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Dan Moscoe
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 16, 2003
Matsui on a roll into All-Star game
TORONTO -- What a difference six weeks can make. On June 4, Hideki Matsui was scuffling along with a .250 batting average, a paltry three homers and 33 RBIs. Since that low point in the season, the New York Yankees rookie outfielder has hit at a torrid .387 clip, while adding six homers and 33 RBIs in...
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 2, 2003
Godzilla a winner in big league debut
TORONTO -- Godzilla paid immediate dividends for the New York Yankees. In his much-anticipated major league debut Monday night, Hideki Matsui hit the first pitch he saw for an RBI single, sending New York on its way to an 8-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in the season-opening game for both teams....
BASEBALL / MLB
May 20, 2002
Hasegawa right at home in Mariners' bullpen
TORONTO -- Seven years after Hideo Nomo's debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers, seeing a native of Japan play Major League Baseball is no longer a novelty.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 15, 2001
Ichiro show rolls on in Canada
TORONTO -- The Ichiro Show has played to rave reviews in the U.S. for the first six weeks of the baseball season. This past weekend, it was a smash hit in its Canadian debut.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Mar 29, 2001
The ABCs of Japanese sportsu
As I'll be heading back to Canada next month, this will be my last Sports Scope. I thought I'd write some sort of reflection on what covering sports in Japan has meant to me, but all I kept coming up with were buzzwords and catchphrases.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Feb 15, 2001
Bedfellows making a quick buck
The Yankees are sleeping with the devil. The Red Devils, to be exact.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jan 18, 2001
Olympic hero Spitz still making waves at 50
LONDON -- Mark Spitz is widely regarded as the greatest Olympian of all time. The American swimmer captured seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Games -- still the most ever by an athlete at one Olympics -- and broke world-record times in all seven events. Throw in the two golds, a silver and a bronze...
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Dec 14, 2000
Owners taking the hands-on approach
Watching Mario Lemieux as he made his rounds in Japan this past October, one could sense there was something very wrong with the picture. At various functions in Tokyo leading up to the National Hockey League opening games, here was this strapping 6-foot-5 man, just turned 35, looking healthy and fit...
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Nov 23, 2000
Six reasons to give thanks
A great deal of space in columns like these -- and I'm one of the culprits -- is devoted to all that's wrong with the sports world and the people who make their livings in it.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 4, 2000
MLBers draw first blood
Hisanori Takahashi found major league hitters tougher to get out than Fukuoka Daiei Hawks.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 23, 2000
Hawks fly home up 2-0
So much for the home-dome advantage.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 12, 2000
Bunny thrives in Predators' den
Yujiro Nakajimaya, captain of the Kokudo Bunnies and a member of Japan's national team, is not your average Japanese professional hockey player. In four teenage years spent at Notre Dame College, a high school in Wilcox, Saskatchewan, the Hokkaido native gained more than just a fluent command of English....
MORE SPORTS
Oct 9, 2000
Penguins find form, rally past Predators
OMIYA, Saitama Pref. -- Maybe it was the jet lag. Maybe it was the adjustment to new head coach Ivan Hlinka's system. Whatever the reason, it took the Pittsburgh Penguins a game and two-thirds to break out of their Japan doldrums and rally for a 3-1 win over the Nashville Predators on Sunday at Saitama...
MORE SPORTS
Oct 6, 2000
Penguins, Predators ready to drop puck
The National Hockey League makes its third regular-season appearance in Japan this weekend as the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators square off for a two-game series Saturday and Sunday at the new Saitama Super Arena in Omiya.
OLYMPICS
Sep 13, 2000
U.S. sprint queen Jones aims to be Golden Girl of Games
When it comes to the women's sprint events at this year's Olympics, everyone will be racing to keep up with the Jones. Marion, that is.
OLYMPICS
Sep 13, 2000
Eyes of Japan on pair of Kojis
Outside of the marathon, Japan's best hope for a track and field medal is hammer thrower Koji Murofushi. Another Koji -- Ito -- may not have a chance at a medal, but he could make some history in the 100 meters.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 31, 2000
Kudos to the Kinki kids
Since Hideo Nomo's spectacular rookie season in 1995, a number of Japanese pitchers have proven capable of competing at the major league level. Lately, it's the lesser lights from the Land of the Rising Sun who have been shining bright.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 23, 2000
Petagine propels CL stars past PL
Before the All-Star Series opener, Pacific League manager Sadaharu Oh gave his team a pep talk.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jul 13, 2000
S. Africa done in by shady vote for 2006
South Africa has been shunned again.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jun 29, 2000
Redemption just a haircut away
We've seen how popular shaved heads have become in sports. Whether for fashion or function, Michael Jordan, Andre Agassi and Brazilian soccer stars are among countless male athletes noted for taking it all off.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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