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The Times Herald has an article about Joey Chestnut’s appearances in Topps “legend” series of baseball cards and in the upcoming MLE game. Joey says that his performance in the gyro eating contest was hindered by the gyros’ garlic sauce.
I have not been able to find any information online about Saturday’s Kansas City area Nathan’s qualifier, but commenter ticate Munito says an article about the contest appeared in the Overland Park, KS newspaper and listed expected entrants as Pat Bruss, Erik Denmark, Chris Abatsas, Andrew Lane and Jason Erb.
The Simi Valley Acorn reports that Michael Watts ate a 6 pound steak at Dakota’s Steakhouse in Simi Valley, California three days after his 25th birthday. By finishing the steak in under an hour, he received $220 from his family, $50 more than the cost of the steak.
CBS3 has a video about Watt’s feast.
A hot dog eating contest will be held at Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs in Denver this summer. The first qualifier in a series of 4 will take place on Sunday, June 1 and the top two finishers in each qualifier will advance to the finals on July 27. The grand prize is a $300 gift certificate to Sam’s Club / Wal-mart and the entrance fee is $25, with proceeds going to the Colorado Aids Walk and Project Angel Heart.
AZReporter has a preview of Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier at Arizona Mills Mall in Tempe. The field is listed as: Tim Brown, Erik Denmark, Kevin Ross, El Toro, Russ “The Mad Stork†Witzke, Jesus Cabrales, David “Conan†Cohn and Wallace “Bye Bye†Beisel. The article contains the following prediction:
Richard Shea, president of Major League Eating, the group that governs the Nathan’s Famous contest circuit, said: “I believe an unknown eating champion is walking the streets of Hartford, a champion who possesses the pride of Connecticut and the stomach capacity required to set a new world hot dog eating record.â€
Pizza Marketing Quarterly has a press release about Saturday’s contest at Three Brothers Pizza in Greenbelt, Maryland. There will be no amateur competition this year; the undercard will consist of a contest between two local high schools. Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus, Bob Shoudt, Sonya Thomas, Juliet Lee and 13 unnamed professionals are listed as expected entrants. There will also be an autograph session for eaters along with a pizza tossing exhibition.
The next press release for the Major League Eating video game is now available and contains mini-biographies of four of the game characters. El Toro’s career has the following synopsis:
El Toro has a big mouth, although it doesn’t seem to serve him well in competition. Fond of extravagant claims, personal attacks on other eaters and all sorts of theatrics, he is usually at the bottom of the pack at the end of any given contest. Other eaters see him as abrasive, offensive, and void of talent. He does, however, contribute to the sport by setting an example of what not do
A video from the watermelon contest promoting the MLE game containing an interview with Badlands Booker was also released today.
Today is the official release date of Gal Sone’s autobiography. The new poll asks what autobiography by an eater who debuted in 2003 or earlier would you be most interested in reading.
SuperSizedMeals.com has a gallery from the May 17 Bigger Mac Daddy Burger eating contest. The captions state that Ian Hickman was the winner.
The website for the British tabloid, The Mirror, has an article about Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier near Pittsburgh which asserts there are issues about Juliet Lee’s eligibility to enter that contest.
If you missed this afternoon’s broadcast of the Collegiate Nationals on CBS, the entire contest can be viewed in its entirety on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYqJCLFSCYY
“Beautiful” Brian Seiken has uploaded a page praising Joey Chestnut for temporarily adding critical comments to his myspace page about Takeru Kobayashi and his reported injury.
Results from the strawberry eating contest held at the Strawberry Festival in Delaplane, Virginia have been posted. The top 3:
1. “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti 7.86 lbs. in 7 minutes
2. Joshua “Jabber Jaws” Currier 7.62 lbs.
3. Ian “The Invader” Hickman 6.705 lbs.
Joshua Currier was also the runner up in the Big A burger contest in North Carolina, where he finished 30 seconds behind Joe Menchetti.
update Videos of the professional and amateur contest are available.
Jill Stoler has a blog entry with pictures
David Mitolo has a gallery
Results from anonymous comment & IFOCE.com report :
1. Juliet Lee 29
2. Jim Reeves 19 3/4
3. Micah Collins 19
4T. Steakbellie 17
4T. Brian Subich 17
Mike Landrich ?
Mike Iskoe ?
update The Pittsburgh Channel has a short article about the contest
update #2 Pittsburgh Live has a short article with three pictures
update #3 Some videos (missing a part 3) have been uploaded to youtube and Steakbellie has written a blog entry about the contest
From a Pete Miernicki comment:
1.”Humble” Bob Shoudt 38 HDB
2. Sean Gordon 20
3. Russ Keeler 16
The IFOCE.com report is now out
update KYW newsradio has uploaded a video from the contest to youtube which shows that Sean Gordon finished 2nd and Russ Keeler was 3rd, contrary to the IFOCE report. Humble Bob’s children are interviewed and say their father trains a lot.
update #2 Humble Bob has updated his thoughts page with a contest report.
WiiWare World has uploaded a new trailer of the Major League Eating video game to youtube.
Filefront has a video of people playtesting the game at Tuesday’s promotional event at Rockefeller Center. The blog entry says the game will be released in early June.
Crazy Legs Conti has posted his food diary from May 16 to May 22 to New York Magazine’s food blog. The diary includes his practice session for the Three Brothers pizza contest next week, which will not allow dunking.
Gal Sone’s autobiography is now available for preorder on Amazon of Japan. Amazon claims the book will come out on Saturday, the previously announced release date was May 27.
Sports Hochi announces that Gal Sone will be acting in the upcoming movie based on the television show Masked Rider. The website for the program has a short interview with Gal Sone about her movie debut.
(from an email) Crazy Legs Conti and Tim Janus appeared on this morning’s edition of “The Today Show” and competed in a one minute watermelon eating contest and then demoed the Major League Eating video game. The video can be viewed online.
The new poll asks who you think is currently leading the IFOCE Rookie of the Year race. Patrick Vandam was added to the choices from the 2008 Rookie of the Year poll from several months ago and Brad Sciullo and Tim Brown (due to being a candidate for the 2007 award) were removed.
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