Basketball star Victor Wembanyama joined other leading French athletes on Thursday in warning against voting for the "extremes" in this weekend's parliamentary election.
An NPB historian has found that U.S. sailors may have had a baseball game with Japanese players in the early part of the Meiji Era (1868-1912) in Osaka.
It’s that time of year once again for one of the great horse races in Japan, the Group 1 Japanese Derby — or Tokyo Yushun to give its Japanese name — which will be held on May 26 at Fuchu Racecourse, just a short distance from the center…
Saudi Arabia will look to homegrown talent to expand its base of elite athletes rather than follow its neighbors down the path of naturalizing foreigners, the media chief of the Saudi Olympic Committee has said.
The war in Gaza came to the forefront at world soccer's biggest meeting, as the Palestinian association called for Israel to be immediately suspended from FIFA on Friday.
Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter appeared in court in California on Tuesday on charges of illegally transferring nearly $17 million from the baseball star's bank account to pay off gambling debts.
A top Malaysian soccer player is "responding well" after undergoing a three-hour skin graft procedure, a sports official said Friday, following an acid attack that left the player in intensive care and shocked the country.
Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter, has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges that he secretly transferred about $17 million from the player’s account to pay off his own gambling debts, court records showed Wednesday.
Ukrainian Olympian and two-time European champion Oleksandr Pielieshenko has died on the front lines of Russia's war in Ukraine at age 30, the Ukrainian Weightlifting Federation (UWF) said on Monday.
The racing world reacted with shock and sadness after jockey Kota Fujioka died following a fall during a race, the second fatality to hit the sport in as many weeks.
Spanish police on Wednesday briefly arrested disgraced ex-football chief Luis Rubiales in connection with an alleged graft scandal at the RFEF football federation when he was president.
Former China soccer coach and ex-Everton midfielder Li Tie pleaded guilty on Thursday to accepting over $10 million in bribes, a court said, part of a broader crackdown on corruption in Chinese soccer.
The former chairman of the Chinese Football Association has been sentenced to life in prison for accepting bribes worth $11 million, state media said Tuesday, part of a crackdown on corruption in the domestic game.
Sumo wrestler Kotonowaka is set to change his ring name to Kotozakura, taking over the name of his former yokozuna grandfather, the ozeki's father and stablemaster revealed Monday.
Bodies were recovered, flowers were laid and fingers were pointed Sunday as competing narratives took shape over who was behind the terrorist attack on a Russian concert hall where at least 137 people out to enjoy an evening of music were…
For the thousands of baseball fans in South Korea who failed to get tickets to see superstar Shohei Ohtani’s Los Angeles Dodgers debut this week, $3.75 was the price tag to watch the Seoul event live online. That may seem cheap in months…
North Korea's home World Cup qualifier against Japan was called off on Friday, the Asian Football Confederation said, hours after announcing it would be moved to a neutral venue.
Shohei Ohtani won’t be the only VIP present at Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome on Wednesday as K-pop idols, celebrity athletes and government officials join the opportunity to showcase South Korea to the world at the MLB season opener.
South Korean police on Wednesday said no explosives had been found at Seoul's Gocheok Sky Dome after they searched the venue in response to a reported bomb threat against Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani.