I’m taking this off Simon’s site because it just needs to be seen by as many eyes as possible. I would label this as teuroteu, usually just called “trot,” which is similar to Japanese enka. In fact some nationalists  criticize the genre because it developed from enka.
However, trot music (originally named after “foxtrot”) takes many [...]

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Neat article in today’s New York Times about Ebbsfleet United, a lower-tier British soccer club that was purchased by an ownership group started on the Iternet (MyFootballClub.co.uk), which raised money via readers, with the promise that the ownership group “could vote on every decision, from uniform design to player selection.”
Ok, who’s going to start [...]

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Dayan Viciedo, a Cuban defector I wrote a small item on this past June is now in full-fledged contract hunting mode now that he’s been declared a free agent. The White Sox have already made an offer as has another unnamed team.
Viciedo’s situation was somewhat unique because he defected to The United States, which automatically [...]

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Dave Cameron, who co-founded U.S.S. Mariner, and is a primary writer at Fangraphs, is asking for a little bit of help in getting a Blogging Scholarship worth $10,000 through collegescholarships.org. I wholeheartedly endorse the idea of blogging scholarships and Cameron, who I’m guessing makes a little bit (but not a lot) of money on his [...]

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