Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Sports News

Japanese Teen Ishikawa Braces for New Experience

Jul. 15, 2009
TURNBERRY, Scotland (AP) -- Ryo Ishikawa has seen so much in such a short time.
Related Stories from UPI.com

MLB: San Francisco 13, Houston 0

SAN FRANCISCO, July 4 (UPI) -- Pablo Sandoval and Travis Ishikawa both had three RBI Friday and the San Francisco Giants produced 15 hits in rolling over Houston 13-0.

Wet ear wax may signal breast cancer risk

TOKYO, June 2 (UPI) -- A gene may link wet, sticky earwax and osmidrosis -- malodorous armpits -- to breast cancer risk, Japanese researchers say.

MLB: San Francisco 5, San Diego 2

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Pedro Sandoval and Travis Ishikawa hit solo homers Friday and Brian Wilson worked his way out of a jam to bring San Francisco a 5-2 win over San Diego.

Noose-hanging teen gets rare punishment

OVIEDO, Fla., June 5 (UPI) -- A Florida teen found guilty of putting a noose on a black family's property received an unusual sentence requiring him to attend class and study history.

Time ends print version of Teen People

NEW YORK, July 26 (UPI) -- Time Inc. of New York is ending print publication of Teen People, one of the first major magazines to be launched simultaneously in print and on the Web.

No death, damage in Japan earthquake

TOKYO, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Japanese officials said there are no known casualties or major damage from an afternoon earthquake that struck the Gifu region.

Japanese to be rewarded for big families

TOKYO, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Families with three or more children in Japan's Ishikawa prefecture will receive special discount cards for shopping, Asahi Shimbun reported Thursday.

Missing Japanese woman was murder victim

TOKYO, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- A woman thought to have been kidnapped by North Korea turned out to have been killed and buried 26 years ago, a man confessed Sunday in Tokyo.

Teen smoking on the decline

ATLANTA, May 16 (UPI) -- Teen smoking rates have been declining since 1997, representing a reverse from the increase in teen smoking seen in the early 1990s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. This development could "contribute to potentially millio

Japan bank goes bust , will others follow?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Given Japan's fundamental problems in trying to revive its long-ailing economy, news of a Japanese bank going bust for the first time in more than two years act
1 of 25
President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
View Caption
President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch