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At No. 5 Experimental Primary School in the coal-mining city of Taiyuan, the red carpet is out. School girls in pink and white stand at the entrance, while fellow students sit in perfect rows inside, awaiting the arrival of a VIP. With the city’s education chief and other local dignitaries on the stage and TV cameras hovering in the background you might expect a foreign leader or Communist Party bigwig,…

Second-generation NASCAR driver Harrison Burton is the newest addition to KHI Management’s expanding list of high-profile athletes after signing a multi-year deal with Kevin Harvick’s marketing company. Burton, the son of former NASCAR driver Jeff Burton, is scheduled to make his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut at Martinsville Speedway on Oct. 29. He will also run a partial Truck Series schedule in 2017. “I realize how fortunate I am…

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GameStart’s Elicia Lee says response this year for her event has been phenomenal. Aloysius Low/CNET Not content with topping education rankings globally for math and science, Singapore’s well on its way to becoming a gaming powerhouse — as GameStart Asia showed when it returned for a third year. With numbers surpassing last year’s 17,000 attendees, last weekend’s event attracted over 20,000 attendees. It’s become one of the two big cons…

A VR documentary series will chronicle the journey of four climbers and their attempt to ascend Everest this year. There’s no exact date for when the “multipart, multi-platform production” will premiere just yet, only an “early 2017” estimate. Time says that this “Capturing Everest” series will be the first VR project from Sports Illustrated that will debut on its Time Life VR platform that was announced in September. It’s not…

VenueNext Inc. has raised $15 million in Series B funding to bring its venue management technology to Europe, and beyond the live entertainment industry. Among other things, using VenueNext apps, people can wave their mobile tickets at the gate to get into a game or concert, order food, drinks or merchandise to be delivered to their seats, and get information and amenities that they need when they are in the…

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You can’t kill the San Francisco Giants. No matter many blows you land, no matter how lopsided the fight is, the Giants refuse to go down. Call it even-year magic or the Bruce Bochy effect, but the Giants have won three World Series this decade not necessarily because they were the best team, but because they were the team that more so than all others refused to die. Monday’s (Tuesday’s…

The former first baseman for the Brother Elephants, Taiwan’s equivalent of the Yankees, now spends most of his days and nights deep in a local stadium, in a spartan room with all the charm of an old warship.   He sleeps on a thin bed. Sports gear towers above him on metal cabinets. A coffee table overflows with snacks, ashtrays and teacups.   It is the coach’s quarters, where the…

Joe Panik hit a walk-off double to rightfield, scoring Brandon Crawford, to give the Giants a walk-off 6–5 win over the Cubs in Game 3 of the NLDS. San Francisco forces a Game 4, now trailing 2–1 in the best-of-five series. Game 4 will be played on Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. ET. After Conor Gillaspie’s two-run triple gave the Giants a 4–3 lead in the eighth, and Brandon Crawford…

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RELATED: Recap of Jimmie’s wins | Recap all of Dale Sr.’s wins Jimmie Johnson just got the biggest endorsement in NASCAR: from Dale Earnhardt Jr. “To be honest, yes I am rooting for Jimmie to get this championship,” Junior said in “The Dale Jr. Download” posted on Dirty Mo Radio Monday afternoon, which coincidentally was Earnhardt’s 42nd birthday. “I believe he does deserve it after everything he has put into…

Mikaela Shiffrin, covered in sweat from working out, gave a big hug to Missy Franklin when they met for the first time this summer. “The moment I met Miki,” Franklin said, “I knew I had found a friend for life.” Ever since the 2014 Winter Olympics, Shiffrin had heard that she reminded people of Franklin. Both are Colorado natives with bubbly personalities who won Olympic gold medals before turning 19….

The Nationals edged the Dodgers in Game 3 of the NLDS on Monday (WAS 8, LAD 3), but it took a while. Specifically, it took four hours and 12 minutes. That’s not a record for a nine-inning playoff game — that “honor” belongs to the Yankees and Red Sox, who in Game 3 of the 2004 ALCS went at it for four hours and 20 minutes. In that game, though,…

When the Cubs‘ Starlin Castro cracked a home run in Game 3 of last year’s divisional playoff series against the Cardinals, Affan Arain was praying. Arain, who is Muslim, had excused himself from his seat and found an out-of-the-way spot in the Wrigley Field concourse for his daily evening ritual. The crowd’s roar provided an unmistakable soundtrack, and he knew instantly the Cubs had scored. “In the midst of that…

A star baseball player, who earned a name for himself during the Little-League World Series, was injured in a shooting.

Photo via Getty Go get your freak on, because athletes can officially have sex before the big game without feeling guilty. A new study from researchers published in Frontiers in Physiology claims that there “is no robust scientific evidence to indicate that sexual activity has a negative effect upon athletic results.” Advertisement This is a huge deal for athletes. As you’ve probably heard before, famous competitors like Muhammed Ali and…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. remains sidelined for the remainder of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season as he continues to attempt battling back from a concussion. But that doesn’t mean he is forgotten. Monday was Junior’s 42nd birthday, a fact that did not go unnoticed by a NASCAR community that is hoping Earnhardt Jr. comes back strong next season in his No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. Happy birthday, Dale Jr.! All…

A 2-kilometre race in the canals around the Danish parliament in August saw a record 3,600 participants this year. (Photo: Lisbeth Kirk) During the last decade, the harbour baths have also become popular with tourists. They are the most visible result of a deliberate decision in the municipality to move polluting industry out of the harbour, and to clean all waste water before it reaches the sea. The harbour baths…

Follow The Fan: Facebook | Twitter CONCORD, N.C. (AP) – It should have been catastrophic nearly any way Joey Logano looked at his situation. His wrecked race car was in the garage during the opening race of the second round of the playoffs, his crew frantically trying to get him back on track. At the moment, Logano’s only saving grace was that Kevin Harvick had his own disabled vehicle and was stuck watching Sunday’s…