Netizen Voices: This Country Does Not Need a Second Voice
On October 8, Cover News launched a survey questionnaire on Weibo asking for readers’ take...
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Basketball Fans in China and the U.S. Angered Over Free Speech Controversy
Following a tweet by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey in which he expressed support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, the Chinese government has made moves to ban the team–one of the most popular NBA...
Basketballers in Spotlight, Liu Xia’s Fate Unknown
Poet Liu Xia, wife of late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, has not been seen in public since her...
Minitrue: Don’t Hype Theft by UCLA Basketball Players
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Mission Improbable: How China Got its Aircraft Carrier
In a two-part story at South China Morning Post, Minnie Chan describes a Hong Kong...
Houston Hoping Linsanity Channels Yao
The Wall Street Journal reports that New York Knicks fans aren’t alone in their disappointment over the news that Jeremy Lin will play for the Houston Rockets next year: As unhappy as some U.S. basketball fans may be at...
Yao Who? China’s New NBA Star
The Wall Street Journal calls attention to Jeremy Lin, who has suddenly become China’s newest NBA idol in the absence of the now-retired Yao Ming: Lin, a former Harvard star who went undrafted out of college, gives up 14...
Yao Ming Begins College Life
Global Times reports on the start of basketball icon Yao Ming’s post-NBA academic career at Shanghai Jiao Tong University: According to Yao, who retired on July 20, he has enrolled in the Antai College of Economics &...
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...
Biden Opens Talks in China as U.S.-China Basketball Game Ends in Violence (Video)
What was supposed to be a goodwill game between the Georgetown Hoyas and the Bayi Rockets in Beijing ended badly when a fight broke out between players. From the Washington Post: Georgetown senior center Henry Sims had a chair...
As Towering Star Retires, China Is Unprepared to Replace Him
With Yao Ming set to announce his retirement from the NBA tomorrow, China is set to lose its largest (and tallest) international sports star. The New York Times reports: For nearly a decade, China has been enthralled by the cult...
Rockets’ Yao Ming to Quit NBA: Reports
NBA star Yao Ming is planning to retire from professional basketball, Reuters reports: Yao had cast doubt on his return to the NBA last month when he admitted to the possibility he may not play again because of his ongoing...
LeBron James Gets China
Turns out the closely-watched decision by basketball star LeBron James to join the Miami Heat had everything to do with China. The Forbes blog explains: At that moment, though, Stephen Smith interjected and emphatically,...
China Fans Ask, Will Yao Ming’s Baby be American?
From USA Today: Yao’s personal life is closely followed by his many fans at home, from his 2007 Shanghai wedding to fellow basketball player Ye Li to last month’s reports the couple is expecting a baby girl in...
30 Years Later, Visit to China Still Resonates
The Washington Wizards basketball team is visiting China to commemorate a trip to the country thirty years ago by the same team (then called the Washington Bullets), which marked the first visit to China by a professional U.S....
In China, a Rocky Ascent for Basketball
While the NBA enjoys immense popularity in China, the local league isn’t enjoying the same success, according to the New York Times: With 1.3 billion potential fans, China is increasingly seen as a financial promised land...
NBA in Joint Venture to Build Arenas in China
The NBA has launched a plan to help build 12 new arenas throughout China. From AP: NBA commissioner David Stern did not say when the plan would be starting, or where the buildings would be located. “We weren’t going...
Hoops in China
From Hoop City, from Time: Basketball may not yet be China’s most popular sport, but it’s getting there. The public courts in Shanghai and Beijing are more crowded than ever now. Show up at a court on a fine Saturday...
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