Didier Drogba could still be coming to Shanghai after all. The Oriental Morning Post reported this morning that the Chelsea striker flew to Singapore today to meet with Shanghai Shenhua owner Zhu Jun, as well as two French agents and a Chinese deputy, to discuss a contract with the team. This comes just a few days after Shenhua player-coach and former Chelsea teammate Nicolas Anelka hinted to reporters that Drogba would probably stay in London. more ›

After weeks of speculation, Shanghai Shenhua finally confirmed this morning that head coach Jean Tigana was indeed dimissed from the team. more ›

This new Procter & Gamble commercial for the London 2012 Olympic Games is full of China scenes and "honors everything that all moms do to help their children succeed by showcasing the amazing moms behind Olympic athletes". Makes you want to go buy all the P&G products you can find hug all the world's moms out there. more ›

Mark Allen of Northern Ireland is in hot water after making "unacceptable" comments about Chinese players following his loss to Cao Yupeng in Bangkok Sunday. more ›

A female reporter with the Xinmin Evening News in Shanghai, who was reportedly beaten up by Dalian Football Association secretary-general Guo Jun in Liaoning Province last weekend, is refusing to accept the club's official apology for the incident. more ›

The drama between Shanghai Shenhua and Jean Tigana escalated yesterday after the team's former head coach threatened to get FIFA involved. more ›

The Shanghai Shenhua coaching drama took another turn yesterday, as former(?) head coach Jean Tigana denied media reports that he had resigned from the organization over the weekend. more ›

Formula One was in town this weekend for the ninth annual Chinese Grand Prix. German driver Nico Rosberg took home the trophy, picking up his first ever F1 victory. Rosberg also was also the first Mercedes driver to win a circuit since 1955. more ›

Things don't seem to be going well for either of Shanghai's Chinese Super League teams. First Shenhua lost their head coach, now Shenxin is dealing with a little bit of mess following a massive brawl during a game against Qingdao Jonoon last night. more ›

In yet another setback for Shanghai Shenhua, the team lost to Tianjin Teda 0-1 Friday night. Following the loss Jean Tigana formally resigned as the team's head coach Sunday night, putting the organization in a coaching meltdown. more ›

Though drama in Bahrain seems to be hanging a cloud of uncertainty over Formula 1 at the moment, this weekend's annual Chinese Grand Prix over at the Shanghai Circuit looks to be exciting. more ›

Stephon Marbury didn't get the CBA finals MVP trophy, but perhaps a bronze statue will do? Thanks to an online campaign with over a million voters at HoopChina, the former NBA star will be honored with the statue treatment. more ›

Shanghai Shenhua announced today that Nicolas Anelka will help coach the team in addition to playing. Anelka's new role as player-coach will certainly be needed as the team just fired three assistant coaches this morning. But management denied reports that it had also fired French head coach Jean Tigana. more ›

With a long-awaited CBA title now under his belt, Chinese sports fans may be wondering what's next for Stephon Marbury (besides for losing his LA home in a foreclosure). more ›

Looks like Stephon Marbury will be staying in China a little longer — his home in Los Angeles was just given away in a foreclosure auction. more ›

With the China Super League season in full bloom and Olympic trials on the horizon, here are some of the most interesting sports stories coming out of China this weekend. more ›

The Canberra Raiders have expressed interest in playing an exhibition game in China. The Australian Football League (AFL) National Rugby League (NRL) club, which just signed a two-year sponsorship deal with Chinese electronic brand Huawei, confirmed yesterday that they're hoping to stage the pre-season game in January or February of next year. more ›

Jeremy Lin may be down, but he's definitely not out. Though the American basketball star with Taiwanese roots is currently sitting out the rest of the NBA season with a knee injury, Linsanity is still very much alive thanks to a documentary about Lin that's currently in the works. more ›

Poor Jeremy Lin. The New York Knicks guard and media darling was forced to end his miraculous NBA season early last week with a knee injury requiring immediate surgery. more ›

"I'm just a tennis player. I'm not here at the open for my country. I just want to play my tennis. It's my job to do my very best. If in the past I've had to lie, now I want to say that actually I haven't been comfortable doing that. Because if you've lied your first lie, then you'll have to lie many more times to cover up that first lie. And I really don't want to do that anymore. I know many people are going to start hating me for speaking the truth, but does it matter anymore? I've finally found my own happiness." more ›

...Many players learn to loaf out of pure survival. They want to extend their careers, which means a certain amount of self-preservation is required. I do think many coaches are aware of this, but their response, usually, is just to push players harder in practice. Many Chinese coaches believe that players have to drill constantly, and practice daily, over months, to improve. It is pretty self-defeating actually. more ›

ooooOOOoooh. Shanghai Shenhua is reportedly keeping the No.11 jersey warm for Didier Drogba, with no player on the Shenhua team having been assigned the number in its newly released roster for the new season. more ›

UK snooker champion and avid Twitter user Mark Allen is in hot soup. In a series of tweets earlier this week (somebody must have told him about the VPN), Allen lambasted everything about the Haikou World Championship, calling it "horrendous". He has since deleted most of his offending tweets, but here they are (via BBC) in all their 140-character glory: more ›

Michael Jordan has had enough! The former Basketball Jesus and current Charlotte Bobcats owner filed a lawsuit in Beijing today against Qiaodan (乔丹), a Chinese athletic shoe and apparel company that has blatantly used the Chinese transliteration of Jordan's surname for years. more ›

Hannah Beech of Time asks an important question re: the basketball superstar now on everybody's lips, Jeremy Lin: "Could China, an Olympic powerhouse and homeland of Yao Ming, produce such a gifted, confident point guard?" Her own answer to the question: more ›

Stretching the Knicks winning streak to six, Linsanity continues. more ›

Jeremy Lin gets the NMA treatment after the Knicks' guard became an overnight sensation over the past week. Lin scored 23 points (including a dunk) while notching another career-high ten assists in a 107-93 Knicks' win against the Wizards in Washington D.C. The only thing that could make this story better is if Whoopi Goldberg took over as coach. more ›

J.R. Smith is finally in the building! The Tatted One and the Zhejiang Golden Bulls will take on the Shanghai Sharks tonight at Yuanshen Stadium, in one of the last games of the Sharks' regular season. more ›

China's national women's boxing team may have only been formed in 2010, but they're already aiming for Olympic gold. Huey Fern Tay of Australia Network News reports. more ›