Here comes another Japanese import, one who's last name would be dangerous to Anglicize like "Dice-K."
Free agent outfielder Kosuke Fukudome plans to announce late Monday night U.S. time whether he will play in Japan in 2008 or pursue one of several offers from Major League Baseball clubs, his agent told ESPN.com.
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Fukudome hit .351 with 31 homers and 104 RBIs in 2006 to win the Most Valuable Player award in the Japanese Central League. He appeared in only 81 games in 2007 before undergoing season-ending elbow surgery.
It would be likely to be pronounced "Foo-coo-Dough-may", but many folks would likely give him the nickname "What-the."
[Update 12-13. At least four sightings of that so far, only two predating my post.]
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Speaking of tongue-trippers, we've got an interesting new Navy football coach. If Jack Thompson was the Throwin' Samoan, we now have a Coachin' Samoan-
Assistant Ken Niumatalolo, a Hawaii graduate, was promoted to the head coaching job Saturday.
...The 42-year-old Niumatalolo, who's of Samoan descent but was born and raised in Hawaii, is believed to be the first Polynesian head coach in NCAA history.
I like Samoas, almost as good as Thin Mints.
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The story of the Colorado shooter is sad; it appears as if he was raised in a Pentecostal home-schooled environment and washed out of YWAM with health issues. He "had been sending it hate mail, police said in court papers Monday."
This CNN piece on his YWAM stay makes the young man, Matthew Murray, seem multiple fries short of a Happy Meal
Werner, of Balneario Camborius, Brazil, said he had a bunk near Murray's and that Murray would roll around in bed and make noises.
"He would say, 'Don't worry, I'm just talking to the voices,' " Werner said. "He'd say, 'Don't worry, Richard. You're a nice guy. The voices like you.' "
Also, Marilyn Manson fans aren't quite my idea of missionary material, especially if he's hearing voices. A bit too much like the Goth-style of the Columbine shooters.
So, he literally did want to put the "Wham" in YWAM, as my tongue-in-cheek headline of yesterday stated. That's sad.
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Some people are fast on the draw; we had a fast on the draw faster yesterday.
"It seemed like it was me, the gunman, and God," said Jeanne Assam, describing her feelings as she confronted a man who charged into her Colorado Springs church Sunday firing a weapon.
Assam, a church security guard with law enforcement experience, fired her own weapon at the invader and stopped his attack, police say.
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She said she was on the third day of a three-day regimen of fasting and prayer, wanting to know God's will for what to do with her life, when the shooting took place.
That's going to make the pro-concealed-carry folks day. Shooters don't do as much damage if people get to shoot back.
It's sad that churches would need security guards, but in a church of 10,000, especially one that was in the news with a fallen pastor last year, will get some folks who have it in for Christians to take it out on a big church.
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