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Daisuke Matsuzaka made his name in 1998, performing on the sacred grounds of Koshien, the Yankee Stadium of Japan, in the National High School Baseball Championship. The series is a national obsession, played in front of sell-out crowds and attracting more TV viewers every summer than any other sporting event. Families uproot themselves so their sons might play for a school with a chance of getting to Koshien; those who make it often scoop up dirt from the field as a souvenir...
...that Friday, at 10 a.m., the timing will become even more precise. The starter gun's first bark will launch Jones on a nine-day offensive at the Olympic Stadium in Homebush Bay. Her schedule will be excruciatingly divided and subdivided, etched ultimately by split thousandths of a second. She'll try to win five gold medals, negotiating an intricate shoal of qualifying heats, medal races, meals, catnaps, jumps and baton passes. Five golds in one Olympics has not been done by a track athlete since the Flying Finn, Paavo Nurmi, blew through Paris in 1924. Weeks before the opening...
...query about a thing called a "two-gap" defense with the apology, "You know, Danny, I hate to do the Socratic method with you and ask you all these questions." After Miller deemed Canton the "Tigris and Euphrates of football history," Michaels elaborated, "This could be Three Rivers Stadium--the Tigris, the Euphrates and the Cuyahoga," sailing Miller's Mesopotamia one-liner to the New World. When Miller cooed he was having "so much fun!" Michaels ribbed him, "This is like you won a prize to a fantasy announcing camp...
When Jackie Robinson was near death and blind from diabetes, he was given a day of celebration at Dodger Stadium. As he was led back to the clubhouse, Jim Murray, the great sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times, touched him on the shoulder and identified himself. "Oh, Jim!" said Jackie. "I wish that I could see you again." Murray responded, "Jackie, I wish that I could see you again." Tom Callahan, another great sportswriter, told me that story...
...Washington. "I can't imagine leaving here. It's wonderful, and there are great business opportunities," Kaempfer says. He's itching to develop some office projects in London. And he's starting to add megasize movie complexes to his malls--complete with all the latest embellishments, such as stadium seating and digital sound, which are relatively new to European filmgoers. Kaempfer reckons that discount designer duds aren't the only staples of the American lifestyle that can take root in Europe...