Shandong and Jiangsu of the Chinese Basketball Association battled in the final game of the Straits Cup basketball tournament yesterday, with Jiangsu coming back from an 18-point deficit to win 73-70.
The match came three days after Jiangsu's Meng Da bloodied Taiwan Beer center Wu Tai-hao's nose at the end of a game on Monday night, prompting Taiwan Beer to pull out of the tournament and Straits Cup officials to cut the tourney's last six games to two.
On Wednesday night, Shandong defeated the Dacin Tigers 76-70.
With five minutes left in the second quarter last night, Shandong had taken a commanding 18-point lead.
Jiangsu used a tight defense to battle their way back into the game and Jiangsu's Chen Fei cut the Shandong lead to just four points with a layup with just more than four minutes left in the third quarter to make it 46-42.
Jiangsu nailed a three with seven minutes left in the fourth to cut Shandong's lead to 60-59. Jiangsu took the lead on a drive to the hoop with five minutes left to play.
Jiangsu got the ball with 45 seconds left and a strong inside bucket and free throw with three seconds left gave them a 73-70 win.
Also see story:
Editorial: Game over for basket case athletes
INJURY TURMOIL: Despite stunning French Open champions Paolini and Errani to advance, Chan was forced to pull out after her partner’s tearful women’s singles defeat Last year’s mixed doubles champions Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan and Poland’s Jan Zielinski on Monday crashed out of the quarter-finals at Wimbledon, leaving the Taiwanese star focused on pursuing a fifth women’s doubles title in London, while a partner injury forced compatriot Chan Hao-ching to give up on her doubles campaign. Hsieh and Zielinksi, who last year also won the Australia Open title, narrowly lost their opening set 7-6 (9/7), before Britain’s Joe Salisbury and Brazil’s Luisa Stefani stunned the former champions 6-3 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. The Taiwanese-Polish duo had been dominant in the first two
Real Madrid’s FIFA Club World Cup quarter-final against Borussia Dortmund had taken three crazy turns during nine minutes of second-half stoppage time when Marcel Sabitzer chested the ball and sent a right-footed volley toward Thibaut Courtois’ post. Courtois leapt to his right, extended the long arm on his 2m frame and just managed to get his gloved fingertips on the ball, knocking it down. Courtois hit the ground as the ball bounded up. He looked skyward, planted his right hand to regain his balance, grabbed the ball with both hands on the second bounce and fell onto it with his chest. Sabitzer turned
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has overturned French Olympic fencer Ysaora Thibus’ four-year suspension for doping, ruling that her positive test for a banned substance was caused by kissing her then-boyfriend, American fencer Race Imboden. Thibus, a silver medalist in team foil at the Tokyo Games, had tested positive for ostarine, a prohibited muscle-building substance, during a competition in Paris in January last year. However, CAS concluded there was no intentional wrongdoing, finding it scientifically plausible that repeated kissing over several days with Olympic medalist Imboden — who was taking ostarine at the time — led to accidental contamination. The court
Chelsea scored the go-ahead goal on Malo Gusto’s 83rd-minute shot that went in after a pair of deflections, beating Palmeiras 2-1 on Friday night for a spot in the FIFA Club World Cup semi-finals. Cole Palmer put Chelsea ahead in the 16th minute, but Estevao, an 18-year-old who is to transfer to Chelsea this summer, tied the score against his future club with an angled shot in the 53rd. Gusto’s shot following a short corner kick appeared to deflect off defender Agustin Giay and goalkeeper Weverton and sent the Chelsea portion of 65,782 fans into a frenzy. FIFA credited Weverton with an
RSS