July 4, 2020
All Blacks flyhalf Bauden Barrett will play for the Suntory Sungoliath in Japan’s rugby Top League from next season, which will start in January 2021, the team said Friday. Barrett, a two-time rec...
A gymnast demonstrates somersaults, twists and over movements on a 12-meter by 12-meter floor; the floor exercises of artistic gymnastics. Gymnasts are able to do these challenging techniques thanks ...
Yutaka Nakamura, a former trainer for Russia’s Maria Sharapova and Japan’s Kei Nishikori, has become a personal trainer for Naomi Osaka, Osaka’s management agency told The Yomiuri Shimbun on Th...
There’s only one judo division for which a candidate needs to be selected to represent Japan in the upcoming Olympics — the men’s 66-kilogram weight-class. The All Japan Judo Federation plans to...
Rikako Ikee, a 20-year-old swimmer battling leukemia, practiced at a Tokyo pool on Thursday, an event that was streamed online to the press corps.
In an interview with a pool reporter, Ikee revealed ...
Athletes aiming to compete at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games have been greatly affected by the coronavirus pandemic, which caused the Summer Games to be postponed to 2021.
Ryo Miyake, a 29-y...
When the Brave Blossoms, Japan’s national rugby team, paraded through the Marunouchi district of Tokyo last December, one player couldn’t stop crying. Fumiaki Tanaka was emotional as he watched fa...
Tachiai, or the jump-off at the beginning of a sumo match, is an important moment for wrestlers because it is one of the determining factors in who wins or loses. There have been many dramatic moments...
Japanese professional baseball players’ average salary exceeded ¥40 million (about $371,000) for the first time, according to the Nippon Professional Baseball Players Association’s survey release...
They had their clubs, their visors, their gloves and all the other typical items needed by a pro golfer. But in these uncertain times of a global pandemic, the players at the much-delayed opening tou...
With the one-year postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, it means there will be only about a half year until the start of the Beijing Winter Paralympics in March 2022. For most athletes, that pr...
The J.League resumed action on Saturday, its first games since play was suspended in late February because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The second division (J2) held nine matches in its second ...
Veteran female athletes who’ve participated in the Olympics and won medals after giving birth have had various thoughts about career-family-life balance.
They looked back on careers during which th...
Delayed but not deterred, Nippon Professional Baseball is up and running in what passes for normal in a world caught in the grips of a pandemic. The new coronavirus pushed NPB’s Opening Day back fr...
The J.League, which has suspended its games since the end of February because of the coronavirus, will resume on Saturday. The J2 and J3 leagues will hold their games in an empty stadium ahead of the...
Junna Tsukii, who aims to represent the Philippines in the women’s karate at the Tokyo Olympics, has been training in Japan after being unable to return home due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Th...
LONDON (Reuters) - Thirty years of hurt came to an end for Liverpool when they were confirmed as Premier League champions on Thursday courtesy of second-placed Manchester City’s 2-1 defeat by Chels...
A record number of women are expected to be among athletes participating at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, which have been pushed back one year because a number of circumstances.
More and more f...
The Japan LPGA tour opened its season Thursday with the Earth Mondahmin Cup in Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture, one month after a total lifting of the government’s state of emergency declaration. Roo...
As part of cost-cutting measures for the Tokyo Games, the International Olympic Committee has proposed shorter stays at the Olympic Village and the use of public transportation, it has been learned.
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The Japan Football Association decided to withdraw its bid to host the 2023 Women’s World Cup on Monday.
The unprecedented last-minute withdrawal comes just days before the world soccer governing ...
The Japan Sumo Association said Monday that a specialized agency is expected to soon report the results of antibody tests conducted on all members of the association, including wrestlers and stablema...
The Japanese national rhythmic gymnastics squad, nicknamed “Fairy Japan,” resumed its work at a training camp in June.
The athletes met for the first time in about two months after being told to...
Shota Iizuka was filled with a sense of nostalgia as he stepped onto the track for the first time in what seemed like ages.
Following his workout, the sprint star slipped off his running shoes and wa...
The Yomiuri Giants opened the delayed season by rallying to a 3-2 victory over the Hanshin Tigers on Friday night at Tokyo Dome, making the defending Central League champion the first team in Japan p...
The long-delayed Japan pro baseball season got underway on Friday night, with the Yomiuri Giants facing the Hanshin Tigers at Tokyo Dome among the six games being played, all without spectators.
Th...
On June 23, the anniversary of when the International Olympic Committee was established, an Olympic Day Workout event will be conducted via social media for the first time, the Yomiuri Shimbun has le...
With the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics to 2021, Thursday marked the 400 days-to-go milestone on the revised countdown clock. Athletes around the world whose careers were vastly disrupted by the ...
Opening Day of the Nippon Professional Baseball season draws near after having been pushed back amid the impact of the new coronavirus pandemic.
While the games are expected to go on in the quiet of ...
Among various playing styles in table tennis, there is a so-called aggressive type in which players position themselves close to the table and pick off the ball right after the bounce to create a fast...
There may be some who disagree when I write that a sumo bout starts when the two wrestlers feel they are ready to begin the contest. “Isn’t it when the referee gives the signal?” they may say. ...
Japanese golf star Hinako Shibuno has hit reboot on her desire to take part in the Tokyo Olympics and the U.S. tour, she said in a joint online interview on Monday before the June 25 start of the dome...
Yudai Baba has been working on his craft, joining with a G League team in autumn of last year and playing into this spring as he continues to forge his way into the NBA.
The G League, which operates ...
Regarded as a potential next generation ace of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows’ mound staff, left-hander Keiji Takahashi has had his ups and downs heading into his fifth pro season since being drafted ...
Nippon Professional Baseball’s two leagues on Monday announced their postseason schedules, saying the Central League (CL) has decided to eliminate its Climax Series (CS), while the Pacific League (P...
Professional sports in Japan are close to starting up again after being held up due to the spread of infections with the novel coronavirus.
The regular season for professional baseball in Japan will...
The Tokyo Organizing Committee of Olympic and Paralympic Games has a basic agreement with about 80% of the Games venues that they could be available next year as well, committee president Yoshiro Mori...
For Kenki Fukuoka, his career could not wait for the Olympics — the career, that is, he will pursue in the medical field, not as one of Japan’s top rugby players.
Fukuoka, who helped Japan mak...
TODA, Saitama — The Toda Boat Course, a training base for oarsmen and oarswomen aiming to participate in next year’s Tokyo Olympics, has become choked with a large amount of waterweed, and the at...
Elements of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games have been reviewed to find expenses to cut as Games costs are expected to balloon. Hundreds of billions of yen in additional expenditures are associa...
It is now commonplace for artificial intelligence to defeat a professional Go or shogi player, so why not take AI to soccer?
J.League team Sagan Tosu has been developing an analysis system that assi...
The International Olympic Committee has approved principles for simplifying the upcoming Tokyo Games, presented Wednesday to an online executive board meeting of the IOC by the Tokyo Organizing Commit...
Japan’s professional baseball teams are taking various steps to prevent infections with the new coronavirus at the practice games that have been held since June 2, based on guidelines that the Nippo...
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES — Tennis players’ incomes stand out among top-earning female athletes. In the 2020 highest-paid athletes list released online by U.S. business magazine Forbes, 22-year-old ten...
AWA, Tokushima — A third-year girl from a high school in Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, will throw the ceremonial first pitch at the prefecture’s high school baseball tournament that begins July 11. ...
Athletic organizations in Japan are racking their brains over creating guidelines to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus while ensuring that their athletes can start preparation in full swing fo...
Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and its 12 professional baseball teams held a teleconference Monday and agreed to conduct PCR tests on their manager, coaches and players to check for infection of t...
LOS ANGELES — Yoshihisa Hirano, 36, who plays Major League Baseball for the Seattle Mariners, recently granted a telephone interview to The Yomiuri Shimbun.
This season, his third year in the majo...
The J.League has fined 2nd-tier soccer team Kyoto Sanga F.C. ¥1 million because one of its fans waved a flag featuring a Nazi emblem during a preseason fixture. A supporter in the stands behind Kyot...
Few epitomize the concept of scholar-athlete like American swimming star Katie Ledecky. The Stanford University psychology major with a collection of five Olympic and 15 world gold medals is doing he...
With the Olympic-sized pool at Stanford University closed, Katie Ledecky still found a way to get in her swimming workouts. When the gyms in the area shut down, the American star wedged some weight ...
It has now been six months since it came to light that the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) was asserting different criteria from the Japan Mountaineering and Sports Climbing Associat...
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Takuma Sato missed the delayed season-opening IndyCar race after his team wasn’t able to get the car repaired in time for the green flag Saturday night after a crash in q...
Two members of the Yomiuri Giants professional baseball team who were found to be infected with the novel coronavirus tested negative upon additional testing at a hospital, sources said Thursday. In...
Kawasaki Frontale have come up with a project, dubbed Online Fronpark, that aims to recreate on the internet the thriving atmosphere usually found in their stadium.
The project was developed while ...
Two members of the Yomiuri Giants professional baseball team have been infected with the novel coronavirus, the team announced Wednesday. Infielder Hayato Sakamoto, 31, and catcher Takumi Oshiro, 2...
The national high school competition in the kata category of karate will be held online, with videos of kata performances sent by third-year students. The national high school championships, which ...
How do sumo bouts get going? What do the wrestlers do to indicate it’s time to begin the match?
In the sport of wrestling, competition commences at the sound of a whistle.
In the case of judo, ano...
As one whose workouts include swimming with parachutes attached to her body to increase the load, Mayumi Narita is no stranger to rigorous training. But unable to train in the pool for extended period...
National team female handball player Shiori Nagata was supposed to retire this summer. But when the Tokyo Olympics were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the capstone of her handball career w...
Makoto Hasebe, a Japanese midfielder for Eintracht Frankfurt, revealed that he will try to obtain his coaching license in Germany while playing for his club in the Bundesliga, the Yomiuri Shimbun lear...
Two of Japan’s entries in the mountain biking competition at the postponed Tokyo Olympics have been decided, with Kohei Yamamoto filling a berth for the men and Miho Imai securing a spot in the wom...
A Mongolian track and field team training for the Tokyo Paralympics has been stranded in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, for more than three months now with no prospect of being able to return home becaus...
Japan’s pro baseball leagues will open the much-delayed season on June 19, with no spectators allowed in the stands for the time being, it was announced on Monday.
Nippon Pro Baseball Commission...
Kento Hashimoto had good reason to look forward to this year’s J.League season that has been on hold since March.
Last year, the 26-year-old midfielder played in all 34 league matches for FC Tok...
A new model of spikeless track shoe produced by major sporting goods manufacturer Asics Corp., which has recently won an international grand prize for the technology used in its production, is slated ...
The Tokyo Olympics were supposed to be a turning point in Chiharu Nakamura’s life.
But the captain of the Japanese women’s rugby sevens team put those plans on hold with the postponement of th...
In the soccer-loving area of Saitama City, which is suffering amid the spread of the new coronavirus, leaders from local watering holes and places where fans of the J.League’s Urawa Reds tend to con...
The spread of the new coronavirus forced the cancellation of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament that was scheduled for May.
As for the Nagoya tournament that is set to start on July 19, the Japan Sumo ...
Kosei Inoue, men’s judo coach for the Japanese national team, took time out for an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun to discuss the one-year postponement of the Tokyo Olympics.
The 42-year-old co...
Members of FC Tokyo spoke with a child at a hospital via videoconferencing and shared what they were doing while staying at home amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Online communication was utilized bec...
Prominent Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee has released the first images of herself without a wig as she undergoes treatment for leukemia, hoping the action will provide “hope to as many people as possi...
Lock Hitoshi Ono, 42, will retire as the most-capped Japanese rugby player with 98 caps, his team Toshiba Brave Lupus announced Monday. The team will hold an online press conference on Friday.
On...
Freestyle wrestler Sosuke Takatani has been working hard on his training as well as doing research — even going so far as to write his master’s thesis on the training required for the upper weig...
Moguls skier and Olympic medalist Daichi Hara made his professional debut in keirin racing at Hiroshima Velodrome on Friday, but he is looking toward his signature freestyle skiing event at 2022 Beiji...
DORTMUND (AP) — German soccer is normally a riot of color and noise. No longer.
The Bundesliga season resumed Saturday with what German fans call “ghost games,” played without spectators, and...
Keisuke Honda, 33, member of Brazilian soccer club Botafogo and business owner, is fulfilling his duties as company president via teleworking.
Now Do Inc., for which Honda serves as president, began...
The Japan Sumo Association will conduct antibody tests, which can show whether a person has ever been infected with the new coronavirus, on all of its about 1,000 members, including sumo wrestlers, re...
Yokozuna Hakuho will donate 25,000 masks to medical professionals in Japan and in his home country of Mongolia, the Japan Sumo Association announced on Monday. Hakuho used the prize money he won in t...
