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Mikitani, 39, head of Rakuten, Japan's largest online retail and services operation, is moving into a new arena: sports. The ex-banker, whose company's revenues hit $360 million in the past four reported quarters, bought a professional soccer team last January. In November, Rakuten won the right to create the first team added to Japan's professional baseball league in 50 years. "At first I didn't really understand the obsession that people like Rupert Murdoch seemed to have merging media with sports," he says. "But now I do." --By Jim Frederick/Tokyo...
...toward a suspect and, on numerous occasions, a conviction. In 1998 Str??cklingen, Germany, undertook the largest collection to date. More than 16,000 men in a rural town were sampled after a girl, 11, was raped and strangled. In a quest to restore the town's innocence, entire soccer teams took the test together. The killer, pressured to participate by friends, also complied, sealing his fate...
...BACKWASH On the airwaves, Pepsi ads with David Beckham and other star soccer players were withdrawn because of their surfing themes. American Express nixed a commercial featuring surfer Laird Hamilton's gushing about big waves, and British Airways suspended a month's worth of holiday-package...
...That Championship Season Mia Hamm retired last month after 17 years on the U.S. women's national soccer team [MILESTONES, Dec. 20]. TIME devoted a cover story to Hamm and her teammates the summer they galvanized legions of young fans and won their first women's World Cup championship [July...
...already won,' declared Hank Steinbrecher, the general secretary of U.S. Soccer, even before the American women's team's draining, dramatic penalty-kick shoot-out win over China on Saturday, 'no matter what the score is going to be.' But when defender Brandi Chastain blasted the team's fifth penalty kick past Chinese goalkeeper Gao Hong after 120 scoreless minutes, including two overtime periods, the American put a fitting exclamation point on a summer of soccer that had swept the nation off its feet ... This sweet, sweet victory was very much an act of faith...