Choi Hyun-woo launched a hanging curveball from Kim Sang-hyun out into the trees beyond the right field bleachers for a game breaking 3-run home run, vaulting the underdog Samsung Lions to a 6-2 win on Sunday afternoon in Daegu.
The monstrous shot broke up what had that to that point been a close contest. Remarkably, Doosan [...]

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I’m slowly realizing that updating readers on Kim Ng’s efforts to become the first Asian (and the first woman)  hired as a major league general manager is as simple as going to the Seattle Times web site. Geoff Baker has a  thought provoking  post on his Mariners Blog  today taking a look at the education [...]

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Neat little YouTube of a program called French 24 (although it’s in English) about the auctioning of Beijing 2008-related items to Chinese citizens. As you might expect, people are buying used VWs that say Beijing 2008 across the hood and paying more than the sticker price of the car would be if it were new.
According [...]

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