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Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped “liberate” a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican’s insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It’s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in ...
Tim Duncan saves the day as the Spurs hold off the Grizzlies in overtime
Vegalta Sendai striker Wilson will serve out the remainder of his two-match ban for Saturday’s away game to Yokohama F. Marinos after being sent off in the Asian Champions League, the J. League said Friday. Wilson was handed the ban by the Asian Football ...
Vegalta Sendai and Sagan Tosu shared the points in a stifling 1-1 draw in the J. League on Sunday. Naoyuki Fujita drew first blood for Tosu in the opening half before Sendai striker Shingo Akamine leveled minutes after halftime as the two struggling sides ...
Two-time World Cup forward Atsushi Yanagisawa opened his 2013 account at the perfect time as Vegalta Sendai recorded their first-ever win in the Asian Champions League with a 1-0 victory over FC Seoul on Wednesday. Yanagisawa scored shortly after the quarter-hour in his first ...
J. League champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima are in danger of first-round elimination in the Asian Champions League after suffering their third consecutive defeat in a 1-0 loss to South Korea’s Pohang Steelers on Tuesday. Bae Chun Suk scored the only goal midway through the opening ...
Highlighting the top nine finishers from the J. League last season in the second part of this two-day preview.
Vegalta Sendai have signed Brazilian midfielder Diogo on loan from Brazil’s Sport Recife, the J. League first division club said on Saturday. The 26-year-old Diogo, whose real name is Antunes De Oliveira, was loaned out by Sport Recife for six months of last year ...
Kashiwa Reysol’s season took another downward turn as three late goals from Yojiro Takahagi and Naoki Ishihara saw Sanfrecce Hiroshima condemn the champions to a crushing 5-2 home defeat in the J-League on Sunday. A Hisato Sato brace put Hiroshima in control but it ...
Alex Brosque grabbed a late winner as Shimizu S-Pulse put an end to Vegalta Sendai’s unbeaten streak with a 1-0 defeat of the quake-stricken club in the J. League on Sunday night. Chances were at a premium in a tightly contested affair at Outsourcing ...
Substitute Hidetaka Kanazono capitalized on comical defending to snatch a stoppage-time equalizer and earn Jubilo Iwata a point in a roller-coaster 3-3 draw away to Vegalta Sendai in the J. League on Saturday. Unbeaten Sendai squandered an early two-goal lead but Makoto Kakuda looked ...
Vegalta Sendai enjoyed a fairy tale return to J. League action as Jiro Kamata scored an 87th-minute winner to give the stricken Miyagi Prefecture side a 2-1 victory over Kawasaki Frontale on Saturday. Without a home since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami damaged ...
SENDAI (Kyodo) Brazilian striker Marquinhos will be back in Japan tormenting defenses again this season after Vegalta Sendai on Friday announced the acquisition of the 34-year-old journeyman. Sendai will be Marquinhos’ sixth J1 club. He joined Tokyo Verdy in 2001 and had stints with ...