Shanghai Sunrise

Some speculation about spring training games in China next year

Matsuzaka throws one of his best games of the year to help the Red Sox clinch their first division title since 1995

On the same day the Sox ink 18-year-old Taiwanese catching prospect Chen Chia-chu 

Taiwanese slugger Lin Wei-zhu, in just his second game back from an injury, hit a 2-run home run to lead the Tigers to a 2-1 win over the Chunichi Dragons. The win snapped the Tigers eight-game losing streak

The Nippon Ham Fighters, behind Brian Sweeney’s 7INN 1ER start, claimed their second straight Pacific League title by thumping the Chiba Lotte Marines 9-1

Tang Wei, who stars in Ang Lee’s newest “Lust, Caution,” is one of three young Chinese starlets the Asian Sex Gazatte labels The New China Dolls

Kim Jong-il and South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun will convene this week–The Marmot’s Hole has a preview and a comparison to when KJI met then president Kim Dae-jung in 2000

Wang Chien-ming will be on the hill when the Yankees take on the Indians in game 1 of the ALCS this Wednesday or Thursday

Former member of the Japanese Super League’s OSG Phoenix Damone Brown is in camp with the Utah Jazz

From China: You have to wonder who wears a 950 gram $26,000 piece of lingerie