From a mention in passing on The China Beat I learned about Harry Spiller, who has a place in the Guinness Book of World’s Records for the largest collection of Chinese restaurant menus in the world. This guy has actually popped up in the media dozens of times, and his collection occasionally touches down in […]

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If you were a card collecting geek like I was growing up in the 80’s, you doubtlessly remember the priceless ‘F-ck Face’ Billy Ripken card that scandalized the collecting community to its foundations. Parents were shocked. Kids giggled. Some vendors indignantly refused to sell the card. Who would think ballplayers used profanity? The card’s value […]

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Neat breakdown of whether Albert Belle should be in the Hall of Fame or not brought to you by SportingGurus.com (via Baseball Think Factory). The article asks 15 semi-rhetorical questions attempting to chip away at the case. After that the writer gets into some comparisons to Andre Dawson, Dick Allen, Jim Rice, Kirby Puckett and […]

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Lim Kyeong-jin, a sports announcer on MBC has quit after making several on air gaffes while under the influence of alcohol. Lim, who admitted he was drunk before going on air, said he’d had drinks with the program’s staff during lunch to celebrate the Korean handball teams’s recent victory in Japan.

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Police have arrested Takahiro Fujinuma, a Tokyo resident, for obstructing business, making approximately 2,600 prank calls to NTT’s directory service.
“I wanted to talk to women as I felt lonely,” Fujinuma was quoted as telling police. “Although the Dial Q2 telephone service costs money, the 104 directory service is free as long as you don’t ask […]

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I’m a little late on this, but this is a piece by Geoff Young, using an article in the STATS 1997 Baseball Scoreboard, which featured Bill James projection system of the day (called Brock6) to attempt to answer the question “What will the remainder of Barry Bonds career look like?” As you can imagine, the […]

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Imagine coming across this idyllic scene as you’re taking a bike ride through Boracay in the Philippines, an 85 degree day, cool breeze coming off the ocean, palm trees waving–a Filipino Police Action League in their Saturday basketball game, the score knotted up at 68 in the fourth quarter.

The game was attended by most of […]

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