Ice Dancing. Ice. F–ing. Dancing.
(Note: The following ’sports’ included in the winter and summer olympics while baseball, aka world’s fourth most popular sport, is not: luge, snowboarding, an experimental variant of rugby known as sevens, synchronized swimming, BMX, canoe slalom, and beach volleyball.)

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I try to not go out of my way to write malicious hit pieces on this site. When it comes to Korean pop music…well, I can get a little malicious, although I’m admittedly lienient in some areas (female groups).
But this is just inane, now and for future generations. This is a new girl group and [...]

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Rumor has it the weather has been less than ideal this week for some of you scouts out there, so here’s some links to keep you guys busy during the rain delays while you get your hustle on:

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Hopefully you’ve been able to catch some of the controversy surrounding some comments Dustin Pedroia made about his hometown, Woodland, California. Having gone to school at UC Davis, I’m somewhat familiar with Woodland, which is just 10-15 minutes north. I had a summer job there, Valley Record Distributors a CD and video distribution center. I didn’t [...]

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Aaron Twittered this one today, but any blog post as chock full of comically off-base attempts at cultural anthropology as this Thursday’s post from the Marmot’s Hole blog deserves some front and center treatment as far as I’m concerned.
The piece–presumably written by one of those ‘gone native’ white guy types– –labels Taiwanese netizens “colonial toadies [...]

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I know it’s baseball. It’s not life or death. But if you are American, and you would just as soon see the American team put a product on the field that’s worth your time, I have to ask you…
Are you satisfied?
If you don’t like Team USA you are most definitely satisfied. The team is now [...]

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A recent Fu Jen University public opinion poll has concluded that over 2.2 million Taiwanese “have never fallen in love or had a relationship with a member of the opposite sex”.
Yen Han-wen, a sex education professor at National Normal University, attributed the large number of bachelors and spinsters in Taiwan mainly to the lack of [...]

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Geoff Baker has a couple of articles called Rebuilding the Mariners about Seattle’s finest (found via MLBTR), who have now become the first team with a $100 million payroll to lose 100 games. As you can imagine there’s a lot of blame to go around, but featuring prominently are Ichiro and Kenji Johjima, the latter [...]

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Some people might claim this post amounts to little more than gratuitous Clemens bashing.   Well, they’re right. Here’s a full transcript of Clemens’ 60 Minutes interview with Mike Wallace, courtesy of Gary Dzen at Boston.com.
Update: You can watch it here on CBS news online.

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I have to admit that I did a double-take this morning when I logged on to EWC and saw a link to a story entitled “Alex Rodriguez is a Lying Bitch.”  I’ll be the first to say I’ve been one of A-Rod’s detractors over the years.  At this point taking shots at him [...]

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