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Japan's baseball team will need three days, or more, of Matsuzaka's magic on the mound if it is to have any chance of winning an Olympic medal in Sydney. Silver medalist to Cuba's gold in Atlanta in 1996, the Japanese team will include Matsuzaka and seven other big leaguers in these first Olympics where baseball professionals are allowed. At 19, the fastballer is now the top draw of the Seibu Lions in Japan's Pacific League. When he pitches, the 35,000-seat stadium in suburban Tokorozawa tends to fill up. Other nights, the stands are often...
...Spanish-language album, Mi Reflejo, out Sept. 12. Rock will have its place, with U2 and the Wallflowers readying new CDs, and soul will have its day, with Erykah Badu making a welcome return and Sade making a welcome and long-awaited one. As for hip-hop, the Atlanta-based duo Outkast, jazz rapper Guru and rap rocker Everlast are ones to watch. With so much to choose from, Napster never had it so good...
...worried about her chances, because she will have two veterans of the Atlanta Games on her side: Dawes and Dawes' good-luck talisman, a small blue Cookie Monster doll that she passed on to Ray when she first retired. They've agreed to share him. Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. Sounds as if Ray is ready for the most important meet of her career...
...education, but he's been having a tough week. So on the first all-on-message day in some time - while George Bush beat the drum on college aid in Pennsylvania and Al Gore and Joe Lieberman (still traveling together) hit health care in Oregon - Cheney arrived Wednesday in Atlanta with his new direction, an easy one for the ex-defense secretary: bash the military. The Clinton/Gore military, that...
...pressure," he says. "I was considering not running the 200 even if I qualified. I'm always put in a kind of showdown in the 200, and I'd gotten tired of that. I'm a lot more relaxed going to Sydney the way it is." Heading into Atlanta, Johnson demanded attention--"I want all eyes on me." This year he's content to cede the eyeballs to Marion Jones, while he "tries to have some fun" with his family--wife Kerry and three-month-old son Sebastian...