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Obama, President Barack • Fox News can't stop reporting false story about ogling of teenager by • NAACP is passionately addressed by • shattering of teleprompter of • "sissy pitch" by at All-Star Game is compared by desperate right-wing Web sites to 2001 World Series strike by George W. Bush as yet more evidence, in case the recent sissy request by for Dijon mustard wasn't enough, that we were oh so much better off with a manly man like Bush in the White House...
...press conference, Yudhoyono also lamented Manchester United's cancellation of their planned soccer match with an Indonesian all-star side next week. "If this hadn't happened, the best-known soccer club in the world would have played in Jakarta," he said. The team had planned to stay at the Ritz-Carlton...
...Ming, it goes something like this: a poor kid is pushed into a sport he has little interest in, he brings a lackluster team in Shanghai to victory in the national championships, and he gets drafted by the Houston Rockets, where his offensive prowess earns him seven NBA All-Star awards. Fast-forward to the present and the 7-ft. 6-in. center faces bench time because of a foot injury that some speculate could end his career. What to do but follow the Chinese dream and become a successful businessman? On July 16, Yao's agent told China...
...profile player in what is probably the nation's most popular sport. While not the first Chinese hoopster to play in the NBA - that distinction goes to Wang Zhizhi, who was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks in 1999 - Yao is by far the most prominent. A seven-time NBA All-Star and pillar of the Chinese national team, his angular face can be seen on everything in China from Coke billboards to Visa ads. His annual endorsement income last year was estimated at $36 million, more than triple that of the next highest-paid Chinese sports pitchman, hurdler Liu Xiang...
...June 14 the Los Angeles Lakers captured their 15th NBA championship, beating the Orlando Magic four games to one. It was the fourth title for the Lakers' All-Star guard Kobe Bryant...