Major League Baseball made a successful landing in China last weekend, but its attempt to build a legacy here is being immediately challenged by plans to raze Wukesong Baseball Field after the Beijing Games conclude.
After the final out of the historic Major League Baseball China Series on Sunday, MLB officials took a look around Wukesong Baseball Field and quietly congratulated themselves.
Before coming to China to manage the country's national baseball team in 2003, Jim Lefebvre was in his third year as a minor league batting coach for the San Diego Padres.
Shandong province will be the first province to sell tickets for a new kind of sports lottery, the instant lottery, beginning on March 23. The lottery will then go nationwide in May and June, China's Sports Lottery Administration Center announced last week.
The Chinese triple jump record still stands: 17.34m.
INDIAN WELLS, California: Australian Open champion Maria Sharapova puts her pefect 2008 record on the line in the Pacific Life Open men's and women's hardcourt tennis tournament that started here Wednesday.
LONDON: Wales can complete its remarkable rugby metamorphosis by beating France on Saturday to win a Six Nations grand slam six months after trudging home from the World Cup in despair.
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