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Takeru Kobayashi has become synonymous with the world of. Sessions that left him with rippling six-pack abs and bulging muscles. Takeru Kobayashi is a Japanese competitive eater. He holds many records, including fifteen Guinness World Records, for eating hot dogs, meatballs, Twinkies,.

If Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi ends up in court against Major League Eating, at least one sports law expert thinks he has a good chance of prevailing.Mark Conrad is an at Fordham University Schools of Business, with a law degree from New York Law School. A focus of his research is sports and entertainment law. (Don’t think Mr. Kobayashi is an athlete? The.)Professor Conrad is the author of, which includes a chapter on professional sports contracts, with a section on endorsement contracts, although it’s written more from the standpoint of how a company can protect itself when it contracts with an athlete, than from the standpont of how an athlete can retain endorsement rights in his player contract. (In fact the idea that a sports league would attempt to restrict endorsements never seems to have entered anyone’s mind until the International Federation of Competitive Eating/Major League Eating thought of it).July 9th, 2010. My depressing and lengthy struggle is finally over.Gradually over the past two years of my last contract with the International Federation of Competitive Eating, I came to realize that its one-sided exclusivity was overreaching, and I retained an attorney who attempted on several occasions to renegotiate with the IFOCE.From my point of view there were opportunities for a win-win solution where each side could give and take, but the IFOCE was not in the mood to make any concessions whatsoever.July 5th, 2010.

Sunday’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and the league contract dispute that surfaced have brought competitive eating contracts into the spotlight. What do they say? Are they exploitative, overreaching, and anticompetitive, or just business as usual?A prevented Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi from participating in the annual July 4 contest on Sunday (and Mr. Kobayashi is spending the night in jail after an ill-fated attempt to mount the stage after the contest). Kobayashi’s representatives have said that he objects to (1) Major League Eating’s demand that he appoint them as his exclusive agent for endorsements and television appearances, and (2) MLE’s desire to prohibit him from participating in non-MLE events.Speculating on the IFOCE Contract TermsWhat exactly is the contract that the International Federation of Competitive Eating (we will use IFOCE and MLE interchangably since MLE is simply a registered trademark of the IFOCE) wanted Mr. Kobayashi to sign, and which Mr.

Kobayashi found to be so offensive?July 4th, 2010. Now here’s a weird side story to the Takeru Kobayashi: In February the United States Citizen and Immigration Services bureau of the Department of Homeland Security granted the Japanese competitive eater a special visa allowing him to live and work as a competitive eater in the United States for a period of 3 years. Extraordinary Ability and Achievement in Competitive Eating?!The O-1A visa granted to Kobayashi is limited to individuals with extraordinary ability or achievement in the sciences, education, business, or athletics, as evidenced by “sustained national or international acclaim.”Also on CalorieLab: This is kind of freaky. And at the same time, kind of cool. Nobel laureate physicists, professional hockey players, CEOs of multinational corporations, O.K.

But a professional eating champion? They have a visa for that?They do, and apparently the United States government has classified competitive eating as a kind of “athletics.”July 3rd, 2010. Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi has revealed more details about the contract impasse with Major League Eating that is preventing him from participating in Sunday’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. The dispute comes down to changes demanded this year by MLE that would prohibit Kobayashi from directly entering into endorsement contracts for products, appearing in television or radio commercials, or appearing on television or radio shows in exchange for compensation. Kobayashi: “Similar” Contract Differs in Most Important ClauseGeorge Shea of MFE told the Wall Street Journal that Mr.

Kobayashi had signed contracts with MLE each year since 2001 that were “similar” to the contract that is now in dispute.But Mr. Kobayashi told CalorieLab that this is not the case. He says that previous contracts only prohibited him from appearing in eating contests in the United States and Canada that weren’t sponsored by the MFE or its sister organization the International Federation of Competitive Eating without IFOCE permission. They did not prohibit Mr. Kobayashi from appearing in television or radio commercials or from appearing on television and radio shows.July 3rd, 2010. Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi is in New York and is standing by ready to participate in the annual Independence Day Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest for free if the contest organizer, Major League Eating, will withdraw contract restrictions that would prevent him from participating in other contests.“This is not about the money,” Kobayashi says. “I told MLE I would take a reduced fee and then offered to participate with no appearance fee at all.” But “for me to take part in the Nathan’s contest on July 4, one day out of the year, MLE wants to keep me from doing anything else without them for over one year.”July 2nd, 2010 Comments Off on Takeru Kobayashi in New York, Willing to Eat Nathan’s Hot Dogs for No Fee.

