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The Mainichi
16-05-2025
- General
- The Mainichi
News in Easy English: Indian int'l school in Tokyo popular with Japanese families
TOKYO -- Many Japanese students now go to an Indian international school in Tokyo. More than half of the school's students are now Japanese. Parents like the school because classes are all in English, students get good math and science teaching, and the school's cost is low compared with other international schools. The school is called the Global Indian International School (GIIS). It first opened in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward in 2006 because many Indian families lived there. At that time, most students were Indian. But today about 55% of the students are Japanese, and around 35% are Indian. Others come from countries like China, South Korea, and Russia. There are about 1,400 students at GIIS, from ages 3 to 18. Classes at GIIS are all taught in English. Students have a strong math and science program. They can study other languages too, like French, Chinese, Hindi, and Tamil. They also take special classes about Indian culture, learning Indian music or traditional dance. GIIS students can choose many kinds of study, including the International Baccalaureate (IB). With an IB, students can enter universities easily in Japan or around the world. After graduating, many students continue their studies in Japan at good universities like Waseda or Keio, or go to other countries like the United States or Britain. GIIS is cheaper than most other international schools in Tokyo. GIIS costs around 1.2 million yen (about $8,400) each year. Other international schools usually cost two or three million yen. The school's principal Madhu Khanna said, "Japanese parents now see the good points of an international education. They want their children to grow up ready for global jobs in the future." (Japanese original by Ayane Matsuyama, Digital News Group; and Takayuki Hakamada, Matsuyama Bureau) Vocabulary international school: a school that teaches in English or other languages, often having students from many countries. popular: something many people like or choose. ward: a part or area of a big city. principal: the head teacher or leader of a school. tuition: money that parents pay for their children to study at school. graduate: complete school. university: a school after high school where students can learn higher-level subjects. culture: things special to a country, like music, dance, language, or traditions. traditional: older ways of doing things or styles coming from the past. International Baccalaureate (IB): a study program used by many schools around the world to enter universities in many countries. program: lessons organized to teach something clearly.
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
From Takadanobaba to Shinjuku: Schools, Culture, and Wild Nightlife on Tokyo's West Side
A Walk around the Yamanote Line Walking from Takadanobaba to Shinjuku, youth is the name of the game, with youngsters attending the many local schools, hunting for bargains at Korean Town, or enjoying Kabukichō's bright lights. But don't forget that many traces of an older past are scattered all over the area. Takadanobaba is where I enter the home stretch of my walk around the Yamanote Line. From here to Shibuya, my final goal, this is my home turf, an area full of memories and personal connections. Yet, it hardly feels like a homecoming. Unfortunately, the district has changed so much that I hardly recognize it. Granted, when I get off the train, I'm still welcomed by the Astro Boy (known in Japan as Tetsuwan Atomu) theme song that's been used since 2003 as a departure melody for trains on these platforms. However, the atmosphere along Waseda-dōri, the station's main commercial street, is utterly different. The stations on the Yamanote line stations loop. (© Pixta) Located close to Waseda and Gakushūin universities and several other vocational and training schools, Takadanobaba is still a favorite student hangout. Over time, though, it has become a little trendier, a little pricier, and a lot blander. Thirty years ago, it had more character, starting with the tacky steel arcades on the north side of the street. There, one could find cheap diners and bars catering to penniless students, secondhand shops where I hunted for old books and video games, and two wonderful art theaters showing both Japanese and foreign films. Nearly all that is gone. Once the area's lone example of corporate shopping and dining, the Big Box commercial center is now surrounded by scores of chain stores. From mobile phone dealers to cafes and fast food joints, they are all over the place. Even the secondhand game shop I loved was replaced by Suit Select, which is happy to provide you with an order-made suit ready in 10 days for just ¥45,000! Big Box is one of Takadanobaba's oldest landmarks. (© Gianni Simone) Constantly changing, inexorably replacing the old with the new, the up-to-date, the money-making convenient, Tokyo is the best demonstration of Marcel Proust's dictum that you can never really get back time lost. To me, no other place drives home this painful fact with more bittersweet poignancy than Takadanobaba. Now, every visit I make becomes an incomplete, deeply unsatisfying stroll along memory lane, a missed chance to reconnect with my younger self. But I haven't lost all my hopes. The mom-and-pop ping pong joint is