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?)

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Results from last Sunday’s Oyster Bowl contest have been posted to the contest website.

Chris Stevens set a record by eating 102 oysters in 2 minutes and Oyster Bow IX winner Jayson Taylor was the runner up with 96. Theza Friedman was the women’s winner with 96. Additional results have been entered in the eatfeats database.

Central Jersey has a picture of Elliot Cowley competing.

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• Beautiful Brian wants to know who will stop the Shea Stadium rain
• Rice and Bean Pot burrito eating contest at Boston area colleges starts January 27
• Nacho eating contest in Paul Blart: Mall Cop
• Questions about performance enhancing substances in competitive eating
• Picture of 29 inch pizza at American Pie Pizza in Florida
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• A youtube page by “Kobayashi”
• Don Lerman has resumed competitive eating posts on mosesnews.com
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• Consumption has a rap video directed to Badlands Booker
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• Hall Hunt to be inducted into the Jacksonville Krystal Hall of Fame on Monday
• Furious Pete interview on youtube – bodybuilding.com forum thread about it
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San Diego corned beef musubi article and video
James Madison University grilled cheese eating contest, winner eats 12 sandwiches in 8 minutes
Shoo Fly Pie contest to be held June 21, $10,000 purse
“Eating Levi” does not make the South by Southwest festival, but will appear on DVD and the Yes Network
Rio Wraps (Michigan) Burrito Bowl finals report and qualifiers gallery
Princeton Oyster Bowl video
Queen Mary chili cheese fries mini documentary
Rice and Bean Pot competitors eat burritos on Fox 25 news
Brooklyn Dodger forum thread about Nathan’s redevelopment plans

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The top 10 finishers at Sunday’s oyster bowl are now listed on the Oyster Bowl blog. PacPub has a report about that contest

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The Oyster Bowl blog lists Barbara Devaney as one of the co-favorites in today’s contest. Devaney took the 2006 contest into overtime after eating a record-tying 83 oysters in 2 minutes. She received a Ph. D. in economics from the University of Michigan and is currently a senior vice president at Mathematica Policy Research, where her specialties are family formation, children’s nutrition and public health programs. A team from Mathematica will be competing in today’s contest.

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The blog for the Princeton Oyster Bowl reports that two time defending champion Kristina Costa will not be able to defend her crown because she will be in South Africa during the contest. The website claims that the current favorites are 2005 winner Roy Cherris and Barbara Devaney, who lost to Kristina Costa in overtime in 2006. Last year’s first prize was a 42 inch plasma TV, this year’s prize has not been listed.

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(Via Wing Tut) January 2008 will not pass without any eating contests of significance. ESPN 1250 of Pittsburgh has released details about the 2008 Wing Championship Series. There will be six qualifiers from January 9 to 19 with the finals taking place on January 25. First prize is a trip to Barbados.

In other upcoming independent contest news, the Princeton Oyster Bowl has started a blog.

A list of the qualifier dates and sites is available after the jump
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Candela I Pizzeria near Princeton, NJ is holding a wing eating contest on September 29 with an unusual prize:

If you’re the first to finish your heaping plate of savory Candela chicken wings, you’ll win a date with the Candela waitress of your choice. See here for more information about our fine females of Italian food. And girls, gays and everything in between, we haven’t forgotten about you, either: if you prevail at eating those delicious Candela wings faster than the rest, you’ll score a date with one of our prime, well-defined delivery boys.

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Brian Seiken has a video of the entire Molly Pitcher qualifier along with his appearance on WB 11 at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/pitcherwrap.html

Steakbellie has a gallery of the contest

Wackbag.com has a forum thread devoted to Philbin’s victory

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IFOCE.com reports that Pat Philbin won the Nathan’s qualifier held at the Molly Pitcher Travel Plaza for the second consecutive year.

1. Pat Philbin, 27 HDB
2. Allen Goldstein 24 HDB
3. Arturo Rios, Jr. 21 HDB
4. Brian Subich 19 (out of wildcard contention)
5. Steakbellie 17.5 (or 16.5)

updatebeautifulbrian.com has a contest report

Steakbellie has a pre contest report

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EarthTimes.com has a press release about the “Spotlight on New Jersey” to be held at the Molly Pitcher travel plaza on Friday. Spaces in the Nathan’s qualifier are still available according to the press release:

Concerts, giveaways, and special activities will take place throughout the day. Chief among them will be the Nathan’s Famous hotdog eating contest scheduled for 1:00 PM. The winner of this regional qualifying event will compete in Nathan’s national championship on July 4th in Coney Island, New York. HMSHost invites all aspiring hotdog champions to come out this Friday and compete for the right to represent the great State of New Jersey in this classic event.

