Yao Ming hardly recognizes his team anymore. Going into the season, they were the Houston Rockets, a playoff-bound team expected to boast one of the most potent offenses in the NBA under new coach Rick Adelman. Twenty-two games later, they still don the same red and white jerseys, but have somehow morphed into a mediocre .500 team struggling to stay out of the basement of the Southwest Division. After an embarrassing blowout at the hands of the 76ers earlier this week, Yao told the Houston Chronicle, "I feel like they traded me to another team."
Chinese paddlers will try to underline their ping-pong domination and gain a psychological edge over their main rivals ahead of the Beijing Olympics in two year-end tournaments beginning this weekend in Beijing.
With his eyes firmly set on China's already colossal but still fast-growing market, world cycling boss Pat McQuaid promises to give China a new race that is "as popular as the Tour de France".
The last two years have been a nightmare for former Chinese Cycling Association chief Tian Junrong.
China's women's volleyball team has high hopes of defending its gold medal at next year's Olympic Games, but a chief official from the sport's governing body downplayed China's chances, admitting that no podium finish would also be acceptable.
BANGKOK: Chinese ace Liang Wenchong swept the major awards at the UBS Awards Gala on Sunday night as he put the icing on the cake of a fantastic 2007 season.
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