The era of Ping-Pong diplomacy had begun 12 months earlier when the American team—in Nagoya, Japan, for the World Table Tennis Championship—got a surprise invitation from their Chinese ...

The move plays into Taipei's long-standing desire for international recognition, while subtly signalling that Washington may ...

Alton's Rock Spring Park was filled with eager children and parents for the city's annual Easter egg hunt.

With Leonard S. Fiore Inc. as the contractor, Mansion Park was undergoing a $500,000 facelift, including a new drainage system, resodded football field, repainted grandstands, an eight-lane track ...

“You remember Ping-Pong diplomacy, in the 1970s?” Pugh asks. “This was Speedo diplomacy.” Once he completed his swim through the East Antarctic Ice Sheet in 2020, Pugh returned to ...

A cohort of 31 students from the US state of Maryland will embark on a first-of-its-kind, crucial pickleball tour of China, a ...

Sports serve as a powerful platform for cultural exchange, bridging divides through shared discipline and teamwork. While ...

The spectacle surrounding Alex Ovechkin's recent record-breaking goal recalls an era where sport accompanied great power détente ...

They also showed him playing ping-pong and basketball with locals. Some Chinese viewers commented that, for many new fans in the country, the streams have helped to reverse decades of anti-Chinese ...