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Obama Still Has a Lot of Work to Do?
May 18, 2009 by
Brendan Haywood's Blog
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Recently I was shocked to learn that our President, Barack Obama still had a lot of work do before being presented with an honorary doctoral degree from Arizona State University where he was asked to speak for its graduation. Just so you know, most often when a high-profile official...
Report: Yao Ming Could Miss a Full Season With Broken Foot, or Worse
June 29, 2009 by
FanHouse
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Dire news out of Houston, if reputable Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! has the right information. The Rockets announced last week that Yao Ming would remain out "indefinitely" -- in other words, the broken foot suffered in the playoffs that was set to be healed by now has not...
Lakers Lack Heart Of A Champion
May 15, 2009 by
Sportz Assassin
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Fourteen years ago, then-Rockets (and future Lakers) head coach Rudy
Tomjanovic reminded us to never underestimate the heart of a champion.
Well, the 2009 Lakers won't be champions because they lack the heart. For
about a week, I've heard all the crap about the Lakers not having...
Yao's Pump Omni Hexride
June 17, 2008 by
Cleveland.com
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Yao Ming's signature 2008 Beijing Olympics exclusive limited edition basketball shoe, the Pump Omni Hexride. If this shoe ends up in your hands, let me know.
ESPN.com's Headline Writer Not Going Out Of His Way Today
February 26, 2008 by
Tirico Suave
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Hey everybody, one of the Houston franchises is facing some kind of problem and ESPN.com would like to convey that message to you somehow.
Steroid-Injected Chinese Chicken Scares U.S. Olympic Athletes
February 10, 2008 by
sportaphile.com
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Now we know how Yao Ming got so damned big. There had to be some tomfoolery going on somewhere. U.S. Olympic Athletes will have food specially flown in after tests on Chinese grown meat revealed large amounts of steroids.
Yao Ming 40 and Gymnast He Kexin 13???
August 14, 2008 by
InGameNow
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I know a freakin 12 year old when I see one, there is absolutely no way in hell that Kexin is 16 years old. On TV the girl looks like she is 8 years old, especially now that it is reported China's official Xinhua news agency nine months ago listed gymnast Kexin as being 13 years...
SLAM #69
October 05, 2009 by
SLAM Online
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Originally published in SLAM 69
The 6th Man: They couldn’t be more different. Yao Ming, the 7-5, 22-year-old rookie center is steady and deliberate, performing his shockingly complete array of post moves with all the flair of an assembly-line robot. Some of this is due to it being...
Yao Ming could be out for all of next season, maybe longer
June 29, 2009 by
tonyblogs.net
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Yahoo.com's Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting that Rockets executives are telling people privately that Yao Ming may miss the entire 2009-2010 campaign and perhaps longer, thanks to his broken foot.
Some even fear that Yao may never play again.
Yao had surgery to repair the...
This Just In: The Golden State Warriors Stink
December 06, 2008 by
Josh Q. Public
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Warriors, come out and play-ay. Did you see it? Did you see the rout. Did you the rout I'm talking about. I say, that marks the third consecutive game that Golden State has allowed 130-or-more points. Not a lick of defense. Not a sniff of defense.
Yao Deserves a Rest in 2009-10 Season
September 24, 2009 by
The Sporting Blog
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The good news: Yao Ming is doing well after surgery. The terrible? He's "vowing" not to play next season, despite some time-tabled glimmer of hope that he might. To flip it further, the Facts of Life "take 'em both and then you have": Yao's confident...
Yao Stars With Supermodel in New Animated Film
June 05, 2009 by
SPORTS by BROOKS
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Yao's lending his voice to a new Chinese animated film, “The Magic Aster”. He doesn’t need the money, of course, so his share’s going to the Shanghai Special-care Foundation. A charitable man, that Yao. But the real story might be the fact that he’s probably the third...
Luis 'MVP' Scola does it again. Can he do that for the Rockets, too?
