Sir Alex Ferguson to Retire at Manchester United: Football History Reshaped Walter Sebastian and Jay Doggett Modern Tokyo Times Next season the English Premier League and Europe will seem strange because the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson will no longer be part of the furniture. Manchester United prior to Ferguson joining this esteemed international football team [...]
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Track and Field Athletics: Japanese 100 Meters Star Clocks 10.01 at the Age of 17 Hiroshi Saito and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Yoshihide Kiryu appears to be a future 100 meters star in the making because at such a tender young age he just clocked 10.01 seconds to equal the World Junior [...]
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Kick-off App: A detailed history of football Horace C. White Modern Tokyo Times The Kick-off iPad app designed and published by Leading Brands Publishing is a state-of-the-art, top-notch, illustrative, e-book app that gives a colorful overview of the “evolution of the beautiful game” of football from 2 B.C. to 1962. Packed with 34-pages of historical [...]
Fukushima Horse Racing returns to the Tohoku region: a good boost for the area James Jomo and Jay Doggett Modern Tokyo Times Fukushima horse racing returned this weekend (Apr 7-8) to the delight of horse racing fans throughout the Tohoku region. The symbolic importance was more important than the quality racing on show because it [...]
Explaining the Improvements of the Philadelphia 76ers Jeff Smith Modern Tokyo Times The 2012 NBA season has been one that has been filled with some incredibly interesting stories, and also a TON of games due to the shortened season thanks to the NBA Lockout. Many teams have improved, and many other teams have taken some [...]
2012 NCAA Tournament Final Four Preview Jeff Smith Modern Tokyo Times With the Final Four officially set in the 2012 NCAA Tournament, we have four teams remaining that feature some of the best coaches in all of college basketball. The Kentucky Wildcats (John Calipari), Louisville Cardinals (Rick Pitino), Ohio State Buckeyes (Thad Matta), and Kansas [...]
Teams Flying Under the Radar in 2012 NCAA Tournament Modern Tokyo Times Jeff Smith The NCAA Tournament is probably the most talked about sporting event in the United States these days, and is one of the few things that can really rival the NFL’s Super Bowl. One of the reasons for this is the hype [...]
Three NBA teams that are hot: basketball playoff focus Jeff Smith Modern Tokyo Times Right about this time of the year is when the questions about potential playoff teams begin to arise in the NBA. On top of that though, this is also when the real contenders begin to separate themselves from the pretenders in [...]
Jeremy Lin Dominates the NBA on the Court and in the Press Jeff Smith and Horace C. White Modern Tokyo Times The story of Jeremy Lin is one that almost anyone who has seen an NBA game within the past two weeks knows about. The Harvard Graduate made his way up through the D-League, and [...]
Who Will Win Super Bowl XLVI? Jeff Smith Modern Tokyo Times This is the Super Bowl that half of the NFL fans out there are incredibly excited to see, and the other half were hoping to avoid. Both sides have their own arguments for this, as the half who were hoping to see it remember [...]
Which Team Will Win the 2011-2012 NFL Super Bowl? Jeff Smith Modern Tokyo Times This is definitely the biggest question that’s going around the NFL currently, as the rumblings of the NFC and AFC Championship games are in full effect days before the final two games kick off. We have the final four teams in [...]
Three NFL Teams Who Could Be Dangerous Come Playoff Time Jeff Smith Modern Tokyo Times When it comes to the NFL Playoffs, there are always a few teams no one wants to be matched up against in the early rounds. Last year for example, the Green Bay Packers were a scary thought for anyone who [...]
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