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Good recap of the fervor around the USA-China game

Monday, August 11th, 2008
by John

I found this nice video about all the excitement for Sunday’s game OUTSIDE the arena, and the impact of basketball on Chinese society:

I like the guy who said his favorite team is the Rockets.

Posted in 2008 Beijing Olympics

China & Team USA’s hoops schedule

Monday, August 11th, 2008
by John

Just in case you’ve been looking for it, here’s the men’s Chinese team’s schedule (as AirChina23 posted in the comments yesterday) for the next few days:

8/12 4:45A EST China vs Spain
8/14 2:30A EST China vs Angola
8/16 8:00A EST China vs Germany
8/18 2:30A EST China vs Greece

And here’s the USA’s men’s schedule:

8/12 8:00A EST USA vs Angola
8/14 8:00A EST USA vs Greece
8/16 10:15A EST USA vs Spain
8/18 8:00A EST USA vs Germany

You can watch these games live in the U.S. on this page on NBCOlympics.com. It requires the installation of a Microsoft Silverlight plugin to watch the games. Silverlight is Microsoft’s version of an Adobe Flash player.

What’s cool is that you can also watch a replay of the games online by clicking on the “Rewind” option.

Posted in 2008 Beijing Olympics