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...midfielder Junichi Inamoto, 21, will join English Premier League giants Arsenal in a five-year deal worth a reported $3 million. Last week, Bolton Wanderers, another Premier League side, took Cerezo Osaka's Akinori Nishizawa, 25, on a 10-month loan. Across the North Sea, Urawa Reds midfielder Shinji Ono, 21, signed a reported $4 million deal with first division Dutch side Feyenoord. In Italy, A.C. Parma paid league champions A.S. Roma a cool $26 million for the services of superstar Hidetoshi Nakata; the 24-year-old playmaker, now firmly established in Italian football, previously played for Perugia...
...Japanese spend long periods on the substitutes' bench, however, exposure to the more competitive European leagues will help them grow as players. That can only be to Japan's advantage as the country prepares for its next major soccer challenge, co-hosting the 2002 World Cup. "Nobody knows if Ono, Inamoto and Nishizawa will be able to play regularly in Europe," says Tokyo football writer Yoshiyuki Osumi. "But their experience of playing high-level soccer will certainly lift their performance and the Japan team." If the players help some European clubs sell more Tshirts along...
...Crimson then joined one of the strongest fields in recent memory at the Eastern Championships, needing a third-place finish to earn a return trip to Nationals. But Harvard found itself so shorthanded that it had to ask former players junior Jill Ono and sophomore Jane Humphries to play. Despite their admirable contributions, the Crimson fell behind Princeton 4-0 after one quarter en route to dropping its first contest, 11-7. Against Indiana, Peterson scored her third, fourth, and fifth goals of the tournament, but an eight-tally second-quarter explosion from Indiana condemned Harvard...
Also key to the Crimson's chances next year will be the return of Ono and Humphries and the continued maturation of Peterson...
GUNPLAY OVER FOREPLAY In the competitive world of defensive lingerie, Paxton Quigley, author, self-defense activist and former Yoko Ono bodyguard, stands out for designing the latest in brassiere empowerment. The SuperBra features a strategically placed holster that accommodates a .38-cal. revolver or a canister of pepper spray. Says Quigley: "People say that once they get used to the idea of carrying a gun between their breasts, they forget they're even carrying...