Curtis Sliwa to lose time slot to Don Imus

November 2, 2007 at 11:12 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Media, Past Trenchermen

NYTimes.com reports that Don Imus will take over the morning show on WABC currently hosted by Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby. The radio station says it hopes to find an alternate place in its schedule for Curtis Sliwa, a four time Carnegie Deli pickle eating champion in the 1990s.

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  1. Anonymous said

    November 2, 2007 @ 12:00 pm

    Reports from India are saying Dale Boone was killed last night is this really true ?

    Please tell me this is not so .

  2. Rhonda Evans said

    November 2, 2007 @ 12:55 pm

    According to the Competitive Eaters Web Site, Gentleman Joe Menchetti recently appeared on the CBS Sunday Morning Show with Charles Osgood. Congratulations Gentleman Joe.

    Here’s the entry: “The World’s #1 Picnic Style Food Warrior made a brief appearance on The CBS Sunday Morning Show with Charles Osgood this past Sunday, October 28th, 2007. Charles Osgood was visiting the Rhode Island pumpkin patch where Menchetti, who is the World Record Holder for Pumpkin Pie, recently did a Pumpkin Pie Eating Exhibition.”

    Frankly, with next to nothing going on in the IFOCE in the forseeable future, I, for one, will be following more AICE events for the remaninder of the year. The IFOCE has pretty much squeezed all the juice from the MLE eater turnip until next annum.

  3. Rhonda Evans said

    November 2, 2007 @ 12:57 pm

    That’s false. How dare you start a rumour like that. Have you nothing better to do?!

  4. he said

    November 2, 2007 @ 1:27 pm

    how does anyone know if its true or false or rumour or anything????????????????????????

  5. guardian angel said

    November 2, 2007 @ 2:52 pm

    This is a curtis sliwa post not a dale boone post. Why ruin it?

  6. Tim Tussing said

    November 2, 2007 @ 3:11 pm

    Who is Sliwa? Is this the pickle guy BB competed with once or twice 10 years or more ago? Wake me up when there is a newer thread. Did BB put you up to this OJ? Both OJ and BB have awesome CE articles, but I have never gotten the Sliwa thing. Sliwa is a competitive eater? murderer? politician? radio host? What? Is Sliwa even a real person or still alive? If this person has done so much and is so famous, how come I have never heard anything about this “supposed” person except from BB and now OJ. I don’t get it. Is this an inside joke among some of the founding competitive eaters? If so I want in so I can laugh about it too. Right now I am in the dark with no clue.

  7. donmoseslerman said

    November 2, 2007 @ 3:47 pm

    Curtis Silwa should have lost his time slot on radio back in 2001 when he tld me as a guest minutes before thematzah ball contest start ;;that the jews are finished in competitive eating and went onto say on metro no more sons of moses( a refrence to matazh ball champs) He use to march into bens deli with his band of guardin angels remanisent to me of hitlers brown shirts as they stood there with steel gazes in their eyes staring down the patron . Don Imus will be a welcome change

  8. Anonymous said

    November 2, 2007 @ 3:54 pm

    What report from inda?

  9. Not a Sliwa fan said

    November 3, 2007 @ 1:56 am

    I agree with Don. This man is nothing more than a fake and his tough guy persona doesnt impress me one bit. He competed in several Nathans qualifiers in the late 90’s and got his ass handed to him in pickles by Krazy Kevin. His biggest claim to fame was inflating his totals of fake arrests of vandals in nyc and getting married to a very attractive model that specialized in martial arts. His big mouth nearly cost him his life badmouthing gambino boss John Gotti. The Shea’s were interested in making him a partner in the IFOCE but he dissed them like a hot potato . He reported the live commentary for the Nathans finals in 2003 on MSNBC but was banned for life after making negative racial and ethnic remarks about Kobe and the Japanese. Tim do a google search and you will be surprised how much info you will find on this loudmouth idiot.

  10. anonymous said

    November 3, 2007 @ 1:58 am

    I heard something about Boone being a homicide victim in india .This is very tragic news to the competitive eating world

  11. donmoseslerman said

    November 3, 2007 @ 3:48 am

    curtis silwas made fools out of the matzah ball finalist in 2002 by introducing the contestants as follows donlerman used to be a 700lb man , ed cookie jarvis , just relaesed from oreo cookie rehab eric booker fron ethiopia and so on an so forth that the next yeat=r the contestants refused to be introduced by him and bob david didthe intros.

  12. Tower of Internet Babble Squisheed said

    November 3, 2007 @ 8:29 am

    Don’t believe rumors…they don’t kill cows in India…no info anywhere, except initial blog here

  13. Anonymous said

    November 3, 2007 @ 8:57 am

    Oh God it s in the Hindo Times .
    How could this happen ? He will be missed.

  14. Mr Haney said

    November 3, 2007 @ 11:59 am

    How dare you make up a story like that. This is an outrage spreading rumors that Dale Boone kicked the bucket. How would you like it if someone spread that rumor about you?. Dale is a wonderful and kind loving human being. If anyone has somethin to say about it , why i will hand you a beatin Kentucky style.

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