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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 ...
They certainly have a physically demanding and dangerous job, but they don’t rest even off duty. The Eagles are unique bunch in the X League, Japan’s top football circuit. The players are officers in the Ninth Riot Squad of the Metropolitan Police Department, which handles situations such as disaster relief, ...
Chuck Muncie, a Pro Bowl running back with both the New Orleans Saints and San Diego Chargers, has died at ...
George Sauer had a huge day in the biggest game in New York Jets history, and then surprisingly walked away ...
O.J. Simpson will return next week to the Las Vegas courthouse where he was convicted of leading an armed sports memorabilia heist to ask a judge for a new trial on the grounds that his lawyer botched his case. Simpson will take the witness ...
Three-time All-Pro cornerback Ronde Barber is retiring after a 16-year career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that included a Super Bowl title and five Pro Bowl appearances. The Bucs announced Wednesday night that the 38-year-old twin brother of former New York Giants running back ...
Authorities say former Detroit Lions wide receiver Titus Young was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence then arrested again the same day for trying to take his car from a tow yard. Riverside County sheriff’s spokeswoman Lisa McConnell said Tuesday the 23-year-old ...
Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Famer Joe Greene, 66, is stepping down from his role in the team’s player personnel department. Greene announced his retirement on Monday. He had spent the last nine years as a special assistant for pro and college personnel for general ...
The Kajima Deers are known as one of the powerhouse teams in the X League, Japan’s corporate football circuit. But they will no longer go with the name “Kajima” after this year. The club announced Wednesday that the 2013 season would be the last ...
It’s time once more for NFL personnel honchos to play “Pin the Tail on the Donkey.” In other words, the pro football draft will be taking place shortly. And much like 8-year olds at a birthday party playing that ageless blindfold game, team mucky-mucks ...
When Baltimore Raven Michael Oher takes to the field Sunday he will be thinking of his second family which helped him realize his dream of playing in a Super Bowl. “My life was rough,” Oher said. “They (the Tuohys) showed me a lot of ...
Howie Long, NFL analyst on Fox TV, said it best: The second weekend of this season’s playoffs will go down as a landmark in pro football history. It will be remembered as the point in time when the pros were forced to recognize their ...
In a game intended to showcase the all-stars of the NFL, nothing gets too serious at the Pro Bowl and things are laid-back. Playbooks are a lot thinner and players smile much more often than usual. But for a pair of Japanese coaches, everything ...
The Japan X-League’s Obic Seagulls defeated Kwansei Gakuin University 21-15 in the Rice Bowl at Tokyo Dome on Thursday. It was the third straight year in which Obic had triumphed in the annual American football national championship game between Japan’s corporate and university champions. ...
When the bright lights are shining, no X League club rises to the occasion quite like the Obic Seagulls. Quarterback Shun Sugawara threw three touchdown passes, including two in the second half, and the Obic defense forced three costly turnovers as the Seagulls soared ...
Speaking on the field with a chilly breeze blowing in early December, Obic Seagulls defensive end Byron Beatty Jr. joked that it was actually like “a nice day in Colorado.” Well, until some six years ago, he had no idea what the frozen tundra ...