The Georgetown Hoyas resumed their goodwill basketball tour of China, just days after getting into a bench-clearing brawl in a game in Beijing. ‘The way the game ended the other day is not how anyone would have anticipated, liked, or as very few people ever have seen anything like that,” said Hoyas coach John Thompson [...]

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Pro basketball players will get no love from China during the NBA lockout.  The Chinese Basketball Association will prohibit contracted NBA players from playing for its teams should the season get cancelled.  They will, however, still allow free agents, according to ESPN. The CBA would, in effect, block players like Kobe Bryant, Chris Paul, and Carmelo [...]

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Georgetown’s journey through China took a nasty turn this morning when an exhibition game between the Hoyas and the Bayi Rockets, a Chinese pro team, ended in an all-out, bench-clearing brawl. Coach John Thompson III yanked his team off the court with the score tied at 64 about halfway through the fourth period after the [...]

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Police in San Diego are trying to obtain additional information from churchgoers who say they saw an alleged altercation between Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant and a fellow parishioner over the weekend. Apparently, a man is claiming that he was injured during an exchange with Bryant at Sunday mass after the Lakers guard thought [...]

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Sorry, China, you lose. China has been stripped of a bronze Olympic medal won back in 2000 in the Sydney games after it was discovered that the gymnasts that competed on the team were underage. The International Olympic Committee has announced that Dong Fangxiao was only 14 during the Sydney games, two years shy of [...]

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