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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
Oct 29, 2007
Standouts prepare for roles with new clubs
As the bj-league prepares to open its third season on Tuesday, four standout players continue their adjustments with new teams.
BASKETBALL
Oct 26, 2007
NHK to televise bj-league game
Mark your calendar, basketball fans. NHK will broadcast the Nov. 10 bj-league game between the host Osaka Evessa, the two-time defending champions, and the Takamatsu Five Arrows, last year's runnerup at Namihaya Dome. The game will be aired locally in the Kansai-area prefectures and Kagawa Prefecture....
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 19, 2007
Dragons draw first blood against Giants
The Colorado Rockies have reminded everyone in North America the best time of year to be a hot team is during the postseason.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 16, 2007
Woods: Dragons fire at perfect time
Kenichi Nakata and Kenshin Kawakami were the losing pitchers in the Chunichi Dragons' final games of 2006, dropping Games 4 and 5 of the Japan Series, respectively, against the champion Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 14, 2007
Dragons dominate Tigers
NAGOYA — The formula was simple, and it worked.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 12, 2007
Another perspective
Here's what I saw on Thursday night:
BASKETBALL
Sep 17, 2007
'Samurai' spirit drives AND1's Morishita
Determined and fearless on the court, Yuichiro Morishita exhibits a work ethic that basketball coaches want every player to possess. And yet it's his nickname, "Samurai," that's made him a household name far, far away from his hometown of Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.
BASKETBALL
Sep 8, 2007
Sparks re-signs with Takamatsu
Point guard Rasheed Sparks has re-signed with the Takamatsu Five Arrows, the bj-league announced on Friday. The 29-year-old Sparks, who led the league in assists (4.7 per game) and steals (2.4) last season, played an instrumental role in helping the team reach the league's championship game as a first-year...
MORE SPORTS
Sep 4, 2007
IAAF chief heralds emergence of smaller nations at worlds
OSAKA — Speaking at the final daily news briefing of the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Championships on Sunday at Nagai Stadium, IAAF President Lamine Diack summarized the feelings of thousands of people here.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 4, 2007
Kenyan distance legend praises athletes' showing
OSAKA — Kipchoge "Kip" Keino made his Olympic debut at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games. Forty-three years later, the Kenyan legend was back in Japan, watching hundreds of elite athletes vie for world titles.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 3, 2007
Lagat adds 5K to 1,500 crown
OSAKA — With three laps to go, it was anybody's race. Seven guys were within two strides of each other.
SPORTS / ODDS AND EVENS
Sep 3, 2007
Ndereba, Tosa prove worthy medal winners in marathon
OSAKA — Two storylines unfolded on this brilliant summer morning along the streets of this lovely city, and both had happy endings — good drama, too — for the difficult discipline of marathon running.
SPORTS / ODDS AND EVENS
Sep 2, 2007
A to Z at the world c'ships
OSAKA — I have a good friend named Les Witt.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 2, 2007
Worlds notebook; Day 8
OSAKA — News and notes from Day 8 of the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Championships.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 2, 2007
Defar races to 5,000m victory
OSAKA — It's better to have a strong finish than a strong start, a wise man once said. This was true Saturday night in the final of the women's 5,000-meter race at the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Championships.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 1, 2007
Wariner whips 400-meter field
OSAKA — We already know Tyson Gay is the World's Fastest Man. So who's the fastest one-lap runner on the planet?
MORE SPORTS
Sep 1, 2007
Worlds notebook; Day 7
OSAKA — News and notes from Day 7 of the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Championships.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 1, 2007
Women ready for marathon
OSAKA — Collectively, Japanese people will repeatedly utter "good luck" over and over again on Saturday morning for five women: Reiko Tosa, Yumiko Hara, Mari Ozaki, Yasuko Hashimoto and Kiyoko Shimahara.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 31, 2007
Worlds notebook; Day 6
OSAKA — News and notes from Day 6 of the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Championships.
SPORTS / ODDS AND EVENS
Aug 31, 2007
Japan medal hopes fading
OSAKA — The home-nation advantage has not provided much of a spark for Japan at the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Championships.
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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