Brooklinn Thomas made an immediate impact in her Duke debut as the Blue Devils opened their season with shutout victories against Penn State and Mississippi State Feb. 8. The Durham native ...

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ANAHEIM, Calif.--Two-way star and coveted free agent Shohei Ohtani is donating about 60,000 baseball gloves to Japanese elementary schools. Ohtani, a free agent who has spent the past six seasons ...

Hey Dada,” my six-year-old says. “When did Japan start believing in Pokemon?” It’s day three of our journey through the land of the rising sun and we’re getting to the big questions.

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

Samurai Japan has won two of the four World Baseball Classics -- the inaugural tournament in 2006 and the second one in 2009 -- and placed third in the other two. But Japan's WBC '23 team might be its ...

The most star-studded United States roster in the history of the World Baseball Classic is now official ... WBC -- after the first three installments of the event were won by Japan (twice) and the ...

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