sfgate.com has a profile of Joey Chestnut and an interview with his mother.

The Vallejo Times Herald has an article about local boy Joey Chestnut.

The Philadelphia Daily News has a contest writeup.

The Delaware County Times has a contest writeup focusing on the contestants from Delaware County.

The Daily Local has a profile of Timothy “Dr. Slob” Cusick

The Courier Post has an article focusing on the entrants from South Jersey. 10 competitors were from South New Jersey, 5 more than Philadelphia

The Courier Post also has an anti Wing Bowl commentary.

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Here are all the results I am aware of. Any additional results would be appreciated

1. Joey Chestnut 173 wings
2. Rich LeFevre 156 wings
3. Dr. WingLove 114 wings
4. ?
5. ?
6. MacWing 105 wings
7.-25. ?

If you picked 41+ wings as the gap between Chestnut/LeFevre and the rest of the field in the recent poll, you were correct.

Dr. WingLove threw up in his corn eating stunt and needed to win the WingOff to make the Wing Bowl, where he was the highest finishing local.

It is nice to see Rich LeFevre was a crowd favorite. Philly fans have not always been as kind to sub 150 pounders from out of town.

The LA times has a good article on the Wing Bowl.

philly.com has a Wing Bowl article with more information about the planned Wing Bowl movie.

The Courier Post has an article focusing on South Jersey entrants.

Yahoo has a photo gallery.

Philadelphia Weekly has an article with several pictures (adult content)

SFist has a blog entry

MacWing has sent me three pictures he took as a contestant.

Rich LeFevre meditating

MacWing and Dr. WingLove

MacWing and Joey Chestnut

Two other Wing Bowls will be held this week. (I am surprised that the term Wing Bowl is not trademarked.)

Gentleman Joe Menchetti won the Columbus Wing Bowl. Menchetti has lost 60 pounds in the past year.

A Salt Lake City Wing Bowl will be held tomorrow. The “Wingettes” for that event will probably be less scantily clad than the Philly Wingettes.

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Liz and Krista have posted their article and photo gallery of Wednesday’s Grilled Cheese Bowl. A few interesting facts from their article:

• Sonya was interviewed by 20/20 at the contest. I do not think she will appear on tonight’s episode
• Cookie Jarvis will not appear on the “The Biggest Loser”
• Eaters were required to use Planet Hollywood’s cups, clearing up the mystery about Humble Bob’s banned cups
• Tim “Eater X” Janus will appear on MTV’s True Life which will air February 22
• Sonya considers Ron Koch one of her top four rivals

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Joey Chestnut (not Chestnutt) has set a Wing Bowl record with 173 wings beating Sonya’s record from Wing Bowl 12 by two wings. Rich LeFevre was second. LeFevre was apparently a crowd favorite. The arena was apparently only half full despite the sellout.

Updated 12:02 pm
nbc10 has a video and slideshow
kyw has a slideshow
philly.com has a video of the first half of the contest (real player required)
humblebob.com has some pictures on his main page

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Philly.com’s Early World blog, written by Peter Mucha, is posting from the Wing Bowl this morning. El Wingador has just been inducted into the Wing Bowl Hall of Fame.

Updated 9:04 am: The liveblogger is not bothering to blog the actual contest. He has listed the second round advancers. Joey Chestnut and Rich LeFevre are leading.

9:20 Comments on the blog have
1. Joey Chestnut 173
2. Rich LeFevre 156
3. Dr. WingLove 114

Note to philly.com: “liveblogging” does not mean write the article then get around to blogging when and if you can find time for it.

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The Delaware County Times has some short profiles of the Delaware County Wing Bowl entrants.

phillyburbs.com profile of Ken “Wingmaster” Ronan

Wing Tut’s blog

Adam “Hungry Hungry Hebrew” Taxin’s New Orleans charity website

Rich “The Locust” LeFevre’s competition history

Joey Chestnut’s competition history

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610 WIP has announced its Wing Bowl odds and lists Rich LeFevre as the fourth biggest favorite behind Joey Chestnut, Robocop and Freak of Nature in the Wing Bowl at 5 to 1 odds. If you can find someone who will give you those odds on Rich, you might want to consider making that bet.

