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About Ed Odeven
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I joined japan-forward.com as a sports correspondent in May 2020. I am a former sports reporter and sports desk editor for The Japan Times. This site is an outlet for new projects spanning the globe and a place to post material from past projects.
I am currently writing a book on legendary sports columnist Jerry Izenberg.
Follow me on Twitter: @ed_odeven Email: odevened@gmail.com
*** “As a journalist, it’s important to shine the light where people aren’t looking and compel them to look.” -Anne Hull
Carl Bernstein signs a copy of “All The President’s Men” for me at a South Florida event in September 2013.
Baseball legend Sadaharu Oh attended a Foreign Sportswriters Association of Japan gathering in December 2007 in Tokyo.
Walter Cronkite and I at the Arizona State University journalism banquet (the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication) in the fall of 1997.Opening Ceremony at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.Conducting an interview with then-Shimane Susanoo Magic star Michael Parker in September 2011.
