WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will stage a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing to protest Chinese human rights abuses, the White House confirmed Monday, a move that ...

KEARNS, Utah (AP) — Erin Jackson won her fourth World Cup speedskating gold medal of the season Friday, taking the 500 meters on home ice at the Utah Olympic Oval. Skating in front of family and ...

In the strongest public stand against China taken by a sports body, the head of the women’s professional tennis tour announced Wednesday that all WTA tournaments there would be suspended because of...

Yokozuna Terunofuji tied a perfect bow on his sixth tournament title with a lengthy and slap-filled victory over ozeki Takakeisho in the final day of action at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament on Sund...

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows, the Central League champions, defeated the Orix Buffaloes, winners of the Pacific League, 2-1 in 12 innings on Saturday at Hotto Motto Field Kobe in Kobe to earn their sixth...

Swimming star Rikako Ikee, who competed at the Tokyo Olympics after recovering from leukemia, has vowed to aim higher after recalling a year full of ups and downs. Nihon University’s swimming cl...

BEIJING (AP) — An employee of Chinese state TV has posted photos of missing tennis star Peng Shuai online in a new effort to dispel concern about her disappearance after she accused a senior leader...

Some of the world’s most famous tennis players, distraught by the disappearance of colleague Peng Shuai, are challenging China’s Communist Party to get answers. So far it’s a standoff with li...

LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani was crowned the American League’s Most Valuable Player on Thursday night, adding yet another feather to his well-plumed cap after a historic season with the Los Angeles...

NEW YORK (AP) — Shohei Ohtani was unanimiously voted American League MVP on Thursday for a two-way season not seen since Babe Ruth, and Bryce Harper earned the National League honor for the second ...

BEIJING (AP) — Tennis star Naomi Osaka says she’s been shocked to hear about a fellow player who has gone quiet since making a sexual assault allegation against a former top government official i...

MUSCAT — A late goal from Junya Ito lifted Japan to a 1-0 victory against Oman in World Cup Group B qualifying action on Tuesday night. Ito broke the deadlock in the 81st minute, volleying a cross...

TOMASZOW MAZOWIECKI, Poland — Speed skating star Miho Takagi got her World Cup season off to a good start, winning the women’s 1,500 meters on Sunday, while Japan also got a victory from Tatsuya ...

As he waits to find out if his historic fourth season in the major leagues was enough to earn the Most Valuable Player award, Shohei Ohtani is already looking ahead to putting up bigger numbers next ...

DEL MAR, Calif. — Loves Only You became the first horse trained in Japan to win a Breeders’ Cup race at the Del Mar racetrack in California on Saturday. The 5-year-old mare, trained by Yoshito Y...

The first stage of the Climax Series for both the Central and Pacific Leagues of Nippon Professional Baseball started Saturday, with fans filling about half of the stadiums in each league’s games. ...

Two-time Olympic figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu has pulled out of next week’s NHK Trophy after injuring his right ankle in a fall, the Japan Skating Federation announced on Thursday. The 2...

HOUSTON (AP) — Most of the season, it just seemed this wasn’t their year. They dropped their first four games, and soon injuries piled up. They lost their most dynamic player before the All-Sta...

NEW YORK (AP) — Los Angeles Angels two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani was voted player of the year and the American League outstanding player by fellow major leaguers in the annual Players Choice Awa...

HOUSTON (AP) — Shohei Ohtani’s two-way All-Star season with the Los Angeles Angels was so unprecedented that Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred presented a special award to recognize ...

KITAKYUSHU — Mai Murakami will be taking a nice parting gift into retirement — the world gold medal in the women’s floor exercise. Murakami regained the title she held in 2017, then announ...

CHIBA (AP) — Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama had three birdies in five holes on the back nine and eagled the 18th for good measure for a five-stroke victory at the PGA Tour’s Zozo Championship ...

Los Angeles Angels’ two-way star Shohei Ohtani was selected as the Major League Player of the Year by U.S. baseball magazine Baseball America on Friday. Ohtani is the first Japanese player to be ...

BEIJING (AP) — The Olympic flame arrived in Beijing on Wednesday amid calls from overseas critics for a boycott of the Feb. 4-20 Winter Games. Beijing’s Communist Party Secretary Cai Qi, the to...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA. Greece (AP) — Three activists protesting human rights abuses in China sneaked into the archaeological site where the flame lighting ceremony for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics wa...

