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Here's Dennis Rodman Singing "Happy Birthday" To Kim Jong-un
Despite yesterday's mini-mutiny, the game between the Rodman-led former NBA players and a team of North Korean all-stars went off without a hitch today. The NBAers lost the game, because they'd like to return home, but before tip-off Rodman led the crowd in a serenade of Supreme Leader for his birth...
Dennis Rodman's North Korea Trip May Be Falling Apart
Dennis Rodman has been gung-ho about his latest trip to North Korea, a matchup between former NBA players and DPRK all-stars as a "birthday present" for Kim Jong-un. He might be the only one. The Associated Press reports that a number of the players on the trip are expressing second thoughts about g...
Seven Former NBA Players Join Dennis Rodman In North Korea
Dennis Rodman has recruited some allies on his latest basketball diplomacy trip to North Korea. Rodman's team will be playing a team of North Korean all-stars on Wednesday, "a birthday present" for BFF Kim Jong-un. ...
North Korean Prison Camp Survivor Writes Open Letter To Dennis Rodman
Dennis Rodman is back visiting his buddy Kim Jong-un on yet another PR trip—PR for Rodman, for the Irish betting company that's sponsoring his trip, and for North Korea itself. It comes days after a massive and deadly purge of perceived challenges to Kim's power, and as an American citizen has langu...
This Wire Story Gives Not A Single Shit About North Koreans
The Associated Press just published a story about Dennis Rodman's latest endorsement venture and his untethered blather about what good buds he is with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Read the whole thing here, if you have two minutes for an extra-large helping of starry-eyed banality. Here are ...
Korean Baseball Player Wastes Yet Another Awesome Bat Flip On Foul Ball
We've seen Choi Jeon-suk do this before, and now we're starting to wonder if this is just his thing. Maybe he just believes that a crushed baseball, no matter how far foul it flies, is worthy of an amazing bat flip. If that's the case, more power to him....
Look At These Bleak Photos Of North Korea's First Ski Resort
The Masik Pass ski resort is North Korea's latest white elephant. The project took 10 months of labor and will officially open this Thursday for the public, even though most of the citizens can't afford to visit it....
The Main Ingredient: Korean BBQ At Home
Sunday gives food. The goddess Alexandra inspired me to give this a try. ...
Korean Baseball Player Wastes Awesome Bat Flip On Foul Ball
Choi Jun-seok really thought he hit a no-doubt home run on this swing. Nope! Choi had to shamefully trudge back and pick up the bat he so eloquently tossed aside. Nothing sadder than a wasted bat flip....
The Latest Korean First Pitch Involved A Bow And Arrow
South Korean Olympic archer Ki Bo-Bae entered the Hall of Bizarre Korean First Pitches when she "threw" her pitch using a bow and arrow. She was relatively accurate for someone shooting a baseball-tipped arrow....
A Visual History Of Bizarre Korean First Pitches
Rhythmic gymnast Shin Soo-ji broke the internet last month with this pelvis-bending ceremonial first pitch before a KBO game last month. It's far from the strangest South Korea has to offer....
Rhythmic Gymnast Throws Out Mind-Bending First Pitch
The bar for an amazing ceremonial first pitch has been raised. Before a game between the Doosan Bears and Samsung Lions in Seoul, South Korea, rhythmic gymnast Shin Soo-ji rotated her whole body on one leg and threw an amazing pitch. It wasn't a strike, but how severely are we going to judge this?...
Photos: The North Korean Hockey Team
You can click over here to read an account of a week spent with the North Korean national ice hockey team at the IIHF Division III Championships. These photos were just some of the many taken during the weeklong tournament in Cape Town, South Africa, and present a snapshot of the rare North Koreans ...
My Week With The North Korean Hockey Team
CAPE TOWN, South Africa—This is what a North Korean postgame press conference sounds like:...
Batter Celebrates Game-Tying Home Run Too Early, Flies Out
Don't celebrate your home runs before they come down....
Raw Video Of A Marathon In North Korea Is Eerily Disquieting, Perfectly North Korean
Even though North Korea is going to blow the world up any day now, the country still hosted an international marathon as part of a national holiday celebrating the birth of its founder, Kim Il-sung....
Some Of The Greatest Games in NBA History, Re-Scored Under North Korean Rules
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post misstated one of North Korea's unique scoring rules. Scores within the last three seconds, not minutes, count for eight points. The corrected version is below....