still there, hidden in an alley north of the station, and the Waseda Shōchiku cinema, which first opened in 1951, keeps showing cheap double-bills. Human traffic, as usual, is decidedly young, though near the station, hidden underground, there are bars and eateries targeting salarymen and other working people. It's like they don't want to attract the students' attention. By the way, if you are tired of the ubiquitous chain restaurants, Takadanobaba is home to several excellent Burmese diners providing simple, tasty, hearty dishes. Takadanobaba is famous for its many Burmese eateries. (© Gianni Simone) Speaking of Asian cuisine, our next stop has plenty of it. Nowadays, Shin-Ōkubo is mainly associated with Korean Town, and the hordes of Japanese youngsters and foreign tourists who clog its streets every day are mainly there to taste the latest colorful Korean snacks and buy Korean cosmetics. Food lovers converge on Shin-Ōkubo's Korean Town on a daily basis. (© Gianni Simone) However, on the west side of the Yamanote Line, a completely different kind of Asian experience awaits you, as the Korean places are easily overwhelmed by Vietnamese, Nepalese and other Asian shops and restaurants lining up on both sides of the street. It's a different world that looks and smells like no other place in Tokyo. So next time people tell you how homogeneous and monocultural Japan is, take them to Shin-Ōkubo. Walking around Shin-Ōkubo doesn't even feel like being in Japan. (© Gianni Simone) Now, the east side is a different story. You will need to walk some 15 to 20 minutes and get away from the Yamanote's acoustic footprints, but it's worth the trip, at least if you are interested in Tokyo's deep history. Tokyo has many danchi (public housing complexes), but Toyama Heights is arguably the only one located inside the loop. It is also one of the first and largest such projects in Tokyo. Initially constructed in 1948 on a former military site as a response to the postwar housing shortage, the original 1,062 structures were wooden, single-story houses. However, over the years, the area underwent significant redevelopment, and between 1968 and 1976, the complex was rebuilt into high-rise buildings made of reinforced concrete. Toyama Heights is one of the more successful examples of danchi in Tokyo. (© Gianni Simone) Coming from Takadanobaba, even before reaching the danchi, we find Toyama Park, a significant green area in the district. Once the residence of members of the Tokugawa clan whose garden was one of the best in Edo, even rivaling Koishikawa Kōrakuen, it was later used by the military, becoming a shooting range and the site of the Army Toyama School. Today, Toyama Park is a rare green oasis in the heart of Tokyo. The park has been left to gently go wild, creating just a few little rough touches here and there that add a certain charm you won't find in Yoyogi or other central Tokyo public parks. Toyama Park is a rare green oasis in the heart of Tokyo. (© Gianni Simone) Toyama Park is bisected by the major thoroughfare Meiji-dōri, and its inner, or eastern, half is a little jewel of unpretentious, quiet beauty. Although this area is more centrally located than the Yamanote stations, it has a suburban, almost rural feel. When I visited the park in the middle of a lazy weekday afternoon, the only people I crossed paths with were elementary school kids going home and pram-pushing moms. I sat on a bench to write down a few notes and the only sounds I could hear were small birds chirping, an impatient crow calling out his gang, and the subtle murmur of tree branches. If you are still hungry for unique landmarks, here you will find Hakone-yama, an artificial hill that, standing at 44.6 meters above sea level, is the highest nonstructural point within the Yamanote Line area. (Atagoyama, in Minato, remains the highest naturally occurring point.) However, to me, the district's most striking feature is Toyama Heights itself. While some of the buildings show their age and the whole complex looks rather dreary and lacks aesthetic charm, they are clean, with manicured lawns and walls unmarred by graffiti. In sharp contrast to the ominous atmosphere that pervades similar places in Europe and America, children play freely, the streets are immaculate, and gangs and drug dealers are nowhere to be seen. (Those things may be easier to find a little southward, in Shinjuku.) As one of Tokyo's main subcenters (it also features the world's most trafficked station), Shinjuku is many things all at once: a shopping Mecca, a sexual playground, and a cultural and intellectual enclave, so much so that one would need to write a whole book to do the place justice. Entering the district from the north, sex—or at least the titillating promise of it—is what you encounter. Welcome to Kabukichō, Japan's largest red-light district. In a city where streetwalkers are far from the norm, the area around Ōkubo Park has long been known as a spot where prostitutes solicit customers, many of them being very young runaways coming from around Japan. There is quite a lot of human traffic during the day, and after a while, you start wondering whether that blonde-dyed girl with the impossibly short miniskirt is just meeting her friends or on her way to some kind of naughty work. There are plenty of love hotels and host clubs here, but under the harsh glare of the midday sun, the place looks particularly drab, unremarkable, and unappealing. It's only when the sun