Rintaro Sasaki has been setting the table for the Cardinal the past five games, and so far, it's working.

Hailing originally from Tokyo, Japan, Rintaro Mikami is a jazz drummer, percussionist and composer based in New York City. Known for a wide range dynamics, supportive orchestration, and very narrative ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Rintaro Sasaki didn’t so much choose baseball as it chose him: Born to a legendary high school coach in Japan, gifted with a massive frame that generates prodigious power, and ...

Rintaro Sasaki skipped the NPB draft to come play in the United States, enrolling at Stanford with the goal of entering the 2026 MLB draft instead. His first game experience here has come playing for ...

With fall practices complete and the college season less than two months away, it is becoming clearer which freshmen are in line to have prominent roles for their respective programs. Last month, I ...

Paolo Bicchieri is the associate editor for the Northern California and Pacific Northwest region writing about restaurant and bar trends, coffee and cafes, and pop-ups. The atmospheric river that ...

Izakaya Rintaro opened in 2015, with Chez Panisse alum Chef Sylvan Brackett at the helm. Although Brackett’s roots are Japanese, he was raised in California, and both of these influences shimmer in ...

Amid all the chaos of one chef placing dozens of chicken skewers on a narrow grill and another gently lowering a whole petrale sole into a bubbling oil bath, chef-owner Sylvan Mishima Brackett of ...