The Wing Bowl weigh-in will be at 5 pm today at Chickie’s & Pete’s sports bar.

The Pottstown Mercury has a profile on Dave “The Dumpster” Moya, who received a pep rally yesterday.

The sports prof has a commentary on the Wing Bowl.

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The Philadelphia City Paper has an article on the official supplier of wings for the Wing Bowl, the Rib Ranch. That restaurant supplies the contest with smaller than normal wings with mild barbeque sauce to maximize the amount of wings eaten. Some competitors buy buckets of 50 wings to practice. The owner of the Rib Ranch claims that “The contestants always say the wings are great.”

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Thanks Bubba Yarbrough, Liz & Eater X

updated 2:43 pm, full results added

Liz has posted some pictures on her blog

Update 7:41 pm CBS has a short article on the contest.

Updated 2/2 8:05 am
J$ of velvet-sea.blogspot.com has a contest writeup with several pictures and a video of the pickle undercard between Brian Seiken and Kevin Lipsitz.

12:05 pm Al-Jazeera.net also has an article on the contest.

4:32 pm goldenpalace.com has an article, gallery and video of the contest

Humble Bob also has a gallery.

Congratulations to all competitors. Sonya has now won 4 of the last 5 contests, facing Joey Chestnut in all of them. Pat Bertoletti shows that his victory over Sonya and Joey was no fluke with a close third place. Good Luck to Joey, Rich and all the other Wing Bowl entrants Friday.

I am curious to hear how the sandwiches compared to the sandwiches in the qualifiers and how Charles Hardy’s rule limiting sandwich immersion to 5 seconds affected times.

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Philly.com reports that a documentary of Sonya Thomas at last year’s Wing Bowl filmed by Jenny Drumgoole will be screened at the Philadelphia University of the Arts Wednesday morning.

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The site and time for the goldenpalace.com grilled cheese finals Wednesday has been announced as the Times Square Planet Hollywood Spectators might want to arrive early, as Brian Seiken could appear on an undercard contest.

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The field for Wing Bowl 14 has been set and philly.com has some information on some of the competitors. The only woman competing, Melissa Perzin, has modified Sonya’s nickname and is calling herself “The White Widow.” Joey Chestnut and Rich LeFevre will not be the only entrants travelling a long distance. There will also be an (unnamed) competitor from Red Deer, Alberta, Cananda.

Updated 11:54 Another connection between race and the Wing Bowl besides Melissa’s nickname can be found in this discrimination lawsuit against WIP. I wonder if the lawsuit will use Badlands Booker’s possibly bogus disqualification from Wing Bowl 13 as supporting its claim of bias.

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While Brian Seiken thinks he might have seen George Shea at a wedding recently, “The Chicken” not only saw IFOCE president Rich Shea at a Las Vegas Club, he/she received a personal invitation to the Big Daddy Burger contest which was accepted and wrote a blog entry about the experience.

Correction 11:47 pm, Rich Shea and not George was at the nightclub, thanks Ray Meduna

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Joey Badafuco/Wing Tut, who won the Wing 5 qualifier at Lucy’s Bar yesterday, has an account of his victory and training on his blog. Joey also competed in the Salty Ball contest this summer.

Updated 1/28 10:20 am : Joey Badafuco thinks 135 wings should win the contest and does not know who “Rich LaFevre” is.

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The Las Vegas Review has a short writeup with three pictures of Saturday’s Big Daddy Burger contest. The Las Vegas Sun has a longer article with one picture.

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Less than two weeks after the grilled cheese finals, goldenpalace.net will sponsor a chocolate eating contest in Chicago on February 13. Rising star Patrick Bertoletti will get a chance to compete in front of a hometown crowd.