No expected eaters are listed. Brian Seiken says that he, Brian Subich and Allen Goldstein will attend on the home page of beautifulbrian.com

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b_sting competed in last Sunday’s Oyster Bowl and has some pictures on his myspace blog. He says that winner Kristina Costa is an employee of the restaurant where the contest was held.

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from JMGroupPrinceton.com:

Kristina Costa, 82 oysters in 2 minutes, women’s & overall winner, repeat winner
Dan Schwartzmann, 76 oysters in 2 minutes, men’s winner

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(from AICE news) National Hard Boiled Egg Eating Championship, Marina Grille, Brick, NJ

1. Goose Gilbert, 46 eggs
2. Mark Lyle, 42 eggs
3. Joe Menchetti, 41 eggs

Mark Lyle believes that his plate had 35 eggs when it should have had 25 and that his actual result is 10 more than his listed result.

Rio Wraps Burrito Bowl, Dearborn MI, gallery

1. Justin Swarbrick, 4 burritos in under 10 minutes

Oyster Bowl VIII, Princeton, NJ

no official results yet, but Joe Menchetti says that last year’s winner, Kristina Costa, repeated with 82 oysters in 2 minutes.

(Women’s) Wing Fling III

no official results yet, but a competitor says the winner ate 25 in 15 minutes, one more than Keighrah ate in 45 seconds in this youtube video.

update Feb 9 This post is now closed to comments

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nj.com reports a two minute oyster eating contest will be held on February 4 to benefit breast cancer research. Two women, Kristina Costa and Barbara Devaney broke a record by eating 83 oysters in two minutes. A one minute overtime was held which Costa won with 40 oysters.

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Molly Pitcher Rest Area results

From “eater” & Brian Seiken & IFOCE.com

Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin with 22.5
Allen “Shredder” Goldstein with 20.5
Arturo Rios 15.5
“Beautiful” Brian Seiken 12.5 officially retired from Nathan’s after contest
Don “Moses” Lerman reversal

This wackbag thread has results and pictures

Updated 7:05 – The Courier Post has an AP article about the contest

NoFilterPaul has some pictures and a video on his myspace page

Updated June 24, 2:31 pm Brian Seiken has a writeup with some pictures of the contest

Updated 6:28 pm Krista has an interview with Philbin for Digest

Ed Catlett has a gallery of the qualifier

AP photos has a picture of Philbin and Lerman

Updated June 26, 7:15 pm – Philbin’s win makes a Japanese blog

Updated June 28, 1:29 pm – Moth has a flickr gallery of the contest

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Businesswire has put out a press release publicizing Friday’s Nathan’s qualifier at the Molly Pitcher rest area on the New Jersey Turnpike. The qualifier will be part of Spotlight on NJ, a “summer celebration of the Garden State’s diversity, energy, and charm”.

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In this article about a hot dog contest at Princeton University, the organizer of the contest says he was inspired by MTV’s True Life episode about competitive eating. The contest raised $6,539 for charity and each competitor took pledges for donated amounts for hot dogs eaten. Ruben Pope won with 16 hot dogs in 15 minutes.

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The Princeton University student newspaper has a pro competitive eating column which promotes a hot dog eating contest to be held May 2. The column does not mention Kate Stelnick, the Princeton region’s most famous competitive eater, or the June 23 Nathan’s qualifier in greater Princeton (Molly Pitcher Travel Plaza) in which Charles Hardy Jr. will make his debut.

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Kate Stelnick’s student newspaper has an article in which she describes the aftermath of eating Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub 11 pound burger in January. This is the first article about Kate that I have been able to find since February. Like all the previous articles, no details are offered about what made Kate so certain she could finish the burger (are 5/7/9? pound meals commonplace for her?). She feels that society has made too big a deal about her accomplishment (the same could also be said for driving several hundred times around a racetrack, slapping a ball over a fence, or nearly everything else considered a big-time sport.) While her feat is certainly not on the level of curing cancer, it did offer a glimpse into what humans are capable of achieving (and also deflated some male chauvinists’ egos in the process).

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