Baseball: Shinoda pitches 1st-place Carp past Giants
Jumpei Shinoda (2-1) allowed three runs in 6-1/3 innings and got some big help from the Carp batters and fielders as Central League-leading Hiroshima beat the Yomiuri Giants 7-3 on Friday.
View ArticleSoccer: Honda scores 2 goals, Japan rallies past Zambia
Keisuke Honda had two goals and Yoshito Okubo scored in the 91st minute, giving Japan a 4-3 victory over Zambia in its final warm-up for the World Cup on Friday night.
View ArticleMLB: Darvish pitches Rangers past Marlins 6-0
Yu Darvish pitched his first complete game in the majors and Choo Shin-soo broke a long hitless streak with a three-run double as the Texas Rangers denied Miami's bid for a record interleague winning...
View ArticleBaseball: Pena's 6th-inning blast powers Orix past Softbank
Wily Mo Pena broke the balance with a tiebreaking three-run home run in the sixth inning as the Orix Buffaloes held off the Softbank Hawks 6-5 to regain first place in the Pacific League on Thursday...
View ArticleToyota sports cars past and present head to the Welsh hills
What’s it like to stand the Toyota Corolla GT Coupé AE86 and the MR2 alongside their modern counterparts?Toyota has an illustrious sports car history. From the hallowed Toyota 2000 GT of 1967 to the...
View ArticleIran nuke talks likely to be extended past July 20
Facing stubborn disputes on the terms of a deal, Iran and six world powers have tentatively decided to adjourn their nuclear talks two days early but plan to extend them past their planned July 20 end...
View ArticleBaseball: Eldred leads Carp-powered CL stars past PL
Japan home run leader Brad Eldred homered and drove in four runs on Friday to lead a Hiroshima Carp-flavored Central League team in a 7-0 win over the Pacific League in the first game of Nippon...
View ArticleRanking US states by job creation in past 5 years
Since the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, the U.S. economy has generated 7.8 million jobs. But the gains haven't been spread evenly across the country.
View ArticleLocal politician wages anti-drug crusade, admitting past addiction
While a recent bout of highly publicized scandals has shocked the public and cast doubts on the moral standards of local politicians, one assemblyman here isn't hiding his criminal past.
View ArticleMario Kart 8 Lifetime Sales Soar Past 885,000 In The U.S.
Nintendo of America has today revealed, via press release, Mario Kart 8 lifetime sales figures for its region, current as of June 2014. In June alone, the anti-gravity racer sold more than 470,000...
View ArticleBaseball: Suzuki powers Yankees past Blue Jays
Ichiro Suzuki ended his home run drought with a three-run shot on Friday that boosted the New York Yankees to a 6-4 win over the visiting Toronto Blue Jays.
View ArticleSakamoto, Abe homer to boost Giants ace past Carp
Home runs by Hayato Sakamoto and Shinnosuke Abe lifted the Yomiuri Giants to a 3-1 win on Saturday over the Hiroshima Carp and earned ace Tetsuya Utsumi his first win in over two months.
View ArticleBaseball: Yamaguchi, Tamura propel BayStars past Giants
Right-hander Shun Yamaguchi held Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants to an unearned run over six innings, and veteran Hitoshi Tamura hit a two-run homer on Wednesday as the DeNA BayStars beat the...
View ArticleBaseball: Yamai pitches Dragons past Giants
Daisuke Yamai allowed a run in seven innings for the Chunichi Dragons on Saturday afternoon in a 4-1 win over the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants.
View ArticleMLB: Aoki sparks streaking Royals past Giants
Norichika Aoki stole three bases and scored twice on Sunday as the streaking Kansas City Royals won their seventh straight, beating the struggling San Francisco Giants 7-4.
View ArticleSoccer: Minagawa header sends Hiroshima past Tosu
Modest Sagan Tosu spurned the chance to move three points clear at the top of the J-League after a 1-0 defeat to defending champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima in a rescheduled game on Monday.
View ArticleBaseball: Ace Maeda, returnee Matsuyama lead Carp past Tigers
Ace Kenta Maeda threw a five-hit shutout and Ryohei Matsuyama drove in three runs on Friday as the Hiroshima Carp beat the Hanshin Tigers 6-0 in the first game of an enticing three-game series.
View ArticleBaseball: Aoki drives home game-winning run as Royals rally past Twins
Norichika Aoki singled in the winning run for the Kansas City Royals as they came from behind in the eighth inning to beat the Minnesota Twins 6-1 on Wednesday.
View ArticleBaseball: Ace Kaneko keeps Buffaloes rolling past Marines
Working on five-days rest instead of six, Orix ace Chihiro Kaneko threw seven masterful innings in the Buffaloes' 4-0 win over the Lotte Marines on Thursday.
View ArticleBaseball: Ishihara's clutch single lifts Carp past Dragons
Substitute catcher Yoshiyuki Ishihara delivered a tiebreaking RBI single in the sixth inning and added insurance in the eighth as the Hiroshima Carp downed the Chunichi Dragons 6-4 on Sunday afternoon...
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