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while a few other Winter leagues are just underway ( LIDOM and LAMP, mainly), the next big thing up is the WBSC Premier 12 starting next week in , and

Japan Series 2024 the Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars earlier Today won the 2024 Japan Series, clinching their 1st league title since 1998 (and only the third overall in their history) https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/11/453ebd4be870-urgent-dena-baystars-win-1st-japan-series-baseball-title-in-26-years.html Series Recap game #1: Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks b. Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars 5-3 https://npb.jp/bis/eng/2024/games/s2024102601994.html game #2: Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks b. Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars 6-3 https://npb.jp/bis/eng/2024/games/s2024102701995.html game #3: Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars b. Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 4-1 https://npb.jp/bis/eng/2024/games/s2024102901996.html game #4: Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars b. Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 5-0 https://npb.jp/bis/eng/2024/games/s2024103001997.html game #5: Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars b. Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 7-0 https://npb.jp/bis/eng/2024/games/s2024103101998.html game #6: Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars b. Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 11-2 https://npb.jp/bis/eng/2024/games/s2024110302000.html

those are only rumors based on a Turkish journalist's tweet I think Egonu will never go back to Turkey if she wants to leave Milan, she might end up in a blockbuster trade with Scandicci, exchanging her for Antropova, but no chance she leaves Italy once again

the LA Dodgers celebration... top of the year! https://abc7.com/live-updates/dodgers-parade-in-downtown-los-angeles-celebrates-world-series-win/15494063/entry/15497490/ @ 1:34:00...top of the Century! great Kikè!

they're just a bit late... all of the big fishes at the top of the food chain have high mercury levels since the previous Century...and not only those coming from the industrial activity (canned or not) but we're still here (I say "we" because I'm myself a big lover of tuna, swordfish, salmon and all the other big fishes people can find in a sea product market), despite those jinxes

my wintersport season starts mid August with the Hlinka-Gretzky Cup and goes through mid June with the Stanley Cup Finals but the core of course it's only the November through March period, when all the snow & ice sports are in action at 100%, otherwise it's only about hockey

Korean Series 2024 the KIA Tigers from Gwangju earlier Today won the 2024 Korean Series, clinching their 12th league title, the first since 2017 (and only the second overall won at home) https://www.wbsc.org/en/news/kia-tigers-beat-samsung-lions-in-five-games-to-win-2024-korean-series Series Recap game #1: KIA Tigers b. Samsung Lions 5-1 https://mykbostats.com/games/12254-Samsung-vs-Kia-20241023 game #2: KIA Tigers b. Samsung Lions 8-3 https://mykbostats.com/games/12263-Samsung-vs-Kia-20241023 game #3: Samsung Lions b. KIA Tigers 4-2 https://mykbostats.com/games/12257-Kia-vs-Samsung-20241025 game #4: KIA Tigers b. Samsung Lions 9-2 https://mykbostats.com/games/12264-Kia-vs-Samsung-20241026 game #5: KIA Tigers b. Samsung Lions 7-5 https://mykbostats.com/games/12259-Samsung-vs-Kia-20241028

unfortunately, NO iPlayer nowadays works only in the UK

they just wasted years and built up a lot of bad press, haters and controversy (even with the IOC) before doing what should have been done from the beginning now the construction work is on, the track in Cortina will be ready even before the more optimist would think: March 2025 the mandatory safety verification, Autumn 2025 an International Training Week and a test race (basically, the same timing of Beijing 2022 and their track) and according to Armin Zoeggeler, it will be a wonderful, demanding track, where a few training runs before the official opening for the International audience would have been very, very useful...and instead all this kind of advantage the Italian sliding sports teams could have had, are gone thanks to the usual Italian way of (recent) life, wasting time behind local useless, senseless protestors and political games that never go to advantage of anybody

Stage #4 ( Hong Kong) mixed 4*1.5km Relay Gold: Australia (Moesha Johnson, Jacqueline Davison-McGovern, Thomas Edward Raymond, Kyle Lee) Silver: Brasil (Viviane Jungblut, Ana Marcela Cunha, Luiz Felipe Loureiro, Leonardo Brandt De Macedo) Bronze: United States (Katie Grimes, Claire Weinstein, Dylan Gravley, Luke Ellis) Note: didn't take part into this race Full Results https://www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/3425/world-aquatics-open-water-swimming-world-cup-2024/results?event=f6e5d54e-4868-4025-b6b8-5eec4a1195b0

it's the other way round, my friend... Verani won Today's race ahead of Guidi

I'm a bit surprised that nobody reported the Mexican Baseball legend Fernando Valenzuela's death a few days ago https://www.mlb.com/news/fernando-valenzuela-dies Fernandomania still lives and will do it forever

as usual, there's no Italian commentary, only environmental sound (they say there's also an English speaking audio track, but it's mute, there's the ambient sound also there)

will they be brave enough to impose the original Gabba renewal plan or will they have to come down to some kind of compromise and go for a plan B?

