Young Australian flyer Lachlan Kennedy has roared to an historic silver medal in the 60 metre final at the world indoor championships in China - but was pipped agonisingly for gold despite a ...

the championship game that most of us wanted to see at the start of the World Baseball Classic. It will be Team USA vs. Team Japan. It will be Mike Trout vs. his teammate Shohei Ohtani, the biggest ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

Jack White just posted an epic photo on his Instagram Page showing him seated next to legendary actor and comedian, Bill Murray, at a Major League Baseball game in Japan. The encounter was ...

1996 — Todd Eldredge becomes the first American in eight years to win the gold medal at the World Figure ... 2019 — Japanese baseball right fielder Ichiro Suzuki finishes his career with a record ...

which featured several high-profile Japanese baseball stars including Shohei Ohtani, drew an audience of 25 million viewers in Japan, according to MLB PR. For reference, the total population of ...

An exhibition highlighting the long and storied history of baseball in Japan will open at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in July — the same month Ichiro Suzuki will ...

TOKYO -- The expectations for Shohei Ohtani's first trip to Japan as a major league player ... as it did a guy coming into town to play some baseball. The sellout crowds at the Tokyo Dome ...

Baseball in Japan — the game is called “yakyu” (field ball) in Japanese — carries more of a rock-concert vibe than its American cousin. And with Shohei Ohtani teasing fans for a week in ...

Here, baseball fandom has only grown amid Ohtani’s stardom. “In Japan, they’re maniacally focused on baseball,” David Leiner, president of trading cards at Topps, told CNN. “This is a ...