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Eating champ leaves NY jail after hot dog fracas

NEW YORK -- Japanese eating champion Takeru Kobayashi, arrested at a July Fourth hot dog-eating contest, was freed Monday after a night in jail, looking a little weary and saying he was hungry.

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