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...men’s hockey team also added to the winter season’s luster. Begininng the year ranked eighth in the nation, the Crimson had high expectations, buoyed by an all-star class of freshman and the junior tandem of Brett Nowak and Dom Moore. Though the Crimson limped into the ECAC Tournament, Harvard turned its season around in the playoffs, winning one single-overtime and two double-overtime games in four total post-season contests to wrap up an ECAC Championship. The Crimson also provided high drama in numerous regular season games, making a reputation for falling...
Kazuhisa Ishii was seen walking around the Los Angeles Dodgers' camp with a wad of bubble gum in his mouth. Catcher Paul Lo Duca noticed this and asked the former Japan League All-Star if he had taken a special liking to American gum. "Actually, he says it's horrible," Ishii's interpreter, Scott Akasaki, relayed. "He just chews it because you guys do." Ishii has since ditched the chew and found a far more effective way to gain acceptance as one of the guys: by winning his first six starts...
...Sure, it's only basketball, but even Pat Buchanan would have traded for this guy. Seven feet tall but agile as a guard and armed with a silky shooting touch from all areas of the floor, Nowitzki made his first All-Star team this season at 23, has seemingly eradicated the last traces of basketball prejudice against European imports - that they were too soft to play the NBA's hard-knocks style, that they'd fade away at crunch time, that a lanky finesse players from places like Wurtzburg, Germany were never going to make an impact over the American...
...long way from that holy grail. It is still early in the season and no Boston fan needs to be reminded about how last season’s team was leading AL East at the All-Star Break before degenerating into an embarrassing collection of lunatics and layabouts...
...similar descent takes hero Kakihara, (Japanese renaissance everyman Tadanobu Asano) to a blissful death in Ichi the Killer; in the modern Japanese cinema, death seems the only way out. This all-star gathering of evildoers unites ultraviolent comic artist Hideo Yamamoto, from whose manga the film was created, and screen violence helmer Miike Takahashi, who created last year's cult sensation Audition. Kakihara is a sado-masochistic punk gangster caught up in an underworld where dysfunction speaks louder than love. When his yakuza boss mysteriously disappears, Kakihara hunts for his abductor. In the process, he turns a mansion into...