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Competitive Eating Scandal

It’s that time of year again, tomorrow is the Fourth of July, meaning it is also time for Nathan’s Famous 4th of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest. As per usual it will be at Coney Island and airing on ESPN, both at Noon.
The contestants for this year are a line up of [...]

6 of one…

Let the outing begin. We know who Client 9 is, and thanks to the Daily News we can now put a (hideous) face on Client 6 (editor’s note, original post had him labeled as Client 5, this was found to be incorrect). Ladies and gentlemen, I present for your viewing pleasure, The Duke of Westminster:

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Bring Your ‘A’ Game

Have you been reading some of the competitive eating articles I’ve posted and thought: “I bet I could do that. How hard can it be?”
I think that every now and then while watching competitive eaters. I know I can eat a lot if I have an appetite or not, and if they are eating the [...]

Going out with a Bang

As I have been blogging on it for the last two weeks I figured it was only fitting to follow up as well with the finally:
In an incredible competition last week Joey Chestnut downed 66 Nathan’s Hot Dogs in 12 minutes (or about 1 every 11 seconds), beating out the odds on favorite Takeru “The [...]

Once again, it’s on

So you may have noticed that I reported yesterday that The Tsunami, Kobayashi, might not compete in this year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest on July 4th.
Well, I was wrong, he is competing. According to his manager, Kobayashi will definitely be competing in the competition. He wants to honor his mother, who passed away in March. [...]

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