Yao&#39;s return excites China
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A day before starring in the NBA&#39;s first China game, Yao Ming went back to school. All the way back. The 7-6 center visited his old elementary school Wednesday as part
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Bee Sports Columnist. BEIJING - The world probably gets smaller only a little bit at a time. When Peja Stojakovic watched Yao Ming moving gracefully through a sea of people here late Sunday
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The United States hardly gave Yao Ming a chance. Using a swarming defense and their huge advantage in depth to make life miserable for China and its All-Star center, the Americans rolled to a 121-90 victory Sunday night to remain unbeaten at the world championships.
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Center Yao Ming, the Houston Rockets' Chinese import, has all but clinched a third straight start in the National Basketball Association All-Star Game, according to fan ballotting figures.
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Houston Rockets centre Yao Ming is the early overall leader in fan voting for the NBA All-Star Game. The Chinese star collected 881,223 votes in the first returns announced Thursday.
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China&#39;s All-Star NBA centre Yao Ming will marry his longtime sweetheart on August 5, laying to rest weeks of media speculation about the national hero&#39;s wedding date, state press said Saturday.
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SHANGHAI, China - It was a sight. The buses weren&#39;t going anywhere immediately, put it that way. All around the wide-eyed basketball players riding inside, the people of Shanghai crowded in, waving, screaming
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Yao Ming didn't feel his best last night, but wouldn't let that stop him in the fourth quarter.
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Yao Ming and his Houston Rockets entertained Chinese basketball fans with two real NBA games this weekend, though they were just two pre-season games against the Sacramento Kings.
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Yao Ming's Houston Rockets squeezed  past the Sacramento Kings on Thursday in the first NBA game to  be played in China, a country the fast-growing basketball  league deems a potential marketing mecca.
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National Basketball Association star Yao Ming of China thrilled his hometown fans with 14 points to lead the Houston Rockets to an 88-86 win over the Sacramento Kings in Shanghai.
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The Chinese press on Thursday hailed power forward Yi Jianlian&#39;s signing with the Milwaukee Bucks but warned the teenager would find it tough early on in the world&#39;s best basketball league.
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The Houston Rockets cruised to a 95-83  victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday, Chinese  center Yao Ming leading the home team to a seventh straight  triumph with a game-high 25 points.
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The Houston Rockets cruised to a 95-83 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday, Chinese center Yao Ming leading the home team to a seventh straight triumph with a game-high 25 points.
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Chinese star center Yao Ming is excited about making a homecoming with his NBA teammates next week when he and the Houston Rockets play two exhibitions against Sacramento, reported Shenzhen Daily.
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China&#39;s month-long celebration of the birth centenary of its late leader Deng Xiaoping, chief architect of the country&#39;s reform and opening up drive, reached its climax Sunday
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The NBA has come to booming, basketball-crazy China &#151; but it doesn't expect to make any money soon. The league flew more than 100 people halfway around the world for its first games in China, featuring the Houston Rockets &#151; with Chinese-born star Yao Ming &#151; and the Sacramento Kings.