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SPORTS SCOPE

SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jan 18, 2004
Kanto freezes Waseda for title
What a difference a year makes.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jan 9, 2004
Morioka vs. Major League Baseball: Not a pretty picture
In the beginning it seemed like a dream, the opportunity of a lifetime, but it ended up being more like a nightmare.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Dec 24, 2003
Rugby needs to shift its goalposts one way or another
It seems that after every World Cup, the losers all band together and call for rule changes. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," is a concept alien in rugby circles.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Dec 21, 2003
Olympic champ really was the full Monti
The news that Eugenio Monti had committed suicide on Dec. 1 at the age of 75 (brought about by his battle with Parkinson's disease) probably didn't raise too many eyebrows, but for those in the know the Italian was the very epitome of sportsmanship.
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Nov 29, 2003
Top League looking to emulate World Cup final
While the rest of the world was watching the final stages of the action Down Under at the Rugby World Cup, it was business as usual for the players in the Top League.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Nov 16, 2003
Wallabies stun All Blacks in Rugby World Cup semifinal
SYDNEY, Australia -- The All Blacks' World Cup bogey continues and they will have to wait another four long years before they can get another crack at the prized William Webb Ellis trophy for the tournament's winner.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Nov 13, 2003
Tokyo best place for NBA games
It was great to see the NBA back in Japan, after a four-year absence, a couple of weeks ago.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 31, 2003
Kobe-Shaq feud good theater, but really no big deal
A tempest in a teapot. That's the way I see it.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 19, 2003
Unconvincing France struggles by upstart Japan
TOWNSVILLE, Australia -- Japan may have lost its second game in the 2003 Rugby World Cup but the Cherry Blossoms produced a performance against France that surpassed even their heroics of last week when they lost to Scotland, but won over a nation.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 12, 2003
Australia living up to its 'lucky country' nickname
TOWNSVILLE, Australia -- Talk about living up to your nickname!
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Sep 19, 2003
Decision time for De La Hoya after defeat
We have all had the feeling in life.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Sep 12, 2003
Top League heralds a new era in Japanese rugby
Rugby in Japan looks to enter a new era on Saturday when Suntory takes on Kobe Steel in the first game of the new Top League.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Sep 11, 2003
Ichiro needs to learn how to pace himself
It has been painful to watch, but predictable.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Sep 5, 2003
IAAF should make example out of White
The end of the World Championships on Sunday marked the passing of the third straight major athletics event where there were no world records (outside of race walking) set.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 29, 2003
Zico should keep perspective
The question on everyone's lips after Japan's resounding 3-0 thrashing of a second-string Nigerian team, was has Japan turned the corner and will Zico now be given the elbow room he has so craved in order to take the national team to a new level?
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 24, 2003
Samurais are in a league of their own
With the launch of the Top League (the new professional league for rugby union in Japan) just three weeks away and the World Cup due to start on Oct. 10, it is easy to forget that there are in fact two codes of rugby.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 22, 2003
Bobby Bonds: A lot more than Barry's dad
Too often in life we wait until someone is gone before expressing our admiration for them.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 15, 2003
Kobe case sheds bad light on kids in NBA
Sometimes in life it is best to wait before passing judgment.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 8, 2003
Saturday night American Bowl a big hit
Leave it to the NFL to take something it has done 11 times before, give it a makeover, and turn it into a huge success.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 1, 2003
Armstrong's indelible spirit amazing
Like the changing of the seasons, another Tour de France has come and gone and Lance Armstrong has ridden off victorious again.
Japan set to hold rates steady as yen rallies and LDP candidates stump
The Bank of Japan is holding its policy board meeting this week.
Deaths among elderly people using electric wheelchairs on the rise
A re-creation of a scene in which an electric wheelchair tire has become stuck in a gutter
How Intel lost the Sony PlayStation business
Intel in 2022 lost out on a contract to design and fabricate the chip for Sony’s next-generation PlayStation 6.
Mount Fuji restrictions reduce dangerous overnight climbs
Hikers pass through a temporary gate set up at the fifth station of the Yoshida Trail on Mount Fuji in Yamanashi Prefecture in July.
LDP presidential hopefuls lay out priorities for PM in online debate
Candidates for the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election take part in a debate in Tokyo on Saturday. On Monday evening, they took part in an online debate, during which they each made a case for what the top priority should be for Japan's next prime minister.
‘Shogun’ and the painstaking art of ‘getting it right’
Hiroyuki Sanada and the cast and crew of "Shogun" accept the award for best drama series at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California.
Japan’s schools battle to keep kids cool, with or without AC
Students sit under a misting system during recess at Hikarigaoka Haru no Kaze Elementary School in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 6.
Chris Broad's new bar puts cocktails first, YouTube second
A self-proclaimed lover of great cocktails, YouTuber Chris Broad says his new Shibuya watering hole is more a place to get yourself a solid drink than it is anything related to his social media career.
In LDP presidential poll, three kingmakers hold all the cards
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo in January as former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (left) looks on.
How China’s dominance of solar and batteries is impacting Japan’s energy transition
Solar panels and wind turbines at a power plant in Hami in China's Xinjiang region. The U.S. and other countries have described China’s actions against Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region, a key cog in the cleantech supply chain, as a genocidal campaign aimed at erasing an entire culture.

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