Yao Ming takes his jump shots from a chair, will likely miss the season and probably has completed his national team career. Tracy McGrady is still working his way back from his microfracture surgery. The Rockets cannot know when McGrady...
What If Usain Bolt And Michael Phelps Played College Football?
August 21, 2008 by
The Redshirt Senior
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Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps are the unquestionable, undeniable, unequivocal and any other un-word you want to toss in there, stars of the Beijing Olympics. Well, maybe along with all those underage Chinese gymnasts, but young girls aren't The Se?ior's territory per an agreement...
Playing With Yao Ming is like Fighting A Little Girl?
As Team USA Basketball prepared for Beijing 2008 they were given a new moniker: "The Reedem Team". It is actually a pretty apt way to sum up America's belief system about the world at large (especially when it comes to basketball).
You see Americans are sports rebels...
Wes Unseld Wants More Yao Mings
September 08, 2009 by
Truth About It
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Upon discovering that he played against Yao Ming’s father during his visit to China 30 years ago, Wes Unseld pleaded with the Chinese to get busy in the bedroom and start making more Yao Mings to send to the NBA, preferably in the Wizards’ direction.
Chinese officials promptly...
Yao Ming to have left foot surgery
July 17, 2009 by
Inside Hoops
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Houston Rockets center Yao Ming has elected to undergo surgery in order to repair the broken bone in his left foot.
The surgery, which will be performed next week by Rockets Team Physician Dr. Tom Clanton at the Memorial Hermann Sports Medicine Institute, will involve a bone graft...
The Rockets Have The Heart That The Lakers Are Missing
May 11, 2009 by
EaglesBlog.net
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If you didn’t enjoy the Houston Rockets - Los Angeles Lakers game on
Sunday, than you’re clearly not a fan of good basketball. The Rockets,
a team already without Tracy McGrady that had just lost their best
player in Yao Ming for the playoffs, dominated a heavy favorite Lakers’...
Yao Ming, Clubbing Baby Seals with Clyde Drexler, Video
February 05, 2009 by
NESW Sports
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Yao Ming, Clubbing Baby Seals with Clyde Drexler, Video. Houston announcer Clyde Drexler beware, PETA will be in touch soon. The animal activist group will surely be in an uproar when one of the Clyde made an analogy of Yao?s inside dominance against the Bulls. As Yao abuses Nocioni in this ...
Earth to Yao Ming: Ron Artest "still ghetto"
July 31, 2008 by
DonJulio's Blog
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What part of "I'm still ghetto" don't you understand, Yao? Following Ron Artest's recent trade to Houston, Rockets center Yao Ming made mention of Artest's infamous journey into the stands during a game to throw punches at a fan.
YAO: "Hopefully ...
Yao Ming Fantasy Basketball Considerations
October 02, 2007 by
Fantapedia.net
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A Fantapedia.net blog entry on Yao Ming's fantasy bball value.
Could The Sixers Move Dalembert to Houston?
With the unfortunate news that Yao Ming, the pride of China, could potentially never play another game in the NBA, the Houston Rockets may all of a sudden be in need of a center. Rumors circulating around the Internet says a Sammy Dalembert and Willie Green for Tracy McGrady deal...
Did Yao Throw Artest Under The Bus To Bucher?
July 10, 2009 by
SPORTS by BROOKS
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There’s been a palpable euphoria here in Los Angeles since the Lakers locked down free agent Ron Artest last week. Purple (& Gold) Kool-aiders of course love the deal, but Wednesday ESPN NBA reporter Ric Bucher quietly made a serious claim about Artest on middle-of-the-night...
Sans Yao Ming, Rockets blast sleepy Lakers
May 10, 2009 by
Scores Report
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Well, the Lakers are on their way to the NBA Finals to face Cleveland and give us a legendary match-up, oh wait a second…Seems the Houston Rockets, sans Yao Ming, weren’t quite ready to give up the ghost on this series. At least for one game, they showed the Lakers that they were able [...]
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