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Another Reason to Watch Baseball — Yao Ming Part of New In-House Fix Allegations

June 11th, 2008 · 9 Comments

I  have no idea what kind of coverage this is getting in the states or if people are taking it seriously, but this made the news in Korea, so I went ahead and got this from ESPN. The article  details the letter ex-NBA official Tim Donaghy sent via his attorney to the U.S. District Court [...]

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Tags: Sport

The Asian Riff

June 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Article of the week here, although I guess it’s technically a blog posting. This comes from Danwei (written by Peter Micic) about what’s behind that melodic phrase that’s come to represent “Asia” or “The Orient,” in popular music (amongst other forms of entertainment).
His base example is found is this familiar diddy by Carl Douglas — [...]

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Tags: Music

Korean Batting and Pitching Leaders

June 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I’m going to take a cue from Simon and instead of doing the usual KBO rankings take a look at some numbers. As far as the rankings go — guess what? SK is still No. 1. For game recaps check out Matt’s site here.
Since the season is nearing the 2 1/2 month mark lets look [...]

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Tags: Baseball - Korea

2008.6.10 NPB Pitching and Batting Leaders

June 11th, 2008 · No Comments

By Simon Currie
We’re 2/3 of the way through interleague play with 16 games played, and the Eagles are on top of the interleague standings tied with the Tigers with 11-5 records. The eagles had strong numbers in runs scored and runs allowed heading into interleague, so this is no fluke, expect the strong performance of [...]

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Tags: Baseball - Japan