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Ed Odeven
Ed Odeven covers primarily basketball for The Japan Times. He reported on a wide range of sports from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Summer Games for this newspaper. A native of the Bronx, N.Y., Odeven is a graduate of Arizona State University. He previously worked for the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff, Ariz., reporting on high school, collegiate, professional and Olympic sports (Flagstaff is a major international Olympic training site due to its high elevation) and writing a weekly column. His articles have appeared in Venezuela Online News, The Gleaner (Jamaica), the Monitor (Uganda), The Moscow Times, Swimming World Magazine and numerous other publications.
BASKETBALL
Jan 14, 2008
Motivated Apache complete sweep
Never underestimate the power of motivation.
BASKETBALL
Jan 13, 2008
Sendai routs Rizing
The Sendai 89ers have exhibited stellar team-first play all season. This successful formula continued in their 104-85 home win over the Rizing Fukuoka on Saturday.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Jan 13, 2008
Blackwell key component in success of Sendai this season
The Japan Times will be featuring periodic interviews with individuals in the bj-league — Japan's first professional basketball circuit — which is in its third season. Ryan Blackwell of the Sendai 89ers is the subject of this week's profile.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jan 11, 2008
Erratic HeatDevils struggling to find formula for return to playoffs
The Oita HeatDevils have played 16 basketball games this season. In that time, they've proven one thing: They are as unpredictable as the presidential election polls in the United States.
BASKETBALL
Jan 9, 2008
Grouses' Brown earns award
Toyama Grouses power forward Jamar Brown has made a solid impact for the second-year club since he arrived in Japan. He continued that trend last weekend, helping his struggling team record its second victory of the season, a 79-78 win over the Saitama Broncos in the series opener on Saturday. Brown...
BASKETBALL
Jan 7, 2008
Niigata completes two-game sweep
The Niigata Albirex BB completed a two-game sweep of the Tokyo Apache on Sunday, defeating Joe Bryant's club 89-80. It was the Apache's fourth straight loss. All-Star forward Rodney Webb scored 31 points and cleared 13 rebounds as Niigata improved to 10-8. Fellow All-Stars Matt Garrison and Yuichi Ikeda...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE PLAYERS OF THE MONTH
Jan 5, 2008
Evessa's Marshall earns monthly accolades
Since the start of the 2006-07 bj-league season, this publication has awarded Player of the Month honors to one player for his offensive contributions and to another for his defensive accomplishments.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jan 5, 2008
89ers, Evessa still on top
New Year's Day is history. The year is still quite new, though, and 2008 leaves us with the same story from last year: The Sendai 89ers and Osaka Evessa are still in first place in their respective divisions.
Japan Times
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jan 1, 2008
All signs point toward wild, wacky year in Japanese sports
It was an unforgettable year for sports in Japan in 2007.
BASKETBALL
Dec 30, 2007
Kosuge shines in East's runaway victory
NIIGATA — The victorious East team had 34 assists in its runaway victory over the West in the 2007-08 bj-league All-Star Game on Saturday. But really, you could say, it finished with one big, collective assist, a well-deserved pat on the back for getting the ball to the right man at the right time....
BASKETBALL
Dec 30, 2007
Garrison, Sparks leave crowd in awe
NIIGATA — Two winners repeated in their respective skills competitions during the 2007-08 bj-league All-Star Game weekend on Saturday.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Dec 29, 2007
League, fans preparing for annual All-Star festivities
The bj-league staged its inaugural All-Star Game on Jan. 27 in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture. Indeed, it was a terrific chance for the league to reach out to a new fan base in the nation's southernmost region.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Dec 29, 2007
Japanime holding all the cards in buildup to All-Star Game
Glenn Kardy calls himself a "crazy baseball fan." His earliest sports memory is a wild one. He can still remember the heated seventh inning of Game 2 of the 1972 American League Championship Series between the Tigers and A's.
BASKETBALL
Dec 28, 2007
Apache guard Aoki continues climb to stardom
There are times this season when Cohey Aoki is the best offensive player on the basketball court.
BASKETBALL
Dec 25, 2007
James leads Broncos past 89ers
The Saitama Broncos earned a two-game split with the host Sendai 89ers, picking up a 90-81 win on Monday. Gordon James, the Broncos' All-Star power forward, scored a game-high 28 points and pulled down 18 rebounds. James Davis scored 14 points, Kazuhiro Shoji had 11 along with seven rebounds and six...
BASKETBALL
Dec 24, 2007
Osaka sweeps Tokyo
The Osaka Evessa completed a two-game sweep of the Tokyo Apache on Sunday, recording an 82-79 victory.
BASKETBALL
Dec 22, 2007
Apache, Evessa set for big showdown
It's a big weekend for the bj-league.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Dec 21, 2007
Broncos, Rizing develop at different pace
TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — Two teams walked off the basketball court on Monday night with identical 5-7 records. These teams, however, have different tales to tell about what they hope to accomplish this season in the bj-league.
BASKETBALL
Dec 19, 2007
Takushi earns weekly award
Point guard Naoto Takushi is one of Japan's rising basketball stars.
BASKETBALL
Dec 17, 2007
Grouses get first win
The Toyama Grouses ended a season-long losing streak on Sunday, earning a 74-70 victory over the visiting Takamatsu Five Arrows.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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