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Argentinean Footballer Slammed on Twitter For Racist Slant-Eyes Pose
Argentinean footballer Ezequiel Lavezzi, who plays for the Chinese club Hebei China Fortune, was photographed pulling the slanted eyes pose and received backlash on social media for the “racist” gesture. The controversy comes the same week Lavezzi was named the highest-paid…
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Family of Detroit Football Player Crowdfunds to Free Him From Jail in China
Detroit native Wendell Brown has been stuck in jail in Chongqing, China since last September after a fight broke out at a local bar. A GoFundMe campaign has been started by his family to help bring him back home. The 30-year-old, who coached football in Chongqing, got into a…
· Ryan General
Former Football Player Becomes a Massive Chinese Superstar For Obvious Reasons
Ten years ago, aspiring American football player Matthew Knowles had set his sights on making it big in the NFL. Little did he know that a different career would take him to superstardom on the other side of the world. Following a successful football career in college, the then…
· Carl Samson
Stockbroker Fined $1,400 After Kicking a Football At a Boy
A 36-year-old man was fined SGD $2,000 ($1,400) for kicking a football three times against a 9-year-old boy’s legs in Singapore. The incident occurred at an HDB void deck in Bukit Panjang on May 25, 2016, The Straits Times reported.
· Laura Dang
Muhammad Ali’s Football Star Grandson Just Landed a Modeling Contract
Late fighting legend Muhammad Ali’s teenage grandson is a football star who just signed his first modeling contract. Seventeen-year-old Biaggio Ali Walsh, a high school senior, has signed on with Wilhelmina Models, a Dallas-based talent management agency that also represents…
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Serbian Volleyball Team Poses With Racist Slant-Eyes to Celebrate Going to Japan
The women’s volleyball team of Serbia celebrated winning a spot in the 2018 FIVB Women’s World Championship in Japan by doing the “slant-eye” pose. After defeating Poland’s volleyball team in a qualifier match over the weekend, they decided to pose for the photo with many of the…
· Ryan General
White Journalist Tweets He’s ‘Very Uncomfortable’ That a Japanese Man Won the Indy 500
UPDATE [5-29-17 12:40 p.m. PST]: Terry Frei has been fired from his job at the Denver Post in a statement issued by publisher Mac Tully and editor Lee Ann Colacioppo: “We apologize for the disrespectful and unacceptable tweet that was sent by one of our reporters. Terry Frei is…
· Hannah Tran-Trinh
What It’s Like Having All White Friends in College
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Amherst Wire. Only 25 percent of University of Massachusetts Amherst students are people of color.
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David Beckham’s Instagram Post from ‘China’ Infuriates Hongkongers
Former soccer star David Beckham landed himself in hot water after posting a series of clips on social media captioned “Great 48 hours in China” when they appeared to have been recorded in Hong Kong. Clearly, Hongkongers were not delighted to be labelled as being part of the…
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Korean Soccer Player Endures Racial Slurs From Opposing Team, Wins Anyways
Son Heung-min, a forward and winger for the South Korean National Football Team and Tottenham Hotspur, was the target of racial slurs from some Millwall FC fans during an FA Cup quarter-final game. Chants of “DVD” and “he’s selling three for a fiver,” apparently in reference to…
· Carl Samson
Tibet Women’s Soccer Team Denied U.S. Visas for ‘No Good Reason’
The Tibet Women’s Soccer team, invited as VIPs to a Dallas tournament, was denied U.S. visas without any explanation last week. The team had been preparing for a year for the Dallas Cup, which Coach Cassie Childers called “the most prestigious boys’ tournament in the world.”…
· Ryan General
Trump’s Latest Photo Op is So White, We Had to Dim Our Screens
Trump continuously paints a rather grim picture of the ‘diversity’ in the current administration with the whitest photo op to recently emerge from the White House. POTUS Donald Trump posted an image of his all-white entourage lining up behind him with a collective thumbs up sign…
· Ryan General
A Chinese Club Just Offered Lionel Messi an Insane $500 Million 5-Year Contract
A wealthy football club from the Chinese Super League is reportedly eyeing Argentine superstar Lionel Messi with an offer that would definitely be difficult to refuse. Chinese club Hebei China Fortune, currently helmed by Chilean coach Manuel Pellegrini, is offering the…
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One of Asia’s Most Popular Sports Can Lower Your Risk of Heart Disease By 56%
Regularly playing racket sports like badminton can help you live longer, according to a new study. Compared to other activities, racket sports, swimming, aerobics, and cycling were the best exercises to help prolong life, the study concluded. They also found those who…
· Ryan General
Meet the Chinese Billionaire Who’s Taking Over Hollywood
Hollywood, meet your new maker. Wang Jianlin, founder and CEO of Dalian Wanda, is considered as China’s richest man, topping the Forbes’ China Rich List for the third time in the past four years. According to Forbes, the 62-year old magnate is now worth $32.9 billion.
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Mystical Chinese Monkey Predicts Donald Trump Will Win the Election
Donald Trump will be the next U.S. president according to a prophetic monkey from China. Geda, the mystical primate, has reportedly tipped Donald Trump over opponent Hillary Clinton for the U.S. presidency during a brief ceremony in Shiyan Lake Ecological Tourism Park in Hunan,…
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Meet The Filipino-American Who Introduced Bruce Lee to His Signature Weapon
Fans of the late great Bruce Lee may have also heard of fellow martial artist and friend, Filipino-American Guro Dan Inosanto, another legendary figure in the martial arts world. The California-based martial arts instructor has been both a student and a one time teacher to the…
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Chinese Father Realizes His Greatest Regret After His Son Dies in Car Accident
A father realized one of his biggest regrets after his son’s fatal car crash and is now committed to helping Asian immigrant parents avoid his mistake. While on a trip to China in June last year, Paul Li received tragic news that his 18-year-old son was one of the victims in a…
· Ryan General
China Sends AI Reporter to Cover the Rio Olympics — Blows Every Journalist Out of the Water
A robot news reporter from China, which delivered speedy and efficient reports during the recently concluded Olympics in Rio, was able to produce 450 news items throughout the 15-day event. Covering mostly sports where Chinese athletes excel at such as badminton and table…
· Ryan General
Japanese Surgeon Awards Nigerian Olympians $380,000 For Winning Bronze Medal
The Nigerian soccer team received a surprisingly generous reward from an unlikely benefactor after clinching a bronze medal finish at the Olympics soccer event on Saturday. Impressed by the team’s resilience and fighting spirit, a Japanese plastic surgeon named Katsuya Takasu…
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