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Japan: All-Mitsubishi Lions send slumping Asahi Beer Silver Star out of top division
When the All-Mitsubishi Lions defeated the Asahi Beer Silver Star in the Wild Card round last season it was a major upset. Lions after all were the...
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Japan: XLeague – Anas “Nas” Hasic – Croatian American WR turning heads in Japan
Fiery Wideout Anas Hasic Helping Elecom Kobe Finies Rack Up Yards, Scores & Victims Anas Hasic is making a name for himself in the X-league. Nas, as...
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LIVESTREAM: Japan – Nojima Sagamihara Rise v. Fujitsu Frontiers, Sept. 23, 1:30 pm (6:30 am CET, 12:30 am ET)
The Japanese X League winds up the third week of play of the 2018 season with three key games on Sunday, September 23. In the...
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Former University of Hawaii QB Ikaika Woolsey finds new home in Japan’s X League
The pass zips through the air the 20 or so yards to the wide receiver, who reaches back and makes a nice catch. After the...
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Japan: X League Power Rankings as 2018 season set to kick off
Japan’s X League kicks off the 2018 season this weekend with some shuffling in the top ranks of the teams. It’s been an offseason of...
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Japan: Panasonic Impulse, Asahi Soft Drinks Challengers reach Green Bowl final
Panasonic Impulse laid down a marker for the X-league’s West Division with their 63-0 dismantling of As One Black Eagles at Oji Stadium, Kobe on...
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Australian QB Jared Stegman set to lead Japan’s Asahi Beer Silver Star
In the latest and most challenging stop of his career, quarterback Jared Stegman at least knows he won’t need to worry about having to perform...
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James Brooks – a man of three cultures
The Prague Lions open their 2018 season next weekend in the Czech Republic when they face the Prague Black Panthers in a rematch of the...
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Fujitsu Frontiers Come From Behind To Win Thrilling Kawasaki Derby in Japan
Defending X League champions, the Fujitsu Frontiers won an absolutely enthralling game on Sunday, downing Asahi Beer Silver Star 45 – 23 after the underdogs had...
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Sweet Home Osaka, Japan – Former Alabama State Hornet Makes Nest Across The Pacific
“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...
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Japan’s XLeague kicks off 2017 Season with wild, historic thriller
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...
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Japan: Continental Drifter – Globetrotting QB Alex Niznak Reaches Destination With Asahi Soft Drinks Challengers
As part of our collaboration with Japan’s top sports website – Inside Sport: Japan – we present an outstanding interview with quarterback Alex Niznak done...
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Japan’s Pearl Bowl is a popular Spring tournament
Almost every year the Japanese X League stages a spring preseason tournament involving all the top teams in the league that culminates with the Pearl Bowl,...
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Japan’s X League Announced Most Valuable Player And All Star Awards
Japan’s National Football Association held its annual awards show a couple of weeks ago in Tokyo and the 2016 champion Fujitsu Frontiers, not surprisingly, led the...
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Japan’s Top College Team Challenges X League Champion In Rice Bowl
The last game of the Japanese football season sees college champion the Kwansei Gakuin Fighters take on X-League winner the Fujitsu Frontiers in the Rice...
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Fujitsu Frontiers Smother Obic Seagulls To Capture Japan X Bowl 30
The Fujitsu Frontiers broke their championship jinx against the Obic Seagulls Monday in the Tokyo Dome defeating their arch rivals 16-3 in front of 25,445...
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Japan X Bowl 30 Features Battle Of Unbeatens As Fujitsu Frontiers Face Obic Seagulls
The 30th Japan X Bowl kicks off at 7 pm on Dec 12th at Tokyo Dome. Unbeaten Fujitsu Frontiers face Obic Seagulls (also 8-0) in...
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Planet Football: Top countries where the sport is thriving
Editor’s note: Although this article was first posted in November, 2016, it is still topical and relevant. It preceded the NFL game in Mexico City...
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World’s Most Exciting Game Last Week? Watch The Highlights!
Japan’s X League offered up perhaps the most exciting game in the world last weekend (apologies to the New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks) as...
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LIVESTREAM: Japan’s X League Game of the Week: Obic Seagulls v IBM Big Blue – Battle Of UCLA QBs
Two of Japan’s top teams over the past decade will face off this Sunday as multi year champions, the Obic Seagulls will face the 2016...
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Panasonic Impulse Broke New Ground To Make It to Japan’s X Bowl Championship
The Panasonic Impulse are making their first trip to Japan’s X Bowl in five years. And they are doing it this time with a far different...
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Foreign Quarterbacks Raising Standards in Japan’s X League
Frontiers quarterback Colby Cameron runs against the Rise during a game in Kawasaki last month. The American led Fujitsu to the X League title last...
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LIVESTREAM/PREVIEW: X League in Japan Enters Super 9 Stage
The first round of Japan’s Super 9 series featuring the top nine teams in the league kicks off this weekend. The 18 teams in the X League...
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Meech Eaton Is Enjoying Life Playing Football in Japan
Meech Eaton has enjoyed a checkered career in football since graduating from Northwestern University in 2006 including being the captain of the United States gold winning team...
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Princeton in Japan to Battle Kwansei Gakuin University in Legacy Bowl
One of the most successful college football clubs in Japan meets one of the oldest football programs in the sport’s mother country when Kwansei Gakuin...