Winter Sports Red Eagles Capture Second Straight Japan Cup Title The Hokkaido-based team added to its ice hockey pedigree with yet another championship. Jim ArmstrongMarch 24, 2022
Winter Sports Two Third-Period Goals Power Red Eagles Past Free Blades in Japan Cup Final The team from Hokkaido is one win away from claiming another Japanese ice hockey title in the best-of-five series. Jim ArmstrongMarch 20, 2022
Winter Sports Shogo Nakajima Scores OT Winner as Red Eagles Edge Free Blades in Japan Cup Final Opener The tightly contested opener featured superb goaltending on both sides. Jim ArmstrongMarch 19, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics OLYMPIC DIGEST | Finland Collects Men’s Hockey Gold For The First Time Hannes Bjorninen scored 31 seconds into the third period to lift Finland past Russia. SportsLookFebruary 20, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics OLYMPIC DIGEST | Japan Women’s Curling Team Edges Switzerland to Reach Gold-Medal Match for First Time Skip Satsuki Fujisawa and her teammates handled the pressure of a high-stakes match and played more consistently in a bounce-back win over the Swiss. Ed OdevenFebruary 19, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics OLYMPIC DIGEST | Japan Clinches Spot in Women’s Curling Semifinals The 2018 Olympic bronze medalist advanced to the final four on a tiebreaker after Britain, Japan and Canada finished with identical records. SportsLookFebruary 17, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics OLYMPIC DIGEST | Slovakia Stuns US with Shootout Shocker in Men’s Ice Hockey Slovakia tied it late in regulation, survived a 10-minute 3-on-3 overtime, then won it in a shootout to advance to the semifinals. SportsLookFebruary 16, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics Smile Japan Bows Out of Women’s Ice Hockey Tourney After 7-1 loss to Finland Japan finished top of Group B in the preliminary round but couldn't carry the momentum over to the quarterfinals. Jim ArmstrongFebruary 12, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics OLYMPIC DIGEST | Netherlands’ Irene Schouten Wins with Speed Skating Record in Women’s 5,000 Misaki Oshigiri and Momoka Horikawa, Japan’s two skaters in the event, set personal-best times. SportsLookFebruary 11, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics OLYMPIC DIGEST | Akito Watabe Comes Up Short in First Nordic Combined Event at Beijing Games The Pyeongchang silver medalist could never recover from a sub-par jump on the normal hill. SportsLookFebruary 9, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics OLYMPIC DIGEST | Smile Japan Triumphs Over Czechs in Penalty Shootout, Wins Group B Hanae Kubo scored the dramatic winning goal in Japan’s final match of the ice hockey tournament's preliminary round. Ed OdevenFebruary 9, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics Japan Loses to Host China 2-1 but secures a Spot in the Women’s Hockey Quarterfinals With seven points in Group B, Japan reached the last eight for the first time in four Olympic appearances. Jim ArmstrongFebruary 6, 2022