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...corporate overlords who run Japanese baseball. Matsuzaka is just the latest in a series of Japanese players who have left their home league at the peak of their career. The emigration has done wonders for the worldwide reputation of Japanese baseball players but not for baseball in Japan. While Dice-K (a fratty phonetic rendering of Daisuke that has become his new American nickname) can't blow a bubble without the media watching, attendance at Japanese professional games has sagged. TV ratings for the Yomiuri Giants, by far the country's most popular team, are so low that the games...
Auctioning off Dice-K for $51 million should have shored up the Lions' shaky finances. Instead, the Lions are in serious trouble. Earlier this month, the club admitted that its scouts had paid a pair of amateur players under the table, a clear violation of the rules. (Seibu turned down TIME's requests for interviews.) The Lions could be facing harsh penalties, like losing their spot in the draft for a year or more, but the greater damage is to the club's reputation and that of Japanese baseball. Former major league manager Bobby Valentine, who now helms the Chiba...
...aspects of the Japanese game that the U.S. will never be able to beat. "Seibu Lions fans are known for being very well-mannered," says Mitsuko Nakanomi, 67, a Lions supporter for more than five decades. "And we have a very clean stadium." Good luck finding that in Boston, Dice...
...longer life--will follow. Often your doctor is left to make prescription decisions based at least in part on faith, bias or even an educated guess. That ought to be enough to spook even the least jumpy patient, but the fact is, recognizing just what a roll of the dice medicine can be may be a good thing...
...disprove that maxim than MMOGs-Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Unlike with normal video games, where you interact with just a computer, MMOGs allow millions of people to play with each other in sprawling online virtual worlds. Most MMOGs target people like me who, as kids, took 20-sided dice and J.R.R.Tolkien a little too seriously, and none do it better than World of Warcraft. At last count there were 8 million people journeying through its fantasy world known as Azeroth. On Tuesday that number will increase, when the game's creator, Blizzard Entertainment, releases its sequel to WoW, The Burning...