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Byline: Dan LeBatard
TOKYO _ It is an overload of stimuli at the heart of this city, the cramped downtown being what you would get if Times Square merged with Las Vegas and nursed their subsequent baby at BALCO.
But it respectfully gave Michael Jordan his distance as he toured the open streets here. It greeted him with polite applause when he visited a small corner of a giant sporting goods store. And it gave plenty of polite room when he cut a red-white-and-blue ribbon with gold scissors at a tiny, calm basketball-court dedication nothing like the riotous one that had to be canceled in Beijing. He was never swarmed the way he was elsewhere, like in ...