http://chinasports.wokpopcorn.com Keeping track of the sports world in China Fri, 23 May 2008 17:11:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A friend sent me a copy of a poem that is making its way around the Internet about the Sichuan earthquake, written in Chinese by an unknown author and translated by a Toronto-based earthquake engineer named Alex Tang. As much coverage as the earthquake has gotten in the States - ... http://chinasports.wokpopcorn.com/2008/05/23/mourning-in-sichuan/ I've been blogging over at Sports Illustrated's FanNation site for the last few months and I've checked in over here a bit as well, something I'll be doing more of in the weeks and months to come. So much of the China-related sports news has been political in the past ... http://chinasports.wokpopcorn.com/2008/05/02/its-been-a-little-while/ Wow - what a tough time for the Rockets, sitting on a 12-game winning streak going into tonight's game against the Washington Wizards. News clips: Houston Chronicle International Herald Tribune Los Angeles Times Reuters United Press International http://chinasports.wokpopcorn.com/2008/02/26/yao-out-for-the-season/ One of the regular blog readers asked this week about where he could find his beloved American football on Chinese television, and I'm hearing from friends in China that CCTV-5 is your source. Drop me a line (nicole AT wokpopcorn DOT com)  if you hear differently...but hopefully it will be ... http://chinasports.wokpopcorn.com/2008/01/29/super-bowl-on-chinese-tv/ No doubt you've noticed the silence on the blog this past month...partly it's because accessing the blog during my December trip to Beijing was more than challenging (slow Internet connections, etc.), and partly because I've been invited to blog on the Beijing Olympics for Sports Illustrated's FanNation site. The Beijing ... http://chinasports.wokpopcorn.com/2008/01/04/blogging-on-sicom/ A nice feature in yesterday's Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel demonstrates how Yi Jianlian is adjusting to life in the NBA. http://chinasports.wokpopcorn.com/2007/11/30/yi-adjusting-to-the-nba/ A smattering of news from around the China sports world today: Basketball Yi's exit leaves Chinese hoops floundering (Reuters, via Guardian Unlimited) 2008 Olympics Track and Field: What are the Chinese medal prospects for Beijing? (IAAF.org) China-born Li named top US athletics coach for guiding Lagat (AFP) [Editor's note: Bernard Lagat's double gold medal in ... http://chinasports.wokpopcorn.com/2007/11/29/todays-news-3/ Count hockey among the many, many "Western" sports trying to gain a toehold in the Chinese market: NHL has visions of glory in lucrative China (Globe and Mail, Canada) http://chinasports.wokpopcorn.com/2007/11/28/hockey-in-china/ From the news wires, recent happenings at BOCOG: BOCOG to deal with formerly suspended ticket applications (Chinaview.cn) PC factory for Beijing 2008 becomes operational (Chinaview.cn) BOCOG puts top ten stories of Games to a vote (China Daily) Progress made in preparation for Beijing Paralympics (Xinhuanet) BOCOG official meets press on cultural activities (Xinhuanet) Volunteers trained ... http://chinasports.wokpopcorn.com/2007/11/27/recent-bocog-news/ A new article from China Daily - and a really, really close re-reading of the article linked to here on Friday from Reuters - demonstrates that the Liu Xiang/achievements-meaningless-without-Beijing-gold news report may not have been based on any new information, just (perhaps - conjecture on my part) a desire to ... http://chinasports.wokpopcorn.com/2007/11/26/more-on-the-meaningless-comment/