keaton was inspired to enter competitive eating after watching Kobayashi at the Nathan’s finals. Like Kevin Lipsitz, he has competed against a canine in an eating contest. Keaton might have debuted at the 2005 pizza eating contest in Camden, NJ:

Keaton, an agricultural economics major, got his start not long after his Kobayashi epiphany. He learned that the New Jersey state pizza-eating championship, an all-comers event, was to take place a few towns away. He entered, downed a large cheese pie in 10 minutes, and finished fourth, but ahead of several established pros.

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(From comment) The third 3 Brothers Pizza eating contest will take place in Greenbelt, Maryland on May 31. Registration will open on April 11. The previous two contests took place in August.

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The University of Maryland student newspaper has an article about Brian “Eatin'” Keaton, who will compete in the North American Collegiate Eating Championship in San Diego next month. Keaton’s major is food science.

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The gazette.net article about the Three Brothers pizza contest has been revised with more information about Juliet Lee and a picture of husband Joey competing in the amateur pizza eating contest.

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Gazette.net has a writeup of the August 18 Three Brothers Pizza contest held in Greenbelt, MD. Jeff Blachly, of Gambrills, MD won the amateur contest with nine slices.

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WhiteLabelDub has two videos of Saturday’s Three Brothers Pizza eating contest at http://www.youtube.com/user/whitelabeldub

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The Three Brother’s Pizza contest preview in the Washington Post’s Sports “Bog” mention’s Liz K’s report from the 2006 contest.

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Brian Seiken has a report about his trip to Maryland to compete in the Three Brothers pizza eating contest on his Bits & Pieces page.

update There is a also a contest video on beautifulbrian.com

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Today’s 3 Brothers Pizza results from SonyaTheBlackWidow.com and a Steakbellie comment

1: Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti: 22 Slices
2: Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas: 20
3: Tim “Eater X” Janus: 18
4: Chip Simpson – 17.5
5: Humble Bob Shoudt – 17
6: Pat Philbin – 12
7: Russ Keeler – 11
7: Juliet Lee – 11
9 Wing Kong – 10

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WBAL has a brief article about the 3 Brothers Pizza contest which claims that Sonya Thomas & Juliet Lee will compete.

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The Annapolis Capital has an article about expected entrants in tomorrow’s 3 Brothers Pizza contest for amateurs which includes some quotes from Pat Bertoletti. Pat says he looks forward to competing against Sonya, but the article does not say if they will face each other tomorrow. Dunking will be banned tomorrow in the amateur event. It is not stated if that restriction will be in effect for the professional contest as well.

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The Herald Mail of Hagerstown, MD has a preview of Saturday’s Three Brothers Pizza contest containing several quotes from Pat Bertoletti in an article about a local ice cream eating contest. After graduating, Bertolletti has found employment at a fish store and gourmet shop and is also cooking for a catering company.

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Registration for the second Three Brothers Pizza contest will open on July 13 at noon eastern. The contest will take place on August 18 in Greenbelt, Maryland. There will also be an amateur contest.

Another August IFOCE contest will take place at the Ash Creek Saloon Rib Eating Contest. Joey Chestnut is expected to defend his title. Former WWF/WWE wrestler King Kong Bundy will act as celebrity judge.

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The Andrews Air Force base website has an article about Sonya Thomas, who manages the Burger King at that location. The article says that Sonya was filmed for a documentary to be televised on the National Geographic Channel in 2007 called “The Science of Speed Eaters” Tim Janus and Loren Yarbrough are also expected to appear in that program.

Updated Big Fish DC, the production company, has a program description:

In this thrilling hour, we’ll take viewers inside the bellies of competitive eaters and see how the human body can be pushed to its gastronomical limit. We will follow an up and coming southern eater, Bubba, a father of two, as he tries to reach the big time in speed eating. We’ll meet famed 105 lb. Sonya “Black Widow” Thomas – a woman who out eats men four times her size. We’ll follow a champion eater as for the first time, the medical community studies the physiological changes that allow a person to consume over 50 hotdogs in ten minutes, with no apparent ill effects. NCG goes inside the world of competitive eating and brings viewers what until now, has never been seen.

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Liz and Krista’s report from the Three Brothers Pizza eating contest has been uploaded to truefan. A flickr gallery of the contest is also available.

Some observations from that writeup:

Juliet Lee claims that she can eat more than Sonya Thomas. Like Sonya, she believes her forte is non bready foods which do not require much chewing.

Pat Bertoletti will appear (or might have appeared already) on “Attack of the Show” on G4/Tech TV sometime this week.

Andrew Lane also competed in the contest and has some reports and pictures on his blog.

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from beautifulbrian.com:

Three Bro’s Pizza Results
1. Pat B 19 slices
2. Chip Simpson 17 slices
3. Bob Shoudt 15 slices
4. Larry Mcneill 13 slices
5. Brian Subich 12 slices
6, Allen Goldstein 11 slices
7 Pat Philbin 11
Rest of the field ?????

Each pie based on 8 slice 16” pie

Brian Seiken has also started the fall season of his video podcasts with a show featuring Joe LaRue

(From Luther) Sonya Thomas did not do a hometown contest because she is doing a contest in Hong Kong this weekend (.doc file)

Updated 10:02 pm – steakbellie fan Wendy Scherer attended the contest and wrote a blog entry about it. The winner of the amateur contest was a woman (maybe megamunch’s friend the Pizza Princess”) who ate 11 slices in ten minutes.

Updated 8/13 4:38 pm – The Washington Post has an article with a picture and information about the amateur winner, Juliet Lee, who said she was inspired by Sonya Thomas. Like “The Black Widow”, Ms. Lee is 39 years old and about 5’4″ and 105 lb.

WTOP radio has an AP article about the contest

Updated 8/14 12:45 am – megamunch has a blog entry and gallery of the contest

Updated 8/16 12:40 pm – steakbellie has a blog entry and gallery of the contest

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Three Brothers Pizza – Sonya Thomas is listed as an expected entrant
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The AP calendar reports that Sonya Thomas will compete in Saturday’s Three Brothers Pizza eating contest in Greenbelt, MD. Sonya will look to extend her VA/MD/DC/DE/NC undefeated streak.

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Sunday’s Washington Post had an excellent and rather long article about Sonya Thomas and her victory in the Bethesda Verizon VoiceWing qualifier at the end of last month. Registration or bugmenot.com is required.

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