Hong Kong Sunrise

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  • Article detailing Korean pitcher Baek Cha-seung’s struggles, and his relationship with Jay Lee, a Korean who has helped acclimate several Korean players to living in the U.S.
  • From the Prague Post: one of the Bad News Czechs kept a journal during his team’s manhandling at the Olympic test matches in Beijing last month, and, in a separate piece baseball’s rise in popularity in Europe and Central Asia is explained
  • Another reason why Nash and Yao rule
  • The 10 most interestingly designed Japanese police offices from Inventor.com
  • The U.S. Olympic team is contemplating keeping its athletes in South Korea as a means to avoid the pollution in Beijing
  • Korea Beat offers another excellent translation of an article from Sports Seoul concerning the success of foreign pitching in the KBO this year
  • Some odds and ends from Japanese baseball: Tuffy Rhodes hit 13 home runs in the majors…he’s now hit 400 in Japan
  • We were wondering when someone would finally do a fashion show where the women wear nothing but condoms (from AhBoon.net)
  • I don’t care what you say about game fixing! Don’t stop printing those parle cards