"Same Day, Same Story" Begins Airing October 28 NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. -- Miami HEAT guard Dwyane Wade has made a career out of silencing the doubters. From his rise as an unheralded recruit who led Marquette University to the Final Four, to winning the NBA Championship and Finals MVP...
Using ViewCast Technology, Major Broadcasters on Three Continents Streamed Beijing Coverage, Other Premier Sporting Events of 2008 to Millions of Viewers PLANO, Texas, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ViewCast Corporation (BULLETIN BOARD: VCST) , a leading global provider of streaming solutions that enable viewing of professional quality video...
NEW YORK and BEIJING, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Advanced Construction Materials Group, Inc. ("China ACM") (OTCBB: CADC) today announced the appointment of Jeremy Goodwin to the Board of Directors. Mr. Goodwin has extensive experience in finance advising multi-national and Asian companies on key corporate initiatives such as...
BEIJING -- Origin Agritech Limited (NASDAQ: SEED) ("Origin" or the "Company"), a leading technology-focused supplier of crop seeds in China, today announced that the company has appointed Yasheng Yang as the Acting Chief Financial Officer effective immediately. Yasheng Yang is replacing Veronica Chen, who is stepping down to pursue other...
World Trade Center CEO Bella Heule just returned from a successful jaunt to Xiamen, China's humungous trade fair--arriving just two weeks after the close of the very successful Summer Olympics in Beijing. She led a delegation from San Diego and Imperial counties ...
BMX racing's successful debut in the Beijing Olympics has spawned interest in an aspect of the cycling sport that has been overshadowed in recent years by BMX vert and stunt events. The Beijing bounce is already showing up on your TV screen. ...
BRUSSELS AFP — Olympic champion and world record holder Usain Bolt on Wednesday said he was not surprised that Jamaican compatriot Asafa Powell posted the second-fastest 100m at a meeting in Lausanne. Powell's time of 9.72sec at the IAAF Super Grand Prix event was 0.03sec outside the world mark...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland AFP — Jamaica's Asafa Powell on Tuesday ran the second fastest ever time in the 100m at a meeting in Lausanne where Olympic hurdles champion Dayron Robles failed to win. And three-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt clocked 19.63sec in his favourite event, the 200m, for the fourth-fastest...
BEIJING AFP — Beijing hopes to stave off an obesity epidemic among its youth with a dramatic increase in physical education, state media reported Tuesday. All students aged seven to 18 returning to school from their summer holidays will have to attend daily PE classes, the China Daily reported,...
GATESHEAD, England AFP — Recently-crowned women's 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser of Jamaica was beaten at the IAAF Grand Prix here on Sunday by Lauryn Williams while compatriot Asafa Powell won the men's event in 9.87sec. American Williams clocked 11.24 in beating Fraser, who managed 11.29, and then added the...
BEIJING AFP — A "five-star" train from Beijing to Tibet will not begin service in September as earlier indicated, state media reported on Saturday. Xinhua news agency reported in early March, just days before deadly riots broke out in the Himalayan region of Tibet against Chinese rule, that the...
The Last Word Don Fox died last week, the former Wakefield Trinity scrum-half by all accounts rueing until practically his final breath the sliced kick from in front of the posts that, with seconds remaining, handed the 1968 Challenge Cup final to Leeds. But my colleague Dave...
ZURICH AFP — Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt continued his unstoppable streak of form with a comprehensive win in the 100 metres at the Zurich Golden League meeting here on Friday. In the packed 26,000-capacity Letzigrund Stadium, Pamela Jelimo of Kenya also went close to beating the oldest track...
ZURICH AFP — Treble Olympic sprint king Usain Bolt will headline a starry cast at Friday's Golden League meeting that brings together more than 50 finalists from the recently-finished Beijing Games. Bolt will race against six sprinters from the 100m he won in a world record of 9.69 seconds....
NEW YORK AFP — For a player looking ahead into the tennis future, James Blake seems to be finding it tough to let go of the past. Especially when he feels it might have cost him an Olympic medal in Beijing. "It's not my problem anymore," the American...
*Olympic jump. NBC's 17-day coverage of the Beijing Olympics averaged 27.7 million viewers in prime time, surpassing the 2004 Athens Summer Games (24.6 million viewers) by 13% and the 2000 Sydney Games (21.6 million) by 28%. Sunday's coverage of the Beijing closing...
BEIJING AFP — Beijing will mobilise 350,000 people to boost spectator figures and liven up the atmosphere for the Paralympic Games, state media reported Wednesday, amid flagging ticket sales for the event. The vast crowds would be organised by the Beijing Federation of Trade Unions to attend Paralympic events...
BRISBANE, Australia AFP — Australian swimming star Stephanie Rice, who won three gold medals and smashed world records at the Olympics, is sick with pneumonia, she said two days after returning from Beijing. Rice, 19, has curtailed a national tour aimed at selling an underwear brand she and former...
NBC's hype is true: By Saturday, its Beijing Olympic coverage was already "the most-viewed event in U.S. TV history." NBC's coverage, by any measure, produced big box office. But before this goes down as an apocalyptic event in TV history, note some...
LONDON AFP — US swimming sensation Michael Phelps warned Sunday that he is already eyeing more gold at the London Games in 2012. Phelps became the most decorated medallist in Olympic history with 14 gold medals from Beijing and Athens, including a record eight gold in China, the most...