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Here are the full results of Saturday’s 9 pound Barrick/Big Daddy Burger contest at the Plaza Casino. Thanks to Ray “The Bison” Meduna for the information, who also judged that event. I would appreciate it if someone could tell me what the last name of 13th place finisher Eric D. is. Congratulations to all competitors and officials for a very successful contest.

Update 1/25 4:14 pm Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has a first person account and some pictures on his blog.

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With the Strong Island Sound having a comfortable lead in the last minute of its game against the Newark Express Friday, 13th man Ed “Cookie” Jarvis saw action. Jarvis ran the court on a fast break, but the pass to him was deflected. A video clip of Jarvis’ endeavors is available.

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Thanks Bubba Yarbrough for the results

In a recent comment on her website, Sonya Thomas stated she intends to represent the 3 billion+ women on earth by injecting a more deadly venom into her male prey. Sonya definitely lived up to that claim today at the 9 pound Barrick / Big Daddy burger contest at the Plaza Casino in Las Vegas. Her time of approximately 27 minutes was almost half the 48 minutes she needed to finish last year’s contest (and is similar to her almost doubling her amount in last month’s meatball contest.) Las Vegas residents performed well at the contest, with Rich LeFevre and Ron Koch comprising half the top four.

Updated 10:02 KVVU has a video of an in studio contest yesterday between Rich LeFevre, Ron Koch, Hall Hunt and Joey Chestnut online

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With the Big Daddy burger contest tomorrow, it is an appropriate time to look back on the last megaburger contest, the AICE Zeus burger contest held at the Clinton Station Diner in New Jersey in May. Three person teams were allowed 75 minutes to finish the 12.5 pound sandwich. The only group to beat the deadline, the Tri-State Titans, finished with a time of 71 minutes, consisted of “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti, Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman, and Dominick “The Doginator” Cardo. The Titan’s efforts were almost invalidated by Chowhound’s vomiting soon after he completed the burger.

Kate Stelnick served as celebrity judge, her only involvement in an eating contest. The article does not state if it was her call if Chapman’s “reversal of fortune” occured after an allowable time. That experience might have been distasteful enough for her to withdraw completely from competitive eating. Another possible theory for her absence is suggested by her quote that she won a lot of bets from people who did not think she could finish the 96er burger. She could be winning a lot of money betting people in buffets and wants to keep a low profile so none of her potential victims recognize her (which could be the premise of a possible movie: “Svelte Co-eds Can’t Eat.” 😉 )

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This forum thread states that the only member of the Plaza Casino “Wall of Fame” to have completed the 9 pound Barrick/Big Daddy burger as of October 2004 was a slender woman who is apparently not Sonya Thomas. (Since the finisher looks somewhat like Sonya, she is apparently not Carlene LeFevre either.) I would appreciate it if someone going to the contest could verify if this claim is true.

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The new poll question asks who will win the nine pound Big Daddy Burger at the Plaza Casino in Las Vegas Saturday. (I am assuming that Joey Chestnut will compete, but I have not seen any definite announcement that he is expected to appear.)

Previous poll results: preferred length of eating contest

10:01 – 15 minutes -> 33%
5:01 – 10 minutes -> 29%
30:01 – 1 hour -> 22%
15:01 – 30 minutes -> 6%
1:00:01 or longer -> 6%
2 minutes or less -> 2%
2:01 – 5 minutes -> 2%

Total Votes: 51

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Ian Hickman won the Farmer Boy’s Fried Zucchini contest held in Riverside, California on Saturday, his second consecutive victory. After taking Joe Menchetti’s current hiatus from AICE events into account, there does not appear to be any active eater on who can impede Hickman’s rise to the top of that organization.

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Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will follow in the footsteps of two-sport athletes Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders when he suits up for the Strong Island Sound of the American Basketball Association under that organization’s 13th man rule on Friday. Jarvis’ basketball playing appears to be part of a larger weight loss regimen as he has also auditioned for NBC’s weight loss reality show “The Biggest Loser.”

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burgerclub.org has a photo gallery of the AICE Schnack burger contest held at the Brooklyn Lyceum in October which was won by Joe Menchetti.

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