From baffled veterans to motivated newcomers, hopefuls for Japan’s rugby sevens national teams are looking ahead to next year’s Tokyo Olympics with mixed feelings.
Now that the sporting extravag...
The 12 teams of Nippon Professional Baseball have agreed to cancel this year’s All-Star games and to aim to kick off the season at some point from mid-June through the end of that month.
The agree...
NEW YORK (AP) — The World Baseball Classic will be postponed from 2021 to 2023 because of the new coronavirus, a person familiar with the planning tells The Associated Press. The person spoke on ...
In Taiwan, where the pace of the spread of the new coronavirus has been curbed, matches in its top soccer league have continued since April 12, although without spectators in the stadiums.
Organiz...
While the spread of the new coronavirus is forcing people to stay put and thus exercise less, apps and videos helping them move their bodies at home have recently gained popularity. People are snappin...
Move over gold, the “platinum generation” is rising and ready to shake up the Japanese women’s golf scene.
A clutch of talented rookies born between April 2000 and March 2001 is poised to mak...
There is another story about the relationship between the three stage components — the roof, the four pillars and the dohyo ring — that are crucial to sumo matches: In what order did they appear?
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New events at the Tokyo Olympics, such as sports climbing, skateboarding and karate, have been hit hard by the outbreak of the new coronavirus, stalling their momentum in gaining new fans in the run-u...
The Japan Sumo Association announced Monday that its summer tournament, scheduled to begin May 24 at the Ryogoku Kokugikan sumo hall in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, has been canceled.
The association hopes to...
Mima Ito is steadily improving her chances of winning a gold medal in table tennis at the Tokyo Games, evidenced by her climb up the world rankings.
Ito was No. 2 in singles in the International Tabl...
Ryo Miyake, 29, a men’s fencing team silver medalist at the 2012 London Olympics, has started a part-time job as a delivery person for Uber Eats. He made the decision to fund his own activities whil...
Carter Stewart Jr. was famous for the spin rate on his pitches as an amateur. He became well-known in 2019 for the way he made heads spin with his decision to start his professional career in Japan.
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Japanese tennis player Yoshihito Nishioka must have felt unlucky when the tour was suspended right after he moved up in world rankings to a personal best of 48th.
He had maintained good form this se...
The organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games is considering simplifying the opening and closing ceremonies of the events, which have been postponed until next summer, sources cl...
Soccer midfielder Ritsu Doan, who plays for PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch league Eredivisie and will represent Japan in the under-23 team at the Tokyo Olympics, recently gave a telephone interview to The...
The Japan Rugby Football Union has implemented measures to combat an expected decline in revenue due to the coronavirus crisis.
The union’s record budget for fiscal 2020 following the success of th...
The All Japan High School Athletic Federation held an extraordinary board meeting online Sunday and decided to cancel the National High School Championships in summer due to the spread of new coronav...
The 12 Nippon Professional Baseball clubs have agreed to consider holding official games that were postponed to June or later — with a focus on playing behind closed doors — at an online meeting o...
Yomiuri Giants are putting a charge into efforts to distribute video via their official YouTube channel.
Unique videos, such as players in front of the bench spurring on teammates and full coverage o...
“The Olympics are not something anyone can participate in; they really can only be reached by select athletes,” said Tatsuya Shinhama, a 23-year-old speed skater.
With the postponement of the T...
Akiyo Noguchi, a four-time overall winner of the IFSC Climbing World Cup, has been active for more than a decade as Japan’s leading sport climber. The Tokyo Olympics was to be the finale of the 30-y...
The Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have been postponed, all forms of competition were called off one after the other, and sports facilities have shut their doors. There seems no limit to how much the...
Amid the spread of the new coronavirus and the declaration of a state of emergency, athletes are increasingly avoiding training in groups, yet they still need to keep themselves in shape mentally and ...
Female athletes have been doing their part to add to Japan’s Olympic medal tally. Now, the Japan Olympic Committee has moved to get more involved in running those sports.
The JOC recently created...
Japan’s pro baseball teams on Friday agreed to cancel interleague play this season, while also determining that a proposed start to the season in mid-May is no longer feasible. The 12 Nippon Prof...
The Japanese Olympic Committee invited sports organizations to participate in a web conference Thursday, and it appears to have been extremely successful. At the meeting, the head of each athletic gro...
World bantamweight boxing champion Naoya Inoue fielded media inquiries in writing ahead of his 27th birthday on April 10, sharing his thoughts on the coronavirus crisis, and revealing how he has been ...
For the first time since the announcement that the Tokyo Olympics were being postponed a year, swimming star Daiya Seto took to social media to bluntly describe the void he feels over the decision.
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The ongoing outbreak of the new coronavirus continues to seriously impact the fiscal condition of sports associations in Japan.
“We can’t suspend our consecutive measures to enhance athletes’ ...
Defending Olympic judo champion Shohei Ono, who has been named to the Japan national team for the Tokyo Olympics, gave an interview to The Yomiuri Shimbun. Ono, 28, of Asahi Kasei Corp., who won a Rio...
Hall of Famer Junzo Sekine, a two-way player and manager who went on to become a popular baseball analyst, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 93.
Sekine served stints as manager of the Yokoham...
The cities, towns and villages that will host foreign athletes for training camps before the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, known as “host towns,” are busily preparing efforts to continue exchang...
The Ajinomoto National Training Center (NTC) in Kita Ward, Tokyo, and the adjoining Japan Institute of Sports Sciences Center (JISS) shut down on Wednesday and will be closed through May 6 due to the ...
A regular on the ski jumping circuit for some three decades, Noriaki Kasai still has a desire to compete as he nears 50, even hoping to add to the three Olympic medals that he owns — one won at the ...
The Tokyo Olympics, which were postponed amid the new coronavirus pandemic, will begin July 23 next year. While officials considered other dates, including a spring Games, the global sports schedule ...
A special feature on NBA player Rui Hachimura, a Washington Wizards forward, appeared in Friday’s digital edition of the New York Times. The headline read, “For this N.B.A. Rookie, Reality TV Is a...
Among the many people who have entered the Ryogoku Kokugikan sumo arena, some may have wondered, “Why is there a roof above the dohyo ring even though it is located indoors?”
The roof above the...
The Masters goes from that annual rite of spring to two weeks before Thanksgiving. The U.S. Open now is scheduled in September for the first time since amateur Francis Ouimet took down Britain’s be...
TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese professional baseball and soccer seasons will be further delayed as the country grapples with the outbreak of the coronavirus. Japanese professional baseball had aimed t...
IWAKI, Fukushima — Before the sports world was turned upside down by the global pandemic, Fukushima Prefecture-based Iwaki FC was looking forward to making an impact in its first season in the fou...
LONDON (Reuters) — The Wimbledon championships were canceled for the first time since World War II on Wednesday as the coronavirus pandemic struck another blue-riband sports event off the calendar ...
Competitive sports events around the world continue to be on hold. Worst of all, there is no indication of when and how matches will resume. As self-restraint is practiced and restrictions are impleme...
The way athletes handle the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games can impact the direction of their careers.
Carlos Yulo, who made the jump to Japan from the Philippines and reached ...
Hideki Asanoyama, 26, the sumo wrestler newly promoted to the second-highest ozeki rank, participated on Monday in his first practice since his promotion at the Takasago Stable in Sumida Ward, Tokyo....
On Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee and Japanese officials reached the unprecedented decision to postpone 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. John Coates, a key IOC member who chairs the Tokyo 2020 ...
Three Hanshin Tigers players have tested positive for the new coronavirus, the baseball team said Friday, becoming the first cases in Japanese pro baseball. The team’s pitcher Shintaro Fujinami, 2...
Much of the sports world is in a timeout of a lifetime amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Japan pro baseball, though, is one of the few major sports leagues worldwide that is trying to push ahead with...
The J.League plans to resume its suspended regular season for the first division on May 9, one month later than most recently planned, it was decided on Wednesday. The league will also institute a pol...
Sekiwake Asanoyama has been promoted to ozeki for the next tournament, making him the first wrestler from Toyama Prefecture to reach sumo’s second-highest rank in more than a century, the Japan Sumo...
The number of sekitori, a collective term for wrestlers in the makuuchi and juryo divisions, was revised upward to 70 in January 2004. The number of wrestlers in the upper-most makuuchi division, incl...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo organisers may have been presented with a new date for the 2020 Olympic Games should they be postponed when World Athletics agreed on Monday to chan...
NYON, Switzerland (AP) — UEFA formally postponed the Champions League final on Monday — an inevitable move with European soccer in total shutdown and four Round of 16 games yet to be completed.
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The players of the Chiba Lotte Marines baseball team have found a new way of interacting directly with their fans using Instagram, and it’s creating a buzz.
Players answer questions from fans on ...
Twelve Japanese professional baseball teams will aim at starting this year’s regular season on April 24, the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) organization said Monday. “The Central and Pacifi...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The IOC will take up to four weeks to consider postponing the Tokyo Olympics amid mounting criticism of its handling of the coronavirus crisis that now includes a call ...
Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali has been advised to keep his weight down so he can ride full steam ahead when racing resumes, but the former Tour de France champion knows it will be hard to follow his coach...
Jameis Winston, Cam Newton and Jadeveon Clowney didn’t have to wait long to find homes in the NFL when they came out of college. They were No. 1 overall draft picks.
Now they are finding things mov...
LONDON (Reuters) — Manchester United and Manchester City are the latest Premier League clubs to spring into action to help their communities during the coronavirus pandemic, joining forces to donat...
TOKYO (AP) — The Olympic flame has arrived in Japan from Greece. Next comes the torch relay around the country, which is scheduled to start Thursday in northern Japan. Organizers have asked crowds...
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver finds himself almost constantly looking at financial numbers and projections. And like the rest of a world that is dealing with the seismic effects of the coronavirus pan...
DENVER (AP) — U.S. Olympic leaders are facing a growing rebellion inside their ranks about holding the Tokyo Games. A board member of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee countered leadershi...
For yokozuna Hakuho, finding motivation for matches in an empty arena was the biggest challenge. When it comes to the wrestling itself, he showed he is still more than a formidable force.
Hakuho ca...
Students of Tokyo Metropolitan Kogei High School have made the clubs used for the Paralympic club throw events. The part-time students, majoring in interior design, had to perfect the shape of the gr...
To help children who are unable to attend Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic events due to illness or disability, efforts are under way to enable them to physically experience the fervor of the competition ...
DENVER — The head of USA Swimming urged the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to push for a 12-month postponement of the Tokyo Games, signaling the first fissure between powerful American facti...
Comments by Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, that “different scenarios” were being considered as to whether to hold or postpone the Tokyo Games have caused a stir in ...
Elbow room atop the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament is hard to find after yokozuna Hakuho and Kakuryu pulled even with No. 13 maegashira Aoiyama on Friday for a three-way lead in Osaka.
Aoiyama’s st...
No. 13 maegashira Aoiyama is putting together a strong push for his first championship in the makuuchi division, and he stands alone at the top after Thursday’s action at the Spring Grand Sumo Tourn...
In a bid to keep children physically active at a time when many sporting activities have been curtailed due to the new coronavirus outbreak, athletes from across the sports spectrum are uploading onl...
Yokozuna Hakuho rebounded from his first loss at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in the best way he knows how. With a dominant win.
Hakuho quickly blasted komusubi Hokutofuji out of the ring — a...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Some changes will be made to the Olympic torch relay in Fukushima, Tochigi and Gunma prefectures, set for March 26 through April 1, if roadsides are excessively crowded by spec...
MONTREAL (AFP-Jiji) — International Olympic Committee member Hayley Wickenheiser said Tuesday that vows to press ahead with plans for the Tokyo Games are “insensitive and irresponsible.” Wicke...
ATHENS (Reuters) — The International Olympic Committee is putting the health of elite athletes at risk by telling them to continue training for the Tokyo 2020 Games as the coronavirus rages, reigni...
Paralympic triathlon consists of three segments: a 750-meter swim, a 20-kilometer cycling portion and a 5-kilometer run for a sum of 25,750 meters.
Each athlete has support from a sports partner call...
The Spring Grand Sumo Tournament has entered the second week of action with no spectators in attendance because of the new coronavirus.
The Japan Sumo Association had indicated it planned to shut dow...
Three Japanese men have secured berths in the marathon at the Tokyo Olympics.
The list includes Shogo Nakamura, who won last autumn’s Marathon Grand Championship (MGC); Yuma Hattori, who was second...
BERLIN (Reuters) — Berlin is trying to stop Washington from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the United States, prompting German politicians to insis...
TOKYO (Reuters) — The International Olympic Committee will hold talks with heads of international sports organizations on Tuesday in response to the coronavirus outbreak, a source close to an intern...
Calls for the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, coming from such people as U.S. President Donald Trump and a member of the Games’ o...
Yokozuna Hakuho notched his eighth straight victory at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka on Sunday with a win over No. 4 maegashira Abi.
Sunday’s victory also represented an eighth kachik...
No. 15 maegashira Chiyomaru will not compete Sunday at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka due to a high fever.
