Jan 28
The National Basketball Association, unlike other American sports organizations, has had huge success in China over the past 30 years. Now, two of its teams will honor their fans across the Pacific Ocean with special edition uniforms for the Chinese Lunar New Year.
The announcement of Dalian Wanda Chairman Wang Jianlin's purchase of a 20-percent stake in Spanish La Liga side Atletico Madrid on Wednesday comes as no surprise to anyone who has followed the business dealings of the 60-year-old over the years. In fact, the question might be what took him so long?
We'd be remiss if not to report about China's latest sports reform measures. The message first sent out on Sept 3 on CCTV's most watched news show, the Xinwen Lianbo. To everyone's surprise, the show aired exactly four minutes and eleven seconds of a State Council meeting on China's industry of sports.
A month after Suning becoming the first Chinese sponsor of FC Barcelona, Chinese white goods and electronics manufacturer Hisense reached a partnership deal with German football club FC Schalke 04 this week.
The 2014 FIFA World Cup got underway in the early hours of Friday in China and no doubt many of those who stayed up to watch the opening match are feeling exhausted as they headed into work.
But fear not friends. There is a solution!
Sina Weibo, arguably China’s most popular social networking service, recently launched a World Cup page for its users.
An interesting function Weibo introduced is it allows users to place a national flag of any team competing in Brazil (China included too) next to his or her Weibo handle. The service has been quite popular amongst football fans on the platform.
Alibaba founder Jack Ma is no expert on football, but the extreprenuer knows a good investment when he sees it as his company sealed a $192 million deal to claim 50 percent of Chinese Super League champions Guangzhou Evergrande. The deal was announced by Ma and Evergrande boss Xu Jiayin on Thursday in Guangzhou
Former Houston Rockets center Yao Ming has been a busy man since his retirement in July 2011. He has enrolled as a student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, taken up a role as a political advisor, promoted wildlife conservation and overseen operations of the Shanghai Sharks in the Chinese Basketball Association.
ENN Weekly broke news yesterday that an ownership reshuffle is currently underway at Greentown China, which owns Hangzhou Greentown football club in the Chinese Super League . And billionaire Jack Ma, main founder of the Alibaba Group, is said to be interested in taking over Greentown's football, education and hospital businesses.
Shanghai-based sports website HUPU was making headlines in the past month, but not for its sports coverage. Within two weeks, it was announced that they partnered with Liverpool FC to launch the football club’s first official Chinese site, and also with Agence France-Presse to launch a Chinese language sports service for Chinese audience..
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