Word: yao
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...While "Young Giant Yao," as the Chinese lovingly call their paramount sports hero, contributes a stunning rookie season to the Houston Rockets, McClintock is expected to reciprocate. Last season, with Yao at center, the Sharks won 23 of 24 league games, earning their first CBA championship. Anything less than commensurate dominance will be considered a failure and a loss of face for McClintock. At the market everybody seems to know his name, perhaps because every Sharks home game is aired on television. So are most of Yao's games in Houston, beamed live at 9 a.m. Shanghai time from...
...Sports: Filling Yao Ming's Shoes
...institute is a remnant of the Soviet sports system as adapted by the People's Republic of China. A year ago Yao Ming was living in Room 305. At this very moment, in the little restaurants and motorbike repair shops just outside the gates of the institute, his proud and excited countrymen squat in front of televisions and watch him battle the overmatched Minnesota Timberwolves half a world away. Yao's NBA debut on Oct. 30 was reported to have been seen in 287 million households in China...
...think you'll still be playing when the Olympic finals are in Beijing in 2008," he is asked, "and Yao Ming scores 66 points against the U.S. Dream Team...
...What about the pressures of being the heir to the departed Young Giant? "As far as I'm concerned, they were just looking for a good player to come in and help," Dan-ni-er replies. "Not as a replacement?those are shoes I can't fill. Yao's larger than life...