‘Sports’ Archives
Baruto (Balt) ,Kaido Höövelson, got the champion on SUMO
Today a Sumo wrestler, Baruto ( Balt) got the victory in the 1st season of Sumo series in Japan. It's the first championship for Baruto, also for Sumo wrestler from Estonia. It's still in the middle of the champion battle race, as today is the 13th day of 15 day competition, he won championship with no loss without waiting for the final day [...]
Darvish reached the contract with Texas Rangers today
News says that a Japanese baseball pitcher, Yu Darvish, finally had an agreement on the contract with Texas Rangers with 60 million dollars for 6 years. Japanese fans seem very glad to know this news, although some of his fans would miss him as they can't see his pitching live in Japanese stadiums. Many Japanese players went across the [...]
Yu Darvish still in negotiation with Texas Rangers
Yu Darvish is really an expected pitcher in Japan. He debuted in the national high school games in Japan, and after joining the pro-league he never failed to show his guts in pitching and the results were always amazing each year. Personally, among the Japanese players in American major league teams, I think Hideo Nomo and Darvish are [...]
Homare Sawa, captain of Japanese women soccer team, got MVP of 2011 by FIFA
Homare Sawa got MVP prize by FIFA for 2011. It's a nice news for her and football fans in Japan, too. It's a little strange that she is now a very famous football player in spite that there hardly were Japanese people who knew her before the world cup of 2011. But it's a beautiful story to know how she got today's fame. In Japan, women [...]
Hideki Irabu found dead. Suiside ?
Today's news is really shocking especially for baseball fans. The super pitcher of Japan, Hideki Irabu was found dead in Los Angeles. News added it might be suiside. Hideki Irabu played in New York Yankees as we all remember. Before his time in America, Hideo Nomo was featured as the first Japanese big player. Hideo Nomo made remarkable [...]
Japan Women’s Soccer Football team, Nadeshiko Japan, won Gold medal on 2011 World Cup in Germany
I think many of the Japanese are now sleepy because we all kept watching the final match of women's world cup football games being held in Germany. But it's nearly forgetting to take a rest all through the last night as the team of Japan called Nadeshiko Japan won the 1st prize, gold medals, for the first time in the Japanese foolball [...]
Zico will have a Japanese grandson ?
An interesting news arrived today. I don't know well about football, but being such a poor fan, even I know Zico as one of the top football players in the history. Zico said he would have a Japanese grandson soon. This is a little exaggerated expression though, what he meant is not far from the truth. His son got married a girl of Japanese [...]
Yuto Nagatomo is blessed today
A Japanese football player, Yuto Nagatomo is a highly admired person in Japan as a representing football player of Japan and he is now playing for Internazionale Milano in Italy. He often got good results in the past games and he is thought to be a player with god sent talent and a luck to be someone. Yuto Nagatomo today is blessed an [...]
Miki Ando won the Gold Medal at ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2011
Miki Ando is again back as world champion of figure skating competition at ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2011. Miki Ando used to be a little nervous and naive type sport woman, but as far as recent her attitude is concerned, she probably has overcome her weakness inside herself. Her words at interviews are filled with something [...]
Andreanof’s death brought us sadness
I well remember this person, Nicoly Andreanof ( unsure about his name spell) in Russian, it's Николай Ефимович Андрианов. He competed with Japanese gymnasts through some Olympic games of Munich or Montreal, and often he won in the competition of gymnastics to get gold medals. When we were seeing the matches on TV, he [...]
