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ESPN's look at the Next Dice-K
Published 5/13/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Jason) at It is about the money, stupid
Well, those guys at the WWL are finally catching up to me. After all, it was six weeks ago (3/24/08) when I wrote A closer look at the next Dice-K. Jim Caple has the honors here, and besides a requisite anti-Yanks quip or two, the expose is quite interesting. ...

Dice-K 2.0 or the state of Japanese baseball
Published 5/14/2008 by Bjoern at Mojo Blog
I was away over the weekend and could not follow baseball at all. And just like that my team (Angels) lost 4 in a row. Now I’m back and they have won two. Usually, it’s the other way around. Anyway, ESPN’s Jim Caple has written a long and very interesting piece about the next Japanese pitching phenom and what the exodus of stars means to Japanese baseball. Darvish progressed quickly and steadily with the Fighters. He lowered his ERA from 3.53 as a rookie in 2005 to 2.89 in 2006 to 1.81 last year. But the 2007 season ended on a down note. Despite allowing only one run in the final game of the ...

Who Is Yu Darvish? (Photos and Video)
Published 5/16/2008 by Jeanette at RightFielders Women in Sports
Meet Yu Darvish , the Japanese Iranian star baseball player for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. See photos, video and a biography of Yu below. As a biography, Yu Darvish was born on August 16, 1986 in Habikino, Osaka, Japan. He is 21 years old. His father, Farsad Darvish, is Iranian, and his mother, Ikuyo is Japanese. His parents met while they were studying at Eckerd College, and Farsad was on the school soccer team as well as played on the Iranian national football team. Farsad and Ikuyo married in 1982 and moved to Osaka, Japan. As Yu was growing up, his father tried to teach him soccer, but Yu was not interested. Yu was the pitcher for ...