Talking Balls: Devils Sign Up, Boxing (Times Two) & Sports Shorts
It's nearly the weekend. It's cracking weather. This is what sports fans live for. Here's what's going on in the wide world of sports. Let's crack on.
Li Na, a journalism graduate, has indicated that she wants to become a sports journalist when she retires from tennis. No sports journalists were quoted as saying that they thought she had already retired from tennis after winning the French Open.
Football's transfer lies are no longer restricted to the silly season. This week we've had Drogba to Arsenal and Cristiano Ronaldo to Shenhua tripe. Li Na would never stoop to such nonsense.
The Beijing Devils are having their sign-up night at The Den tomorrow night. Get along and join the city's most eligible rugger buggers. You get a Den card and lots of tough-guy mates thrown in for free.
Team China thrashed all comers in the recent Paralympic Games. Their haul of 231 was a mind-blowing total – that's nine more than the second-place Russians and third-place hosts managed between them. Read all about it, as an olde time newspaper vendor might shout.
China’s footballing woes continue. The men’s team were beaten 8-0 by Brazil in a friendly. Not so bad, you might think, but the Brazilians were booed off the pitch just days before for their below-par performance against South Africa. And now the high score against the samba merchants is being put down to ... matchfixing.
China may want to forget football and concentrate on SlamBall. The game, which is essentially basketball via trampolines, made its China debut in Hangzhou last month. There are plans to tour it around China next year. Watch this space.
The Beijing Marathon has been postponed because of a certain Party Congress. We’ll have news on the rearranged date when it’s out of the blocks.
The China Open starts in nine days. Get over to their site for tickets. Well have a giveaway soon enough. Click back for them.
Jiangsu Dragons played Serbia OKK in a "friendly." Except everything was not OKK and there was a fight. There are photos here (with a rather jingoistic URL). If anyone cares, the CBA team won by three points. Yao Ming laughed. He deserves a rest from saving all of the world's animals.
Sunday is the Beijing International Triathlon. Good luck to all of those swimming in Fengtai.
Commando Krav Maga has disarmed us all with its stealthy arrival in Beijing. They have lots of big news this month with their first course, the boot camp for training their first instructors and the launch of their first school here in Beijing. You can find out more about Mossad’s martial art at CKMChina.net.
Heyrobics, a much less deadly martial art, is also training instructors this month. The all-day affair takes place on October 20. Sign up at Heyrobics.com. The pink-shorted push-up pushers also launch Shunyi and Beitucheng classes in October.
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Act fast or miss out on tickets for White Collar Boxing China’s Brawl on the Wall. The black-tie affair takes place on November 17 at the Renaissance in Shuangjing. It’s for charity too. You can see the braincell-bereft Beijing boxers in a video below. Have a great weekend.
Photo: Sina
