Gonzaga's Rui Hachimura named West Coast Conference Player of the Year
Rui Hachimura was named the West Coast Conference 2018-2019 Player of the Year on Tuesday after helping lead Gonzaga University, currently the nation's No. 1 team, to its seventh straight regular-season title and 20th consecutive win. The 21-year-old junior was also named to the All-WCC ...
College sports reformers stay positive despite setbacks
Implementing change is often a painful procedure. That is apparently the case for the leaders working to revamp the landscape of college sports in Japan. It has been a couple of years since discussions aimed at forming a Japanese organization similar to the National Collegiate Athletic ...
Former Minnesota athletics chief Joel Maturi says Japan can benefit from college sports overhaul
Joel Maturi, an ex-director of athletics for the University of Minnesota, thinks it is "insane" and "crazy" that some of the major NCAA schools make a large amount of money through sports. But he adds that it is the reality in the United States, and ...
Mark Emmert, the National Collegiate Athletic Association president, supports Japan trying to establish its own college sports governing body. Emmert, who stopped here after visiting Taipei for the World University Games, was invited to meet a group of leaders that are studying the U.S. model ...
Yasuda spearheads University of Tsukuba's efforts to modernize college sports in Japan
Dome Corporation CEO Shuichi Yasuda says that the country's universities are mostly conservative and reluctant to tackle new initiatives. On the other hand, the University of Tsukuba is trying to be a trailblazer in reforming Japanese collegiate sports. The national university announced on Thursday that it ...
Plan to reform Japanese college sports greeted with mixture of hope, skepticism
Discussions over the introduction of a "Japanese version of the NCAA" to oversee this country's collegiate sports have prompted positive and negative reactions since they began last year. Sports management expert and university professor Itaru Kobayashi is one of the scholars who supports the project ...
Japanese collegiate sports study ends Phase 1
Japan is currently working to reform college sports and establish its own version of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), creating athletic departments at universities to help it function more efficiently. When that's accomplished, the hope is that it will benefit universities as a whole, ...
Researchers urge Japan to reform college sports system
In the past year or so, the Japan Sports Agency, an external bureau of the education ministry, has discussed the potential establishment of "a Japanese edition of the NCAA" as part of its scheme to make college sports in this country more business-like. That does ...
RB Gray blazing trail for Japanese football with Utes
For the majority of football players in Japan, taking the gridiron in the sport's mother nation, the United States, is beyond their imagination. But running back James Takada Gray has made his boyhood dream a reality. Gray, who was born to an American father and a ...
Selection committee for NCAA playoff system flawed
"Geez, it's not figure skating." — Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher's take on "style points" affecting the college football playoff rankings. Style points. Translation: lopsided wins. These days, it isn't enough for teams to just win every week on the college gridiron. You also have to ...
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 shamed into feeding their athletes
The debate over paying American college athletes ramped up with basketball's March Madness ,giving the press a perfect opportunity to harp on the unfairness of a billion-dollar business built on the backs of unpaid labor.
