According to the Tailgate Fan blog, Takeru Kobayashi, Naader Reda, Damon Wells, LA Beast and Anandita Dutta Tamuly have finished eating challenges that could legally be defined as torture.
Shila Hotdog in Tehran will hold a hot dog eating contest tomorrow, an event billed as the first competition of its type in Iran. (via @golnarm)
Four floor passes to Wing Bowl 22 sold for $800 during Eagles Radiothon today.
The new poll asks who you think will be the first woman to reach 50 or more hot dogs in a 10 minute contest.
Bloomberg.com (July 3): "How would the reigning champion of the Nathan’s Famous hotdog-eating contest feel about a New York City mayor named Weiner?" Joey Chestnut: "That would be awesome".
Takeru Kobayashi is expected to defend his title at the Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge at the US Open of Surfing on July 21 in Huntington Beach, CA. "Furious" Pete Czerwinski is another listed entrant.
Personal hot dog bests July 4, 2012 July 3, 2013
A list of 25+ personal bests in hot dog eating contests between July 4, 2012 and July 3, 2013 according to the eatfeats database follows after the jump. Of the 34 people in this list, 17 are expected to compete in today’s Nathan’s finals.
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Visalia Times has a video of Pablo Martinez displaying techinques for competitive hot dog eating.
Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle has started a personal website at LABeast.com
The Irish Sun has an article on Dublin competitive eater Neil Thomas.
Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle has a video where he offers advice on youtube marketing. He will be competing in Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Las Vegas for his first MLE contest since he moved to Californina.
Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle is looking for a competitor to face off against him in various eating challenges in Los Angeles on Monday April 15.
The BBC has been reprimanded by the British media regulator Ofcom for the episode of Dick and Dom's Hoopla! where an 11 year old girl vomited after consuming a mixture of mayonnaise, spaghetti and tomato soup.
Off topic comments from the Vegas Pub burger challenge thread have been moved here
News10.net has slideshow about the new Godzilla burger challenge available at Streets of London in Sacramento (spelled "Londen" in the article).
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RIA Novotski reports that an unnamed 19 year old girl was hospitalized after choking in a banana eating contest held in the Ukrainian town of Grebensky on December 22.
Wired.com has a of profile Zach Gage, designer of the upcoming competitive eating card game Guts of Glory (picture of prototype cards) update Dec 18 The game has a website gutsofglorygame.com which is accepting pre-orders.
The Los Angeles Times has an article on Epic Meal Time, which has an upcoming cookbook and new competitive cooking online video series titled Epic Chef.
Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco has started a new web site at http://cardboardshell.weebly.com/. She has also undertaken an effort to raise money for breast cancer research.
Dave Leonard won Pepe's taco eating contest held at Balmoral Park in Crete, IL on Saturday with a total of 13 tacos in 5 minutes.
Public House NYC will hold a watermelon eating contest on Saturday awarding $1000 to the winner. (via grandcentralpartnership)
The Times of India has an article about Indian eating contests and competitive eaters with an emphasis on the role that WLOCE event organized by Dale Boone have had in developing competitive eating on the sub-continent.
The Belfast Telegraph announces that the Hillsborough Oyster Festival in Northern Ireland is seeking challengers for its undefeated oyster eating champion Colin Shirlow, who defeated Sonya Thomas in 2008.
DelMarVANow.com has an article titled "Ask the expert: How can I be top dog in an eating contest?". The article is illustrated with a picture of Dave Brunelli, but the author is not listed.
Outside Magazine has a long article about the 2011 Individual Freediving Depth World Championships with a lot of interesting information about the activity that took the life of Patrick Vandam.
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