The man who became a pop-culture icon in the 2000s for losing weight by becoming more active and eating sandwiches stopped at Horizon Elementary in Holt, Mich. Thursday as part of a campaign to ...

Kobayashi last competed in the July Fourth hot dog eating contest in 2009, when he was again defeated by nemesis Joey Chestnut: Kobayashi finished in second with 64½ hot dogs to Chestnut's 68.