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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
Dec 15, 2007
Five Arrows have potential to contend for title this season
The Takamatsu Five Arrows are proving that last season's runnerup finish was no fluke.
BASKETBALL
Dec 12, 2007
89ers' Whearty earns accolade
Sendai 89ers center Patrick Whearty, who guided his first-place team to a pair of wins last weekend, is the Circle K Sunkus Player of the Week, the bj-league announced on Tuesday.
BASKETBALL
Dec 11, 2007
Sendai 89ers sweep Albirex in bj-league, improve to 8-2
The Sendai 89ers improved to 8-2, completing a two-game sweep of the Niigata Albirex BB on Sunday with a 96-76 victory. Sendai put its stamp on this game from the get-go, outscoring the visitors 31-14 in the opening quarter. Center Patrick Whearty produced a team-high 23 points for the 89ers and Bobby...
BASKETBALL
Dec 9, 2007
Osaka beats Ryukyu
Mikey Marshall scored 29 points and Matt Lottich added 25 to lead the Osaka Evessa to a 96-84 win over the visiting Ryukyu Golden Kings on Saturday. Danny Jones had 21 points and 13 rebounds in the loss.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Dec 7, 2007
Rizing Fukuoka finds wings
The Rizing Fukuoka have quietly put together a solid stretch of games and now find themselves in the thick of things in the bj-league's Western Conference.
BASKETBALL
Dec 5, 2007
Albirex's Ikeda, Evessa's Hatano lead voting for bj-league All-Star Game
Niigata Albirex BB forward Yuichi Ikeda and Osaka Evessa forward Kazuya Hatano are the leading vote-getters for the 2007-08 bj-league All-Star Game, the league announced on Tuesday.
BASKETBALL
Dec 3, 2007
Balanced Five Arrows take over first place in West
The host Takamatsu Five Arrows took over sole possession of first place in the bj-league's Western Conference, earning a 78-56 victory over the Toyama Grouses on Sunday.
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Dec 2, 2007
Niigata's Webb enjoys beef bowls, team camaraderie on, off court
The Japan Times will be featuring periodic interviews with players in the bj-league — Japan's first professional basketball circuit — which recently began its third season. Rodney Webb of the Niigata Albirex BB is the subject of this week's profile.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE PLAYERS OF THE MONTH
Dec 1, 2007
Frontcourt dynamos Warren, James earn monthly awards
Steady Reggie Warren has been a consistent scorer for the Takamatsu Five Arrows since joining the team last season.
BASKETBALL
Dec 1, 2007
Washington out with knee injury
Osaka Evessa power forward Lynn Washington, the bj-league's 2005-06 MVP, is expected to be sidelined for up to four months due to a knee injury sustained in the Nov. 18 game against the Tokyo Apache. The ex-Indiana University player has ligament damage in his right knee as well as damaged cartilage...
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Dec 1, 2007
Winless Grouses shooting for turnaround
This is a tale of two expansion teams. One had a banner season in 2006-07; the other experienced growing pains from the get-go.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Nov 30, 2007
Golden Kings' No. 1 draft pick Takushi realizing big potential
Ryukyu Golden Kings point guard Naoto Takushi, the No. 1 pick in the 2007 bj-league draft, is living up to the high expectations placed on him.
BASKETBALL
Nov 28, 2007
Warren, Newton earn accolades
Takamatsu Five Arrows power forward Reggie Warren is the Circle K Sunkus Player of the Week, the bj-league announced on Tuesday. Osaka Evessa center Jeff Newton earned the monthly MVP accolade for the season's first month. Warren is averaging 21.3 points per game, No. 3 in the league, and scored 24...
BASKETBALL
Nov 28, 2007
bj-league to hold player tryouts
The bj-league will hold player tryouts in January. Tryouts are open to players ages 16 and older, as of Oct. 1, 2008.
BASKETBALL
Nov 26, 2007
Apache keep up winning ways against Broncos
Here's a time-honored recipe for success on the basketball court:
BASKETBALL
Nov 25, 2007
Aoki, Helicopter lift Apache
John "Helicopter" Humphrey scored 27 points and Cohey Aoki added 23 to lead the Tokyo Apache to a 96-80 win over the Saitama Broncos at Ariake Colosseum on Saturday.
BASKETBALL
Nov 23, 2007
Fukuoka earns sweep over Ryukyu
The host Rizing Fukuoka defeated the Ryukyu Golden Kings 100-90 on Thursday, completing a two-game sweep. Rizing guard Michael Gardener scored a game-best 31 points, while teammate Joshua Peppers added 27, Tsuyoshi Kawazura had 14 and Jeffrey Price contributed nine and 12 rebounds. Fukuoka (3-3) took...
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Nov 23, 2007
Newcomer St. Preux helps Sendai bolt to 5-1 start
It may be too early to call the Sendai 89ers a title contender, but it's time to pay attention to what they've accomplished through six games.
BASKETBALL
Nov 19, 2007
Aoki leads Apache past Evessa
The Tokyo Apache bounced back from a 31-point road loss on Sunday, defeating the Osaka Evessa 83-80 in the two-game series finale. Point guard Cohey Aoki scored a game-high 30 points to pace the Apache (4-2), while John "Helicopter" Humphrey scored 22 and Masashi Joho had eight. Dameion Baker contributed...
BASKETBALL
Nov 18, 2007
Washington, Evessa rout Apache
The Osaka Evessa routed the Tokyo Apache 111-80 on Saturday in a clash of first-place bj-league squads.
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.
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.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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