Already conceding two strikes against baseball's niche status on the national sports landscape, China's pro league is stepping up to the plate for a third swing at respectability.
Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua has launched a women's team in partnership with Shanghai University of Sport.
China's annual National Fitness Day returns on Thursday, with the nation getting into shape like never before.
NEW YORK - The US women's soccer team is the best on the planet, but the sport's domestic league is virtually unknown.
SAN JOSE, California - Zheng Saisai kept sending back big, looping groundstrokes and digging balls from every corner of the court to keep points alive.
Huge entourages, heavy security and demands for the sort of police protection normally reserved for heads of state.
NEW YORK - Chris Sale threw an 0-2 fastball at the letters past New York's Gio Urshela in the fourth inning and didn't get the call.
Despite a lack of talent and facilities, China's hockey governing body is looking to its long-awaited domestic league to bolster the national program ahead of the challenge of the home Olympics.
SHIJIAZHUANG - Five years ago, Yu Lei was a security guard in Beijing. If he had not been doing that, he would have been growing corn on his farm in Chongli, a small town in Zhangjiakou, Heibei province.
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