Japanese star Kaori Sakamoto delivered deliver one of skating’s most moving programs of all time in the team event.

Shohei Ohtani confirmed that he will not pitch in the 2026 World Baseball Classic and will only be used as a hitter. Ohtani ...

The strangest thing took place after a Japanese male volleyball player hit a spectator with his shot during a match.

Attending games and matches live is an incredible experience for people who love sports. Sometimes however, fans, workers and ...

Once dismissed as a basement game, table tennis is enjoying an unlikely US revival as the Oscar-tipped biopic Marty Supreme collides with a wave of new players For decades in the US, table tennis has ...

There is a choice to be made at this Tokyo noodle bar, and misjudgment could be painful. The laminated menu lists increasing levels of karasa (heat from chilli oil) and shibire (numbing spice from ...

Olympic halfpipe champion Ayumu Hirano was named to the Japanese team heading to next month’s Milan Cortina Games despite breaking bones in his face in an accident at a contest in Switzerland over the ...

When writer Lisa Lucas visited Phoenix, Arizona, she learned about the table tennis player Thelma Thall, who won two world championships in the 1950s. Thall competed in a male-dominated world shaped ...

For Pico Iyer, making his acting debut in the hit movie “Marty Supreme” was the latest journey in a life full of unexpected voyages. By Pico Iyer The author’s TED Talk “What Ping-Pong Taught Me About ...

The Australian Open kicks off a robust list of global entertainment in 2026. The Winter Olympics, FIFA World Cup and other live events will shape the travel landscape in 2026 as sports tourism and ...

A few years ago, when Jewish actor Timothée Chalamet said his next project involved ping pong, people were perplexed. The star had already been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as ...

In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the film's ping-pong consultant, Diego Schaaf, says he hopes the actor's wild press run "gives the sport the breakthrough it’s deserved." By Lexi Carson ...