http://twitter.com/BadlandsBooker/: The Nathan's weigh in will be today at Herald Square at 1 PM. Previous weigh-ins were held on July 3.
Top 5 IFOCE payouts according to Forbes
Forbes.com has a slideshow of the five IFOCE events from the past year with the largest payouts (prize money and apparance fees):
- Krystal Square Off $75,000 ($50,000 in prizes)
- Nathan’s $60,000 ($20,000 in prizes)
- P’Zone Chow-lenge $50,000 (no announced prizes)
- Stroehmann’s Sandwich Slamm $10,000 ($10,000 in prizes)
- Harrah’s Louisiana Downs World Grits Eating Championship $10,000 ($10,000 in prizes)
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, who competed in the Nathan's finals in the 1990s, has a short documentary about the contest on his website.
KOAA has an article about Marco "Mongo" Marquez.
The Silver Stars of the WNBA are planning on having a hot dog consuming contest at Friday's game and are debating whether the hot dogs will be consumed in solid or liquid form.
Thrillist reports that two WLOCE members will compete in tomorrow's contest at Z-Burger. If Dale Boone is one of the competitors, hopefully things will go better for him that in his last Washington, DC contest when he vomited jambalaya on Sonya Thomas and needed attention from an EMT.
Forbes.com has two articles about competitive eating, a profile of Joey Chestnut and an analysis of Major League Eating as a business. Eric Gatoff, CEO of Nathan's, says his company spends in "the high six figures" on the Nathan's finals and its qualifier circuit.
(Via sportsradiointerviews, which has a partial transcript) Joey Chestnut & Crazy Legs Conti were the guests ESPN Radio's Mike & Mike show and a podcast of their segment can be downloaded. A gallery of their appearance today at ESPN Cafe today is also available. update A video podcast of the appearance, which was replayed on the 6 PM Sportcenter, is also available.
The twipic page for the group uhhuhhermusic have pictures of two of the members' attempts at big bowls of noodles (Picture #2). (It is not mentioned if they finished them)Joel Stein has a column for ESPN.com's Page 2 about his attempt to consume 9,000 calories in a day as Tour de France competitors do.
Pat Bertoletti has posted a video of a 2007 practice session that was witnessed by a giant inflatable man (presumably a likeness of radio host Steve Dahl)
Philly.com has a paragraph on Micah "Wing Kong" Collins qualifying for the Nathan's finals.
Joey Chestnut's chat on ESPN.com has just started. Crazy Legs Conti is also participating.
The Boston Herald has an article on Pete "Pretty Boy" Davekos' return to the Nathan's finals. update Erin Wigger has posted a picture of Davekos. update #2 A podcast of an interview with Davekos on KISS 108 FM is available.
Erik Denmark has uploaded a song called "Surf & Stillwell" to his blog.
The Colusa Sun Herald has a report on Sunday's World Tri-Tip Eating Challenge at the Colusa Casino Resort.
KDKA has a video of a hot dog eating contest held the Celebrate America Festival at Kennywood today won by Bob Kuhns. update ZWire has an article about the contest.
Kobayashi has a blog entry about The Onion's report of his retirement.
Queens Courier has an article about Eric "Badlands" Booker, who will perform before the Nathan's finals.
A video of Joey Chestnut's practice session last night at Hooters captioned 'Joey Chestnut kills 64 Hotdogs in 10 minutes" is available. Joey Chestnut will appear in an ESPN.com chat tomorrow morning.
The Weather Channel's website has a video of a hot dog eating contest on the Stephanie Abrams and Mike Bettes show this morning. The video includes a 5 day forecast for Coney Island which predicts that July 4 high to be 76 degrees.
CreativeLoafing.com: The winner's of the mens and womens divisions at the hot dog eating contest held at the Dairy Inn in St. Petersburg, FL will both receive $100.
JohnnaKnowsGoodFood.com: A Canadian will compete in the Z Burger eating contest in Washington, DC on July 2. (If Furious Pete wins, he could call it a Canada Day contest since July 2 is closer to July 1 than the Fourth of July.)
http://twitter.com/ocdj/ The hot dog contest at Fish Tales in Ocean City, MD on July 4 will award $1000 as it did last year.
BrooklynPaper.com has a podcast of a song about the 2009 Nathan's finals performed by Amos Wengler, the Bard of Coney Island.
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