21.   Not so long ago, reality shows were the hottest thing on screen.

22.   Owner Jones may well be the hottest thing going in sports, invigorated by the fuss he has stirred.

23.   Satellite TV suddenly became the hottest thing in entertainment.

24.   Take R.L. Stine, whose Goosebumps and Fear Street series of juvenile horror tales are the hottest things in publishing.

25.   The Blue Devils were the hottest things since the invention of the wheel until Connecticut came along to play the role of the nail that punctured their tire.

26.   The hottest thing on the grill at The Abbey, a small restaurant in Seal Beach, Calif., is Mark McGwire.

27.   The guy seemingly oblivious to his own Ice Age is the hottest thing in the NFL.

28.   The hottest thing in baseball these days is not the Seattle Mariners or the July trade banter.

29.   The hottest thing in talk radio since Rush Limbaugh, according to every survey, Dr. Laura is a tough therapist to a confused nation.

30.   The hottest thing on the market are the so-called crossovers where pickups double as sport utilities and SUVs carry cargo beds just like trucks.