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Andrew Lappitt wasn't expecting to hear back from CBS when he and his Arizona State University frat brother Dan Honig submitted their audition tape for "The Amazing Race 13."

Lappitt, who lived in Tucson from 1995 to 2004, wasn't exactly sold on Honig's idea for auditioning in the first place. The video featured the two students on a "Race"-style mission to find Slurpees at their neighborhood 7-Eleven convenience store.

"I wasn't a fan of reality television, so I wanted to get the audition over quickly," Lappitt said in an interview by e-mail. "We didn't think it would get us to Hollywood. We just made it to show our friends and give them a laugh."

Much to Lappitt's surprise, the video earned the frat boys a spot on the series. They will compete against a mother and son, a brother and sister and eight other teams as "The Amazing Race" gets under way at 7 tonight on CBS.

Lappitt has fond memories of Tucson. He graduated from Sabino High School in 2004 and regularly hung out at the Arizona Pizza Company on Sabino Canyon Road with friends.

His parents still live in town, as does much of his extended family on his dad's side. Lappitt lives in the Phoenix area and works as a city planning intern in Mesa.

The show has already wrapped for the season.

"When it was over, all I could think about was settling down and resting," he said. "But it has been a few months so I've recovered and I'm ready to do it again."

Your average college freshman was only 8 years old when the television show and popular cultural phenomenon known as "Seinfeld" went off the air.

But that isn't stopping Sony Pictures Television from taking a 60-foot biodiesel bus full of Seinfeld memorabilia on a 10,000-mile cross-country campus tour.

The bus makes a stop on the mall at the University of Arizona on Monday from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Among what's included:

● A museum with costumes and props and an Emmy won for the show.

● Bins of free candy and drinks featured on "Seinfeld," including Twix, Snickers and Diet Dr Pepper.

● A video testimonial booth where attendees can "shoot their own user-generated content, such as character impressions, favorite Seinfeld episodes and real Seinfeld moments."

● A hole-in-one golf game where you putt a golf ball into a whale's blowhole for prizes.

The bus might be a decade too late for a campus tour, but you never know.

The show still airs daily in syndication, and college students aren't known for passing up free food.

A couple of local radio stations took home major honors at this year's Radio and Records Industry Achievement Awards.

KRQQ (93.7-FM) was named the 2008 contemporary hit radio/top 40 station of the year in its market range, and KMXZ (94.9-FM) was given the title of adult contemporary station of the year in the same market range.

KMXZ's program director, Bobby Rich, who hosts "The Bobby Rich Morning Mix," was named adult contemporary personality of the year for all markets.