Kohei Arihara allowed no runs for the second straight start, pitching the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters to their 13th straight win, a 4-0 Pacific League victory over the Chiba Lotte Marines on Saturday. The Fighters’ win streak is Japan’s longest since they won 14 straight in 2007. The PL and Nippon Professional Baseball record is […]
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Yokohama F. Marinos eased past struggling Avispa Fukuoka 3-0 to make it two wins out of two in the J. League second stage on Saturday night. Manabu Saito opened the scoring with a trademark strike late in the first half, before Cayman Togashi stood his ground to add the second shortly after the interval. Substitute […]
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Two former Fukushima Firebonds standouts made their 2016 NBA Las Vegas Summer League debuts on Friday night. Guard Verdell Jones III, who played college ball at Indiana University, had a team-best 12 points with three rebounds, three assists and a block for the NBA D-League Select squad in a 99-79 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies. […]
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The Olympic-bound Japan women’s national basketball team wrapped up a three-game exhibition series against Senegal with an overwhelming 84-38 victory at Yoyogi National Gymnasium No. 2 on Saturday. The hosts swept the African country, which will also compete in the Rio de Janeiro Games next month. Forward Maki Takada racked up a game-high 14 points, […]
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Second in a two-part series Throughout its rocky 11-season history, mismanagement was often at the heart of the bj-league’s biggest problems. The league grew so fast (from six to eight to 10 to 12 to 13 to . . . eventually 24 teams this past season (two clubs also folded and another defected), and the […]
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Serena Williams insisted she was not focused on No. 22. Said she wouldn’t discuss it. Kept coming close without quite getting it. Now she finally has it. And so she can flaunt it. Williams lifted both arms overhead and raised two fingers on each hand right there on Centre Court to show off the magic […]
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Bartolo Colon and Max Scherzer are headed to the All-Star Game, picked as replacements for other pitchers originally selected for the National League team. Major League Baseball also announced Friday that Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Michael Saunders and San Francisco Giants first baseman Brandon Belt won the final two All-Star roster spots, elected by fans […]
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A few more kids are on their way to Brazil after Saturday’s racing at the U.S. Olympic Trials. In this case, they are 41-year-old Bernard Lagat’s son and daughter, Miika and Gianna. The American record-holder flipped the script on a youth-filled trials Saturday, running his final lap of the 5,000 meters in 52 seconds to […]
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Defending champion Chris Froome took his rivals by surprise with a daring downhill attack that earned him the race leader’s yellow jersey on the eighth stage of the Tour de France on Saturday. Leading at the top of the final climb of the Tour’s second Pyrenean stage, a tough 184-km ride from Pau to Bagneres-de-Luchon, […]
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The Sunwolves showed Saturday that no matter how big the heart is, if the legs are gone then there is only one result. The toll of a long tough first season in Super Rugby showed at Loftus Versfeld as Mark Hammett’s side was beaten 50-3 by the Bulls. The hosts, desperate for a win to […]
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