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Facing odds that reeked of unfairness, the Chunichi Dragons couldn't have scripted a better beginning to the second stage of the Central League Climax Series. A five-run first inning got the Dragons off to a blazing start, and the Yomiuri Giants watched...
Tags: Yomiuri Giants, Chunichi Dragons, climax series, central league, league climax, Tokyo Dome
Jay Vickers ran for 139 yards, scored a touchdown and set up another Saturday to lead Lou Holtz's Notre Dame alumni team to a 19-3 win over Japan in the Notre Dame Japan Bowl. Vickers, who played in seven games for Notre Dame in 1997 and 1998, sealed...
Tags: notre dame, Japan Bowl, Lou Holtz, Tokyo Dome, dame football, Jay Vickers
Michihiro Ogasawara and Lee Seung Yeop drove in five runs between them to back a complete-game effort by Tetsuya Utsumi as the Yomiuri Giants trounced the Yakult Swallows 7-1 on Sunday. Yomiuri took the three-game series at Tokyo Dome against the surging...
Tags: Yomiuri Giants, Tokyo Dome, Tetsuya Utsumi
Noriaki Endo, 37, an apparel company president and husband of actress Sakura Uehara, 32, was arrested Saturday for punching a male cameraman, 45, who works for a women’s magazine. On Sunday, Uehara apologized for the incident on her blog, writing that...
Tags: Masatoshi Nakamura, Tokyo Dome, Sakura Uehara, Shunta Nakamura, Japan
ET The Associated Press South Korea's Kim Tae-kyun produced the only RBI in the game against Japan Monday at the World Baseball Classic in Tokyo. (Koji Sasahara/Associated Press) Kim Tae-kyun drove in the only run Monday to help South Korea beat defending...
Tags: Japan, South Korea, world baseball, baseball classic, Tokyo Dome, China, Asian, japan inning, olympic champion, defending champion
Of course it's frustrating," Suzuki told reporters. "If it wasn't frustrating to me, I'd give up baseball." Suzuki is under tremendous public pressure to perform well for Japan. He also got off to a slow start at the 2006 WBC but finished with 12 hits...
Tags: Team Japan, China, baseball classic, WBC, South Korea, Tokyo Dome, Taiwan, Shuichi Murata, Ichiro Suzuki, Yu Darvish
Japan begins defense of its 2006 World Baseball Classic title with a Group A contest Thursday against China at the Tokyo Dome. Japan trounced China 18-2 in a game called in the eighth inning by the mercy rule during the inaugural event three years ago.
Tags: Samurai Japan, baseball classic, world baseball, WBC, China, Tokyo Dome, Yu Darvish, defending champion, Ichiro Suzuki, Seiichi Uchikawa
The Uni-President Lions kept the Seibu Lions caged for 8 2/3 innings. But with their backs against the wall, Tomoaki Sato and the Japan Series champions roared loudest in the end. Sato lined a sayonara double into left-center field with two outs in the...
Tags: Uni-President Lions of Taiwan, Saitama Seibu Lions, asia series, Japan, Asia, Tokyo Dome, japan series
The Seibu Lions and SK Wyverns went through the final preparations for their matchup in the 2008 edition of the Asia Series during a pair of brief practices on Wednesday at Tokyo Dome. "Japanese teams have won (all) three times in this Asia Series," Seibu...
Tags: asia series, Tokyo Dome, Taiwan, Seibu Lions, Tianjin Lions, China