Citing pressure from other Seoul-based teams (the Doosan Bears and LG Twins), the Korean company known as KT, has pulled its offer off the table and will not take over the former Hyundai Unicorns franchise.

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From today’s ESPN article about the Roger Clemens/Brian McNamee saga:
Brian McNamee told federal law enforcement officials that Roger Clemens developed an abscess on his buttocks around the time that McNamee said he was giving him steroid injections in 1998, a lawyer with knowledge of details of the case told The New York Times.
For some reason […]

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Some fun YouTubing on a lazy (hungover) Sunday morning. These are courtesy Simon Currie. First take a look at a home run contest between Hank Aaron and Oh Sadaharu from 1974.

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The Swiss dressage (training) team has pulled out of the 2008 Olympics citing concerns over the health of its horses. Fears of Beijing’s pollution? No. The horse related events were moved to Hong Kong because Beijing officials couldn’t guarantee the same level of veterinary safety as the horse-racing obsessed island.
Switzerland was heading for Hong Kong as […]

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