meanwhile, in the KIA Tigers are leading 3-1 the Korean Series against the Samsung Lions and therefore they're just 1 win away from the championship rings now they have 3 consecutive chances to clinch the title, always at home, starting from Monday @ 6.30 p.m. local time (10.30 a.m. CET)

CTBC Brothers are the 2024 Taiwan Series champions! in the final series they beat the Uni-Lions by a score of 4 games to 1 it's the 10th title in their history (the first came in 1992, the last before Yesterday in 2022) Series Recap game #1: CTBC Brothers b. Uni-Lions 10-4 http://cpblstats.com/brothers-win-taiwan-series-g1-capitalise-uni-lions-bullpen/ game #2: Uni-Lions b. CTBC Brothers 10-3 http://cpblstats.com/uni-lions-bounce-back-with-big-inning-win-taiwan-series-g2/ game #3: CTBC Brothers b. Uni-Lions 10-0 http://cpblstats.com/brothers-take-taiwan-series-g3-blowout-win/ game #4: CTBC Brothers b. Uni-Lions 6-4 http://cpblstats.com/chen-tzu-hao-homer-lifts-brothers-taiwan-series-g4-win/ game #5: CTBC Brothers b. Uni-Lions 4-1 http://cpblstats.com/ctbc-brothers-win-2024-taiwan-series-championship/

yes, and it happened in game #696 however, as the Italian philosopher Giovan Battista Vico stated already 300 years ago, history repeats...therefore I knew it was coming... a) the Dodgers down by 1 at home in a WS game + b) a limping lefthanded going to bat = deja-vu Vin Scully's soul just pushed that ball out in that part of the standings and the comeback win was served

Julio Velasco has been confirmed as the head coach of the women's Italian National Team until the 2028 Olympic Games meanwhile, Karch Kiraly has switched position and now he's the new head coach of the US men's National Team (always looking forward to the 2028 Olympics in LA)

not sure they will be able to keep their stream unlocked for those games DAZN is very good at whining against their events being broadcasted for free elsewhere in any case, I'm well covered with my Japanese IPTV (which I'm using for the NPB playoffs) p.s. earlier Today, I made a nice discover...with a free dazn account and my vpn (express vpn), I can have access to all the free content of the international versions of dazn, too (excluded those in the European Union, because of some stupid rules which lead to see always your local version in all the EU States ) so, I can watch all the free content from the Canadian and/or Japanese dazn, for instance

from Today through Sunday, Inzell is hosting the German Single Distance National Championships and a few International Invitation Races (some of those are also the Italian trials for the first World Cup races of the season) among the points of interest, Arianna Fontana taking part in her second official competition in Speedskating after last month's debut in SLC in this weekend, she will skate 1500m, 3000m and the Mass Start race schedule and results can be found here: https://live.speedskatingnews.info/events/1040

right now, KBO Korean Series game #3 (KIA Tigers @ Samsung Lions, KIA are leading the series 2-0) is live here: https://www.sooplive.com/soopbaseball1 note: the game will also be available on demand later on the same website

just checked...and here in Italy it's regularly listed for Saturday (7.27 p.m. CET) and Sunday (6.27 p.m. CET) on the Discovery Plus site/app

yes, there will be a few... https://www.wbsc.org/en/news/wbsc-premier12-roster-announcement-tracker and moreover, some news about the coverage of the tournament (and not only this tournament) https://www.wbsc.org/en/news/dazn-and-wbsc-announce-global-distribution-partnership

meanwhile the 2 next best Baseball Leagues in the World have also reached the Final Series in , the 2024 Japan Series will feature the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks (back to business after the awful 2023 season), winner of the Pacific League, and the surprising Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars, winners of the Central League after an amazing series against the heavily favoured Tokyo Giants the Japan Series (best-of-7 games, 2-3-2 format) will start next Saturday, October 26th in Yokohama @ 6.30 p.m. local time in South Korea, instead, the 2024 Korean Series will see the KIA Tigers from Gwangju facing the Samsung Lions from Daegu the series is a best-of-7 matchup, but with an unusual 2-2-3 format, with the best seeded teams (KIA in this case) hosting not only 4, but 5 of the potential 7 games game #1 was scheduled for earlier, Today, but it was suspended in the top of the 6th inning (Samsung leading 1-0, runners on 1st & 2nd, 0 out) due to heavy rain it should resume Tomorrow @ 4 p.m. local time (before game #2 @ 6.30 p.m. local time), but the weather forecast is awful also for Tomorrow and there's a good chance that there won't be any ball played all day long