Chiyomaru had a fever of 38.6 C on Saturday evening after the seventh day of th...
Yokozuna Hakuho prevailed in a battle of unbeatens on Saturday to take the sole lead through seven days of action at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka.
Hakuho kept his cool against a spirit...
What Kaori Araki holds in her hands is a commemorative medal from the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England. Araki served as a sports psychologist for the Japanese national team from 2012-15 and one of the...
Yokozuna Hakuho kept his slate clean, forcing out No. 3 maegashira Yutakayama (2-4) quickly after the jump-off on Day 6 of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament on Friday in Osaka.
No. 3 maegashira Mitake...
WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games may be delayed for one year due to the ongoing global spread of the new coronavirus. “...
OLYMPIA, Greece (Jiji Press) — International Olympic Committee senior official John Coates said Thursday that there will be no delay or postponement of the Tokyo Olympics. Asked if he can confirm...
Yokozuna Hakuho, Sekiwake Asanoyama, No. 3 maegashira Mitakeumi and No. 13 maegashira Aoiyama remained unbeaten on Thursday with five wins each at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka.
In the f...
Yoshiro Mori, president of the organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, denied on Wednesday the possibility of postponing the Games, responding to a report in The Wall Street Journa...
Nobuyuki Fujita, 79, is a prominent women’s long-distance coach who has trained several top-ranked runners, including the 2004 Athens Olympic women’s marathon gold medalist Mizuki Noguchi. Fujita...
The spread of the new coronavirus has forced the Japan High School Baseball Federation to cancel the 92nd national spring invitational tournament, which was to begin next Thursday at Koshien Stadium. ...
The torch relay for the Tokyo Olympics will get its traditional start at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece, where the flame will be lit on Thursday. The flame will be carried ...
OSAKA (Jiji Press) — The Japan High School Baseball Federation decided Wednesday to cancel the 92nd national spring invitational tournament due to the spread of the new coronavirus. The decision w...
Sekiwake Asanoyama maintained a clean slate in his push for promotion to ozeki, defeating komusubi Hokutofuji with a mighty throw on the fourth day of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka on Wed...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The 12 member teams of the Central and Pacific leagues under the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization decided Monday to postpone the start of this year’s regular season f...
Yokozuna Hakuho earned his third consecutive victory of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka City on Tuesday’s Day 3.
The Mongolian struggled before pushing out No. 1 maegashira Takayasu (0-...
Back in the Nara period (710-784) to the Heian period (794 to the late 12th century), sumo wrestlers wearing mawashi belts were obliged, when stepping in front of the emperor, to decorate their heads ...
OSAKA — Yokozuna Kakuryu and ozeki Takakeisho were upset on Day 2 of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament on Monday in Osaka, which is being held without spectators due to the spread of the coronavirus....
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander felt soreness in his triceps and made an early exit from an exhibition start Sunday, and the AL Cy Young Award winner was headed for ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James closed out a weekend to remember. First, he outdueled Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks in a match-up of NBA conference leaders. Then he kept the Los Ange...
PHOENIX (AP) — Devin Booker scored 20 of his 36 points in Phoenix’s 47-point first quarter and the Suns beat the NBA-leading Milwaukee Bucks 140-131 on Sunday night, The Bucks played without MVP...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tyrrell Hatton felt the Arnold Palmer Invitational slipping away Sunday, perhaps unaware that everyone else trying to survive another brutal test at Bay Hill was feeling the sa...
MILAN (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo attempted to add levity to a troubling situation in virus-struck Italy before helping Juventus to a 2-0 win over Inter Milan in Serie A on Sunday.
The Derby d’Itali...
VANCOUVER (AP) — New Zealand scored while Australia was reduced to five men Sunday to secure a 17-14 comeback win in the final of the Canada Sevens, its third title of the World Rugby Sevens season...
Top seed Elina Svitolina prevailed in a three-hour thriller against Marie Bouzkova 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 to seize her first title of the season at the Monterrey Open in Mexico on Sunday. In a battle of perse...
HARRISON, N.J. (AP) — Ellen White came off the bench in the 69th minute and only needed 14 minutes to get England back on track.
White scored in the 83rd minute after a turnover and defending cham...
Japan pro baseball took the extreme measure of postponing the start of its season scheduled for March 20 in response to the coronavirus outbreak, it was announced Monday.
No starting date has bee...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Ernie Els won the Hoag Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour Champions title, birdieing the par-5 15th and 18th holes for a two-stroke victory at Newport Beach Count...
OSAKA — The Spring Grand Sumo Tournament literally got off to a quiet start on Sunday in Osaka, as the first day of action being played out in a ring surrounded by stands empty of spectators.
The...
It is less than six months until the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, set to start on Aug. 25, and the people who form partnerships to support impaired athletes are extremely important and just as deserving of...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — A baseball fan’s treasure trove sat on a table outside the San Francisco Giants clubhouse Saturday morning — hundreds of baseball cards signed by the franchise’s bigg...
LIVERPOOL (AP) — No handshakes were allowed but Anfield saw plenty of fist pumps from Jurgen Klopp.
The trademark celebration was back, and repeatedly, with added gusto. Such exuberance might seem ...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The calendar and palm trees suggested the Florida swing in March.
The severity of the test Saturday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational — wind, cool air, thick rough, brick-ha...
LONDON (Reuters) — Five nations sealed their Davis Cup Finals debuts in the weekend’s qualifiers, while heavyweights Germany, Australia, United States and Croatia also booked their places in Madri...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Charlotte Hornets entered a four-game homestand to open the week on a two-game winning streak that included a road victory at defending champion Toronto.
After losses to ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA wants its teams to prepare to play games without fans, if necessary, because of the coronavirus crisis, but LeBron James already said he won’t play basketball in an empty ...
Yokozuna, Hakuho and Kakuryu, won their first-day matchups in virtual silence at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament on Sunday in Osaka because of spectators being shut out of the event amid the new cor...
NAGOYA — Mao Ichiyama won the Nagoya Women’s Marathon with a time of 2 hours 20 minutes 29 seconds on Sunday, securing the final spot on Japan’s Olympic team in the process.
The 22-year-old bet...
Naohide Yamaguchi set a world record in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke in the SB14 category at the World Para Swimming Championships last September, finishing in 1 minute 4.95 seconds. The 19-year...
OSAKA — In an extraordinary measure taken to combat the coronavirus outbreak, the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament starting Sunday will be held at Osaka’s Edion Arena without spectators.
The Japan...
TOKYO (AP) — The Olympic minister said Tuesday the contract to hold the Tokyo Games only specifies the event has to be held during 2020.
Seiko Hashimoto’s response to a question in the House of ...
Spectators may be barred from the National Invitational High School Baseball Tournament, in response to the spread of the new coronavirus.
The Japan High School Baseball Federation is considering t...
TOKYO (AP) — The opening of the Japanese baseball season is in doubt because of the outbreak of the new virus, officials said Monday, as the nation’s baseball and soccer leagues tapped three medi...
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese sporting events were held without spectators on Saturday in a move aimed at halting the spread of the new coronavirus.
The Chiba Lotte Marines hosted the Tohoku Rakuten Eagl...
DUBAI (AP) — After saving match points to reach the final, top-ranked Novak Djokovic was scarcely troubled as he beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 6-4 Saturday to win the Dubai Championships for the fif...
ATLANTA (AP) — Galen Rupp, Aliphine Tuliamuk and America’s other top distance runners have claimed their spots on the U.S. Olympic marathon team. That’s only half the battle. Now they have to ...
HINTERSTODER, Austria (AP) — For weeks, Vincent Kriechmayr played a central role in the promotion campaigns for this weekend’s men’s World Cup races in his native Upper Austria.
On Saturday, t...
HOLYWOOD, Northern Ireland (AP) — Changes to the offside law are coming to soccer that will aim to give the benefit of the doubt to attacking players when goal decisions are reviewed by video repla...
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tommy Fleetwood birdied four of his final six holes on the way to a 3-under 67 in the third round of The Honda Classic on Saturday, moving to 5-under for the week an...
LOS ANGELES (AFP-Jiji) — Yu Darvish displayed control of multiple pitches Saturday in his Major League Baseball preseason debut, striking out three over two innings for the Chicago Cubs in a 4-3 los...
BERLIN (AP) — Chloe Dygert shattered her individual pursuit world record in qualifying on Saturday.
Then she lowered it again.
Taking the track at the Berlin Velodrome a few hours later, the Amer...
The Spring Grand Sumo Tournament will be held without spectators, the Japan Sumo Association said Sunday, in a bid to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. The event will run as scheduled ...
Suguru Osako broke his Japan record in taking fourth place in the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday, finishing in 2 hours 5 minutes 29 seconds. The men’s race was won by defending champion Birhanu Legese of ...
HAMAR, Norway — Women’s speed skater Miho Takagi and men’s speed skater Tatsuya Shinhama each won the sprint title at the ISU World Speed Skating Championships in Hamar, Norway, on Saturday.
...
PHOENIX (AP) — Clayton Kershaw struck out four batters without allowing a hit in his spring training debut Friday, the first step toward a possible Opening Day start for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
...
MIAMI (AP) — Luka Doncic turned 21 on Friday, and the Miami Heat were determined not to give him and the Dallas Mavericks a gift-wrapped victory.
So after wasting another lead, the Heat found a wa...
NORWICH, England (AP) — Norwich rekindled its hopes of staying in the English Premier League by beating third-placed Leicester 1-0 on Friday.
A swerving finish from left back Jamal Lewis in the 7...
BERLIN (Reuters) — Yumi Kajihara became the first Japanese woman to be crowned as a world track cycling champion as she claimed gold in the omnium, while Italy’s Filippo Ganna kept the records tum...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) — China’s top swimmer Sun Yang said he was shocked and would appeal after being handed an eight-year ban on Friday for a doping test violation that rules him out o...
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Brendan Steele made a couple of big mistakes down the stretch, and still was more than good enough to grab the outright lead at the midpoint of The Honda Classic.
S...
DUBAI (AP) — Novak Djokovic saved three consecutive match points to beat Gael Monfils on Friday and set up a Dubai Championships final showdown against Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Monfils led 6-3 in the ...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Two luxury hotels in Abu Dhabi were in lockdown on Friday to isolate guests including scores of professional cyclists after two Italian members of the tour the riders were particip...
With the Tokyo Paralympics approaching this summer, a seminar aiming to deepen the understanding of diversity and inclusion was held on Feb. 15 at The Yomiuri Shimbun in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. Participa...
KATSURAGI, Nara — Kehaya-za, a sumo museum run by the city government of Katsuragi, Nara Prefecture, is set to celebrate its 30th anniversary in May.
The museum plans to honor Taima no Kehaya, beli...
To reach their peak at the Olympics, Japan athletes will no longer have to head to peaks in other countries for crucial high-altitude training.
Competitors in swimming and athletics preparing for th...
The national swim team held its training camp in December at an indoor pool in Tomi, Nagano Prefecture, a location 1,730 meters above sea level. Daiya Seto, Ippei Watanabe and Yui Ohashi were included...
In response to the spread of the new coronavirus, the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games is considering scaling down related events such as the arrival ceremony for the Ol...
With the spread of the new coronavirus, Nihon Sumo Kyokai plans to make a final decision on whether to hold the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament from March 8 in the usual manner, hold it with no spectator...
ATHENS (Reuters) — Greek organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic flame lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia next month said on Monday they have taken extra measures to avoid the coronavirus’ spread ...
In a survey of nearly 500 elite athletes from 48 countries, many of them gearing up for the Olympics later this year, an athletes’ rights group found that 58% said they did not consider themselves ...
What is the origin of sumo, which is said to have a history of 1,400 years? There is a myth referred to in “Chronicles of Japan,” a history book compiled during the Nara period (8th century). At...
YOKOHAMA — Gamba Osaka midfielder Yasuhito Endo tied the J.League record of 631 appearances in the top division of the Japanese soccer league on Sunday, helping his team defeat Yokohama F Marinos 2-...
DUSSELDORF, Germany — Shohei Ono has booked a spot on the Japanese men’s judo team at the Tokyo Olympics this year, thanks to his win in the men’s 73-kilogram class at the Dusseldorf Grand Slam ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Fans hoping to heckle the sign-stealing Houston Astros at their spring opener were met with quite the coincidence.
They got their signs stolen.
In the Astros’ first...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tyson Fury is a heavyweight champion once again, dominating Deontay Wilder in their title rematch Saturday night before Wilder’s corner threw in the towel in the seventh round.
...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Bucks turned a tight game with the Philadelphia 76ers into a mismatch immediately in the second half, led by the reigning league MVP.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 31 po...
DUBAI (AP) — Top-seeded Simona Halep won her 20th singles title after prevailing in a third-set tiebreaker to beat Elena Rybakina 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) in the Dubai Championships final on Saturday.
...
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — With power and a prodigious shot, Alex Ovechkin now stands where few in hockey have been.
He became the eighth NHL player to score 700 career goals, reaching the milestone in th...
BARCELONA (AP) — With a hat trick in the first 40 minutes and another goal near the end on Saturday, Lionel Messi ended his worst scoreless run in six years in the Spanish league and put Barcelona ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Justin Thomas has done just about everything at the Mexico Championship except win. Even with a one-shot lead going into the final round, Saturday was enough of a reminder that ...
CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Corinne Suter won the season-long World Cup downhill title on Saturday by finishing race runner-up to Lara Gut-Behrami for the second straight day.
Gut-Behrami ed...
Visually impaired judoka Junko Hirose has turned to a former American football player to give her an edge as she chases a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.
Tuesday begins the six-month coun...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Bryson DeChambeau kept making so many birdies in the Mexico Championship that when he rolled in his ninth one from 45 feet, all he could do was throw his hands in the air in pure...
NEW YORK (AP) — Free agent pitcher Victor Alcantara was suspended for 80 games Friday under the major league drug program following a positive test for the performance-enhancing substance Stanozolo...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers that was postponed following Kobe Bryant’s death has been rescheduled for April 9. The game was originally scheduled for J...
TORONTO (AP) — Make it 16 wins in 17 games for the surging Toronto Raptors.
Pascal Siakam had 37 points and 12 rebounds and Toronto beat Phoenix 118-101 on Friday night, its fifth straight victory ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — On the day Houston outfielder Josh Reddick said he and other players have received death threats in the wake of the team’s sign-stealing scandal, union head Tony Clar...
CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — In ski-crazy Switzerland, Lara Gut-Behrami’s first World Cup victory in more than two years was quickly labeled “a resurrection” by broadcasters.
The former...
DUBAI (AP) — Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan will play her fourth final of the young WTA season at the Dubai Championships.
Rybakina beat eighth-seeded Petra Martic of Croatia 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-2) in...
MUNICH (AP) — Robert Lewandowski scored late for leader Bayern Munich to get a head start on its Bundesliga rivals after a hard-fought 3-2 win over bottom side Paderborn on Friday.
The Polish strik...
NEW YORK (AP) — NFL owners’ eagerness to approve negotiated terms of a new labor agreement apparently is not matched by the players. They want more talks. Union player representatives decided F...
The J.League’s first division kicks off tonight with the season’s opening match between Shonan Bellmare and Urawa Reds at Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka in Kanagawa Prefecture.
Defending J.League...
Competitive swimmer Ikee Rikako, who is undergoing treatment for leukemia, made a video appearance on TV Asahi network’s “News Station” on Wednesday.
“Paris is my No. 1 goal right now,” sa...
Professional sports leagues about to begin their seasons are exploring ways to respond to the spread of the new coronavirus.
Professional baseball teams are taking actions such as halting fan inter...
The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games announced Monday its decision to settle on the 2020 Games motto: “United by Emotion.”
The organizing committee anticipates athle...
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Cameron Maybin is starting his third stint with the Detroit Tigers.
This one feels a bit different.
“The first two times around, there were a lot of familiar faces,” the...
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Yu Darvish got hit hard by the Houston Astros during the 2017 World Series — both his ERA and reputation took quite a beating.
On Sunday, after a bullpen session for the Chica...
CHICAGO (Reuters) — A packed United Center fell silent for eight seconds before tip-off of the 69th NBA All-Star game on Sunday as about 21,000 fans joined hands to pay their respects to global spo...
CHICAGO (AP) — Players were taking charges, bodies were hitting the floor, calls and non-calls were being screamed about on both ends. The fourth quarter of the NBA All-Star Game was as intense as t...
KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) — Petra Vlhova won her third straight women’s World Cup slalom Sunday to overtake the absent Mikaela Shiffrin on the top of the discipline standings.
Vlhova was more...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adam Scott contemplated the safe shot to get him out of his mess on the 15th hole at Riviera, knowing it would probably cost him his two-shot lead but not yet the tournament.
On...
NEW YORK (AP) — First, there was a five-match losing streak, and later things got even worse for Kyle Edmund.
He dropped seven straight matches during a difficult 2019 that sent him tumbling down ...
LONDON (AP) — Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Nicolas Pepe, Mesut Ozil and Alexandre Lacazette scored in the second half to give Arsenal a 4-0 victory over Newcastle on Sunday and end a run of four strai...
KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) — New Zealand teenager Alice Robinson crowned her breakthrough season in the World Cup with a second career victory on Saturday.
Robinson, who turned 18 in December, o...
JOHANNESBURG (AFP-Jiji) — Center Ruhan Nel scored a post-hooter try as the Western Stormers snatched a 33-30 victory at the Golden Lions on Saturday after a Super Rugby thriller. The score stemmed ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Aaron Gordon lost another epic dunk contest. And it was by a couple of inches — namely, the top of Tacko Fall’s head.
Derrick Jones Jr. finally got his long-awaited dunk contest ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — The International Biathlon Union (IBU) said on Saturday it was stripping two Russian athletes of medals received between 2013 and 2014 for doping violations.
The decision to str...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Put together the best field of the year on a course players regard as one of the ultimate tests, and the result is a final round at Riviera loaded with possibilities.
Rory McIlr...
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — The first baseball trade in almost 30 years between two teams separated only by a bay and a bridge happened Saturday, when the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics complete...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The verbal sparring between the Houston Astros and others around the majors over the team’s sign-stealing scandal is reaching new levels of absurdity — from accusa...
MILAN (AP) — Substitute Mario Pasalic scored a stunning goal seconds after coming off the bench as Atalanta beat Roma 2-1 in Serie A on Saturday in a direct fight for a Champions League place. Pas...
NORWICH, England (Reuters) — Liverpool’s Sadio Mane marked his return from injury with a late goal to break Norwich City’s resistance and secure a 1-0 win on Saturday to extend his side’s Prem...
CHICAGO (AP) — Miles Bridges soared like his boss in Chicago. Zion Williamson delivered his share of punishing dunks, even damaging the rim.
It all added up to a high-flying start to the All-Star w...
TOKYO (AFP-Jiji) — Damian McKenzie put the All Blacks on notice Saturday by sparking the Chiefs to a 43-17 Super Rugby thrashing of the Sunwolves in only his second game back from serious injury. T...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matt Kuchar made a mess of the easiest hole at Riviera. He couldn’t find the fairway and felt he was on the defensive all afternoon Friday in the Genesis Invitational.
He was ...
LONDON (AP) — English Premier League champion Manchester City was banned from the Champions League for two seasons by UEFA on Friday for “serious breaches” of spending rules and failing to coope...
BERLIN (Reuters) — Borussia Dortmund scored three second-half goals as it crushed Eintracht Frankfurt 4-0 in the Bundesliga on Friday to take over second place. Dortmund spectacularly bounced back...
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Cody Bellinger thinks Houston’s Jose Altuve stole the 2017 AL MVP award from the Yankees’ Aaron Judge and the Astros swiped that year’s World Series title from the Los ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is raising the minimum salary for minor league players in 2021, according to a memo sent Friday from the commissioner’s office to all 30 teams and obtained b...
SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria (AP) — Aleksander Aamodt Kilde got his first win of the season Friday in a men’s World Cup super-G, sending the Norwegian to the top of both the discipline and overa...
Stationery maker Showa Note Co. in Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture, plans to sell school notebooks and see-through plastic folders later this month featuring images of Rui Hachimura, who plays for the...
SALT LAKE CITY — Japan won the women’s team pursuit in a world-record time of 2 minutes, 50.76 seconds at the ISU World Single Distances Speedskating Championships on Friday in Utah.
Japan went i...
In a room tucked away on the campus of a university in Chiba Prefecture, Japan’s Olympic medal prospects in judo are being enhanced by a researcher on a personal computer.
Sitting behind the scree...
Japan softball ace pitcher Yukiko Ueno is revving up ahead of the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. She said she is healthy and motivated as she prepares for the Games.
The following are her thoughts as she...
TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Olympic organizers reiterated their message on Thursday at the start of two days of meetings with the International Olympic Committee: the Summer Games will not be waylaid by the ...
The Feb. 11 death of Katsuya Nomura, the Nippon Professional Baseball catcher and manager who left his mark in the Showa and Heisei eras, has sent a wave of sadness throughout NPB teams’ spring trai...
Goeido, who was in line to be demoted to sekiwake from ozeki at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in March after having gone 5-10 at the New Year tournament in January, is now retired.
It is the firs...
Katsuya Nomura, the former Nippon Professional Baseball player and manager for teams including the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, died Tuesday at 84.
According to authorities at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police...
TOKYO (AFP-Jiji) — Japanese baseball clubs are banning fans from releasing balloons into the air — to protect people from the fast-spreading new coronavirus. The Hanshin Tigers, whose supporter...
Friday marked 200 days until the Tokyo Paralympics get underway. As the Games approach, the Japan Sports Agency is trying to promote the development and awareness of sports for people with disabiliti...
The wave of global interest over the new thick-soled running shoe that swept over the athletics world made its way into the spring training camp of Japan pro baseball’s Chiba Lotte Marines.
On t...
SCOTTSDALE. Ariz. (AP) — Tony Finau and Webb Simpson crashed golf’s biggest party with some back-nine fireworks. Finau shot a 9-under 62 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over Simpson in the...
TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo cut the ribbon on another new Olympic venue on Sunday, just under six months ahead of the Games’ opening.
This time it was the Ariake Arena alongside Tokyo Bay, the venue for ...
MELBOURNE (AP) — Back in 1987, 11 years before new Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin was born, her parents left Moscow for New York City, eager to escape the Soviet Union and live in the United ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Lakers say they are fully prepared for the steady stream of tributes for Kobe Bryant that they will surely see the rest of the season.
LeBron James welcomes it, calli...
MIAMI (AP) — Shaquille O’Neal paid tribute to his friend and former teammate, Kobe Bryant, with one of their shared favorite hobbies: music. O’Neal, who moonlights as DJ Diesel, brought his ca...
MIAMI (AP) — He grew his hair so long, it flowed out of his helmet and obscured the name on the back of his jersey.
Didn’t matter. Everyone knew where to find Troy Polamalu on Sundays.
The Stee...
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Mohamed Salah scored twice as Liverpool beat Southampton 4-0 to move 22 points clear at the top of the English Premier League on Saturday.
Liverpool stayed unbeaten after ...
MIAMI (AP) — Lamar Jackson’s stunning season not only earned him The Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player Award, but he won it unanimously.
That’s right: The second-year quarterback of th...
For sumo wrestlers, the New Year practically starts in February. This is because they must work hard with almost no rest over the year-end and New Year holidays to prepare for the New Year basho in Ja...
The sparkling new Japan Olympic Museum naturally has an abundance of mementos from past Olympics on display. But it also has the legacy of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics built right into its ceiling. Wood...
The 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee plans to manage a total of about 5,500 buses and passenger cars to transport athletes and others under a special operation system. The syst...
MONACO (AP) — World Athletics cleared distance runners to keep wearing a favored Nike design even though it acknowledged on Friday shoe technology poses a risk to the sport.
The governing body pu...
MELBOURNE (AP) — Locked in an even-as-can-be Australian Open semifinal, Dominic Thiem looked up at his guest box, patted his belly and stuck out his tongue, as if to indicate he was feeling sick. He...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — J.B. Holmes roared through the fan-packed closing stretch at TPC Scottsdale on his opening nine Friday, then grabbed the lead on the mellower side of golf’s biggest party...
OTTAWA (AP) — Crowds seldom give loud ovations to opposing players. Alex Ovechkin isn’t just a regular opponent.
Ovechkin scored two goals and moved into eight place on the NHL’s career goals ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) — Kenya’s world record holders Eliud Kipchoge and Brigid Kosgei will lead a star-studded marathon team to the Tokyo Olympic Games this year, Kenya’s athletics chiefs said on Fr...
LONDON (AP) — The coronavirus-enforced suspension of soccer in China has led to Manchester United filling a void in its strike force. Odion Ighalo joined United on loan until the end of the season...
MIAMI (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers have won games almost every way possible this season.
They’ve won high-scoring shootouts in a dome and ugly low-scoring affairs in the mud. They’ve won na...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP-Jiji) — Japan veteran Keisuke Honda has joined Brazilians Botafogo, the player and club announced on social media on Friday. The 33-year-old former AC Milan midfielder left Dutc...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers dried their eyes and took the Staples Center court for the first time since Kobe Bryant’s death with a resolve that would have made him proud.
Damian Lil...
The long race to the championship in Nippon Professional Baseball officially started Saturday when the 12 teams simultaneously opened their spring training camps in Miyazaki and Okinawa prefectures.
...
BEIJING (AP) — Kobe Bryant was a hugely popular figure in Asia, no more so than in China where basketball rivals soccer as the most popular sport. However, his death Sunday in a helicopter crash ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — When the San Francisco 49ers were mired in a two-win season back in 2016 and headed to a third straight offseason with a coaching change, Joe Staley wondered if it was st...
