Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest

Takeru Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut So who is it gonna be this year? You can bet my family will be watching. It has become a Fourth of July tradition at my house. I must confess though, I often turn away from the television in disgust. I simply can't imagine eating more than a couple of hot dogs in one sitting. On July 4, 2007, America watched in awe as Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Championship , beating six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi of Japan and brought the Mustard Yellow Belt back to American soil for the first time this century. ... Read Full Story

It was the nation's biggest fireworks display, with more than 22 tons of pyrotechnics exploding Saturday over a mile-and-a-half of the Hudson River, a new vantage point for New York's festivities. Millions of spectators watched from both sides of the US man sets hot dog-eating record - BBC Americas The world record for competitive hot dog eating has been broken in the US. Joey "Jaws" Chestnut ate 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes at the annual 4 July contest at Coney Island in New York, shattering his old record of 66 New Federal Appraisal Rules Lead To Low-Ball Estimates - Hartford Courant It's by ... Read Full Story

A man who has eaten 10.5 pounds of macaroni cheese in 7 minutes has smashed the world record for eating hot dogs - by wolfing down SIXTY EIGHT in 10 minutes. Joey Chestnut logged his third consecutive win in America’s Coney Island annual hot dog eating contest. The 27-year-old defeated his archrival, six-time titleholder Takeru Kobayashi, from Japan. * Top dogs: Joey Chestnut battles it out with Takeru Kobayashi. And Chestnut, who led throughout the contest, took the world record, previously set at a paltry 66. Last year’s event initially ended in a tie, with Chestnut and Kobayashi both gobbling down 59 hot dogs ... Read Full Story

CONEY ISLAND (CAP) - Defending champion Joey Chestnut's world-record consumption of 68 franks at the 94th annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest has garnered him headlines around the world, and inspired scores of youngsters who hope that one day they, too, can ingest more than nine pounds of hot dogs in one sitting. "He's amazing - the most I've ever eaten is 20," said Jimmy Flengerton, 10, of Cold Spring, N.Y., who was on hand to watch Chestnut's victory at the Coney Island contest. "But that wasn't for a contest or anything. I just love hot dogs." And Flengerton isn't the only one. A ... Read Full Story

Sports dynasties of our time: The Boston Celtics... The New York Yankees... The New England Patriots... Takeru Kobayashi. Competitive eating is Kobayashi's court. Kobayashi does this 'move' when he eats dubbed the "Kobayashi Shake" that helps him (supposedly) move more food into his stomach. This is just some of the flair that makes Kobayashi a fan favorite professional eater. Yet, like our title suggests, Kobayashi like Stella , needs to get that "groove" back. I guess I'm a little late on reporting the results of this past 4th of July's contest because, quite frankly, the contest is no fun to watch anymore since Kobyashi ... Read Full Story