goes down and the lights go up that Kabukichō turns into a riot of colors, a sleepless playground devoted to the neon god. At night the entrance to the Kabukichō district promises glitzy good times. (© Pixta) And to think that Shinjuku used to be a hotbed of student protests and political turmoil; a place where artists and intellectuals gathered to change the world, or at least Japanese culture. So, I leave behind the recent news stories and dive into deep time to look for traces of the past. Starting at the square in front of the station's east exit, we find a very old fountain, a gift from the city of London, where it once provided water for both people and horses. The round building just behind it is the station's parking lot. Both of them can be clearly seen in a rare color scene about halfway through Ōshima Nagisa's 1969 film Diary of a Shinjuku Thief. Not far from there, on Shinjuku-dōri, no history of local architecture would be complete without mentioning the Kinokuniya Bookstore main building (1964). Being squeezed between other lesser buildings, it's easy to overlook, but for more than 60 years it's been the heart of the local cultural scene. Shinjuku used to be full of jazz cafes and clubs, and one of the most famous was Fūgetsudō, where in the late sixties all the rebels and arty people used to gather. Here you could find poets such as Takiguchi Shūzō, Shiraishi Kazuko, and Tanikawa Shuntarō, actors like Mikuni Rentarō and Kishida Kyōko, and of course all-round creator and enfant terrible Terayama Shūji. Then, from the late 1960s onward, more and more hippies made their appearance, selling and doing marijuana and LSD. Unfortunately, the place was closed in 1973, so I find refuge and rest my feet at the retro-looking L'ambre, whose location is very close to the old Fūgetsudō. Here I can still enjoy a whiff of old-time café culture, albeit in a more domesticated, bourgeois atmosphere. L'ambre's retro atmosphere is a reminder of Shinjuku's roaring sixties. (© Gianni Simone) (Originally written in English. Banner photo: The Shin-Ōkubo district provides a Korean flavor to Tokyo travelers. © Pixta.)
Japan Times
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Japan Times
Li Kotomi: 'I refuse to choose death'
'I'm here, but I can't find the entrance,' Li Kotomi texts as our interview time approaches. When my interpreter and I rush down the stairs, she's already halfway up: a petite woman with straight bangs and streaks of pink and purple dye in her hair for the spring season. We laugh and shake hands all around. I'm somewhat mortified that my first meeting with an Akutagawa Prize-winning author is in a dingy staircase next to old mops and brooms. Up we go to the rented room, where we make ourselves comfortable and Li sets her laptop, covered in Pride stickers, down on the coffee table between us. The past three years have seen tremendous peaks and valleys for Li. As the critically acclaimed author of 'Solo Dance' and other fiction that explores topics of queer identity and migration, she has built a formidable career for herself and received some of Japan's highest literary accolades. But she has also been dealing with vicious cyberbullying, doxxing and harassment. Throughout my interview, Li appears serene, smiling with confidence. 'I am more persistent than most,' she declared in an online statement in response to her harassment. 'If I weren't so tenacious I wouldn't have made it this far. Authors are tenacious creatures to begin with.' A dedicated student Li, 35, hails from rural Taiwan. As a child, she was a voracious reader of both Chinese classics and contemporary literature. She began studying Japanese at age 15 for no particular reason beyond enjoying the language, but soon came to love reading Japanese books. Rieko Matsuura and Kaho Nakayama, authors known for their provocative explorations of gender and sexuality, were among her favorite writers. Li went on to major in Chinese and Japanese literature at the prestigious National Taiwan University, becoming fluent in Japanese by the time she graduated with her bachelor's degree. She studied at Waseda University as an exchange student and later moved to Tokyo to pursue her master's. Relocating to Japan was also a means for her to escape the severe oppression and discrimination she had experienced in Taiwan as a transgender woman and a lesbian. The capital had more queer spaces than Taipei, which had only two lesbian bars at the time, and Li quickly established a safe space of her own within the LGBTQ community. Li had written several short stories as a young adult in Taiwan, but found the literary industry difficult to break into. She contemplated giving up her dream entirely and becoming an academic or office worker. Even after she received her master's from Waseda, she felt intimidated by the idea of writing in Japanese. Writing literature in one's native language is challenging enough, she says, for all the technical and creative capacities it demands. 'You have to read a lot, you have to learn the culture, you have to know about society and history,' she says. 'I didn't think I could do that in Japanese.' Li started working at a big Japanese company in Tokyo after receiving her master's. One day, while riding a jam-packed train at rush hour, she wondered if there would be anything more to her life than just commuting to and from the office. 'Then a word came into my heart and that word was 'death,'' Li says. 