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Dan Moscoe
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BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 16, 2003
Matsui on a roll into All-Star game
TORONTO -- What a difference six weeks can make. On June 4, Hideki Matsui was scuffling along with a .250 batting average, a paltry three homers and 33 RBIs. Since that low point in the season, the New York Yankees rookie outfielder has hit at a torrid .387 clip, while adding six homers and 33 RBIs in about half the number of at-bats.
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 2, 2003
Godzilla a winner in big league debut
TORONTO -- Godzilla paid immediate dividends for the New York Yankees. In his much-anticipated major league debut Monday night, Hideki Matsui hit the first pitch he saw for an RBI single, sending New York on its way to an 8-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in the season-opening game for both teams.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 20, 2002
Hasegawa right at home in Mariners' bullpen
TORONTO -- Seven years after Hideo Nomo's debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers, seeing a native of Japan play Major League Baseball is no longer a novelty.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 15, 2001
Ichiro show rolls on in Canada
TORONTO -- The Ichiro Show has played to rave reviews in the U.S. for the first six weeks of the baseball season. This past weekend, it was a smash hit in its Canadian debut.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Mar 29, 2001
The ABCs of Japanese sportsu
As I'll be heading back to Canada next month, this will be my last Sports Scope. I thought I'd write some sort of reflection on what covering sports in Japan has meant to me, but all I kept coming up with were buzzwords and catchphrases.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Feb 15, 2001
Bedfellows making a quick buck
The Yankees are sleeping with the devil. The Red Devils, to be exact.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jan 18, 2001
Olympic hero Spitz still making waves at 50
LONDON -- Mark Spitz is widely regarded as the greatest Olympian of all time. The American swimmer captured seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Games -- still the most ever by an athlete at one Olympics -- and broke world-record times in all seven events. Throw in the two golds, a silver and a bronze he won at age 18 four years earlier in Mexico, and it's hard to deny that Spitz deserves the distinction.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Dec 14, 2000
Owners taking the hands-on approach
Watching Mario Lemieux as he made his rounds in Japan this past October, one could sense there was something very wrong with the picture. At various functions in Tokyo leading up to the National Hockey League opening games, here was this strapping 6-foot-5 man, just turned 35, looking healthy and fit after beating Hodgkin's disease seven years ago. Lemieux was here as owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins, but he looked capable of stepping back on the ice at the drop of a puck and being -- as his name means in French -- the best.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Nov 23, 2000
Six reasons to give thanks
A great deal of space in columns like these -- and I'm one of the culprits -- is devoted to all that's wrong with the sports world and the people who make their livings in it.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 4, 2000
MLBers draw first blood
Hisanori Takahashi found major league hitters tougher to get out than Fukuoka Daiei Hawks.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 23, 2000
Hawks fly home up 2-0
So much for the home-dome advantage.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 12, 2000
Bunny thrives in Predators' den
Yujiro Nakajimaya, captain of the Kokudo Bunnies and a member of Japan's national team, is not your average Japanese professional hockey player. In four teenage years spent at Notre Dame College, a high school in Wilcox, Saskatchewan, the Hokkaido native gained more than just a fluent command of English. He also adopted the Canadian style of rough-and-tumble hockey -- something not often seen in Japan -- while playing in the school's renowned hockey program, which has produced such stars as Wendel Clark and Curtis Joseph.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 9, 2000
Penguins find form, rally past Predators
OMIYA, Saitama Pref. -- Maybe it was the jet lag. Maybe it was the adjustment to new head coach Ivan Hlinka's system. Whatever the reason, it took the Pittsburgh Penguins a game and two-thirds to break out of their Japan doldrums and rally for a 3-1 win over the Nashville Predators on Sunday at Saitama Super Arena.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 6, 2000
Penguins, Predators ready to drop puck
The National Hockey League makes its third regular-season appearance in Japan this weekend as the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators square off for a two-game series Saturday and Sunday at the new Saitama Super Arena in Omiya.
OLYMPICS
Sep 13, 2000
U.S. sprint queen Jones aims to be Golden Girl of Games
When it comes to the women's sprint events at this year's Olympics, everyone will be racing to keep up with the Jones. Marion, that is.
OLYMPICS
Sep 13, 2000
Eyes of Japan on pair of Kojis
Outside of the marathon, Japan's best hope for a track and field medal is hammer thrower Koji Murofushi. Another Koji -- Ito -- may not have a chance at a medal, but he could make some history in the 100 meters.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 31, 2000
Kudos to the Kinki kids
Since Hideo Nomo's spectacular rookie season in 1995, a number of Japanese pitchers have proven capable of competing at the major league level. Lately, it's the lesser lights from the Land of the Rising Sun who have been shining bright.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 23, 2000
Petagine propels CL stars past PL
Before the All-Star Series opener, Pacific League manager Sadaharu Oh gave his team a pep talk.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jul 13, 2000
S. Africa done in by shady vote for 2006
South Africa has been shunned again.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jun 29, 2000
Redemption just a haircut away
We've seen how popular shaved heads have become in sports. Whether for fashion or function, Michael Jordan, Andre Agassi and Brazilian soccer stars are among countless male athletes noted for taking it all off.
New JAL chief concerned about yen’s ‘excessive’ weakness
Mitsuko Tottori became Japan Airlines’ first female CEO on April 1, having risen through the ranks as a flight attendant and heading the flight attendant and customer experience divisions.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Yen inches closer to intervention point as BOJ meeting starts
The rate of the yen against the U.S. dollar is displayed in the trading room at foreign exchange brokerage Gaitame.com in Tokyo on Thursday.
Princess Aiko makes debut at imperial garden party
Princess Aiko attends an imperial garden party in Tokyo on Tuesday.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Top U.S. and China diplomats talk tough amid warnings of new ‘downward spiral’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.
For amateur sumo, a fresh start offers hope against time-wasting and gamesmanship
Wrestlers prepare for the start of a bout at the 2023 Sumo World Championships in Tokyo. Starting this month, placing one hand on the clay first is no longer allowed.

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