Here’s a front page photo you don’t see everyday. This is the cover of a Chinese newspaper called the Southern Metropolis Daily. A bus station in Foshan, Guangdong, was being used by a gang of thieves who preyed on unsuspecting out-of-towners posing as motorcycle taxi drivers. Police arrested fourteen of them yesterday.

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Over the past 24 hours I’ve been meditating on the fact that the next couple weeks are when baseball is at it’s absolute lowest ebb. Patsball is peaking, basketball is getting into games that actually count and spring training is still a few weeks away (well, except here in Korea). My perception of this is also […]

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Kim Dong-ju of the Korean Baseball Organization’s Doosan Bears finally signed a new deal yesterday.
Kim had previously turned down a four-year, 5 billion won ($5.3 million) deal from the Korean Series runner-up, instead accepting a one-year, 900 million won deal with the hopes of playing in Japan or the United States after the 2008 season. […]

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