How do Chinese sports fans keep track of their teams online? Aside from micro-blogging sites, most of them may go to portals like Sina, NetEase or Tencent. Recently, we learned that a Silicon Valley startup is coming to provide them with an alternative. The site is called Choysum, and it aims to provide weekly or daily news [...]
Entries Tagged as 'American Football'
Choysum: A New Chinese Sports Site to Watch
October 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · American Football, Sports, Sports Media
Tags:Buffalo Bills·Choysum·Ed Wang·NFL
PHOTOS: NFL’s Ed Wang Running Football Practice in Shanghai
February 25th, 2011 · 3 Comments · American Football, Education, Sports, Sports Photos
Offensive lineman Ed Wang is making an impact with local Chinese students through clinics. Members of the Sea Dragons worked on tackling maneuvers, ball handling techniques and running drills. China’s first and only local all-Chinese American football team, comprised of primary school students in Shanghai, could have just as easily been going through a regular [...]
Tags:Buffalo Bills·Ed Wang·NFL·Sea Dragons·Shanghai Unified International School
A Profile of New Buffalo Bill Ed Wang
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · American Football
At The Buffalo Story Project, Charlotte Hsu profiles Ed Wang Kai (王凯), 23-year-old descent of Chinese Olympians now playing for the Buffalo Bills. The air inside the Buffalo Bills’ autograph tent was hot and sticky, pregnant with the humidity of late July. This was not where rookie left tackle Ed Wang wanted to be. Nevertheless, [...]
Broadcasting Monday Night Football to Chinese Audience
October 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · American Football, Sports Media
To most of Chinese I know, American football is difficult and distant. At Shanghai Scrap, Adam Minter interviews Zhang Nan, Monday Night Football’s play-by-play man in China, who tries his best to engage more Chinese into the sport. Sure, the NFL has a small audience in China (roughly 20,000 viewers watch the weekly simulcast), but [...]
Tags:broadcasting·Michael Stokes·Monday Night Football·NFL·Sina·Zhang Nan
Becoming China’s First NFL Kicker
August 4th, 2009 · 11 Comments · American Football, Sports
“I’d seen football in college, but I thought it was stupid,” says Wang. “Football is about tackling; soccer is about using your skills with your feet. I liked kicking better. And as an outsider, football seemed violent.”
Tags:All-TransSouth Conference·Bulldogs·China·Cumberland University·Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athletes·Football·Kentucky·Lindsey Wilson University·NAIA·National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics·NFL·People's Republic of China·Premier League·soccer·Tennessee·Tianjin
NFL Cancels China Bowl, Again
December 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments · American Football, Business
The New York Times noted early this week that NFL will cut 150 jobs after the superbowl. Below are some excerpts: The N.F.L., widely considered the most successful sports league in North America, will reduce its staff by about 150 employees after theSuper Bowl in response to the slumping economy, Commissioner Roger Goodell told staff [...]
