In a secret ceremony in Shanghai Monday, Yao Ming and his baller bride Ye Li are now officially married. Well, as secret as a 7′6″ man in a tuxedo and a 6′2″ woman in a wedding dress can possibly be. The couple, who have been together since 1999, took care of the marriage […]

From Deadspin.com comes a video of a Chinese guy trying to throw one down. It sounds pretty boring. Except for the fact that this Chinese guy brings down the entire backboard. And at first it really looks like the thing comes down on his neck. Luckily, he walks away unscathed. […]

Reuters Canada (and the fact that it’s Canada is important here) reported early Friday that “China’s Li” was “surprised to be picked by Milwaukee.” There are many many people with the name Li in China. The player who was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks in Thursday night’s NBA draft is not one of […]

Update (6/29): This story took a strange strange turn Thursday evening when investigators in the Chris Benoit murder/suicide reported that his Wikipedia entry had been edited to include his wife’s death 14 hours before her body was discovered. At 12:01 a.m. Monday, an anonymous user added the following information to Benoit’s page: “Chris Benoit […]

Yikes. You would think with over half a billion women in China, the biggest international star from the Mainland could have landed himself someone who, well, looks a little bit more like Bai Ling. I’m talking about Ye Li, the woman with the ball in her grasp, not the other specimen of beauty […]

The New York Yankees became the first Major League Baseball team to sign players from the Chinese Baseball Association when they signed two Chinese teenagers to minor league contracts. The CBA approved the signing of Liu Kai, a 19-year-old lefty pitcher from Guangdong province and Zhang Zhenwang, also 19, a catcher out of Tianjin […]

Major League Baseball reported on its website Saturday that it is in the final stages of planning to send two teams to Asia to kick off the 2008 season. The frontrunners to represent America’s pastime in Asia are the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. According to the current plan, the […]

The always excellent Deadspin.com reported Tuesday on the fate of 2007 New England Patriots Chinese Cheerleader Swimsuit Calendar, one of the many Chinese-themed items offered to “celebrate the Patriots historic trip to China in 2007.” Except the Patriots are no longer making any historic trip to China in 2007 as their August 7th game […]

While LeBron might be “King James” in Cleveland and Richard Hamilton goes by “Rip” in Detroit, China has its own way of nicknaming the NBA’s elite players. Last week, the NBA released an interesting list of NBA players and how they are called in the Middle Kingdom. While some of these monikers, namely […]

China has a special way of scheduling really fun-sounding events that make me really excited, so excited that I actually plan on going to them, and then cancelling them really suddenly. It’s all part of the “fun.” Sports Illustrated’s Peter King reported Sunday, citing unidentifiable sources, that the China Bowl, a scheduled NFL […]