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Buffaloes’ Yuki Nishi tosses eight scoreless innings, earns first win of season
Yuki Nishi threw eight scoreless innings, guiding the Orix Buffaloes to a 3-1victory over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles on Saturday.Nishi (1-3) struck out six, ...
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Crusaders pummel winless Sunwolves
The defending champion Crusaders scored two early tries and then lost their way in a hailstorm before running away to a 33-11 win over Japan’s ...
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Japan, Britain tied in Fed Cup clash
World No. 22 Naomi Osaka defeated Heather Watson in straight sets Saturday before Kurumi Nara lost her match, giving Japan a 1-1 tie with Britain ...
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Pacers storm back to beat Cavs
The Indiana Pacers kept insisting this team was different.Anyone who doubted them coming into the playoffs understands now. On Friday, the one-year anniversary of a ...
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Players are saddened that Wenger is stepping down
Arsene Wenger is leaving Arsenal after more than 21 years, ending a revolutionary reign that saw him introduce new methods to the Premier League and ...
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Jets notch first series victory
Minnesota Wild forward Eric Staal got right to the point.“It couldn’t have gone any worse at the start for us, and it couldn’t have gone ...
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Fired Japan soccer boss Vahid Halilhodzic back in Japan seeking answers for ouster
Former Japan manager Vahid Halilhodzic returned to Tokyo on Saturday to seek the reason for his shock dismissal earlier in the month.“I’ve always been glad ...
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Speed Skating Canada fires long-track coach Michael Crowe after probe into conduct
Speed Skating Canada has fired national long-track coach Michael Crowe, four months after former American speedskaters claimed he had sexual relationships with athletes while a ...
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Former Ohio State coach Earl Bruce dies at 87
Earle Bruce embraced the difficult task of following his mentor, Woody Hayes, as Ohio State’s head football coach.Bruce died in Columbus at the age of ...
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Hurricanes coach Bill Peters announces resignation
Bill Peters has not been able to lead the Carolina Hurricanes back to the NHL playoffs and after coming up short following his fourth season ...
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Dance music superstar Avicii dies at 28
Avicii, one of the world’s most successful DJs who helped usher in the global boom in electronic music but struggled to cope with the hard-partying ...
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Make wise use of SDF’s Iraq logs
A mechanism should be established to properly assess the records of past SDF missions so that what was learned will be utilized in planning future ...
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Tokyo police panel recommends computerizing crime prevention by tapping AI, big data
A Metropolitan Police Department panel is calling for the use of information and communications technology, including artificial intelligence and big data, to prevent crime.The panel, ...
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Japan’s top three mobile carriers to be asked to stop charging customers who switch providers
The communications ministry said it will ask Japan’s three top mobile communications carriers to stop charging customers for switching companies when their contracts expire.The aim ...
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Abe cautious as North Korea pledges to halt nuclear and longer-range missile tests just days before key summit
North Korea announced Saturday that it had suspended nuclear and longer-range missile tests and shut down its main nuclear test site as the sanctions-hit country ...
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Abe woos LDP’s prefectural ranks with rehash of constitutional revision quest as scandals cloud bid for third term
With his public support damaged by cronyism and other scandals, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s goal of revising the postwar Constitution by 2020 is facing renewed ...
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Kei Nishikori battles past Marin Cilic, into Monte Carlo semifinals
Kei Nishikori moved closer to his first Masters title on Friday, with a 6-4, 6-7 (1-7), 6-3 quarterfinal win over Croatia’s Marin Cilic.Cilic, who had ...
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Angels dealt fourth straight loss
Jeff Samardzija had just loaded the bases with two outs in the fifth inning of his season debut when San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy ...
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Decades of development for North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs
Here are the key steps in the development of the regime’s banned nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs: • 1970s: The beginnings North Korea starts ...
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