NBA Commissioner David Stern, hoping to tap into the burgeoning sports and entertainment market in China, said on Tuesday that the first step may be to run a league in the populous nation.
Chinese table tennis sensation Guo Yue deems that winning a team gold medal at the Asian Games is more important than a singles.
China's Doha-bound Olympic champion Guo Jingjing has said that she will retire from diving after the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem have invited two unheralded Chinese teenagers for a week-long trial, local media reported on Wednesday.
Ian Thorpe's decision to retire at the tender age of 24 was a bittersweet ending to the career of a swimmer who rose from a humble upbringing to become one of the world's most recognisable sportsmen.
Hungarian soccer great Ferenc Puskas, the best player of his generation and talismanic member of the nation's "Golden Team" of the 1950s, died in hospital on Friday aged 79 after a long illness.
China's well-known sportscaster Huang Jianxiang was said to formally resign from the China Central Television (CCTV), the authority sports newspaper Soccer reports Tuesday.
Teenage golfing sensation Xiao Se is a natural sportsman. He started playing table tennis when he was 4 and was coached by world champion Wang Tao
Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets and Joe Johnson of the Atlanta Hawks were named National Basketball Association players of the week.
Chinese American Michael Chang, the youngest Grand Slam champion in ATP history, is sportscasting the yearend Masters Cup in Shanghai.
Manchester United's Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo has what it takes to shortly become a captain of Portugal's national team, Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has said.
French football legend Zinedine Zidane has offered to coach Bangladesh's national team during his visit to the country.
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