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...ninth hitter, Brad Zapenas, opened the frame with the first hit of the day against Ferreira, a single through the left side of the infield. Although a failed pickoff attempt moved Zapenas to second, it seemed that the damage would be limited when BC head coach Mik Aoki opted to play small-ball and sacrifice the runner to third. With a 1-2 count, Ferreira threw consecutive pitches that appeared to cross the plate, according to Walsh. The umpire ruled both balls, and second baseman Matt Hamlet laced the next pitch down the left-field line for a double, just...
...answered right back in the bottom of the frame—plating a pair of runs on a walk and back-to-back doubles—and at 10-4 the game seemed well in hand. But after Aoki opted to let reliever Matt Brazis try to finish the game, the Crimson had other ideas...
...quite Slumdog's tale of rags to riches - more like shining maggots to Oscar gold. The path that led Japan to take its first Oscar in Best Foreign Language film at this week's Academy Awards started with the film's lead actor, Masahiro Motoki, contacting author Shinmon Aoki to quote a passage of his novel Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician in the actor's own travel diary. "Maggots are life, too," the passage, in the voice of the novel's protagonist, reads. "When I thought that, I could see the maggots shining...
...comical and dramatic story of an unemployed cellist who finds work cleaning and preparing the deceased for burial. The film has already grossed more than $34 million in Japan since its September 2008 release. (The film is scheduled for limited released in the U.S. in May.) Sales of Aoki's novel, on which the film is based, have spiked, along with advance sales of the DVD. (See pictures of the top 10 Oscar Dresses...
...Patriots With his velvet jacket and free- flowing mane, Takanori Aoki has a bit of the alt-rock star about him, but he's actually a designer with Japan's smallest automaker, Mitsuoka Motors. The company can't compete with a Toyota or Honda, so it has focused mainly on building what industry insiders snidely refer to as "replicars." Working at a small, unorthodox company meant that Aoki, 31, was given free rein to experiment. What he came up with in late 2006 was a $110,000 supercar modeled after a mythical Japanese snake with eight heads and eight tails...