mrak75 has uploaded a gallery of Joey Chestnut's final pre-Nathan's practice at the Campbell, CA Hooter's last night.
Challenges by Metro Area (South Atlantic)
Here are lists of eating challenges for South Atlantic (excluding Florida) metro areas:
Atlanta | Charleston, SC | Charlotte | Norfolk | Northern Virginia | Raleigh / Durham | Richmond
Previous Challenges by metro areas lists: west | midwest | south central | Florida
Pizza Challenges on bodybuilding.com
Bodybuilding.com Thread 1 | Thread 2: “Furious” Pete Czerwinski has uploaded a video of him consuming a 16 inch pizza in 2 and a half minutes.
Another bodybuilding.com poster is seeking teammates for the 54 inch square pizza challenge offered by Big Mama’s and Papa’s Pizzeria in Los Angeles
A Detroit area (Shelby Township) hot dog eating contest will award a 32 inch LCD TV on July 8.
The second promo for I'm a Major League Eater is now avaiable. The video contains a lot of footage from the 2009 Acme Oyster contest, but the winner of that event, Sonya Thomas, only appears in the background (at the 1:01 mark) very briefly.
The top 3 in the corndog eating contest is now posted on WLOCE.com. "Bubba" Yarbrough was second with 14 corndogs and Suzanne Freach was third w/ 13.
BeautifulBrian.com has reports on the Bunnette Bootcamp and the Cops vs. Firefighters qualifer. Bob Cocadrillo won the qualifier and will compete in the Nathan's finals Saturday.
(from email) A promo video from Science Impossible which briefly shows "Furious' Pete Czerwinski and Will Millender (around the 45 second mark) is available.
(Via email) Joe Menchetti qualified for the finals of Jake's Burgers contest by eating 5 double hamburgers in 2 minutes, 28 seconds in the June 22 qualifier.
The home page of the Onion has a link to a story about Kobayshi's "retirement from eating" from 2007 which does not mention the original publication date.
Challenges by metro area (Florida)
Here are lists of eating challenges for Florida metro areas
Gainesville | Jacksonville | Miami | Orlando | Pensacola | Tallahassee | Tampa
Previous Challenges by metro areas lists: west | midwest | south central
twitter.com/bigwillthechamp/: Will Millender's twitter reports he repeated as the winner of the stinky cheese contest held in Brooklyn today. update Metromix has a gallery
TVGuide.com: Joey Chestnut will compete in a new episode of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? on July 3
A 2007 video with English subtitles of Tomoko Miyake competing against the Korean boy band Super Junior is available. Tomoko's segment starts around the 4 minute mark.
The Pueblo Native has a profile of Marco "Mongo" Marquez
Premier Events has a picture of the corn dog eating contest at Corndogorama. update A caption says Dale Boone won by eating 19.5 corn dogs in 8 minutes.
The blog for Pizza Party Restaurant reports that Hall "Hoover" Hunt won $100 after finishing the Pepperoni^4 Belly Buster pizza. update PurrDayWithKittys also has a blog entry about the challenge
Pete Davekos wins final Nathan’s qualifier
The contest was apparently moved to San Jose State according to ratlhead’s gallery.
It’s probably a safe assumption that the runner-up of today’s San Bruno qualifier will eat more than 11 HDB that last year’s second place finisher did.
University of Washington javelin thrower Brooke Tighin claims she eats 7-8000 calories a day, which has enabled her to gain 23 pounds of muscle since starting college.
Brendan Buhler wrote an article for the Las Vegas Sun on the 6 pound burrrito challenge offered by the Nascar Cafe which reports that only 4 out of 279 diners have successfully completed it.
The foodingblog has an interview with Christopher "Hong Kong Hero" Huang, who holds the Juan in a Million breakfast taco record. Adam Richman attempted to break Huang's record of seven tacos in the Austin episode of Man vs. Food.
A press release for the rib eating contest at Chinook Winds Casino in Oregon announces that Erik Denmark and Cameron McKirdy are also expected to compete along with Joey Chestnut.
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