Competitive Eating
NEW YORK - Even as he missed weigh-in, eating champion Takeru Kobayashi was telling media in his native Japan that he wanted to compete in the Coney Island Fourth of July hot dog contest.
NEW YORK - Hot dog!
Competitive eater Joey Chestnut has held on to his title at the annual July Fourth hot dog eating contest at New York's Coney Island, but one of his biggest rivals tried to crash the celebration and has been taken into custody.
NEW YORK - Every Fourth of July, Coney Island stages an event featuring two of America's biggest loves: hot dogs and competition.
TOKYO - Former world hot-dog eating sensation Takeru Kobayashi of Japan wants to compete in this weekend's annual Fourth of July contest on Coney Island, but still can't agree to a contract with the organizers.
NEW YORK - The biggest beef in the hot dog eating world between Takeru Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut might have just burned out.
