It has been about 3 1/2 years since I last took online donations. That’s around the time that I started putting Google Adsense ads on my site. I thought Adsense would generate enough revenue to do away with ads, but I was wrong. It’s barely enough to cover my hosting costs each month.

Recently many readers have expressed a desire to help me out given how much time I have put into the site over the past 5 1/2 years since its inception. One reader asked me today if it was possible to donate, so I went ahead and found some of my old code that allows you to donate using Paypal. And compared to the last time I took donations through Paypal, the good thing is now you can make donations using credit cards through the Paypal payment system (you don’t need a Paypal account).

I figured this is really the best way to collect money rather than making YaoMingMania a “walled garden” only viewable to people who pay a subscription fee.

The donate button is on the right side of the page, or you can donate using this button here:

Thanks again to all the readers who have expressed a desire over the last week to help me out financially, and for all your support and kind words!

In case you didn’t see Yao throw the towel Saturday night in Sacramento that got him ejected from the court, or didn’t see Raymond’s clip in the forum, you can check it out here.

You go, Yao!

Update: the Houston Chronicle has a short article on the complaints the Rockets registered with the NBA league office on the calls that made Yao so angry.