• Former NBA player Bonzi Wells dropped 52 in his latest game for Shanxi Zhongyu

Former NBA player Bonzi Wells made his Chinese Basketball Association debut one week ago for Shanxi Zhongyu with 48 points, 11 boards, and seven steals. He scored 52 points and had 14 rebounds, including 13 of the team’s 18 points in overtime, in leading his team to victory last night. Bonzi Wells in China = NBA Live. Read the full story

Several members of the Australian Olympic team were victims of drink spiking at a Beijing nightclub during the games in China. It is not believed that the Australians were targeted but on several different occasions Aussies became sick after drinking at China Doll.

A member of the Australian women’s archery team was the first person to have their drink spiked.
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Basketball player Sun Yue of China is headed to Los Angeles with hopes of earning a spot on the Lakers’ roster. Yue is excited about playing in the NBA, although he would like to ditch the “Chinese Magic Johnson” label for a new nickname.
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David Stern is on a mission to make the NBA a global league, and he gave us a glimpse of his European expansion plans earlier this year. In 2007 the league appointed Timothy Chen, the former head of Microsoft’s China division, to oversee NBA China. Although the Chinese market represents the fastest growing group of NBA fans, the broadcast of playoff games have been suspended. Read the full story

It was just a couple of months ago that Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant and Nike dropped the Nike Zoom III. The duo isn’t wasting anytime putting out another shoe, but this isn’t just another shoe. The Nike Hyperdunk claims to be Nike’s lightest and strongest basketball shoe ever. The Hyperdunk weighs in at 13 ounces and is expected to be debuted by Kobe on Thursday against the Los Angeles Clippers.

While new shoes are always newsworthy to me, there was something that Kobe Bryant said at the press conference that really stood out. He was asked what he thought about the Olympic protest and offered this answer: Read the full story

When will we learn that the world doesn’t understand football? I’m not talking about that crap they call football, I’m talking about the straight up, smash mouth, pigskin tossin, gridiron battles that WE call football. The Dallas Cowboys, the Pittsburgh Steelers.. Pop Warner, Friday Night Lights.. USC, Notre Dame.. Real American football.If the world understood the game we love, NFL Europa wouldn’t have folded, the Wembley Stadium field wouldn’t have looked like a dirt bike track during the Dolphins/Giants game, and the Chinese wouldn’t be f’n up our chin straps.

The chin straps, made in China, were sold at sporting good stores nationwide and on Nike’s Web site from April 2006 through October 2007.

Users are at risk of injury when the chin strap’s plastic cup breaks as a result of contact, exposing the player to facial or head injuries, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The Beaverton, Ore., company has received two reports of concussions, two reports of facial lacerations requiring stitches, and a report of a broken nose.

Sounds like a damn good chin strap to me. It breaks on contact, leading to lacerations and/or concussions. Dope.. And I don’t care that the report says the faulty straps were only on sale from April 06 – October 07, I know Wayne Chrebet had one.

And China, lemme holla at you for a minute… You’re slowly starting to piss us (U.S.) off. It’s like you have a list of things that Americans are sensitive towards. First you poison children with lead covered toys, then you attack football. I’ll tell you right now, you’re one “Chinese clothes made from the exhumed corpse of the original Lassie” special report away from becoming the new France.

Nike Chin Straps Recalled After Injuries. Courtesy of The Associated Press

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