Yao Ming

The Best Athlete-Owned Restaurants

The Daily Meal | Posted 04.09.2012

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The Daily Meal

Whatever their success in the record books, many gridiron heroes and ballpark messiahs have splashed their names on dining establishments that also serve as a shrine to their athletic glory.

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Guess Who Nabbed The Lin Trademark More Than A Year Ago

Reuters | Posted 04.27.2012

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(Corrects typo in third bullet point) * China ball maker registers Jeremy Lin trademark * Difficult to take trademark fr...

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Famous Faces Help Boost Animal Rights In China

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 04.22.2012

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BEIJING (AP) — Celebrities like basketball star Yao Ming have helped energize China's animal rights movement by speaking out against shark fin soup ...

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Yao Weighs In On Lin

Posted 02.16.2012

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He knows the thrill of excitement to walk out onto the court every night with the eyes of the basketball world upon you and he knows the burden of inc...

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Linsanity: The Point God of Sports Memes

Chi Tung | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Linsanity, Blogosphere, Los Angeles Clippers, Yao Ming, Grantland, Internet Memes, Roger Ebert, Chinese Culture, Tebowmania, Asian Americans, Globalization, Deadspin, Jeremy Lin, Tim Tebow, New York Knicks, Culture News
Chi Tung

For every one of us eager to claim Lin in our racial draft, there's Lin himself, shrugging off the portentous hype because he's too busy making love to pressure to tangle with Asian American identity politics.

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Yao Ming Enter Politics

AP | Posted 03.16.2012

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SHANGHAI (AP) -- Retired NBA star Yao Ming has added another line to his post-basketball resume -- politician -- becoming a member of an advisory body...

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Ex-NBA Star Yao Ming Ventures Into Wine Making

The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 11.29.2011

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From the basketball court to the tasting room? That's the latest move from recently retired NBA star Yao Ming, who has started his own Napa Valley win...

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Yao Ming Goes Back To School

Posted 01.08.2012

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Yao Ming is literally the big man on campus. The 31-year-old former Houston Rockets player, who retired in July, recently began management school i...

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Shaq Visits China & Hangs Out With Yao Ming

The Huffington Post | Dan Treadway | Posted 12.21.2011

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With the NBA Lockout still ongoing, it appears that Shaquille O'Neal has a little more time to kill before he begins working as an NBA analyst for TNT...

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Yao Ming, Richard Branson Join To Fight Shark Fin Trade

AP | By ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 11.22.2011

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SHANGHAI -- Recently retired Chinese NBA star Yao Ming is taking the fight against eating shark fins back to his homeland, where demand for the tradit...

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Yao Ming's First Interview Since Retirement

Graham Bensinger | Posted 11.02.2011

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Graham Bensinger

The former Houston Rockets' center opens up about what led to his decision to retire, shares the experience of first moving to Houston and details the injuries that plagued his NBA career.

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Yao A Hall Of Famer?

Posted 09.10.2011

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With eight all-star appearances, a reputation for dominance and grace on the floor and an indisputable role in spreading the game of basketball throug...

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RETIRES

Posted 09.07.2011

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Yao Ming has decided to retire after eight seasons in the NBA, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports. The Houston Rockets star center r...

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Is Li Na the Next Arthur Ashe?

Michael Levy | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Yao Ming, Nike, Li Na, Wimbledon, Tiger Woods, Ai Weiwei, Arthur Ashe, Tennis, China, Red Stars, Chinese Athletes, Red Star, Chinese Sports Stars French Open, Sports News
Michael Levy

Chinese tennis star Li Na is a red star on the rise. She has the tabloids eating out of her hands; she has sponsors running around in circles; most of all, she bucked a Communist system that desperately needs her.

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It's Time to Save Sharks

Julie Packard | Posted 08.02.2011

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Julie Packard

We've demonized sharks for far too long. Now the tide is turning, and when it does, sharks won't be the only winners.

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21 Questions From a Poet and a Profit

Etan Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Etan Thomas

Do people not understand that Michael Vick represents what you can do if you put your mind to it? That even if you mess up, you can learn from your mistakes and change your ways?

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Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Len Berman

Old time Oakland Raider Jack Tatum died yesterday of a heart attack at the age of 61. It was Tatum who put the hit on Patriots wide receiver Darryl Stingley in a 1978 game. Stingley was paralyzed.

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Yao Ming: I Might Quit

Posted 05.25.2011

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Houston Rockets star Yao Ming says he might retire from basketball after next season if his foot doesn't completely heal. "If the foot injury does n...

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Genetic Freaks: Semenya & Yao. One Gets Humiliation, the Other Gets an NBA Contract. Why?

Jane Devin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jane Devin

I find it disturbing that anyone, least of all an 18 year-old, would be subjected to forced gender testing in order to appease their competitors.

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Will The U.S. and China Ever See Eye-To-Eye?

Julie Farby | Posted 05.25.2011

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Julie Farby

To show the world we're not going to risk relations with our favorite creditor on account of a couple of crushed Uighurs, Obama dropped the whole human rights spiel in favor of sports!

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Yao Ming Could Miss Entire Season With foot injury

Houston Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Casting a degree of doubt on Yao Ming's immediate and long-term NBA future, Rockets team physician Tom Clanton on Monday described the extent of the c...

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What's Gold Got To Do With It: China's Post-Olympic Identity

Chi Tung | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Economic Crisis, China Human Rights, Yao Ming, Liu Xiang Injury, China and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, International, Politics News
Chi Tung

Winning more golds than anyone else is exactly the kind of paradoxical achievement that enables New China to keep marching to the beat of its own hollow drum

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Yellow Peril Or Power? China Reconsidered (Again)

Chi Tung | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Milk Scandal, Journalistic Bias, Yao Ming, Old Media vs. New Media, Chinese Culture, Food Politics, Old Media Death Watch, Chinese Government, Chinese Food, Mao Zedong, China, New Media, Bill Nye the Science Guy, China Human Rights, Chinese Censorship, Old Media, Media News
Chi Tung

American media coverage of China tends to slant one of two ways: toward fat, happy and unquestioning globalization, or small-minded, unblinking provincialism.

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Reading The Olympic Pictures: Slam Dunk On The Earthquake

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Shaw

2008-08-09-shaw.jpg This incredible shot illustrates how the Chinese government has been using money and pressure to buy the silence of parents who suffered the loss of their children in the earthquake.

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Blowing Smoke: Olympic Torch Relay Fans May Be Faux

LiLi Tan | Posted 05.25.2011

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LiLi Tan

It appears that the jubilant cheering surrounding Yao Ming and China's first astronaut Yang Liwei -- though perhaps sincere -- was staged. "They're actors," the son of a Chinese torchbearer told me.

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