'As a queer person, 'death' is close to my life. Even when I was a child, I often thought about death. I didn't think I could live past 30. Death is something I couldn't help thinking about. At that time, I started thinking about the word itself (in Japanese). ... And I thought, 'Maybe this could be the beginning of a novel.'' Five months later, she completed what would become her literary breakthrough. Li submitted the manuscript to the 2017 Gunzo Award for New Writers contest, competing against more than 2,000 submissions. She won top prize. Her story about a young lesbian from Taipei trying to overcome trauma and find connections in Tokyo was published the following year by Kodansha, and came out in English in 2022 as 'Solo Dance' (translated by Arthur Reiji Morris). It's a harrowing tale that details the protagonist's struggles with rejection and mental health. The Gunzo Award marked the official start of Li's literary career — a dream come true — and established Li as a serious author. In 2018, she quit her day job to focus on her work as a freelance writer and translator of Japanese to Mandarin. Ascent and adversity In 2021, Li became the second non-native Japanese speaker and first Taiwanese national to receive the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's top literary award. Her winning book, 'The Island Where Red Spider Lilies Bloom,' was an ambitious project, showcasing Li's linguistic innovation and her love of wordplay. 'In some of the lines, I combine Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese and Okinawan to make a completely new language,' she says. Overall, she describes her process of writing in Japanese as more analytical than her native language, since she is still able to view it from a distance. The Akutagawa Prize consolidated Li's literary reputation in both Japan and Taiwan. At the same time, this honor invited a degree of unwanted attention and animosity. Li received backlash from Japanese conservatives on X, formerly Twitter, for winning the Akutagawa as a foreigner, for publicly criticizing former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and for exploring queer themes in her books. In the same year, anti-transgender movements led by trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) were gaining momentum in Taiwan and Japan. '(In 2021), there also was a case in Taiwan where a transgender woman sued the government for the right to change her legal gender marker without getting gender confirmation surgery,' says Li. The court's ruling in favor of the plaintiff led to a transphobic backlash in Taiwan, around the same time as a similar reaction in Japan when Ochanomizu University, a women's college, began admitting transgender students. Li's gender identity became a target for online harassers. Individuals from around the world have relentlessly bullied her over the past few years, publicly outing her as transgender and even posting her confidential information. She has shared, in her blog, the anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation she experienced as a result. Li has since filed multiple lawsuits in both Taiwan and Japan against several individuals, citing defamation, sexual harassment and violation of privacy. Some she has won, while others are ongoing. She is contemplating filing even more, as she still faces innumerable attackers online. 'I should just be writing my books,' she laments. 'It's strange; it's not correct.' But ultimately, she believes her actions to be necessary 'to fight for my own rights and show queer people that you can fight back.' In response to this online harassment, Li's friends and supporters have rallied to raise funds for her drawn-out legal battles. 'I refuse to choose death,' she wrote in her public statement on Transgender Day of Remembrance. 'Our community has already seen far too much death. ... Yes, there is international solidarity among anti-trans activists. Therefore, I too need the international solidarity of the LGBTQ+ community.' A bright future In contrast to the storms raging online and in the courts, Li's day-to-day life is quiet and peaceful. She busies herself with chores, meets with editors, spends time with friends and then writes whenever she has a spare moment — always in the privacy of home. Li has a number of new stories and books in the pipeline. She is writing a series of travelogues based on her experiences at Pride festivals in Seoul, Zurich and Paris. In August, her book of hybrid fiction and nonfiction about her time at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program will be published. Li reminisces fondly about the program, where she befriended a novelist from Hong Kong and a poet from Korea, strengthening her ties to a global ecosystem of literary professionals. 'I really hope that more of my books can be translated into English, too,' Li says. Her third book, 'The Night of the Shining North Star,' takes place in Shinjuku Ni-chome and features women of all sexualities making connections and conversations. She feels that this book can offer readers a glimpse of Asian history, politics and queer communities. Li strongly believes that the struggle for queer rights is tied to wider political and social problems. 'We have to acknowledge discrimination: homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia. We have to deal with it. ... What makes my novels different is that I focus on those who are most marginalized and intersectional. That is important to me.'
