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Hitting the big time
By SHERRY ROBINSON
Published June 26, 2006
HITTING THE BIG TIME KFC, ESPN and ABC Sports are searching for America's most enthusiastic youth baseball team. Anyone can vote for teams after they have been nominated by parents or coaches. The squad with the most votes will have one of its games recorded by ESPN and receive an ESPN-produced feature on its team during ESPN and ABC Sports' coverage of the 2007 Little League World Series. Fans can visit ESPN.com, keyword KFC, for official rules, as well as to vote through July 14. The winning team and 19 squads scoring the most votes will win ESPN gear and a party at KFC. STICK IT TO KIDS CANCER Nestle Ice Cream wants your help to find a cure for pediatric cancer. Through Dec. 31, log on to icecream.com to send a stick of hope to kids with cancer. For the first 200,000 virtual frozen pop stick messages sent, Nestle will donate 25 cents per stick to the City of Hope Cancer Center in California to aid in pediatric cancer research. Visitors to the Web site can write words of encouragement or a favorite joke, which then will be shared with kids undergoing treatment. CHECKING IN WITH KATRINA VICTIMS Nick News with Linda Ellerbee returns to New Orleans on Sunday to visit with kids as they continue to recover from Hurricane Katrina. Children of the Storm covers a range of topics, from being back in the city - some still live in temporary housing nearly a year after the storm - to bouncing from state to state trying to find a home. Check it out at 8:30 p.m. on the Nickelodeon station in your area. YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT Food and beverage companies pitched 1,566 new products to U.S. kids last year. Many of them were changed versions of products already in stores. Here is a list of some of the food categories, according to DataMonitor's Productscan Online Database: Non-chocolate candy - 47.6 percent Chocolate candy - 8.7 percent Cookies - 6.1 percent Other snacks - 4.7 percent Gum - 4.0 percent Fruit drinks - 3.9 percent Ice cream/yogurt - 2.4 percent Other products - 22.6 percent XPRESS QUOTE "I've had the good fortune of playing many interesting characters, but none as magical as Tinker Bell. To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor." - Actor BRITTANY MURPHY on being chosen to give the one with the pixie dust a voice
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