If you believe the chatter coming out of China following Yao Ming's stellar performance in the Houston Rockets' regular-season opener, you might think Yao already has the MVP award locked up.
China badminton head coach Li Yongbo used to hope his son Li Gen would attend a good university and find a decent job rather than pick up the racket and become a professional athlete.
China's 110m-hurdles world and Olympic champion Liu Xiang can take his time finishing his postgraduate and doctoral programs of study at the School of Sports and Health Care (SSHC) at East China Normal University, according to an official from SSHC.
WUHAN, Central China: The quadrennial multi-sport City Games are considered to be a cradle for promising stars. This year, three talented young swimmers showed their potential at the sixth edition of the Games.
It's well-known in most professional sports circles (any fraternal organization, for that matter) that rookies are routinely hazed by veteran players as they struggle to "learn the ropes". As Yi's new Bucks teammate Desmond Mason has made abundantly clear, the lanky Chinese power forward will be no exception.
Qiao Liang says the most difficult thing in life is to do a double-double flip. If you can pull that off, he says, you can do anything.
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