{"id":1966,"date":"2021-08-20T20:55:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2021-12-06T23:55:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:55:27","slug":"tpos-podcast-episode-11-ed-odeven-the-american-expert-on-japanese-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/tpos-podcast-episode-11-ed-odeven-the-american-expert-on-japanese-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"TPOS Podcast Episode 11 \u2013 Ed Odeven (\u201cThe American expert on Japanese Basketball\u201d)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"TPOS Podcast Episode 11 \u2013 Ed Odeven (\u201cThe American expert on Japanese Basketball\u201d)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-08-20T20:55:08+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/x-m4a\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\nIn this episode we learn about basketball in Japan from Ed Odeven, who is the sports editor at&amp;nbsp;japan-forward.com&amp;nbsp;and the author of the book,&amp;nbsp;Going 15 Rounds with Jerry Izenberg, which is a great collection of writings about one of the...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TPOS-Ep-11-Ed-O-Final-3-8_20_21-1.44-PM.m4a\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"72.9\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9910\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1966-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TPOS-Ep-11-Ed-O-Final-3-8_20_21-1.44-PM.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TPOS-Ep-11-Ed-O-Final-3-8_20_21-1.44-PM.m4a\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TPOS-Ep-11-Ed-O-Final-3-8_20_21-1.44-PM.m4a<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_m4a\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TPOS-Ep-11-Ed-O-Final-3-8_20_21-1.44-PM.m4a\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/?powerpress_pinw=1966-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TPOS-Ep-11-Ed-O-Final-3-8_20_21-1.44-PM.m4a\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TPOS-Ep-11-Ed-O-Final-3-8_20_21-1.44-PM.m4a\">Download<\/a> (72.9MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this episode we learn about basketball in Japan from Ed Odeven, who is the sports editor at&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/japan-forward.com\/\">japan-forward.com<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>and the author of the book,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Going-15-Rounds-Jerry-Izenberg\/dp\/1393156053\">Going 15 Rounds with Jerry Izenberg<\/a><\/em>, which is a great collection of writings about one of the best sports columnists of all time. Previously Ed worked for the&nbsp;<em>Arizona Daily Sun<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>The<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Japan Times<\/em>, and he regularly contributes to English language publications all over the world. One of his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2021\/aug\/11\/rui-hachimura-shows-expanded-skill-during-tokyo-ol\/\">most recent stories<\/a>&nbsp;was about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rui_Hachimura\">Rui Hachimura<\/a>, the superstar Japanese basketball player who plays for the NBA\u2019s Washington Wizards and whose rise to stardom has put basketball on the Japanese map. In fact, Ed has catalogued basketball\u2019s rise to national prominence in Japan for the last fifteen years, so it was my great pleasure to sit down with him recently to learn about his love of sports and sports writing, and about Japan\u2019s national team performances in basketball at the recent Olympic Games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"TPOS Podcast Episode 11 \u2013 Ed Odeven (\u201cThe American expert on Japanese Basketball\u201d)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-08-20T20:55:08+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/x-m4a\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\nIn this episode we learn about basketball in Japan from Ed Odeven, who is the sports editor at&amp;nbsp;japan-forward.com&amp;nbsp;and the author of the book,&amp;nbsp;Going 15 Rounds with Jerry Izenberg, which is a great collection of writings about one of the...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TPOS-Ep-11-Ed-O-Final-3-8_20_21-1.44-PM.m4a\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"72.9\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9911\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1966-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TPOS-Ep-11-Ed-O-Final-3-8_20_21-1.44-PM.m4a?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TPOS-Ep-11-Ed-O-Final-3-8_20_21-1.44-PM.m4a\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TPOS-Ep-11-Ed-O-Final-3-8_20_21-1.44-PM.m4a<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_m4a\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TPOS-Ep-11-Ed-O-Final-3-8_20_21-1.44-PM.m4a\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/?powerpress_pinw=1966-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TPOS-Ep-11-Ed-O-Final-3-8_20_21-1.44-PM.m4a\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TPOS-Ep-11-Ed-O-Final-3-8_20_21-1.44-PM.m4a\">Download<\/a> (72.9MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we learn about basketball in Japan from Ed Odeven, who is the sports editor at&nbsp;japan-forward.com&nbsp;and the author of the book,&nbsp;Going 15 Rounds with Jerry Izenberg, which is a great collection of writings about one of the best sports columnists of all time. Previously Ed worked for the&nbsp;Arizona Daily Sun&nbsp;and&nbsp;The&nbsp;Japan Times, and he&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/tpos-podcast-episode-11-ed-odeven-the-american-expert-on-japanese-basketball\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TPOS Podcast Episode 11 \u2013 Ed Odeven (\u201cThe American expert on Japanese Basketball\u201d)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84,100],"tags":[91,89,164,165,167,104,166],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-power-of-sports-podcast","category-writers","tag-basketball","tag-japan","tag-japanese-basketball","tag-rui-hachimura","tag-silver-medal","tag-tokyo-olympics","tag-watanabe-yuta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}