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on Sunday night announced that no player on his franchise will ever wear the No. 24 again after reports that Kobe Bryant died earlier in the day in a helicopter crash...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Kobe Bryant’s death fully registered with Luka Doncic in the midst of a game.
Doncic had 29 points and 11 rebounds, and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 10...
MELBOURNE (AP) — Rafael Nadal left the muttering and the preening, the underarm serving and the ‘tweening to his younger, flashier opponent Nick Kyrgios.
Surely, Nadal was content to collect th...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Sumo wrestler Goeido has retired to take on the role of a toshiyori elder at the Sakaigawa stable, the Japan Sumo Association said Tuesday.
The 33-year-old wrestler with the se...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Free agent outfielder Nick Castellanos signed a $64 million, four-year deal Monday with the Reds, Cincinnati’s latest big-money move to emerge from years of losing.
The deal al...
The organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games unveiled details of the Olympic torch relay route in December, showing where in Japan the torch will visit, and perhaps more int...
The winner of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament, No. 17 maegashira Tokushoryu, held a press conference at the Kise sumo stable in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, on Monday, a day after becoming the first lowest-...
CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) — NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash on a steep hillside in dense morning fog in Southern California on Sunda...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — With a tribute to Kobe Bryant written on his Nikes, LeBron James moved past the retired Los Angeles great for third place on the NBA’s career scoring list, scoring 29 points in...
SOUTHAMPTON, England (AP) — Southampton held Tottenham to a 1-1 draw in the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday to force a replay, while Chelsea and Leicester both won.
Sofiane Boufal scored his first...
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Coming off illness and spending much of his days as a full-time college student, Nathan Chen shouldn’t have been capable of setting a personal best Saturday at the U.S. Fi...
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Richie Porte of Australia won the Tour Down Under cycle race for the second time Sunday, though for the first time in seven years he failed to win the grueling stage to t...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jon Rahm is playing some of his best golf with two victories and a runner-up in his last four tournaments. He was at his best Saturday at Torrey Pines, holing a chip for birdie and...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers would rather earn a World Series trophy on their own than accept any scraps from the Houston Astros or Boston Red Sox, the teams that beat them in 2017 an...
MELBOURNE (AP) — Coco Gauff’s latest history-making Grand Slam run at age 15 ended with a 6-7 (7-5), 6-3, 6-0 loss in the Australian Open’s fourth round to Sofia Kenin on Sunday.
Like Gauff, ...
In a Cinderella story that sumo had not seen in two decades, No. 17 maegashira Tokushoryu came from the bottom of the rankings to come away with an improbable victory at the New Year Grand Tourname...
Surprising No. 17 maegashira Tokushoryu, the lowest ranked wrestler in the upper-most makuuchi division, took the lead into the final day of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament after winning a showdow...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan can expect a more than 50% hike in their medal tally at their home Olympics but will still fall significantly short of toppling China from the second position, data analysts...
The demotion of ozeki Goeido (4-8), who has been on kadoban status, meaning he needed to win eight of his 15 matches in the current sumo tournament, became inevitable on Thursday after he was forced o...
“I’ve never had a bad year, until this year,” said Kohei Uchimura, 31, during a visit to his hometown of Nagasaki in December. Winner of three gold and four silver medals over three Olympics, th...
MELBOURNE (AFP-Jiji) — Naomi Osaka conceded she had been “a bit childish” after her frustrations boiled over on Wednesday in setting up a third-round showdown with teenager Coco Gauff at the Aus...
Rank-and-file wrestlers maintained the lead at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament on Wednesday with one loss apiece, as No. 4 maegashira Shodai and No. 17 maegashira Tokushoryu both marked their 10th ...
NEW YORK (AP) — When it comes to unanimous picks for baseball’s Hall of Fame, Derek Jeter quite appropriately has the chance to be No. 2.
Yankees closer Mariano Rivera became the first player t...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Noel Acciari scored with 5.6 seconds left in the third period and the Florida Panthers rallied to win their fifth straight game, beating the Minnesota Wild 5-4 on Monday nig...
BOSTON (AP) — Kemba Walker scored 20 points to end a career-long personal losing streak against LeBron James, and Jayson Tatum scored 27 to lead the Boston Celtics past the Los Angeles Lakers 139-10...
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Having already battled for five extra holes into darkness without producing a champion a day earlier, Gaby Lopez and Nasa Hataoka showed up to work at 8 a.m., just lik...
MELBOURNE (AFP-Jiji) — World No. 1 Rafael Nadal blitzed past Hugo Dellien Tuesday to launch his campaign to equal Roger Federer’s record of 20 Grand Slam titles, dropping just five games in the on...
MELBOURNE (AFP-Jiji) — Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova admitted she does not know if she will be back at the Australian Open next year after suffering a first-round defeat in Melbourne...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans hoped to follow the same game plan against the Kansas City Chiefs that had carried them to playoff wins in Baltimore and New England, giving the ball to...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Coach Kyle Shanahan received the NFC championship trophy from his Super Bowl-winning father Mike and raised it to the sky.
The San Francisco 49ers have gone on a surprisi...
LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Andrew Landry was reeling after blowing a six-stroke lead on the back nine Sunday in The American Express.
“I don’t want to be a part of something like that ever again...
LIVERPOOL (AP) — Mohamed Salah ripped off his Liverpool jersey at a freezing Anfield after completing a 2-0 victory over Manchester United in stoppage time on Sunday, rousing fans on the Kop to sin...
SESTRIERE, Italy (AP) — French skier Clara Direz claimed her first career victory in the debut of parallel giant slalom on the women’s World Cup circuit Sunday, while favorites Mikaela Shiffrin a...
Heading down the passageway out of the arena, No. 4 maegashira Shodai had a big smile on his face and extra spring in his step. Call it a victory sprint.
Shodai kept a share of the top spot at the...
Several athletes from developing countries suffering from war and poverty are training in Japan in gymnastics, judo and other sports for the Tokyo Olympics. They are studying here on scholarships from...
Ozeki Takakeisho (7-1) forced out No. 4 maegashira Okinoumi (5-3) on Sunday at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan. No. 4 maegashira Shodai (7-1) still has just one blem...
No. 4 maegashira Shodai earned his sixth consecutive win of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament by pushing out No. 6 maegashira Tochinoshin on the sixth day of action Friday to move into sole possessi...
The race for the Emperor’s Cup was thrown wide open on Wednesday as yokozuna Hakuho announced his withdrawal and leaders Asanoyama and Endo both went down to defeat on Day 4 of the New Year Grand S...
Yokozuna Hakuho’s bid for a second consecutive championship and record-extending 44th overall ended Wednesday with his sudden withdrawal from the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament due to back pain.
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Yokozuna Hakuho and Kakuryu shocked spectators on the third day of the New Year’s Grand Sumo Tournament at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on Tuesday, with both wrestlers suffering defeats.
Hakuho l...
“Self-renewal” is probably the right term to summarize last year for rower Chiaki Tomita. Last summer, Tomita — a national team member at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics who competed in the women...
Rank-and-file wrestler Endo defeated a yokozuna for the second straight day, this time beating Hakuho on Day 2 of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on Monday.
The No. ...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — Japanese darts sensation Mikuru Suzuki produced a brilliant performance to down world No.1 Lisa Ashton in straight sets and claim her second straight women’s BDO world darts c...
Yokozuna Kakuryu and Hakuho had mixed results on Day 1 of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on Sunday.
Monglian yokozuna Kakuryu, who sat out the previous tournament af...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Jiji Press) — Japanese Olympic Committee President Yasuhiro Yamashita, 62, became a member of the International Olympic Committee at the IOC session in Lausanne, Switzerland,...
Last year, yokozuna Hakuho overcame a spate of knee, arm and other injuries to win the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament for a record-extending 43rd career championship. When asked to sum up the year in a...
Swimmers for the Japanese artistic swimming team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics strike a powerful pose during their training session in Kita Ward, Tokyo, on Thursday. Seen on the wall behind them are kaki...
Preparations ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics have seen temporary increase in subsidies for the nation’s para-sports organizations, mainly in the area of player development for the para-athletes....
The shoes worn by runners at the Tokyo-Hakone Intercollegiate Ekiden were in the spotlight, and it had nothing to do with fashion.
With stage records broken in seven of the 10 legs in the two-day...
Vissel Kobe secured its first title after beating Kashima Antlers 2-0 in the Emperor’s Cup final on Wednesday at Tokyo’s new National Stadium, which was hosting its inaugural sporting event. Kobe ...
The cauldron at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics will have red, blue and green flames, reflecting the colors of the Paralympic emblem, sources said.
The Olympic cauldron will be used in the opening and clo...
Powerhouse Aoyama Gakuin University is back. At least halfway.
Aoyama finished in the lead on Day 1 of the Tokyo-Hakone Intercollegiate Ekiden on Thursday when anchor Takayuki Iida crossed the finish...
Runners begin the first leg of the Tokyo-Hakone Intercollegiate Ekiden in front of the Yomiuri Shimbun’s head office in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Thursday. Aoyama Gakuin University won in the first ha...
The choices left for Rei Higuchi were far from appealing, but desperate times called for desperate measures. In trying to stay alive in the qualifying process for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Higuchi ...
Coming off a breakout year that included his first tournament title, newly promoted sekiwake Asanoyama heads into 2020 with high expectations as he aims for a higher rank. “Next year is an importa...
Coming off a breakout year that included his first tournament title, newly promoted sekiwake Asanoyama heads into 2020 with high expectations as he aims for a higher rank.
“Next year is an import...
Ariake Arena, a venue for volleyball and wheelchair basketball events of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, was completed and unveiled to the media on Tuesday in Koto Ward, Tokyo.
About 800 cu...
Former Olympic medalist Daisuke Takahashi took his final bow as a solo competitor at the Japan Figure Skating Championship at Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo on Sunday, receiving a heartfelt sendoff...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — An event was held on Saturday to mark the completion of the new National Stadium, the main arena for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, bringing together about 60,000 visi...
Japanese professional baseball saw the highest-ever attendance at both Central and Pacific league games this past season, apparently due to efforts to cultivate more fans. More than half of the leag...
British Open champion Hinako Shibuno received player of the year and three other awards on Wednesday from the Ladies Professional Golfers’ Association of Japan.
The 21-year-old golfer was presente...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prominent Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee, diagnosed with leukemia in February, has left hospital, her management firm said Tuesday.
Ikee also posted the image of a handwritten ...
NEW YORK — Right-hander Shun Yamaguchi, aiming to make the jump to the major leagues from the Yomiuri Giants through the posting system, agreed to a deal with the Toronto Blue Jays, the team announ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Members of the “Nadeshiko Japan” national soccer team that won the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2011 will kick off the 2020 Olympic torch relay, the organizing committee said...
The Rugby World Cup held in Japan this autumn thrilled the entire country as the Brave Blossoms national team made it into the quarterfinals for the first time. The World Cup featured 15-player teams...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike celebrated on Sunday the completion of the new National Stadium in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, the main venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic...
Former major leaguer Ichiro Suzuki was among about 130 attendees of a three-day study course that began in Tokyo on Friday for former professional baseball players to obtain a qualification for coachi...
Fourteen years after leaving the Saitama Seibu Lions to play in the major leagues, right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka has returned to the Pacific League club.
“I want to put on the Lions uniform as s...
Some of the members of a volunteer group that provided interpretation services during the 1964 Tokyo Paralympics have reunited to deepen public understanding of people with disabilities ahead of the 2...
Needing only to avoid losing by four goals, Yokohama F Marinos did everything but play defensively.
Marinos captured their first J.League championship in 15 seasons and fourth overall by storming t...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Jiji Press) — The International Olympic Committee will nominate Japanese Olympic Committee President Yasuhiro Yamashita as an IOC member, IOC President Thomas Bach said Thurs...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The 2020 Tokyo Games organizing committee announced Wednesday the new schedules for the marathon and race walk events, whose venues have been moved to Sapporo from Tokyo due to...
Sumo tracks a variety of individual statistics, one of them being the most wins in a year, which is usually decided at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament. This year, the record for most matches won a...
There are many lessons from the recent Rugby World Cup, which ended in November having drawn about 1.7 million spectators, that can be applied to the upcoming Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2020.
...
At a gym in Mito in mid-September, a woman in a bright red T-shirt and shorts was going through some warm-up stretches.
“My body’s a bit stiff today. It must be my age,” she said jokingly. Othe...
Athletes who will represent South Sudan at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics arrived in Japan on Oct. 14 to begin an extended training program here that will continue until the Games. It is un...
Japan-made protective fencing uniforms, which have been approved by the International Fencing Federation, are available for the first time. As the number of competitors in fencing is minimal, there ...
KOBE — Baseball icon Ichiro Suzuki, who retired in March, enjoyed playing with amateurs at the Hotto Motto Field Kobe stadium on Sunday.
