This year`s World Baseball Classic belongs to Japan. Ichiro Suzuki and his less-famous countrymen beat Cuba in the championship game Monday night, 10-6, ripping a page out of Cuba`s scorebook by winning a major international tournament. The Classic`s slogan is "Baseball Spoken Here."" This week Baseball was speaking Japanese and the word was yakyu, which in Japanese means "field ball".

America had two runners on base with nobody out in the fifth inning, but Chipper Jones eventually grounded into an inning-ending double play. Korean pitcher Min Han Son threw the first three innings to get the win for South Korea, and five relievers after him effectively shut down the Americans, who failed to come up with a much needed clutch hit time and again.

The classic American pin-up is one of the staples of American life. It has decorated cups, calendars, playing cards, centrefolds, and even the noses of WWII airplanes.

What does one do when he or she retires from such a demanding job, like that of a dot-com CEO position? Jeff Neugebauer found art. That is, he has begun creating it, and is proving to be quite a rising star. His love is classical fine art, and he has found his talent in creating these works of art.

What wasn`t to like about the inaugural Boeing Greater Seattle Classic? God`s Country was on full display over the weekend, providing the sort of jaw-dropping beauty that had 23,000 fans counting their blessings while 78 pro golfers were counting their strokes.

23 year old golfer, for years under pressure to win from his father, celebrated Sunday with his wife and in-laws as he won the John Deere Classic and earned himself a spot at the British Open. Not bad for what was just his eighteenth career start.