Hackers, protesters, and more than 70 Chinese celebrities, including Yao Ming, are opposing an initial public offering made by a Chinese company called Guizhentang Pharmaceutical, whose key ingredient is bear bile. The bile is cruelly...
Former NBA player Yao Ming is still a big star ... wherever he goes.The gargantuan 7' 6" retired baller towered over everyone else as he lumbered through the airport in Manila this weekend.No injuries were reported.
The sky is blue. The ocean is deep. Yao Ming is tall.None of this should be news to anyone.But every once in a while you see something that stops you in your tracks and gives you a whole new appreciation for these facts.Sometimes you walk outside...
JJ Watt is the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year. The Houston Texans defensive end is 6-foot-5, 298 pounds, and a monster on the field. One of Watt’s specialties is his ability to bat passes. He was credited with 16 passes defended...
For a Houston Rockets franchise that has been starved of superstar talent since the days of Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady, Royce White's combination of size and skill was simply too great to pass up.They knew about his well-chronicled struggles with...
Yao Ming needs a little work on his golf game.
The former NBA star recently participated in the Mission Hills World Celebrity Pro-Am in China over the weekend. There’s no word on Ming’s final tally, but judging by a video clip of the...
Daryl Morey did a pretty great AMA at Reddit on Friday. The best part is, of course, the one question about Yao Ming. Morey retells the best Yao joke he can tell in polite company. Enjoy.
During the pre-season required drug testing, all the players...
Newly acquired Houston Rocket Omer Asik will take a on a significant role with the team, not only because he's ready, but because he has to. After all, it's what he was brought to Houston for. Since the injury and eventual retirement of Yao Ming,...
Yao Ming, the Chinese basketball player who played in the NBA for the Houston Rockets, wants to help stop elephant and rhinoceros poaching.
As a goodwill ambassador to WildAid, a nonprofit dedicated to ending illegal wildlife trading, Yao took a...
Former NBA player and Chinese superstar Yao Ming has a new gig as a goodwill ambassador for the nonprofit organization WildAid, who recently brought him to Kenya to make all of our photo dreams come true "document the poaching crisis facing...
Yao Ming Plays With a Cute Baby Elephant
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"I came face to face with a large black rhino," reads the message broadcast to the world via retired NBA...
For several years now, I've been working with WildAid to promote wildlife conservation and to reduce the demand for products derived from endangered or threatened species. It's encouraging to see how many people have been supportive of the campaign...
You know that frustrating feeling when you order clothes online and they fit really poorly, like the target demographic is some weird mix of Kim Kardashian and Yao Ming?
Vastrm, a Y Combinator summer 2012 company founded by Jonathan Tang, hopes to...
Jeremy Lin considers Yao Ming to be a role model and sought guidance from him throughout last season. The two became close thanks to the their Asian roots, and Yao even said he tried to sign Lin to his Chinese team during the lockout. Now Lin is...
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Yao Ming, the 31-year-old, 7-foot 6-inch former NBA star forced into early retirement from injuries, is now trying to make a splash as a venture capitalist in various projects in his home country.But Yao’s second act as an investor and...
There aren't many players who have risen through the NBA ranks as fast as Blake Griffin has.In 2011, Griffin became the first rookie to be selected as an All-Star since Yao Ming in 2003, and the first to do so without the backing of a billion...
Sun Yue's NBA career did not exactly blow up the way Jeremy Lin's did. He didn't have the hype that Yao Ming did.Nope.But, he does have one more championship ring than Lin and Ming do—combined.Sun Yue became the fifth Chinese basketball...
