Great post on Steroid Nation, about the cultures of doping in both cricket fighting and cricket singing.
The post links to a recent LA Times piece that says professional fighting crickets, which the article says can sell for as much as $10,000, are typically kept in holding two or three days prior to a big fight to […]

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I’ve made every effort to avoid buying a car in Korea, but I can’t even fathom driving in a city like Tokyo. At any rate, here’s a fascinating look inside the guts of a traffic control center in Tokyo, and looking at this makes me even less interested in driving in either Tokyo or Korea. […]

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If you stare at a “statistic” like PITCHf/x for a minute, scan an article, glance at the graphs, and then befuddled, move on to your next stop on the information super-highway, then you’re not alone.
But PITCHf/x isn’t a statistic per se, and personally I don’t see it as being terribly related to what many refer to […]

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Always enjoy this kind of story. Here’s your guide to 11 of baseball’s more obscure rules. I think my favorite is the Ground Rule Triple, which in actuality is really a three-base award, but is still fun to imagine as a triple. The ground rule triple is awarded if:
…a player deliberately touches the ball with […]

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