Yao Ming nuptials set for August 5
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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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Basketball superstar Yao Ming marched singularly as he carried China&#39;s flag into the Athens Olympics opening ceremony, several steps ahead of the Chinese delegation, his 7-foot-5 frame towering above the scene.
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Not surprisingly, the cover of the Houston Rockets freshly minted 2004-05 media guide features Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady. So begins the NBA&#39;s next Great Adventure pairing of a star center and a shooting star.
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(Sports Network) - The Rockets came up short on Tuesday, falling 88-84 to the Atlanta Hawks at Philips Arena. Yao Ming made good on 13-of-15 shot attempts in a 27-point, 11-rebound performance for the Rockets, who have lost three of four.
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Famed Chinese basketball player Yao Ming, an all-star basketball player with the Houston Rockets, has applied to visit Taiwan on a trip that would score one for Beijing's agenda of uniting the two territories.
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By The Associated Press. Shaquille O&#39;Neal, who was traded from the Los Angeles Lakers to the Miami Heat in the off-season, leads the Eastern Conference in early voting for the All-Star Game, and Yao Ming is No.
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Yao Ming has urged his Chinese teammate, Yi Jianlian, to hold talks with the Milwaukee Bucks, amid a stand-off between the star recruit and the NBA club who picked him in last week&#39;s draft.
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Since joining the Houston Rockets as the NBA top draft pick in 2002, Chinese basketball star Yao has made himself the best known and richest sportsman in China.
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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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The Houston Rockets' Yao Ming, helped by the ability of fans to cast votes on the NBA's multi-lingual website, received a record total of 2.56 million votes for the 54th All-Star Game.
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Jenna Bush and her fiancÃ© Henry Hager will marry in a ceremony on May 10, two sources confirm to PEOPLE.  One of the sources says the wedding will be held at the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas.  "It's going to be a small wedding," the source ...
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China&#39;s Yi Jianlian, the 2-meter tall  power forward who may be taken in the top-10 of Thursday&#39;s NBA  Draft, is looking forward to playing against Houston&#39;s Chinese  center Yao Ming.
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Houston Rockets Chinese center Yao Ming is bored, rested and itching to get back on the court after a two-month sabbatical to heal his ailing knee.
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NBA NOTESA day before starring in the NBA&#39;s first China game, Yao Ming went back to school. All the way back. The 7-foot-6 center visited his old elementary school yesterday as part of an NBA-sponsored program to promote reading.
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets leads all players in the Western Conference, while Shaquille O&#39;Neal of the Miami Heat paces all players in the Eastern Conference after the second returns of votes in the 2005 NBA All-Star
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Houston Rockets centre Yao Ming has hit back at an official Chinese newspaper that branded him "privileged" and accused him of using injuries as an excuse to avoid national team duties, local media reported.
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Houston Rockets Chinese center Yao  Ming is bored, rested and itching to get back on the court  after a two-month sabbatical to heal his ailing knee.