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China Plays Down Basketball Melee (Updated)

After the bench-clearing brawl at a goodwill basketball game between the Georgetown Hoyas and the Bayi Rockets, team officials and players sought to downplay the incident. From the Wall Street Journal: The Thursday match, which occurred during a visit to China by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and had been billed by the teams as a “goodwill” contest, was abandoned after a bench-clearing