Sakura Yosozumi, a gold medalist in skateboarding at the Tokyo Olympics, participated on Saturday in a hands-on event at her training base, a skateboard park in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, giving l...

Shohei Ohtani led off the game with a home run and Jared Walsh added a two-run shot as the Los Angeles Angels defeated host Seattle 7-3 Sunday afternoon, thwarting the Mariners’ bid for their first...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — A 21-day quarantine for non-fully vaccinated athletes, officials and workers at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Daily testing for vaccinated people. No tickets sold to anyon...

Shohei Othani has thrown his final pitch this season for the Los Angeles Angels, and the two-way All-Star will focus on his at-bats in the final few games. “There’s really nothing left to prove...

Yokozuna Hakuho, the most successful wrestler in sumo history, has decided to bring down the curtain on a career that includes 45 grand tournament titles and a slew of other records, a sumo source s...

Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Mongolian-born yokozuna sumo grand champion Hakuho is planning to retire, informed sources said Monday. Although the 36-year-old sumo wrestler belonging to the Miyagino stable ...

Yokozuna Terunofuji was on his backside the moment he won his fifth career Emperor’s Cup during Sunday’s final day of action at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament. The newly minted yokozuna was rin...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani tripled in his first two at-bats and the Los Angeles Angels routed Seattle 14-1 on Saturday night, ending the Mariners’ six-game winning streak and damaging t...

A golden mailbox was unveiled Friday at the Goshomi Post Office in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, in honor of native Eri Yamada, captain of the national softball team who won the gold medal at the Tok...

The Chiba Lotte Marines are trying to strike it big in an unusual Nippon Professional Baseball season that has endured the coronovirus pandemic, contests being limited to nine innings and a monthlong ...

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Naomi Osaka pulled out of the BNP Paribas Open on Wednesday, a move that was expected after she indicated following her U.S. Open loss this month that she planned to tak...

The 2021 Tokyo Marathon, already rescheduled once to Oct. 17, has been postponed to March 6 next year — the scheduled date for the 2022 race, which has now been canceled — the organizer announced...

Before achieving his goal of swimming at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Shoon Mitsunaga has another dream he’d like to fulfill — playing at Koshien Stadium for the national high school baseball title. ...

WAKKANAI, Hokkaido — Loco Solare, which won a bronze medal representing Japan in women’s curling at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, took a step closer to appearing in Beijing in 2022 after ...

Tokyo Paralympic gold medalist Shingo Kunieda holds up the trophy after successfully defending his U.S. Open title by defeating Alfie Hewett of Britain 6-1, 6-4 in the men’s wheelchair singles final...

NEW YORK (AP) — A game from the end of his bid for what would have been the first calendar-year Grand Slam in men’s tennis since 1969, Novak Djokovic covered his face with a towel, hiding his tea...

NEW YORK (AP) — British teenager Emma Raducanu arrived in New York last month with a ranking of 150th, just one Grand Slam appearance to her name and a flight booked to head out of town after the U...

NEW YORK (AP) — Naomi Osaka looked over at her agent and said she wanted to tell the world what the two of them had discussed privately in an Arthur Ashe Stadium hallway after her U.S. Open title de...

NEW YORK (AP) — Naomi Osaka smacked her racket against Arthur Ashe Stadium’s court. Moments later, she chucked her equipment, sending it bouncing and skidding halfway to the net. Then came a full...

The three games scheduled for Wednesday at the 103rd National High School Baseball Championship at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, were rescheduled for Thursday because of inclement ...

Miyazaki Commercial High School’s baseball team has bowed out of the 103rd National High School Baseball Championship after 13 of its members tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the organizer...

NEW YORK — Yoshitomo Tsutsugo moved to his third major league team this season, joining the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday following his release from the Los Angeles Dodgers the previous day. The P...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — After all the turmoil of the last week, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya finally feels safe. The Belarusian Olympic sprinter who found refuge in Poland to avoid punishment at home af...

YOKOHAMA (AP) — A Japanese team of All-Stars fulfilled a determined national mission to win the Olympic baseball gold medal for the first time, beating the United States 2-0 Saturday night behind M...

YOKOHAMA (AP) — From the World Cup to Olympics, Brazil’s men are champions again in Yokohama 19 years apart. Malcom scored in the 108th minute in extra time to give Brazil a 2-1 win over Spain ...