Kumamoto Prefecture - Sports

Sports

These sports teams are based in the prefecture:

  • Professional:
    • Roasso Kumamoto - Men's football and J League Second Division
    • Blaze Kumamoto - Men's association football
    • Mashiki Renaissance Kumamoto - Women's association football
  • Amateur:
    • Kumamoto Golden Larks - regional baseball

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Famous quotes containing the word sports:

    There be some sports are painful, and their labor
    Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
    Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
    Point to rich ends.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.
    Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)