Yesterday, Hideki Matsui finally got to play baseball as an Anaheim Angel. The Angels went up against the San Diego Padres. Knowing thousands of Angels fans and Japanese fans will be watching his debut game, with the pressure, Matsui made a good effort and managed to go 1 for 2. More »

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Ron Artest of the Los Angeles Lakers recently dyed his hair purple and gold. By looking at the picture of Ron, you can see word “defense” etched out in Japanese, Hebrew, and Hindi. More »

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There aren’t many Asian American athletes to admire in football. But it can all change in the upcoming NFL draft. Ed Wang, a Chinese American football player who plays offensive tackle for Virginia Tech is considered an NFL prospect. His body is like bulldozer, which is a prototypical body of a tackler . If drafted, Ed Wang would be the first full Chinese American player in the NFL. This is perfect opportunity to inspire and open doors for other Asian Americans to follow suit. More »

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Recently, Hideki Matsui from the New York Yankees has been seen practicing with his new team, the Anaheim Angels! He was acquired after New York didn’t negotiate a contract to his liking. With the Angels’ first game less than one week away, Matsui and his team gets ready with a full workout! In this set of pictures, you’ll get a chance to see him throw balls, bat balls, run drills and interact with other Angels. More »

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Looking at pictures of Justin Bieber and Olympian speedskater J.R. Celski, I can’t help but wonder if they were separated at birth. You can thank fellow Ninginer nessanguyen for drilling this into me. I hope I didn’t just embarass her. Embarrassment aside, the similarities are uncanny! More »

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Apolo Anton Ohno has pulled through and won a bronze medal for Team USA during the Men’s 1,000-meter relay. More »

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The Olympics is heating up on the ice, and for the past couple days, South Korean figure skater Kim Yuna has been skating up quite a storm. More »

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Kazuya Kamenashi, part of the Japanese boyband KAT-TUN, has a become a sportscaster for “GOing!! Sports & News,” which is going to replace NTV’s current sports show, “SUPER Urugusu.” The new show will be hosted by Comedian Shinya Ueda of Cream Stew and baseball commentator Suguru Egawa. More »

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Did you watched the Olympics on Saturday (Feb. 20)? It was the night when Apolo Anton Ono won a bronze medal for coming in third place behind Korea’s Jung-Su Lee and Ho-Suk Lee during the 1000 meter short track. More »

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I’ve just been recently finding out that Asian countries love soccer. I didn’t know that Korea and Japan were huge fans of it. I always thought they loved baseball more. Anyway, I think that the commercial is for a stadium, but I’m not positive about that. It makes me want to go to one of these games though. I think it’s hilarious, so check it out!!! More »

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Figure skating is an event in the 2010 Winter Olympics you do not want to miss. Did you know a third of the skaters in the Women Division of Figure Skating are Asians? The Asian skaters include: Miki Ando (Japan), Mao Asada (Japan), Mirai Nagasu (USA) and Kim Yu-Na (Korea). More »

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From Rekuru: Vivid and wild, Sukiyaki Western Django will dazzle your eyes, make you laugh, and might even make you cry. Takeshi Miike’s 2007 stunning spaghetti western features an all-star cast of Hideaki Ito, Koichi Sato, Kaori Momoi, and even Quentin Tarantino. This portrayal of western and samurai traditions come together in a fast-paced “wild east” action tale to wow your senses. More »

From Rekuru: If you don’t know who Takeshi Kaneshiro is (shame on you), this post should prove quite enlightening. Known mostly for his roles in Chungking Express, House of Flying Daggers, Fallen Angels, as well as a host of other films, Kaneshiro is one of Japan’s finest actors and this post is going to show you just why… More »

You know what grinds my gears? When a fighter tries to dictate what the medical program for steroid screening process is gonna be. It peeves Pacquiao too, so instead of dealing with Mayweather’s nonsense, he’s shifting his focus to another fighter. Another fighter to add to his to-do list. Joshua Clottey. More »

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When people step into the ring with the Filipino Fighting Pride, they get themselves beat. So what do they do? They try to scare him out of the fight by messing with his superstitions. Clever, yeah? If you listened real closely to the wind for the past couple of weeks, you’d have noticed a slight rattling in the air–that rattling was Mayweather’s knees when he found out the fight between himself and Pacquiao was coming true. More »

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From Blitznation:

Welcome to day number one of our football/dating combination, as we prepare you for the launch of Mixr Media’s new and innovative dating site, CrazySingleLife. Today’s mission on BlitzNation: to take a look at some of the things that we’ve learned from the dating habits of NFL players.

So needless to say, we’ve got some intriguing lesson that we’ve learned. Let’s get right to it, and give you five things that we’ve learned about dating from NFLers: More »

The recent Tiger Woods media frenzy hasn’t been limited to the United States. Asian news agencies have been going crazy in their own ways telling the story of Tigers ‘misdeeds.’ More »

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Korea, Japan and Korea DPRK are (arguably) the top 3 soccer teams in the Asian world, and all three have their own shot at victory in South Africa in 2010. More »

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Before the ink even had a chance to settle, word spread throughout the Philippines and the world about the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. More »

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There’s only one man I’m really scared of in this world, and that’s Manny “the Pac-man” Pacquiao. And I’m beginning to feel really sorry for the next guy that’s being set up to fight him: Floyd Mayweather Jr. More »

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