The stadium was home for the Orix BlueWave, for which Suzu...
MIYAZAKI — Women’s British Open champion Hinako Shibuno came up short in her bid to snatch the money title on the Japan LPGA Tour when she finished in a tie for second at the season-ending LGPA T...
The track of the National Stadium completed on Saturday is made of a rubber that is conducive to fast times, so expectations are high for good results at next year’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
...
Rui Hachimura made history in the June NBA draft, and he has been making things happen on and off the court ever since.
Hachimura, the first Japanese national to be selected in the opening round in th...
The Saitama Seibu Lions’ Tomoya Mori, who became just the fourth catcher in Japan pro baseball history to win a league batting title, was named as the Pacific League’s Most Valuable Player, whil...
MONTREAL (AP) — Russian athletes will have a chance to compete at next year’s Olympics, but their flag would not fly in Tokyo if the World Anti-Doping Agency approves a recommendation it received ...
Yokozuna Hakuho wrapped up the 15-day Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament on Sunday with a victory, after his earning record-extending 43rd career title the previous day at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center.
Haku...
Two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu dominates the free skating program to win the NHK Trophy in Sapporo on Saturday. Hanyu, who topped the short program, grabbed 195.71 points to score a total of 3...
In making his debut at the recently completed Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament, Kosei Naya did it under the ring name “Mudoho,” the significance of which is not lost on followers of the sport. Partic...
Yokozuna Hakuho clinched a record-extending 43rd tournament victory on Day 14 of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament, after defeating sekiwake Mitakeumi (6-8) to notch his 13th win of the basho at Fukuok...
Wins by his closest rivals kept yokozuna Hakuho from bringing the title race to an early end, but his own victory left no more margin for error from the competition.
Hakuho moved closer to a record-...
In a tournament that has become his to lose, yokozuna Hakuho remained in the lead by notching his 10th win on Wednesday, the 11th day of action at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament in Fukuoka.
Haku...
Yokozuna Hakuho won with ease to maintain his lead on the 10th day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center in Fukuoka on Tuesday.
Hakuho, the lone yokozuna in the tourname...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Undermanned and playing for the second consecutive night, the Houston Rockets still had plenty of reason to be confident.
“I would think it would give you confidence,” coach ...
Quarterback Colin Kaepernick worked out for 40 minutes in front of representatives from eight NFL teams on Saturday near Atlanta, then gave a short statement afterward, saying he is ready to join a t...
LONDON (AP) — The first time Dominic Thiem played at the ATP Finals, he was handed an unknown Greek teenager as a hitting partner in training.
Three years later, Thiem is facing that same player i...
TOKYO (AP) — Matt Clark hit a tying home run off former St. Louis pitcher Brandon Dickson leading off the bottom of the ninth inning, Efren Navarro had a broken-bat single against Caleb Thielbar to ...
MOSCOW (AFP-Jiji) — Russian Alexander Samarin led a sweep of the podium for the home nation at the figure skating Grand Prix event in Moscow on Saturday, as Olympic silver medalist Shoma Uno could o...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Croatia qualified for the 2020 European Championship on Saturday.
For the Germans, it’s a record 13th straight time that they will appear in t...
Yokozuna Hakuho (6-1) maintained his slim lead on Day 7 of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament by defeating No. 3 maegashira Takarafuji (3-4) at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Saturday.
The only yokozun...
Yokozuna Hakuho (4-1) defeated maegashira No. 2 Myogiryu (2-3) on the fifth day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center.
On the same day, komusubi Asanoyama, maegashira No....
Ozeki Takayasu suffered a costly second loss Wednesday when he was forced out by komusubi Hokutofuji (3-1) on the fourth day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center.
Takaya...
Yokozuna Hakuho avoided two straight losses while two ozeki wrestlers managed to earn their second win on the third day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Tuesday.
...
Yokozuna Hakuho left the ring with his fingers intact and a victory on the opening day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament, while fellow yokozuna Kakuryu never made it after pulling out prior to the ...
SAPPORO (Jiji Press) — The organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Games agreed on Friday with Sapporo and Hokkaido that the two local governments will not shoulder costs related to the Olympic mara...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Olympic gold medalist Mizuki Noguchi is likely to be chosen as the first Japanese to carry the torch for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, in a relay in Greece, it was learned Frid...
With momentum growing for the Tokyo 2020 Games, now less than 300 days from its opening, sports organizations are making meticulous preparations to achieve good results. The Japan women’s handba...
The curtain fell on the 2019 Rugby World Cup on Saturday after the final in which South Africa beat England and earned their third World Cup title following triumphs in 1995 and 2007. England had ear...
Through four unbeaten pool-stage matches, Japan demonstrated that it deserves to be ranked among the world’s top eight rugby nations by beating traditional European powerhouses Ireland, ranked first...
OITA (AP) — Once again, a red card proved pivotal in a Rugby World Cup knockout match between Wales and France decided by just one point.
The Welsh were the beneficiaries this time.
France was lea...
FUKUROI, Shizuoka (Reuters) — Australia made heavy work of it in difficult conditions but outlasted a tough Georgia team to round out their Rugby World Cup Pool D campaign with an unconvincing 27-8 ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Kevin Na made 10 birdies on Saturday, and the one putt that came to his mind after matching his best score was a par. Na was in a bunker right of the green on the par-3 fifth hole,...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — Naomi Osaka said she had just two hours’ sleep before crushing title-holder Caroline Wozniacki to sweep into the China Open final on Saturday.
The 21-year-old Japanese will ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Sammy Blais had a goal and an assist, and his score midway through the third period was the winner as the St. Louis Blues beat the Dallas Stars 3-2 on Saturday. Jordan Binnington s...
OITA (AP) — Tevita Kuridrani and Dane Haylett-Petty crossed for two tries each in a 45-10 win over Uruguay on Saturday that did little to enhance confidence in Australia’s title credentials at the...
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Indians are exercising ace Corey Kluber’s $17.5 million option for next season. Kluber was limited to just seven starts after breaking his right arm on May 1, when ...
DOHA (AP) — Dina Asher-Smith charged to victory in the 200 meters at the world track championships Wednesday, underlining her status as a top contender for next year’s Olympics in Tokyo.
Asher-Sm...
TOKYO (AP) — David Goffin’s impressive play at what is becoming one of his favorite tournaments continued Thursday at the Japan Open when he advanced to the quarterfinals. Goffin, who beat Denis...
SQUAMISH, Canada (AP) — Canadian ski cross racer Mikayla Martin died Tuesday after a mountain bike accident in her hometown of Squamish, British Colombia. The 22-year-old Martin, the winner of a wo...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Entering the preseason with backcourt mate John Wall sidelined with an injury, Bradley Beal insists most of the pressure to be the Washington Wizards’ leader is coming from withi...
NEW YORK (AP) — Oakland Raiders linebacker Vontaze Burfict has been suspended for the rest of the season for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Indianapolis Colts tight end Jack Doyle. NFL Vice President of...
SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian judge said the model who accused soccer superstar Neymar of rape will face trial on charges of fraud. Another judge dropped serious charges that followed a decision to...
KOBE (Reuters) — Scotland’s limp defeat to Ireland in its World Cup opener prompted questions about the squad’s heart and desire, but coach Gregor Townsend said his players proved their mettle i...
A sumo bout starts when a yobidashi caller says the names of the wrestlers and they appear in the dohyo ring. The time until they actually begin to spar is called shikiri seigen jikan (shikiri time li...
DOHA (AP) — Kenyan Beatrice Chepkoech was so new to the steeplechase two years ago that she missed a water jump and had to make a U-turn, costing her a medal at the world championships.
Since then,...
ZURICH (AP) — Cardiff was ordered Monday by FIFA to pay €6 million ($6.5 million) to Nantes as a first installment of the transfer fee for Emiliano Sala, the Argentine striker who died in a plane ...
CHICAGO (AP) — The field of candidates to be the next manager of the Chicago Cubs is beginning to take shape. President of baseball operations Theo Epstein said Monday that former catcher David Ros...
Former U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic mowed down local favorite Yuichi Sugita 6-4, 6-4 on Monday to reach the second round of the Japan Open Tennis Championships in Tokyo. The 31-year-old, beaten in ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A distance runner has been killed by lightning as he was about to cross the finish line for a 50-kilometer race in southeast Kansas. Thomas Stanley, 33, of Andover, was less...
KUMAGAYA, Saitama (AFP-Jiji) — Georgia overpowered Uruguay at the Rugby World Cup for a 33-7 bonus-point win on Sunday, the popular South American underdog unable to repeat its heroics against Fiji ...
HAMAMATSU (Reuters) — Japan got a lift from their scrum in their shock victory over Pool A favorites Ireland and captain Michael Leitch said his team’s 8-on-10 drills in the lead-up had paid off....
TOKYO (Reuters) — Wales withstood a furious Australian comeback to secure a 29-25 win in a dramatic Pool D encounter in Tokyo on Sunday, recording their first victory over the Wallabies at the Rugb...
TOKYO (AFP-Jiji) — After Wales made their Rugby World Cup bow on Monday, the main contenders for the Webb Ellis Cup have taken to the field. AFP looks at the standout players from the opening exchan...
KUMAGAYA, Saitama (Reuters) — Georgia brought Uruguay back down to earth with a bump when they ran in five tries for a 33-7 bonus point victory in the Rugby World Cup Pool D clash at a sun-bathed K...
TOYOTA, Aichi (Reuters) — South Africa’s electric wing Makazole Mapimpi scored two tries as they eased to a nine-try 57-3 win over neighbours Namibia, but it was a far from polished performance i...
FUKUROI, Shizuoka (Reuters) — Japan’s players vowed to continue making headlines after their stunning 19-12 win over Ireland at the Rugby World Cup on Saturday. The Pool A victory, which put th...
FUKUROI, Shizuoka (Reuters) — Jamie Joseph praised the courage of his Japan players after a momentous 19-12 victory over Ireland on Saturday, saying they had been preparing for the match for three ...
BEPPU, Oita (Reuters) — It seems the old joke that the most dangerous place to stand in a rugby team was between a prop and a plate of food has some basis after all, if you believe All Blacks hooke...
FUKUROI, Shizuoka (Reuters) — Hosts Japan stunned Ireland 19-12 in an extraordinary upset on Saturday to win their second match of the Rugby World Cup and put themselves in pole position to reach t...
OSAKA (Reuters) — Hooker Julian Montoya scored a hat-trick in the first 26 minutes as Argentina got their World Cup campaign back on track with a 28-12 victory over Tonga on Saturday that snapped a...
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Nigel Bradham picked off Aaron Rodgers’ pass in the end zone with 20 seconds left, Jordan Howard gashed Green Bay for his second career three-touchdown game and the Philadel...
After a proposed expansion to an 18-game regular season received little support, NFL owners are reportedly now considering a 17-game schedule and a reduction in preseason games — or elimination of t...
SHIZUOKA (Reuters) — Japan speedster Kotaro Matsushima earned the nickname “Ferrari” after his Game 1 exploits but the host’s hat trick hero said he will face a three-ton truck in Ireland’s ...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma will be sidelined at least until mid-October with a stress reaction in his left foot. The Lakers announced the extent of Kuzma’s in...
LONDON (AP) — Nick Kyrgios has been handed a suspended 16-week ban from the ATP Tour following an investigation into his abusive behavior in a tournament in Cincinnati last month. The Australian pl...
KAMAISHI, Iwate (AP) — Uruguay pulled off one of the Rugby World Cup’s largest upsets when it beat Fiji 30-27 in a match laden with significance for the disaster-ravaged town in which it was playe...
KAMAISHI, Iwate (AP) — Nodoka Kikuchi’s job as a tour guide at the Tsunami Memorial Hall is to detail the earthquake and deadly tsunami that hit this part of Japan’s northeast coast almost nine...
KAMAISHI, Iwate (Reuters) — Uruguay delivered the first upset of the Rugby World Cup with a stunning 30-27 victory over an error-prone Fiji in a Pool D match at the Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stad...
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — After the Chicago Bears’ offense was slow to get going this season, Mitchell Trubisky was excited to speed things up.
Trubisky and the Bears used a no-huddle, hurry-up tempo ...
MILAN (AP) — Lionel Messi won his sixth FIFA player of the year award, while Megan Rapinoe won her first at a lavish ceremony at Milan’s iconic Teatro all Scala on Monday.
Rapinoe was rewarded a...
KUMAGAYA, Saitama (Reuters) — Samoa survived being reduced to 13 men for almost 10 minutes in the first half and struggled to overcome a limited and exhausted Russia team to open their Pool A campa...
Tokyo — Scotland suffered a second injury setback in as many days after scrumhalf Ali Price was ruled out of the rest of the Rugby World Cup on Tuesday, with Edinburgh’s Henry Pyrgos called up as ...
TOKYO — Japan know they face a huge challenge to contain Ireland in their second Rugby World Cup match later this week, and their forwards have hatched a plan to double team the big Irish ball-carr...
TOKYO — World Rugby issued a statement on Tuesday conceding that the officiating over the first weekend of the World Cup was not up to scratch and promising it would improve. Referees became a do...
Shinnosuke Abe, the longtime slugging catcher of the Yomiuri Giants, has decided to retire at the end of this season, it was learned Monday.
The 40-year-old has recently been playing first base and ...
TOKYO — All Blacks fans received welcome news on Monday with injured lock Brodie Retallick confirming he was hitting tackle bags at training and expected to increase the intensity of collision on h...
TOKYO — Ireland flanker Peter O’Mahony and centre Bundee Aki have not been ruled out of Saturday’s World Cup Pool A game against Japan after both passed the second of three head injury assessme...
TOKYO — Scotland’s poor start to the Rugby World Cup received another blow on Monday when it was confirmed that injured loose-forward Hamish Watson would play no further part in the tournament, w...
SAPPORO (Reuters) — There was no record score, no long list of try scorers and certainly no reason to get carried away, but England’s victory over Tonga in their World Cup opener on Sunday ticked ...
TOKYO — Fans will now be able to bring food into Rugby World Cup stadiums in Japan after the organizing committee admitted that the service at some venues was “not befitting” that of a showpiec...
YOKOHAMA (AP) — The heated debate in New Zealand rugby about playing Richie Mo’unga at flyhalf instead of Beauden Barrett, and Barrett at fullback instead of Ben Smith, might cool down now. The d...
ATLANTA (AP) — Freddie Freeman didn’t care that his eyes kept tearing up from all the beer and champagne soakings.
It seemed like every teammate stopped by to blast him, and he loved every minute...
LAGUNA SECA, Calif. (AP) — Takuma Sato will return to Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing next season and Colton Herta was pulled inside the Andretti Autosport camp as IndyCar drivers are securing their ...
Sekiwake Mitakeumi earned his second Emperor’s Cup after defeating Takakeisho in a playoff showdown featuring sekiwake on the final day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan in To...
SAPPORO (Reuters) — Two-time champion Australia was forced to abandon a wide game plan and resort to controlled possession as it survived an almighty scare in their World Cup Pool D opener against F...
TOKYO (AFP-Jiji) — France produced some champagne rugby before almost losing the plot and having to survive a last-gasp penalty to pip Argentina 23-21 in their World Cup opener on Saturday.
Flyhalf...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Russia drew first blood in the Rugby World Cup on Friday, but ultimately failed to bridge the gap in class with host nation Japan in the opening match of the tournament. There was...
SOUTHAMPTON, England (AP) — At the 16th attempt, Bournemouth finally earned a victory at the home of south-coast rival Southampton. It was sealed with a farcical goal, too. With Southampton still ...
The Yomiuri Giants captured the Central League pennant for the first time in five years, beating second-place Yokohama DeNA Baystars at Yokohama Stadium on Saturday.
Tatsunori Hara returned as manag...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Antonio Brown was released by the New England Patriots on Friday after a second woman accused him of sexual misconduct — the third team in seven months to tire of the off-...
Fourth seed Angelique Kerber reached the Pan Pacific Open semifinals in Japan on Friday after American Madison Keys retired because of injury early in the deciding set. With the match clock at just o...
Goaltenders in the National Hockey League are seeing a recent increase in head injuries. Just two NHL goalies were concussed in 2016-17, missing a total of 15 games. Over the past two seasons, 14 dif...
The outcome of the Emperor’s Cup was narrowed down to five wrestlers — three at 11 wins and three losses — sekiwakes Takakeisho and Mitakeumi, and No. 8 maegashira Okinoumi — and two at 10-4 ...
Japan opened the Rugby World Cup on Friday evening with a 30-10 victory over Russia at Tokyo Stadium in Chofu, Tokyo. On Saturday morning, the flagship official Rugby World Cup 2019 Megastore near t...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Minshew Mania is gaining momentum.
Gardner Minshew threw two touchdown passes and should have had a third, Calais Campbell spearheaded another defensive gem and the Jackso...
Nike Inc. said on Thursday it had cut ties with New England Patriots player Antonio Brown, who has denied allegations by his former personal trainer of rape and sexual assault. “Antonio Brown is no...
TOKYO (AFP-Jiji) — Kotaro Matsushima scored a sizzling hat-trick as hosts Japan recovered from a torrid start to beat Russia 30-10 in their Rugby World Cup opener on Friday. Japan’s prolific win...
The outcome of the Emperor’s Cup was still in doubt after the 13th day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo on Friday, with four wrestlers tied at 10 wins and three losses and five at 9-4 i...
SAPPORO (AP) — Eddie Jones isn’t as comfortable as you might think on his return to Japan for the Rugby World Cup. In fact, the England coach is expecting a roller-coaster ride and is holding ont...
LONDON (AP) — Former England and Newcastle forward Peter Beardsley has been suspended from all soccer-related activity for eight months after being found guilty of making racist comments toward youn...
A former rugby player in the nation’s top league has been striving to promote the Rugby World Cup in Japan, always holding a rugby ball in his hands on his way to work since January. When a passeng...
PARIS (AP) — No Neymar. No Kylian Mbappe. No problem.
With two first-half goals from Angel Di Maria and a rare late strike from right-back Thomas Meunier, a new-look Paris Saint-Germain missing its...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Brooklyn Nets have a new owner and a new CEO.
Alibaba cofounder Joe Tsai completed his purchase of the team and Barclays Center on Wednesday, then announced that he had hired fo...
SEATTLE (AP) — As Drew Brees underwent surgery on his injured throwing hand Wednesday in Los Angeles, his New Orleans Saints teammates went about business mostly as usual preparing for their first g...
Tiger Woods is playing another skins game with two big differences. This one is in Japan and will be broadcast live around the world by Discovery-owned GOLFTV. The event is called “The Challenge: ...
The biggest difference in this year’s Rugby World Cup from past tournaments is that other participating teams can’t overlook Japan as a minor rugby power. The Brave Blossoms’ successful 2015 Wo...
The organizing committee for the Rugby World Cup 2019 has announced that Japanese singer-songwriter Ayaka Hirahara will sing Japan’s national anthem backed by the Air Self-Defense Force’s Central...
It’s now one win to go for sekiwake Takakeisho to return to the rank of ozeki as the sekiwake defeated ozeki Tochinoshin to post his ninth win of the basho on the 11th day of the Autumn Grand Sumo T...
SAPPORO (Reuters) — There is excitement in the air, mixed with a sense of trepidation, in Sapporo as it prepares itself for an influx of fans during the opening weekend of the Rugby World Cup. Aus...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dakota Hudson is a big fan of Marcell Ozuna’s arm.
Ozuna drove in four runs and threw out a runner at home plate from left field, leading the St. Louis Cardinals over the Washing...
National Hockey League players announced Monday they will not opt out of the collective bargaining agreement, guaranteeing labor peace until at least 2022. The NHL Players’ Association announced i...
Jack Hughes scored twice in his NHL preseason debut, including the winner 40 seconds into overtime to lift a New Jersey Devils split squad to a 4-3 win over the Boston Bruins on Monday night in Newark...
The fate of the Emperor’s Cup was cast into further uncertainty as sekiwake Takakeisho and two others posted their eighth wins to join the leaders’ pack on the 10th day of the Autumn Grand Sumo To...
YUKON, Okla. (AP) — A 16-year-old Oklahoma high school football player has died after suffering an apparent head injury during a game. Yanda and Son funeral home said Peter Webb died Sunday at an ...
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) — South Africa’s superb revival over the past 15 months has taken them from one of their lowest-ever periods to genuine Rugby World Cup contenders as they chase a third globa...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — New Zealand will be made to fight all the way for a third consecutive title as a ground-breaking Rugby World Cup gets underway in Japan this week with half a dozen teams confident...
LONDON (AP) — English soccer’s anti-discrimination organization and players’ union have criticized Amazon for not removing racist reviews of soccer star Eni Aluko’s memoir that were posted on...
Yokozuna Kakuryu notified the Japan Sumo Association on Sunday of his withdrawal from the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament, citing an injury to his left knee.
Kakuryu had been aiming to secure victory in...
Two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu competes in the men’s free skate at the Autumn Classic International in Oakville, Canada, on Saturday. Hanyu had the highest score in the short program and ult...
Shogo Nakamura won the Marathon Grand Championship in Tokyo on Sunday, followed by Yuma Hattori, both thereby securing themselves a berth in the men’s marathon at the Tokyo Olympics next year.
Thi...
The Rugby World Cup hosted by Japan starts on Friday, and the home side has a strong captain who loves Japan deeply and ably leads the Brave Blossoms.
Japan national team captain Michael Leitch, 30,...
Yokozuna Kakuryu suffered his third consecutive loss on the seventh day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on Saturday.
Kakuryu (4-3), the lone yokozuna in the basho, w...
Sekiwake Takakeisho, who is aiming to regain the rank of ozeki, suffered his first loss on the sixth day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Friday at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.
Takakeisho (5-1...
Sekiwake Takakeisho and No. 8 maegashira Okinoumi are now the only wrestlers in the top makuuchi division who are loss-free after the fifth day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugika...
An official whistle for the Rugby World Cup, which the chief referee will use during the opening match on Sept. 20, arrived Thursday at the Osaka Port International Ferry Terminal from Shanghai.
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“Will Japan be able to supply enough beer during the Rugby World Cup?” — so asked a reporter at a press conference held in Tokyo by World Rugby, the governing body that organizes the World Cup....
Yokozuna Kakuryu and sekiwake Takakeisho kept their records spotless on the fourth day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Wednesday at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.
Kakuryu handily dealt with No. ...
Yokozuna Kakuryu continued to lead in the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament after three days of action with another easy victory Tuesday at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan.
Kakuryu comfortably picked up his...
No. 1 maegashira Hokutofuji got the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament off to a rousing start with an impressive win over legendary yokozuna Hakuho on the opening day Sunday at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan....
HAMILTON, New Zealand (AP) — Winger George Bridge scored four tries while fullback Ben Smith and center Ryan Crotty bagged doubles as New Zealand overwhelmed Tonga 92-7 Saturday in its last match b...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) — World Cup winner Chester Williams, who broke racial barriers to emerge a national hero as one of South Africa’s first black rugby union internationals, died after a suspe...
KUMAGAYA, Saitama (Reuters) — A hat-trick of tries from Makazole Mapimpi led South Africa to a comfortable 41-7 victory over Japan on Friday in their final World Cup warm-up match, laying down a tou...
Ozeki Takayasu on Friday withdrew from the upcoming Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament due to a left elbow injury suffered during the previous Nagoya tournament in July, the Japan Sumo Association announced...
For Yumi Kajihara, winning a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is not a dream but a very realistic goal. And it is one that she wants to achieve for her mother, Yuri. A senior at the University o...
KASHIWA, Chiba — A Maori rugby coach has produced an original haka for the city of Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, where New Zealand’s national All Blacks team will hold its training camp before the Ru...
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (AP) — Valtteri Bottas’ 30th birthday celebrations were made even better by Mercedes giving him a new contract for next year.
Mercedes gave the Finnish driver a one-year...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Carli Lloyd had a goal and an assist in front of her hometown fans, and the U.S. women’s national team continued its post-World Cup victory tour with a 4-0 win over Portugal in...
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A flash flood swept across a soccer field in a southern Moroccan village, killing at least seven spectators at a local match, the official MAP news agency said Thursday. Heavy...
NEW YORK (AP) — Naomi Osaka smacked a forehand winner into the open court, bringing Colin Kaepernick and Kobe Bryant to their feet in applause.
Osaka has power in her strokes and star power in her ...
Two events featuring the Japanese national rugby team will be held from Monday through Sept. 30 at the head office of The Yomiuri Shimbun in the Otemachi area of Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, in tandem with th...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Kareem Hunt will have to spend his NFL suspension isolated from his team.
The suspended Browns running back, who must serve an eight-game ban for physical altercations, will not be...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Kei Nishikori fended off Bradley Klahn 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the second round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday as the 2014 Flushing Meadows runner-up continued his bid for a first ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams flubbed yet another shot and wailed, “I keep missing my forehand!” She was in trouble, if only briefly, against 17-year-old American Caty McNally, who is friend...
NEW YORK (AP) — The only frustration for Yu Darvish during his longest outing with the Chicago Cubs was that one uncharacteristic walk.
Darvish went eight masterful innings, Javier Baez homered and ...
Brazilian striker Hulk scored both goals for Shanghai SIPG on Tuesday as the Chinese side fought back to draw 2-2 with Urawa Reds of Japan in the first leg of their Asian Champion League quarterfinal....
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (Reuters) — The Spanish Grand Prix will stay on the Formula One calendar in 2020, the sport’s commercial rights holders and race organizers said Tuesday, with the season...
EL PUIG, Spain (AP) — With his eyes closed, Fabio Jakobsen beat Sam Bennett in a photo finish to win the fourth stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Tuesday, while Nicolas Roche kept the overall lead ahea...
