Vendors outside Wrigley Field and on eBay are still selling shirts that have "Horry Kow" on the front and Japanese ball player Kosuke Fukudome's name and number on the back. The shirts poke fun at Japanese accents using the familiar "holy cow" that the late Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray used to always use.Continue reading "Holy cow, offensive Fukudome shirts still for sale"
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I loves me a good protest.
When it was clear that it was only a matter of days before the current Iraq war became official, I made sure that my boss and co-workers knew that I would not be coming into work. And when it was, I yelled my way through the early morning to midnight.
When I get swept up into a random march, my pulse races.
I cry at footage of mai '68.
And yet, there's something about the news of the Olympics protests in London and Paris that makes me... sad. Though my affection for the sports extravaganza has not gone beyond gymnastics circa 1984, and for all the revelations of performance-enhancing drugs shattering the athlete mythos, the fact that the torch has to hide out on a bus, extinguished, is an epic bummer.
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This month's issue of ESPN The Magazine is its Special 10th Anniversary Issue, and it features Ichiro on the cover with the text: “For Making Singles Sexy and Taking Baseball Global, Ichiro is a Perfect 10”. Here is a link to a previous 8-page ESPN special feature on Ichiro. He is one of only a few people in all of sports who uses his first name on the back of his uniform, and why not? The man is simply amazing, a baseball living legend in Japan and in the United States. Here is a breakdown of some of his greatest feats since entering the league.
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New Oakland A's coach Don Wakamatsu is highly regarded and may become the first Asian American manager in Major League Baseball.
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