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JAPAN: X League playoffs kick off
The first round of Japan’s X League playoffs kick off Sunday, November 5 with two games on tap. The Asahi Beer Silver Star will take...
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JAPAN: XLeague playoff race tightening up
Round Five of the XLeague regular season in Japan ended with a bang when Lixil Deers, as they have so many times in the past,...
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IBM Big Blue keeps dropping in Japan XLeague Power Rankings after Week 5
Week Five for the Japan XLeague Power Rankings. You know the drill. Read about your team. Snort derisively. Go on social media and complain. Couple of...
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Japan: Lixil Deers stage upset, beat IBM Big Blue in wild finish
Lixil Deers scored a touchdown, recovered the onside kick, scored another TD, then forced a fumble on IBM’s final possession to edge Big Blue 27-26...
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Japan: Fujitsu Frontiers pound Challengers behind Harvard RB’s sparkling performance
Fujitsu Frontiers started out hot, then coasted to a 44-13 win over Asahi Soft Drinks Challengers at a cold and rainy Amino Vital Field on...
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Playoff berths up for grabs in Japan XLeague’s crucial 5th round
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...
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Huge Shakeup in Japan’s X League Power Rankings for Week 4
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...
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Intensity rises as 2nd round of Japan’s X league wraps up
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....
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Inside Sport Japan’s X League Player of the Week (Round Two)
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...
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Japan’s X League Power Rankings for Week 3
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...
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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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Japan X League: Week 2 Matchups / Predictions promise fireworks
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...
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Hawaii’s Charles Tuaau helped IBM Big Blue to historic win in Japan’s X League
IBM Big Blue made history last weekend when they defeated the Obic Seagulls in the first week of play in Japan’s top league, the X...
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Japan: Obic Seagulls win Pearl Bowl in a nail biter
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...
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Japan: X League Champs Face League’s Hottest Team In Pearl Bowl Final
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...
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Obic Seagulls, IBM Big Blue advance to Pearl Bowl final in Japan
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...
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Big 4 advance to semifinals in Japan’s Pearl Bowl
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...
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Japan’s Green Bowl sees American QB return in dominant win.
The Green Bowl and Green Bowl Challenge preseason tournaments for teams in central and western Japan kicked off over Japan’s Golden Week holiday. Both are...
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Japan: Week 2 of X League’s Pearl Bowl produces surprises
The second week of the 2017 Pearl Bowl is in the books, and while there were no upsets, there were definitely a handful of surprises....
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Big 4 dominate as Japan’s Pearl Bowl kicks off
In a collaboration with InsideSport:Japan, AFI presents the first in a series of articles covering the annual spring American football tournament, the Pearl Bowl. Japanese...
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Alex Niznak signs with Japan’s Asahi Challengers
The Asahi Soft Drinks Challengers of Japan’s X League, the top level of football in Japan, have signed quarterback Alex Niznak for the 2017 season. The Challengers...
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A college football coaching odyssey from Japan to Stanford
By: David Lombardi, ESPN Staff Writer STANFORD, Calif. — Tsuyoshi Kawata stood outside Jim Harbaugh’s office, took a deep breath, knocked on the door, and entered....
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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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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...
