Inside Sport: Japan

The penultimate round of the Japan XLeague’s regular season see some big teams face off as well as games that will decide the ultimate playoff fate for others. Panasonic Impulse (#1) put their unbeaten record on […]

XLeague weeks three and four overlapped so we decided to wait and see how it all shook out before updating the power rankings…….and yeah….it’s a mess. Listen if all you players and coaches out there can’t s […]

Panasonic Impulse are the Japanese Xleague’s only remaining undefeated team after a hard-fought 24-9 victory over a Fujitsu Frontiers side that had also come into the game 3-0.

Entertaining a boisterous crowd […]

Nojima Sagamihara Rise quarterback Devin Gardner threw for over 600 yards and four TDs in leading the Rise to a 49-42 upset win over the top-ranked IBM Big Blue this past weekend in XLeague action in Japan.

He […]

The fourth round of Japan’s XLeague closes out this weekend with five games including a pair of key matchups. The Lixil Deers (#8) and  Nojima Sagamihara Rise (#5), both 2-1,  face each other in Tokyo in an impo […]

The XLeague  heads into its week 4 round of games while week 3 still has games remaining. We will have the remaining matchups for you once all teams have played three games. The key showdown is Sunday’s clash […]

Round two of Japan’s 2017 X League saw Obic Seagulls rebound from their opening day loss with a strong 14-0 win over Nojima Sagamihara Rise. Panasonic Impulse had no trouble with the Asahit Soft Drinks Ch […]

IBM Big Blue’s John Stanton is the inaugural X League ‘Player of the Week’. Stanton caught 11 passes for 183 yards and two TDs to help Big Blue defeat Obic Seagulls (for the first time ever) in an absolutely […]

The Tokyo Gas Creators blanked Fuji Xerox Minerva AFC 30-0 in week 2 action in Japan’s X League last week and quarterback Ryo Murota was a key reason.

Murota threw three touchdown passes and carried the ball […]

Week two is behind us. So are the West Division games for week three – we’re not gonna pretend those didn’t happen – which means they will color the rankings. Most games went the way one would expected – as least […]

XLeague scheduling means week three starts before week two finishes. We will have the remaining matchups for you once all teams have played two games.
Panasonic Impulse -v- As One Black Eagles
Both teams are 2-0 […]

“Get used to walking.”

That’s Panasonic Impulse DL Carlton Jones’ suggestion to any players thinking of coming to Japan. “Get used to walking because you are going to walk everywhere.”

The Alabama Sta […]

In week one the Lions failed to impress while the Bulls just failed. The fact that a quarter of fans think there is a possibility All-Mitsubishi might lose this matchups immediately makes one suspect there might […]

Week one of Japan’s 2017 XLeague season finished with a wild and exciting game at Tokyo Dome that saw IBM Big Blue defeat the Obic Seagulls for the first time in their history.

A crowd of 5,013 was on hand to […]

Former University of Hawaii Rainbow Warrior WR Donnie King is the longest serving foreign player on the Asahi Soft Drinks Challengers in Japan’s X League, and the only American holdover from last s […]

Don’t tell anyone on the Obic Seagulls or IBM Big Blue that the Pearl Bowl is the preseason. Every player came to play in this nail biter that saw the Seagulls outlast Big Blue 29-27. Obic wide receiver and ki […]

The 2017 Pearl Bowl at Tokyo Dome on Monday at 7pm sees defending champion IBM Big Blue take on an Obic Seagulls team boasting both the #1 scoring offense and defense. Obic put up 150 points and allowed only 14 en […]

The Obic Seagulls used a rookie quarterback to defeat the Lixil Deers in the Pearl Bowl semifinals last weekend in Japan while IBM Big Blue had to battle to finally down the stubborn Nojima Rise. The Seagulls and […]

The stage is set for the semi-finals of the 2017 Pearl Bowl. On Sunday at Fujitsu Stadium Kawasaki we will find out which two teams will compete for the championship trophy at Tokyo Dome on June 19th.

The […]