The Billiken's Bluff

Yankees Spend $26 Million for Rights to Negotiate with Kei Igawa.



Red Sox agree to contract with Japanese relief pitcher Hideki Okajima.





"Merely Talking to Japan’s Best Is Big Business" Red Sox pay $51.1 million for rights to Negotiate with Daisuke Matsuzaka.






Japan ready for cut in Indian Ocean tuna catch In another move that could drive up sushi prices in Japan, scientists at the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission have proposed bringing down the catch of bigeye tuna, according to Japan's agriculture ministry.




A 42-nation meeting in Croatia agreed on Sunday to cut the catch of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea.




Environmentalists had warned that the lucrative Japanese market and a global fad for Japanese food were driving the fish toward extinction. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas reduced the gross catch of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean from 32 000 tons this year to 29 500 tons for 2007, and 25 500 tons in 2010.