Ed Odeven covers primarily basketball for The Japan Times. He reported on a wide range of sports from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Summer Games for this newspaper. A native of the Bronx, N.Y., Odeven is a graduate of Arizona State University. He previously worked for the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff, Ariz., reporting on high school, collegiate, professional and Olympic sports (Flagstaff is a major international Olympic training site due to its high elevation) and writing a weekly column. His articles have appeared in Venezuela Online News, The Gleaner (Jamaica), the Monitor (Uganda), The Moscow Times, Swimming World Magazine and numerous other publications.
For Ed Odeven's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
The B. League on Tuesday announced that the 2018 All-Star Game will be held in Kumamoto. The event will take place on Jan. 14. It will be televised by NHK BS1 and shown on the internet via Sportsnavi Live. Tipoff is set for 3:05 p.m.For ...
The Alvark Tokyo are starting to hit their stride. And with six games in the books, new coach Luka Pavicevic's vision for the team is starting to take shape. Tokyo exhibited patience on offense early on and then picked apart the undermanned Yokohama B-Corsairs' zone ...
The defending champion Tochigi Brex fell to 2-3 to open the new season, losing 76-70 to the visiting Chiba Jets on Saturday afternoon. Chiba sealed the victory at the free-throw line in the fourth quarter, converting 10 of 11 shots, including three apiece by Ryumo ...
Cartier Martin made a dynamic debut last weekend for the San-en NeoPhoenix. By doing so, he instantly became one of the must-watch names in the B. League's new season. In week two of the 2017-18 campaign, the veteran swingman made quite an impression in his first ...
The Kyoto Hannaryz rallied past the visiting Nishinomiya Storks in the final 91 seconds of Friday's series opener. Kyoto scored the final six points of the game and recorded a 65-61 victory at Hannaryz Arena. The Storks (0-5) took a 61-59 lead on Connor Lammert's 3-pointer ...
Third in a three-part series Memories help define who we are as individuals, and provide common links among communities, cultures and nations. For Tom Meschery, memories of World War II remain etched in the backroads of his mind. A young boy in Tokyo during the war, ...
Early in his pro career, Tatsuya Suzuki displayed a flair for making the right pass at the right time. Yes, he records a flashy assist here and there. He also threads the needle on textbook tosses of all varieties to his teammates. He reads the defense ...
The Niigata Albirex BB and Alvark Tokyo provided plenty of drama on Tuesday night in their series finale that went down to the wire. Niigata's Davante Gardner scored a game-high 40 points and frontcourt mate Austin Dufault made the winning basket, an inside shot, with ...
The Levanga Hokkaido completed a two-game sweep of the visiting Yokohama B-Corsairs on Monday night, winning 89-82. Marc Trasolini paced Hokkaido (3-1) with 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds. Asahi Tajima poured in 14 points, Takehiko Orimo had 12 and Daniel Miller and Ryota Sakurai ...
There wasn't a way to sugarcoat the facts. The final score — San-en NeoPhoenix 64, Sunrockers Shibuya 54 — spelled out the fact that the hosts didn't do enough on offense to win Sunday afternoon's game at Aoyama Gakuin University Memorial Hall. The facts were the ...