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Yahoo Sports AM: MLB in Japan
Yahoo Sports AM is our daily newsletter that keeps you up to date on all things sports. Sign up here to get it every weekday morning. 🏀 Rose win the title: Rose claimed Unrivaled's inaugural title with a 62-54 victory over Vinyl. Finals MVP Chelsea Gray and her teammates earned $50,000 each for the win, nearly a quarter of the average Unrivaled salary ($220,000) and a third of the WNBA's (~$150,000). ⛳️ New York advances to Finals: New York Golf Club, led by world No. 3 Xander Schauffele, upset top-seeded Los Angeles Golf Club in the first TGL semifinal to book a spot in next week's best-of-three championship. 🏀 Sixers shut down George: Paul George will miss the rest of the season with groin and knee injuries. He played just 41 games this year for the 76ers (23-45), who remain six games out of a play-in spot. 🏈 Stingley gets paid: The Texans signed All-Pro CB Derek Stingley Jr. to a three-year, $90 million extension, making him the highest-paid cornerback in NFL history. ⚾️ Strider's electric return: Braves righty Spencer Strider, who led the majors in strikeouts in 2023, struck out six across 2.2 perfect innings in his first appearance since undergoing elbow surgery last April. The MLB season began a couple hours ago in Tokyo, where the Dodgers and Cubs are playing a two-game series at the Tokyo Dome. Homecoming: No matchup better represents MLB's recent explosion of Japanese talent, with five Japanese players taking the field this week on their native soil. The Dodgers boast three-time MVP Shohei Ohtani alongside RHPs Yoshinobu Yamamoto (today's starter) and rookie Rōki Sasaki (tomorrow's starter). For the Cubs, LHP Shōta Imanaga (today's starter) was an All-Star last year as a rookie, while OF Seiya Suzuki has hit 55 HR since debuting in 2022. As the season-opener plays out on the other side of the world, let's examine the long and shared history of our National Pastime and Japan's most popular sport… Back at the beginning: Baseball has been in Japan for nearly as long as it's been in the states thanks to American teacher Horace Wilson, who moved to Tokyo in 1872 and taught the game to his students. The game flourished for decades, and in 1905 the next great cultural exchange took place when the Waseda University team traveled from Tokyo to the U.S. to play colleges up and down the West Coast. Waseda brought home skills like the wind-up and breaking ball and were influenced by college marching bands, which inspired the ōendan, or "cheering squad" now synonymous with Japanese baseball. Sports diplomacy: Waseda's trip kicked off decades of similar series, with more than 100 U.S. college and pro teams embarking on baseball tours of Japan dubbed Nichibei Yakyū. (Nichibei means "Japan and the U.S.," and "yakyū" means baseball.) The Babe abroad: The most consequential of these Nichibei Yakyū came in 1934, when Babe Ruth led a team of future Hall of Famers on a 19-game barnstorming tour against a Japanese all-star team organized by the president of Yomiuri Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper. Lasting impact: That all-star team stayed together, and two years later helped form Japan's first professional baseball league, which in 1950 reorganized itself into the NPB. You know that team today as the Yomiuri Giants, who remain the country's oldest professional sports team. Coming to America: In 1964, lefty hurler Masanori Murakami made history as MLB's first Japanese-born player. 