The annual Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest on July 4th at Coney Island wasn’t much of a contest this year, with American Joey Chestnut handily beating his Japanese rival, Takeru Kobayashi, by downing to Kobayashi’s 64 in the 10-minute competition.That beat Chestnut’s old record of 66 dogs and buns, set in 2007 when the contest was 12 minutes long, and gives him his third victory in a row. Kobayashi has won the contest six times.There were no fireworks at the competition, which was a breeze for Chestnut compared to the 2008 match, where he and Kobayashi battled down to the wire and a 59-dog tie, settled by a five-dog sudden death overtime that Chestnut one.July 5th, 2009. Summer is competitive eating season, with the year’s challenges of chomping matzo balls, tamales and chicken wings culminating in the July Fourth Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog eating contest at Coney Island.The two big names in that contest for years have been American Joey Chestnut, who has won for the last two years, and Takeru Kobayashi from Japan, who has won the event six times but was stymied in 2007 with a case of and was bested in 2008 during a after both competitors swallowed 59 dogs and buns in the 10 minute regulation time for the contest. The P’zone challengeOver the weekend the champions met in Culver City, Calif., at a contest sponsored by Pizza Hut to see who could eat the most P’zone calzones in six minutes.

The doughy concoctions are among the most calorie-laden of any on the competitive eating circuit, being loaded with a pound of pepperoni, cheese and other toppings.June 1st, 2009 Comments Off on Kobayashi beats Chestnut in pizza-flavored contest. My husband refused to watch the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest with me, so I had to record it on our DVR and watch it when he was out of the house.I’ve always loved the idea of the contest — since there’s nothing more American than excess, particularly when it comes to food — but I’d never actually watched it before. Turns out I picked a pretty good year to watch the drama unfold, even after the fact.A hot dog history lessonNathan’s first opened in 1916 and the first hot dog eating contest was held soon thereafter in front of the store on Coney Island. Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi won the contest a record six years in a row, but after coming down with a case of in 2007, he lost the coveted mustard-colored belt to American Joey Chestnut, who set a world record by eating 66 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes.July 5th, 2008. A total of 19,600 calories and 1,280 grams of fat will be consumed on July 4 by any competitive eater in the 2008 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York who matches the current world record, according to CalorieLab’s calculations. Pictured here is an FDA-format Nutrition Facts label showing the nutrient value of Joey Chestnut’s 2007 world record of 66 Nathan’s Famous hot dogs, eaten in 12 minutes.Former CalorieLab columnist Susan McQuillan, a New York registered dietitian and author of “Breaking the Bonds of Food Addiction” and “Low-Calorie Dieting for Dummies,” takes her daughter to Coney Island at least once every summer, and they always stop for a Nathan’s Famous hot dog lunch.

She thinks an occasional fast food treat is fine and has even been known to treat herself to the occasional “slider” from White Castle.But Ms. McQuillan finds the meal that the Nathan’s competitors will be eating this Independence Day a bit hard to swallow. “In a matter of minutes, they will consume more than a week’s worth of calories, 7 times the recommended daily limit for cholesterol, 20 times the daily limit for total fat, 25 times the limit for saturated fat, and two and a half weeks worth of sodium.”July 2nd, 2008. Here at CalorieLab, we look forward to the Fourth of July the way kids look forward to Halloween (it is about food, after all). That’s because we love competitive eating, especially the. 16,000-Calorie MealFor the past few years, it hasn’t been much of a contest, as the king of competitive eating, Japan’s, has won six years in a row.

Last year it was close, with California boy Joey Chestnut scarfing 52 hot dogs to Kobayashi’s 53 and three-quarters in 12 minutes.Since one Nathan’s Famous hot dog contains, that’s more than 16,000 calories each consumed in just 12 minutes.