If you’re like me you’ve always had a keen interest in the pirates that scour the south seas, but other than the odd news report here and there, have never really learned much about them. Well, here’s a great summary piece by The Economist, detailing the trials and tribulations of dealing with the mostly [...]

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I’m trying to come up with a clever name for this superball 11th inning Olympic abomination. Any ideas out there? Senichi Hoshino, the manger of Team Japan blasted the new rule yesterday, saying he wants to “strongly protest” the change. I don’t blame him. To have a rule change like this thrown at them two [...]

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I’m reading a fantastic book called Pitching Around Fidel: A Journey into the Heart of Cuban Sports by S.I. Price, which is part travelllogue, part disection of the great (but disintegrating) Cuban sports machine. The book was written in the late part of the last millenium, but much of it still holds true.
Here’s an article [...]

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