Entries Tagged as 'Sports'
Posted July 19th, 2010 by Peter · 8 Comments
If you’ve checked the sports reports lately, one name has graced the headlines time and time again. Jeremy Lin, a basketball prospect from Palo Alto, CA has shown that he has what it takes to hang with the likes of John Wall (even besting him in their head-to-head matchup at the Vegas Summer League).
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Posted April 1st, 2010 by Peter · 2 Comments
As the dust settles on March Madness, many are starting to profess their love for their favorite college basketball teams. In fact, David notes:
“Duke basketball definitely has a HUGE following among Chinese and Koreans. Back where I’m at, it seems like all the Asians are rooting for Duke. All the white people are rooting against [...]
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Posted March 28th, 2009 by Peter · 12 Comments
Nickster says: “I walk around and every single Asian I see are rocking Nike SB’s. What’s up with that? I thought we would like something more Asian than skate shoes.”
For as long as Asians have been raising Peace Signs and racing Rice Rockets, they’ve been wearing Nike Shoes. How it it that this Pacific-Northwestern (with [...]
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Posted May 4th, 2008 by Shaun · 20 Comments
Apparently Asians are into tennis. Although this writer is also an avid tennis player, he wasn’t aware of this recent phenomenon. To be honest, tennis has not been as prevalent a sport as badminton, table-tennis or World of Warcraft have been among the Asian community. Unlike those, tennis has not been ingrained into our minds [...]
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