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Sydney. Athens. Beijing. London. Rio. Tulsa. Wait. What? One city doesn't belong, right? If you're a member of the Tulsa 2024 Olympic Exploratory Committee, though, your answer is that all six cities are equals. Yes, Tulsa, Okla. -- the se...

"We Are All Watching: Westbrook" is the second in the series of 2013 NBA playoffs commercials. This spot shows fans from Buenos Aires to Beijing watching the Oklahoma City Thunder's Russell Westbrook in the pivotal Game 5 against the Los Angeles Lake...

Italy's anti-doping tribunal has banned former Olympic race walk champion Alex Schwazer for 3.5 years.

When three-time Olympic medalist Zou Shiming makes his pro debut Saturday in Macau, he'll open doors (and coffers) in his home country of China and help realize one man's improbable dream.

Former England captain David Beckham says it will be a 'significant year' for China as he begins his role as the country's first global football ambassador.

John Duerden examines China's move to appoint David Beckham as an ambassador from a grassroots perspective.

Melissa Stockwell lost her leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq. Since then, she's represented the United States at the Beijing Paralympics, won three straight paratriathlon world titles and founded a paratriathlon club. Next on her to-do list? An Ironman.

As we first reported in January, the Lakers will play in the China Games next preseason and the dates of the games were announced by the NBA on Tuesday -- Oct. 15 in Beijing and Oct. 18 in Shanghai, both against the Golden State Warriors. It will ...

Dwight Howard, who won Olympic gold with the U.S. in the 2008 Beijing Games but had to miss last summer's London Games while recovering from back surgery, said he wants to be back on the team for the next Olympiad.

Transfer news

Jets striker Ryan Griffiths has left the A-League club to link with Chinese Super League outfit Beijing Baxi FC.

Henry Cejudo, the youngest American wrestler to win gold at the Olympics, has officially embarked on the next stage of his athletic career.

Shanghai Shenhau has been stripped of its 2003 league title and fined $160,000 as part of a new round of sanctions aimed at rooting out match fixing in the Chinese Super League.

He has not uttered one word yet, but Kobe Bryant's mere presence on a Twitter-like Chinese-language microblogging site has stirred plenty of excitement.

Three-time world table tennis champion Zhuang Zedong, a key figure in the groundbreaking "pingpong diplomacy" between China and the United States, has died at 72.

Two-time Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington has retired from competitive swimming at 23.