30 years later, Hideo Nomo picked up where he left off and the infusion of talent has rapidly accelerated ever since. All told, 81 Japanese players have donned an MLB uniform, with No. 82 debuting tomorrow when Sasaki takes the mound. When Jack Nicklaus* won the first Players Championship in 1974, he earned $50,000. When Rory McIlroy won the 2025 edition on Monday, he earned $4.5 million. Rolling in dough: McIlroy is already at $8.7 million in on-course earnings this year and is now $290,938 away from joining Tiger Woods* as the PGA Tour's second $100 million man. By the numbers: Career earnings: $99,709,062 Career starts: 281 Average per outing: $382,027 Plus: McIlroy also banked $33 million for winning the 2022 Tour Championship ($18 million) and the 2019 Tour Championship ($15 million), but that bonus money, since 2019, is not considered part of a golfer's official earnings, notes Golfweek's Todd Kelly. Question: Is Rory playing the best golf of his career at age 35? In his last 25 starts, he has five wins, three runners-up, 14 top 5s, 22 top 25s and only one missed cut. *Speaking of Jack and Tiger… McIlroy joined the two of them, and Scottie Scheffler, as the only four golfers in history to win multiple majors and multiple Players Championships. 27 schools made both NCAA tournaments. That number will be trimmed to 26 tonight when North Carolina and San Diego State go head-to-head in the men's First Four. Looking back: There have been 15 instances where a school advanced to both the men's and women's Final Four in the same year. More than half of those (8) have come in the last 15 years, including two last season alone. 1983: Georgia 1999: Duke 2002: Oklahoma 2003: Texas 2004: UConn (both won titles) 2005: Michigan State 2006: LSU 2009: UConn (women won) 2011: UConn (men won) 2013: Louisville (men won) 2014: UConn (both won) 2016: Syracuse 2017: South Carolina (women won) 2024: NC State 2024: UConn (men won) Looking ahead: Who are the top candidates to pull off the Final Four "double" this year? Duke is the safest bet (1 seed for men, 2 seed for women), but don't sleep on Maryland (4 for both), Tennessee (2 and 5), Kentucky (3 and 4), Alabama (2 and 5), UCLA (7 and 1), Michigan State (2 and 7) and UConn (8 and 2). 21.9 years old. That's the average age of a college baseball player this season, up from 20.1 years old in 2022. What's happening? The uptick in age is partly due to COVID redshirts (extra year of eligibility), which will soon be a thing of the past. But it's also a result of the transfer portal, which is here to stay. As coaches focus more time and resources on luring transfers, less attention is being paid to high schoolers, and there are fewer roster spots available for them. It's not just baseball… St. John's basketball coach Rick Pitino says he won't recruit a single high school player this year, opting instead to focus on the portal. "We're losing [three seniors]. You can't replace them with high school kids," said Pitino. He even said he'd turn down a 5-star recruit. "I don't think you can win big with high school kids." The men's NCAA tournament begins tonight with the First Four in Dayton, Ohio. No. 16 Saint Francis vs. No. 16 Alabama State (6:40pm ET, truTV): Saint Francis is here despite going 13-17 against D-I teams this season. The winner gets No. 1 Auburn. No. 11 UNC vs. No. 11 SDSU (9:10pm truTV): The 2022 runner-up vs. the 2023 runner-up. The winner gets No. 6 Ole Miss. More to watch: ⚾️ MLB: Dodgers vs. Cubs (6:10am, Fox) … Season-opener in Tokyo. 🏀 NBA: Nets at Celtics (7:30pm, NBA); Bucks at Warriors (10pm, NBA) 🏒 NHL: Utah at Oilers* (9pm, ESPN) ⛳️ TGL: Atlanta vs. The Bay (7pm, ESPN) … Winner will face New York in the finals. *Triple digits: Oilers star Leon Draisaitl (101 points) has his sixth 100-point season, tied for the seventh-most in NHL history. Bengals wideouts Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins have a combined average annual salary of $69 million after striking new deals, by far the most of any WR duo. Question: Which duo is second at $58.3 million? Hint: Warm weather. Answer at the bottom. Hang it in The Louvre. Trivia answer: Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle (Dolphins) We hope you enjoyed this edition of Yahoo Sports AM, our daily newsletter that keeps you up to date on all things sports. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox every weekday morning.
