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It’s things like this that bring home just how hard it is for me to get into that “world’s sport” football, or as we call it back home (and in Japan), soccer: England captain David Beckham has admitted that he got a penalty on purpose so that he would miss his next game, a World [...]

I was watching the tube with the in-laws earlier tonight when the sports news came on, the lead story of which was Ichiro‘s pursuit of the Major League Baseball record for most hits in a season, which has been held for 84 years by George Sisler. Going into yesterday’s game, Ichiro needed 24 hits to [...]

It has been a slow week here (on this blog, not my life). I started working this week, which as all work does occupied a nice chunk of my time. However, it really was mindshare that was getting used up in abundance, and so this week I haven’t felt very effusive. Truth be told as [...]

Updating my post below, there are more World Cup blogs to add to the site I mentioned previously. Jason Kottke has links to them. www.worldcupblog.org wins the domain name sweepstakes, and is quite enjoyable, with “real-time” updates and hilarious insight into the various teams’ hairstyles. Not surprisingly, the Japanese team comes in for some commenting [...]

I suppose it’s inevitable, as there seems to be a blog for all tastes (and then some) these days, but I’m quite a happy blog surfer to find this great World Cup blog (via The Blog of Chloe and Pete). I consider myself incredibly fortunate to be in Japan at this moment of World Cup [...]