From ConnectionNewspapers.com:

Don Corleone’s Brick Oven Pizzeria will hold a Pros vs. Joes Pizza Challenge Sunday, Sept. 30, at 2 p.m., at the restaurant, in Sterling, VA (Washington, DC area).

Waleed Zarou, owner of Don Corleone’s Brick Oven Pizzeria, is looking for average men, women and children to compete against three celebrity guests including World Boxing Council (WBC) champion Jimmy Lange, who was featured on NBC’s reality television show The Contender, Washington Redskins football player Kedric Golston and professional eater Ian Hickman, who was featured on MTV’s True Life: I’m a Competitive Eater.

“I’m hoping a lot of people will come out and challenge these guys,” Zarou said.

Tickets will be sold at the door for $5, and each ticket includes a slice of pizza and chance to compete against the professionals.

Proceeds will go to East Africa Missions.

update A mini documentary about the Washington, DC hot dog contest won by Ian Hickman earlier this month has been uploaded to youtube.

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manassasjm.com has a report on the competition between Ian Hickman and three four person teams in eating the OutrageouSplit, a large mixing bowl-sized sundae, at BR Frozen Custard and Sweets in Lake Ridge, VA. Ian came in 2nd.

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Delaplane Strawberry Festival results from a Wing Tut (contest MC) text message:

Tom “Goose” Gilbert 9 lbs
“Gentleman” Joe Menchetti 6.88 lbs
Ian “the Invader” Hickman 6.2 lbs
Carey Poehlman 5 lbs
Chris “The American” schlessinger 4.9 lbs
Cain 2.5 lbs

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The website for the Delaplane Strawberry Festival has a list of the expected and possible entrants in the strawberry eating contest:

Expected
# Tom “Goose” Gilbert, Hadley, MA
# Christian “Muscox” McCarthy, Lagrange KY (last year’s champion)
# “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti, Wallingford CT
# Ian “The Invader” Hickman, Sterling VA (our local competitor)
# Brad “The Lunatic” Sciullo , PA

Possible
# Bob “Killer” Kuhns, Freeport PA
# James “The Food Prowler” Fowler, Pittsburgh PA
# Chris “The Amnerican Schlesinger, Bohemia NY (competed last year)
# Eliot “The Savage” Cowley, Audubon NJ (competed last year, placed 2nd with 5.10 lbs)

The Washington Post has a paragraph about the festival and its eating contest

The MC for the contest, Derek “Wing Tut” Payne, has posted his contest predictions on his blog

update TimesCommunity.com has an article about the festival with some quotes from Ian Hickman.

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A letter to the editor critical of the hot dog eating contest at the University of Mary Washington won by Sonya Thomas appears in today’s edition of the Fredricksburg Free Lance Star.

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Fredricksburg.com reports that Sonya Thomas ate 22.5 hot dogs in 6 minutes at a contest at the University of Mary Washington yesterday, easily beating the runner-up, freshman Rugby player Daniel Kauffman, who ate 12 HDB. Sonya had hoped to eat more than 22.5:

Despite handily defeating the students, Thomas said she performed poorly because her jaw got tired.

When she practiced for the event a month ago, she said she ate at least 25 hot dogs in six minutes.

Even after yesterday’s marathon of sorts, she munched on a bun. “I’m tasting,” she said, while before she was just swallowing.

“You are my idol,” one student told her.

update Some pictures have been added

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The Dining Events page for Mary Washington College in Fredricksburg, VA has the following entry:

03/15/07 – We are hosting HOT DOG EATING CONTEST! 14 UMW Students are invited to compete against Sonya Thomas, the Black Widow, a world champion competetive eater. This event will be sponsored by Dining Services and OSACS. The contest is being held at Palmari Plaza and will start at 12:15.

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The Connection has more information about the pizza eating contest to be held at Bugsy’s restaurant in Alexandria, VA on Saturday. The first place prize is tickets to the Redskins Giants game with transportation by limousine included.

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I have recently come across the results for the four Frank’s Red Hot wing eating contests held in conjunction with beach volleyball contests held in the summer of 2005. Two of the winners were females, making them the only females I am aware of besides Sonya and Carlene to win a coed contest.

Amy Walter of Hillsborough, NJ won the Belmar, NJ contest. Her total of over 3 lbs is almost twice as much as any other winner, but the contest durations are not listed so it could have lasted longer. Kate Stelnick appears to have company among college age female Garden Staters who had one impressive debut in 2005 and have apparently done no eating competitions since that time.

Speedeat.com says Joe Menchetti appeared on ESPN2’s Cold Pizza to promote the Belmar contest, but it does not list the results or indicate if he competed in that contest on his web page.

The other female winner, Ann Steele, is from Arlington, VA, so Sonya is not the only Northern VA woman to have won a contest. Ms. Steele did an interview for a local newspaper after her victory.

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Leesburg2Day.com has an article about QVC qualifier winner and Northern Virginia resident Seaver Miller.

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timescommunity.com has a preview of tomorrow’s strawberry eating contest at the Delaplane Strawberry Festival and a profile of Ian Hickman.

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