Chuck Mills, who inspired Japan's college football to flourish, dies at 92
The Chicago native brought Utah State and Wake Forest to Japan for exhibition games before taking local coaches under his wing in the United States.
In a rematch of Japan's most infamous American football game, Kwansei Gakuin University defeated Nihon University 42-24 in Sunday's Koshien Bowl. The win extended Kwansei's Koshien Bowl record championship haul to 31. Kwansei quarterback Kosei Okuno, hospitalized after an unsportsmanlike tackle in a May 2018 ...
KCFA admits to lying about ex-Nihon University football coaches' grievance paperwork
The Kantoh Collegiate Football Association in May ruled that former Nihon University head coach Masato Uchida and ex-assistant coach Tsutomu Inoue did not tell the truth about the illegal tackle incident when it decided to hand them lifetime bans from the Kantoh Collegiate ...
Kwansei Gakuin player’s parent angrily denounced Masato Uchida and Tsutomu Inoue on Thursday after they denied ordering the illegal hit and blamed it on a miscommunication.
Veracity lacking in explanation by coaches
It's an ongoing saga of conflicting narratives. In Wednesday night's news conference, Masato Uchida, the former Nihon University head coach, and his assistant coach Tsutomu Inoue made it apparent that their opinions of the football scandal they are embroiled in are far different than Taisuke ...
Nihon University player Taisuke Miyagawa says coach ordered dirty tackles
Nihon University defensive end Taisuke Miyagawa spoke publicly for the first time about his role in a controversial college football game that has generated headlines.
Jerry Neuheisel reflects on playing in Japan
Jerry Neuheisel has professed that he would eventually take over the office that once belonged to his father, Rick, by becoming head coach for the UCLA football team. After a year serving as a graduate assistant as Texas A&M last year, the 25-year-old former ...
NCAA football coaches find the going getting tougher
"Go for it! Go for It!," football fans in the stands will often shout when their team is faced with a fourth down and short yardage situation deep in its own territory. Most often the coach of said team disregards the crowd's exhortations and opts ...
Playing in the NFL is the ultimate dream of every kid who plays football. The majority, however, never get to see that dream come true. The window of opportunity to reach the NFL is even narrower if you don't live in the United States. But James ...
NCAA's hoop hype not such an easy sell in December
If Howard Cosell were still with us, he would probably say this about NCAA basketball (you supply the nasal tone and staccato pace): There now exists annually a veritable plethora of enthralling inter-conference hardwood encounters between traditionally proficient American institutions of higher academia. Translation: These ...
'Small' schools deserve bigger respect
The headline of a recent story on ESPN.com read: "Small School QBs Have Big Talent." OK, you've got my attention, MAS thought to himself. So he read on, expecting to find out about hot quarterback prospects from colleges like Valdosta State or Mt. Union — perennial ...