MADISON, Ill. (AP) — Takuma Sato held off Ed Carpenter to win the IndyCar race Saturday night at World Wide Technology Raceway.
Sato won by 0.399 seconds. Tony Kaanan was third, followed by Santin...
The national women’s soccer team is Nadeshiko Japan, the baseball team is Samurai Japan and the artistic swimming squad is known as Mermaid Japan. While these monikers have become well known, other ...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Orioles general manager Mike Elias has fired 11 members of the scouting department and front office as part of an effort to turn around a team in the early stages of a major rebuild...
BARCELONA (AP) — Midfielder Joan Jordan scored in the second half to help Sevilla beat Granada 1-0 on the road and win its second match in as many rounds in the Spanish league on Friday. Jordan, one...
DETROIT (AP) — Matthew Stafford got on the field for the first time in the preseason and left the game unscathed.
Some teammates and opponents were not as fortunate.
Stafford threw a go-ahead to...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers intend to sign center Dwight Howard after he completes a buyout with Memphis, a person familiar with the decision said.
The person spoke on condition of a...
GENEVA (AP) — Washington Capitals center Evgeny Kuznetsov tested positive for cocaine at the world championship and has been banned from the Russia team for four years. Kuznetsov failed a doping t...
MUMBAI (Reuters) — India’s dope testing laboratory has already addressed most of the concerns that were raised by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) about its standards and will apply within thre...
MELBOURNE (AP) — Kemba Walker scored 23 points and Myles Turner added 15 to give Team USA a 102-86 win over Australia on Thursday in a World Cup warm-up game. The attendance at Marvel Stadium, whi...
NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova will finally meet in the U.S. Open, and they’ll do it in their very first match. A long-awaited Roger Federer-Rafael Nadal showdown could come...
BERN (Reuters) — Red Star Belgrade’s Champions League qualifying odyssey continued on Wednesday when the former European champion drew 2-2 at Young Boys after being pegged back by a late penalty i...
BARCELONA (AP) — Lionel Messi was back in full training again on Wednesday and might be fit to face Real Betis in the Spanish league on Sunday. Messi had been training separately from the squad si...
It has been a roller-coaster 12 months for Naomi Osaka since her dramatic victory over Serena Williams in the U.S. Open final last year.
After clinching her maiden Grand Slam in a final that will alwa...
The Los Angeles Wildcats and New York Guardians will be among the teams taking the field when the XFL returns in February. The league revealed the logos and names Wednesday for its eight teams, which...
The Women’s Rugby World Cup in 2017 will be the last to bear that title with World Rugby announcing on Wednesday it is adopting a policy of gender neutrality for its tournaments. In what it said is...
Riseisha high school baseball team members celebrate the school’s first National High School Baseball Championship on Thursday at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. The Osaka prefectu...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Winger Akihito Yamada said Monday he is still targeting a spot in his country’s Rugby World Cup squad after joining French club Lyon on loan.
Yamada, 34, who started his nation...
WOLVERHAMPTON, England (Reuters) — Manchester United was held 1-1 at Wolverhampton Wanderers and missed out on taking top spot in the Premier League on Monday as a sumptuous Ruben Neves strike cance...
DENVER (AP) — Broncos receiver Emmanuel Sanders and 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo each made a triumphant return to action Monday night when the San Francisco 49ers’ backups engineered a 24-15 ...
SYDNEY (AP) — Jason Day is hoping a one-week trip Down Under for the Australian Open will turn into two. He and Presidents Cup captain Ernie Els might already be formulating that plan. Australian O...
WASHINGTON (AP) — What started as an innocuous conversation during a public event has evolved into a golf partnership between NBA star Stephen Curry and Howard University. The two-time NBA MVP anno...
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, who set a Japanese record of 9.97 seconds in the men’s 100-meter race, discussed his dream of one day breaking the world record currently held by Usain Bolt in a recent inter...
National rugby team captain Michael Leitch, left, and other members train in Abashiri, Hokkaido, on Tuesday, one month before the opening of the 2019 World Cup in Japan. There are 41 players at the ca...
The organizing committee of the Rugby World Cup in Japan, which will start on Sept. 20, and the international governing body World Rugby have compiled an emergency response plan for cases in which it...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper knows everyone in the dugout and ballpark expects him to get clutch hits in moments just like this.
Boy, he crushed it.
Harper blasted a long grand slam with one o...
ATLANTA (AP) — Pete Alonso and Amed Rosario helped the New York Mets pile up huge totals of hits and runs. The Mets needed almost all of them to hold off the homer-happy Atlanta Braves. Alonso dro...
MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) — On the range, Justin Thomas had no idea where the ball was going. Some five hours later, he had a share of the course record at Medinah.
Ultimately, all that mattered Thursday ...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — DeMarcus Cousins is facing rehab from another major injury, and the Los Angeles Lakers have endured their first big problem of a season with championship expectations.
Cou...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Wolverhampton eased past Armenia’s Pyunik 4-0 and 8-0 on aggregate to reach the Europa League playoffs on Thursday, setting up a meeting with Torino of Italy.
Diogo Jota, on as...
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Red Wings have acquired forward Adam Erne from the Tampa Bay Lightning for a fourth-round pick in the 2020 draft. Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman made the move We...
Kazuya Adachi is aiming to clinch a berth for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and win a medal in the men’s kayak slalom single event there with a specially designed Japan-made canoe. The use of such a cano...
PAARL, South Africa — The Rugby World Cup in Japan starts on Sept. 20. Japan’s shocking victory over South Africa in the 2015 World Cup in England raised the profile of the Brave Blossoms, who ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Gleyber Torres walked to the plate in the eighth inning with runners on first and second, two outs and the Yankees ahead by five runs. Baltimore called for an intentional walk, and...
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Oakland Raiders receiver Antonio Brown lost his grievance with the NFL on Monday over his use of an old helmet that is no longer certified as safe to use for practice or play....
THE HAGUE (AFP-Jiji) — The Netherlands’ most-capped player Wesley Sneijder announced on Monday his retirement from soccer, bringing down the curtain on a trophy-laden career that spanned 17 years....
It’s easy to determine which of two sumo wrestlers wins or loses. A wrestler is declared the loser if part of his body, except the bottoms of his feet, touches the sand on the dohyo ring before his ...
SUVA, Fiji (AP) — Japan caused the sensation of the 2015 Rugby World Cup when it beat South Africa in pool play and signaled its intention to be a danger for the top-tier nations again this year wit...
SYDNEY (Reuters) — Australia gave itself a huge boost ahead of the World Cup when it stunned a New Zealand side reduced to 14 men for half the match 47-26 in a thrilling Rugby Championship test in P...
LIMA (AP) — Olympic fencing medalist Race Imboden took a knee in protest during his team’s foil medal ceremony at the Pan American Games. The American knelt during the national anthem at the med...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two-time Olympic gold medalist Robeisy Ramirez was knocked down seconds into the first round and lost his professional debut to Adan Gonzales on Saturday night. Ramirez suffered...
KOBE — As hot as the action can be on the field, the soaring temperatures during the day can be dangerous for fans watching the games at the National High School Baseball Championship at Koshien Sta...
Kenki Fukuoka scores a try for Japan during Pacific Nations Cup rugby action against the United States at ANZ Stadium in the Fijian capital of Suva on Saturday as the Brave Blossoms rolled to a 34-20 ...
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Kyler Murray wanted to take his team on a scoring drive Thursday night, and even checked twice with his coach to see if he could play beyond one possession.
Arizona didn’t t...
MANCHESTER (Reuters) — Manchester United succeeded in offloading striker Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan on a transfer deadline day that saw plenty of business but few jaw-dropping deals from Premier L...
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Troy Merritt isn’t obsessed with his position in the FedEx Cup and what he needs to advance in the PGA Tour’s postseason. He figures the best solution is good golf, and ...
TORONTO (AFP-Jiji) — Serena Williams and Japan’s Naomi Osaka booked a rematch of last year’s U.S. Open final in the Rogers Cup quarterfinals after straight-sets triumphs on Thursday.
Reigning ...
LIMA (AP) — After the final buzzer, the members of Argentina’s women’s basketball team huddled near the edge of the center circle and cried — even though they won. The team’s 73-59 victory...
MONTREAL (AP) — Top-seeded defending champion Rafael Nadal advanced to the Rogers Cup quarterfinals, beating Argentina’s Guido Pella 6-3, 6-4 in the wind Thursday. “A tough day in terms of win...
Applications for luxury ticket packages for the 2020 Tokyo Games, some costing millions of yen, will be accepted from the end of August, the organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Games announced Wedn...
LIMA (AP) — Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis said Monday female athletes deserve fair and equal pay and criticized U.S. President Donald Trump as a “racist and misogynist.” Lewis was...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Veteran defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk has signed a one-year, $1.75 million contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning after being bought out by the New York Rangers. Lightning vice pr...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A $1.9 billion stadium being built for the NFL’s Oakland Raiders when the team moves to Las Vegas next year is being named for Allegiant Travel Co., team and company officials sai...
MILTON KEYNES, England — Hinako Shibuno made a stunning debut in her first golf major on Sunday, winning the Women’s British Open by one stroke with a four-under 68 in the final round.
Shibuno,...
HOUSTON (AP) — After losing 13 decisions in a row with Toronto, Aaron Sanchez was looking for a fresh start and a way to turn things around in his move to the Houston Astros.
But even with their hi...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies have sued the New York company that created the Phanatic mascot to prevent the green furry fan favorite from becoming a free agent. In a complaint filed F...
CANTON, Ohio (AP) — What a defensive backfield in gold jackets: Ed Reed, Ty Law and Champ Bailey.
And what a challenge they had throughout their careers, trying to cover fellow inductee Tony Gonza...
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Departing head coach Jill Ellis and the U.S. women’s national team opened their post-World Cup domestic Victory Tour with a 3-0 win over Ireland on Saturday night. Tobin ...
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Ryan Lochte scratched the B final of the 100-meter backstroke at the U.S. national swimming championships. The 12-time Olympic medalist qualified 15th in the preliminaries w...
Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon settled a sexual harassment lawsuit with a former employee of his sports marketing firm, the woman’s lawyer told The Washington Post. Moon originally denied th...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — North Korea has nominated Pyongyang as the host venue for a World Cup-qualifying soccer match against South Korea in October, clearing the way for the countries to play on Nort...
WELLINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — As the All Blacks chase a third straight World Cup in Japan, the schoolboy rugby competitions that forged many of New Zealand’s stars face an “alarming” fall in player ...
A little more than a year remains before the start of the Tokyo Paralympics, and sports facilities for the disabled are being built across Japan and competitions being held for para athletes. The Para...
Australian Nick Kyrgios blasted 15 aces to blow past Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka 6-2, 7-5 on Thursday and reach the quarterfinals at the Citi Open in Washington, D.C.
Kyrgios was dominant on serve ...
FIFA’s Council has unanimously approved expanding the Women’s World Cup from 24 teams to 32 for 2023 and has reopened bidding to host the tournament, but made no mention of changing prize money.
...
TOKYO (Reuters) — World No. 2 Naomi Osaka admitted Thursday that the past few months have been “the worst of my life,” and added she hasn’t had fun on the court since winning the Australian Op...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — A Swiss court ruling that blocks South African Caster Semenya from defending her world 800-meter title in Doha in September creates much-needed “parity and clarity” in athleti...
The past few weeks have been a blur to Zion Williamson. Picked No. 1 in the NBA draft by the New Orleans Pelicans. Signed his first pro contract that could be worth as much as $45 million over the ne...
SEOUL (Reuters) — Soccer fans in South Korea are taking legal action to seek compensation after Cristiano Ronaldo failed to play in a friendly during Juventus’ preseason tour in Seoul last week. ...
Yuta Watanabe, right, of the Memphis Grizzlies, has a light moment with Rui Hachimura of the Washington Wizards as the duo headlined 16 candidates for Japan’s national basketball team, announced on ...
Local governments are trying to revitalize their communities by focusing on the freshness and popularity of additional sports and new events at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Local governments are trying to...
HIRATSUKA, Kanagawa — Shunya Takayama finally has the national record in the men’s 110-meter hurdles all to himself.
Takayama clocked 13.30 seconds at the All-Star Night meet at Shonan BMW Stadi...
HOUSTON (AP) — Russell Westbrook knows he’s in for a huge change in his move from the Oklahoma City Thunder to the Houston Rockets.
And he’s ready to do whatever it takes to make the move work...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Derek Holland was acquired by the Cubs from the San Francisco Giants for a player to be named, giving the Cubs a new left-handed bullpen option. As part of the trade announced Fri...
TIGNES, France (AP) — In an instant, and just as it was becoming even more thrilling, the most exciting Tour de France in decades became truly bizarre, and got a new leader — Egan Bernal of Colomb...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean McVay and Les Snead have received their rewards for their two-year transformation of the Los Angeles Rams.
The Rams’ 33-year-old coach and his general manager have agreed...
