A SIDEWAYS GLANCE : DOG HAS MORE BITE THAN SPORTS STARS.Byline: Tom Hoffarth Did you know that Chihuahua in the Taco Bell Taco Bell Corp., a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., is a Mexican-style quick service restaurant chain based in Irvine, California, United States. The restaurant has locations primarily in the United States and Canada, but also operates outlets in several other markets. commercials is a female named Giget who sleeps most of the day at her owners' home in Valencia? Taco Bell president Peter Waller told USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. recently that the Chihuahua was the most important marketing decision the company has ever made. ``We've spent a lot of money on celebrities like Shaquille O'Neal Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal (pronounced "shak-KEEL") (born March 6, 1972 in Newark, New Jersey), frequently referred to simply as Shaq, is an American professional basketball player, generally regarded as one of the most dominant in the National Basketball Association (NBA). and Hakeem Olajuwon . . . (but) this dog has done better,'' he said, bringing fond memories of that fabled one-on-one pay-per-view event that never took place yet warranted a plastic collector's tumbler. By the way, did we hear him right or did he just call Shaq and Hakeem ha·keem n. Variant of hakim1. Noun 1. hakeem - a Muslim physician hakim Moslem, Muslim - a believer in or follower of Islam doc, doctor, physician, Dr. a couple of dogs? Band on the run: The Granada Hills High marching band is featured on the soundtrack for the new Adam Sandler movie ``Waterboy,'' which comes out Friday. The band isn't seen in the film, but its music is playing during the football-game scenes. If the shoe fits: The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, has asked Denver Broncos kicker Jason Elam to part with the pair of shoes that he used two weeks ago to knock home that 63-yard field goal against Jacksonville, which tied an NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga record. Elam, however, continues to wear the 3-year-old kangaroo-skin Nike Tiempos. ``It may be tough (to give them up),'' said Elam in the Rocky Mountain News The Rocky Mountain News is a daily morning tabloid-format newspaper published in Denver, Colorado. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. (Despite Scripps still running the paper, it's the only newspaper in the Scripps family not to have the corporate lighthouse logo on . ``It's the only pair I have, and you can't even get them anymore.'' The space race: While most of the nation watched 77-year-old John Glenn's return to space on the Shuttle Discovery, U.S. Luge luge (l  zh), a type of small sled on which one or two persons, lying face up, slide feet first down snowy hillsides or down steeply banked, curving, iced chutes similar to those used in Association members might have been smiling more for the inclusion of flight engineer Dr. Scott Parazynski. The 37-year-old former luge racer competed from 1983-1988, advancing as far as the organization's B team. He finished 10th in the 1988 Olympic trials. Although he didn't represent the United States, Parazynski participated in the Calgary Games, coaching the Philippines Olympic luge team. |
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