China's professional baseball league started off with a sweep last week as the Tianjin Tigers swept the Guangdong Leopards in three games, 11-1，13-10，and 8-5. Being the league's official opening series the first game was preceded by a red carpet ceremony and boasted of, surprise surprise, cheerleaders. And while it may not promise cheerleaders, don't forget that Shanghai Eagle's home opener against the Guangdong Leopards is this afternoon at 2:30. Just a 10-minute walk west from......

The Los Angeles Dodgers take on the San Diego Padres this weekend at Beijing's Olympic baseball stadium. Seating capacity is limited to 13,000 spectators, and sure enough Emma has sold out their allotment of the cheap seats here in Shanghai. We're curious as to the scalper situation in Beijing, but for the risk-averse, other Chinese ticketing websites still have a small number of tickets left. A little internet sleuthing can still get you into the......

Gil Kim is a professional baseball player from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, which we are sure you all know is the home of Yuengling Lager (and is not too far from Bloomsburg, which we are sure you know is home to the Bloomsburg Fair). After graduating from Vanderbilt University, where he was "primarily a role player," Kim spent 2006 playing with the Omron Pioniers, a minor league team in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2007, he was signed by......

China's police must be really, really good. The nation's legal system jailed 844,717 last year -- and found only 2,162 defendants not guilty. That's more than a 98 percent conviction rate! A Chinese lawyer estimated that some 70 percent of criminal defendants in China go unrepresented.American retailer Best Buy will open its first China location in Shanghai's "downtown core" in June.Think twice before you buy that antique: You may be "stealing China's cultural heritage."Looking for......