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USAG Japan earns first ever Commander’s Cup for winning 2021-2022 season

U.S. Army Garrison Japan won its first ever Commander’s Cup title for the 2021-2022 intramural sports season, achieving a milestone for the unit that included first-place wins in four season-long...
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Zama Army air traffic controller guides community closer with sports

Athletic activities dominated much of Kekua Aumua’s childhood growing up on the North Shore of Oahu.
Yokota's Elena Haas spikes against Nile C. Kinnick's Cierra San Nicolas during Saturday's Japan girls volleyball match. The Red Devils won in straight sets. (Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes)
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DoDEA Pacific Scoreboard: Sept. 11, 2021

1, Austin Shinzato, Kinnick, 17 minutes, 35.18 seconds; 2, Logan Hamilton, Kinnick, 18:31.38; 3, Soul Vessels, 19:26.08; 4, Eli Aquil, Kinnick, 19:26.08; 5, Freddy Vences, Kinnick, 19:37.96; 6, Chris Lardner, Kinnick, 19:52.90; 7, Bennett Schmid, Kinnick, 19:57.07; 8, Ryan Izaguirre, Edgren, 21:32.03; 9, Noah Henderson, Edgren, 21:45.16; 10, David...
Junior setter Jillian Stevens is one of two players on Nile C. Kinnick's volleyball team who have their father as coach. Jillian's father is Red Devils assistant coach Travis Stevens and head coach Tony San Nicolas' daughter Cierra, a junior, is also on the team. (Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes)
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Players set to take to the courts, courses again this fall

Players and coaches could be forgiven if they spent time dwelling on what might have been if there was no coronavirus pandemic and they played fall sports in DODEA-Japan in 2020.
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Sports Day moved to July 23

This year, Japan’s Supotsu-no-hi, or Sports Day, moves from Oct. 11 to July 23 to accommodate the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games along with Ocean Day, which was moved from July 19 to July 22.
Ty Cobb poses for a photo in 1913.
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Sports Heroes Who Served: Baseball Legend Ty Cobb Served as World War I Soldier

Ty Cobb is a baseball legend: He is widely credited with setting 90 records during his career, including runs scored, runs batted in, career batting average and most bases stolen by any MLB player.
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Annika Hutsler celebrates winning four gold medals in swimming during the 2020 U.S. Marine Corps Trials in Camp Pendleton, California. (Photo by Roger Wollenberg, DOD.)
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One Marine’s journey to recovery through adaptive sports

“I was assigned to the U.S. Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment in July 2018. I was classified as a limb salvage patient for the doctors had discovered a giant mass in my right foot.
For years, Sailors and Marines such as those pictured here in 2016 watching Super Bowl 50 aboard the USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) have received three AFN TV services while afloat. Starting Jan. 30th, they'll start receiving AFN|sports2, giving them four AFN TV services. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Tomas Compian /Released)
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AFN providing ships with second TV sports service

The American Forces Network (AFN) is giving Sailors and Marines afloat around the world what they’ve been asking for: two TV sports services instead of one.
AFN sports programmers Willie Price (far left) and Jason Stevenson (right) program all the sports you see on AFN television. They work at the American Forces Network (AFN) Broadcast Center in Riverside, California.
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How AFN TV Sports evolved during the pandemic

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a major impact on the American Forces Network (AFN) Broadcast Center (BC) in Riverside, Calif., the network is once again broadcasting AFN|sports and AFN|sports2 separately instead of simulcasting them.
Senior L.J. Scarver and E.J. King's track and field team won't get the chance to compete in DODEA-Japan competition this spring, as the district announced Thursday it was shuttering its spring sports schedule for the rest of the school year. PHOTO COURTESY OF E.J. KING TRACK
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DODEA cancels spring sports season in Japan

Just hours after DODEA-Europe canceled its spring sports season, DODEA’s Japan district announced Thursday that it was clearing its sports calendar due to worries about the spread of coronavirus.