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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
The Eastern Conference semifinals start on Friday night, with the Yokohama B-Corsairs aiming for a repeat trip to the Final Four. The visiting Toyama Grouses, meanwhile, have already gone farther in the postseason than at any time in the past six seasons. Game 1 ...
Bob Pierce, former coach of the bj-league’s Shiga Lakestars, Akita Northern Happinets and Sendai 89ers, is the head instructor for Five-Star Sports China’s Longgang facility in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. This job, which started in April, enables Pierce to help develop the next generation of ...
Head coach Bill Cartwright returned the Osaka Evessa to respectability after a remarkable plunge in the season’s first four months. The Evessa, who were 5-19 before Cartwright showed up in Osaka in January, had fallen to heights never experienced before in the three-time bj-league ...
Despite a dreadful 0-8 start to their season in the fall, the Kyoto Hannaryz never pushed the panic button. Coach Honoo Hamaguchi, a demanding coach who sees the big picture, recognized that his team needed time to develop into a cohesive unit, especially since ...
Three historic achievements were achieved in the bj-league on Saturday. The Shimane Susanoo Magic won a playoff series for the first time in franchise history, defeating the Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix. The Iwate Big Bulls were victorious in their first-ever playoff contest. And the Toyama ...
Shimane center Jeral Davis dominated defensively in Game 1 of the Western Conference first-round playoff series, helping the Susanoo Magic rout the visiting Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix 80-67 on Friday afternoon. Davis, who was named to the 2012-13 Best Five team earlier this week, swatted ...
Ryukyu Golden Kings star Anthony McHenry receives the 2012-13 regular-season MVP award, and Matt Garrison of the Niigata Albirex BB is the bj-league's Coach of the Year.
Golden Week signals the start of the 2012-13 bj-league playoffs. Which means eight teams will be in action over the next three days, including the Shimane Susanoo Magic and Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix on Friday and Saturday. The series tips off at 3:30 p.m. on ...
The Niigata Albirex torched the Sendai 89ers in Sunday’s season finale and collected their first-ever Eastern Conference regular-season title. The final score — Niigata 109, Sendai 63 — was a mere formality. The game had been decided by halftime. The 89ers trailed 54-21 at ...
The Niigata Albirex BB moved closer to a possible Eastern Conference regular-season title by beating the visiting Sendai 89ers 98-79 on Saturday night. Niigata (35-16) is one game ahead of the Iwate Big Bulls, Yokohama B-Corsairs and Toyama Grouses, all of whom have 34-17 ...
The reigning champion Ryukyu Golden Kings have been so good for so long that veteran forward/center Jeff Newton’s recent monthlong absence due to a knee injury was far from a crisis. Newton missed eight games and underwent knee surgery to repair his left meniscus ...
Jeremy Tyler has played a significant role in helping the Santa Cruz Warriors advance to the NBA Development League Finals, a best-of-three series that begins on Thursday. Tyler, a former Tokyo Apache big man, and the Warriors will play host to the Rio Grande ...