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A monstrous tornado at least 800 meters wide roared through the suburbs of Oklahoma City on Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds of up to 320 kph. At least 91 ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
"Outsider art" is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene.
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
The Dominican Republic wins all eight of its games in the 2013 World Baseball Classic, capturing the title with a 3-0 shutout against Puerto Rico.
Fernando Rodney bounded around on a hastily assembled stage with a fresh World Baseball Classic winner’s medal and a plantain that was more than a few days past its expiration date both dangling around his neck. Hat tilted to the side, Rodney shot imaginary ...
Rivalries are perhaps the superfine ingredient that works to spice up teams and athletes and make fans louder. Think of the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox in the major leagues, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens in the NFL, Real Madrid and ...
Atsushi Nomi walked through Union Square alongside teammate Takashi Toritani, heading south on San Francisco’s Powell Street in the direction of Samurai Japan’s hotel, a little after midnight Monday morning, just hours after Japan was eliminated from the World Baseball Classic. The square was ...
Hensley “Bam-Bam” Meulens was the first native of Curacao to make it to the major leagues. He played for the New York Yankees from 1989-1993, and spent the next three years in Japan before joining the Montreal Expos in 1997 and the Arizona Diamondbacks, ...
A lot of passion with different ways of cheering for each respective nation. That’s one of the things you can taste only at the World Baseball Classic. For Sunday’s semifinal between Japan and Puerto Rico, the stands were filled with an enormous amount of ...
The Dominicans insist they’re not motivated by revenge. The Dutch are adamant that the past is the past. Nevertheless, the memory of the 2009 World Baseball Classic refuses to dissipate ahead of Monday’s semifinal showdown between the two nations in the 2013 WBC. An ...
The World Baseball Classic will crown a champion in two days, and for the first time, a team other than Japan will be hoisting the trophy.
If Kenta Maeda gets the start for Japan against Puerto Rico on Sunday, he’ll be pitching in the biggest game of his life. Maeda has been one of Japan’s premier pitchers over the past few seasons, but his Hiroshima Carp haven’t been very successful ...
Depending on whom you ask, Jurickson Profar, an infielder in the Texas Rangers’ system, is either the best middle infield prospect in baseball, or simply the best prospect in baseball. What matters most at the moment is that the 20-year-old is one of the ...
With the World Baseball Classic acting as a showcase in front of major league scouts, Team Japan has obviously been one of the countries attracting attention from the men with stop watches and speed guns in the stands. In the first two rounds held ...
Two-time defending champion Japan has shown signs of improvement after a shaky start in the World Baseball Classic. Or as infielder Atsunori Inaba put it: "We've become a better team as the tournament has progressed.