NC Dinos pitcher Erick Fedde, the current ERA leader in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), was named as an All-Star reserve Tuesday. The right-hander is one of 13 reserves for the “Nanum” team, featuring players from the Dinos, Kiwoom Heroes, Kia Tigers, LG Twins and Hanwha Eagles. Fedde, pitching in […]

Korea won an unprecedented fourth straight Asian Games baseball gold medal Saturday, with a 2-0 victory over Chinese Taipei in the final. Starter Moon Dong-ju struck out seven in six shutout frames, while Korea scored its two runs without the benefit of hits on this rainy night at 카지노 Shaoxing […]

Korea defeated Japan 2-1 to win gold at the Asian Games, Saturday, a third straight triumph in the men’s tournament. It wasn’t smooth sailing but the young Taeguk Warriors have won all seven matches in Hangzhou and the celebrations at the final whistle were heartfelt and very much deserved. As […]

For Korean male athletes, winning an Asian Games gold medal comes with an added bonus: an exemption from mandatory military service.It’s often a touchy and divisive issue in Korea, and prominent professional athletes receive the bulk of the spotlight, for one reason or another.For the Korean men’s Asiad football team, […]

Over the first five days of the medal race at the 19th Asian Games in China, Korea picked up 24 gold medals, winning five golds each on four of those five days. The country was not able to sustain that momentum, however, as it collected 18 more gold medals over […]

After surprise-releasing his 10th studio album last Friday — called Kamikaze (as in the Japanese suicide bombers of WWII) — the 45-year-old is once again generating plenty of criticism for his lyrics. In Greatest, Eminem equates himself to Paddock. Manic states, Stephen Paddock with automatic, stay sprayin’ / At anything […]

State Governor Jim Justice had threatened to intercede on behalf of the leagues and use a special session this week to reexamine sports betting legislation passed in early March, with a view to tagging the fee on. But when the special session convened this week, sports betting was not on […]

I warned in this column quite a long time ago that ‘the latest technology rather jeopardizes us’. At that time, it was a technology that completely blocked external sound for listening to music, such as noise canceling earphones/headphones. This time, ‘Drone’ is the main character. In the 21st century, what […]

It is shocking but not that surprising. On Saturday, Suwon Samsung Bluewings fell out of the K-League and dropped down to the second tier for the first time in its illustrious history. It is the biggest club to ever drop through the trapdoor — indeed few in Asia have suffered […]

Son Heung-min of Tottenham Hotspur has grabbed sole possession of third place in the Premier League scoring race, with a goal against defending champions Manchester City in a 3-3 draw.The Spurs skipper, though, also scored one into his own net in this wild away match.Son opened the scoring after only […]