The X League champion was simply too much for the collegiate side — again. Trashaun Nixson rushed for 206 yards and two touchdowns and earned game MVP honors, while Michael Birdsong threw two scoring passes, leading the Fujitsu Frontiers to a 52-17 rout of the ...

Trashaun Nixon used to make plays as a linebacker by pressuring quarterbacks and tackling runners. One year later, he became the Japan X Bowl MVP as a running back. Nixon carried 17 times for 196 yards and three touchdowns on Monday at Tokyo Dome, leading ...

Kosei Okuno, the victim in the illegal tackle scandal which rocked Japan in May, made history for himself on Sunday. The Kwansei Gakuin University sophomore quarterback completed 12 of 15 passes for 149 yards to guide the Fighters to a 37-20 triumph over the Waseda ...

Trashaun Nixon scored on a 22-yard run with 4:11 remaining in the fourth quarter and Al-Rilwan Adeyemi made a game-clinching interception in the closing seconds, leading the Fujitsu Frontiers to a 13-10 victory over the Obic Seagulls in the semifinals of the X League ...

Beyond making their audience laugh with punchlines, comedy duo Sandwich Man have two other missions. One is supporting the Tohoku area's recovery from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, something personal to them as Sendai natives. The other is promoting the Rugby World Cup as ...

The Phoenix are back on the field. The Nihon University football team, which has been suspended by the Kantoh Collegiate Football Association for the 2018 season after the illegal tackle incident on May 6, had an exhibition game against a combined X League team on ...

Skyler Howard threw four touchdown passes and ran for another, leading the Obic Seagulls to a 42-25 victory over the Nojima Sagamihara Rise on Saturday at Yokohama Stadium in the quarterfinals of the X League playoffs. The Seagulls face the defending X League champion Fujitsu ...

For Fujio Kariya, NHK's executive commentator (the broadcaster's top news commentator), the most impressive bout in his 31-year career as an NHK sumo announcer took place at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament in 1988. That was when yokozuna Onokuni upset fellow yokozuna Chiyonofuji on the ...

There were no traits of a crying baby. Instead of shedding tears, which was her trademark in childhood, Ai Fukuhara kept smiling and repeated the words of appreciation as the 29-year-old table tennis icon spoke to the media on Tuesday, two days after announcing ...

Nihon University Phoenix defensive lineman Taisuke Miyagawa returned to practice on Thursday for the first time since his controversial May 6 tackle on Kwansei Gakuin Fighters quarterback Kosei Okuno drew international attention, according to Phoenix head coach Isao Hashizume. Miyagawa's attorneys released a statement on ...