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NEWS ABOUT: table tennis

table tennis stories: 5 news summaries
SHE WANTS BUTT IMPLANTS, TOO


 Winehouse 
 Addicted...to 
 Ping-Pong 

Amy Winehouse stays in to play table tennis, considers a butt job

Nov 11, 09 10:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Amy Winehouse has a new addiction. What vice is it this time: Cocaine? Her ex-husband? Nope. It’s her new ping-pong table. “She barely leaves the house,” a source tells the Mirror . In equally ridiculous Winehouse news, the recently-breast-enhanced singer is now pining for bigger boobs—and considering... More »

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entertainment • plastic surgery • celebrity • cosmetic surgery • Amy Winehouse • table tennis • ping-pong

 Celebs Lead 
 Ping-Pong 
 Renaissance 

Nerdy game gets a trendy makeover

May 17, 09 8:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forget dusty suburban basements: Ping-pong, once the sport of nerds and misfits, is enjoying an unlikely image makeover at the hands (and paddles) of A-list devotees flocking to trendy ping-pong clubs, reports the Independent. At the star-studded opening of exclusive new ping-pong hall SPiN, in New York, Susan Sarandon... More »

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entertainment • Matthew Broderick • Susan Sarandon • table tennis • Emma Watson • Jay-ZTV • ping-pong • Ed Norton

Pickup Ping-Pong Rules Chinese Playgrounds

Columnist gets schooled playing pick-up in Beijing

Aug 14, 08 7:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - China’s domination in table tennis is well documented—the top nine players in the world are Chinese, and the country nearly always takes the gold medal. But the LA Times’ Bill Plaschke wanted to see the sport in its natural habitat: in the park. Ping-pong tables dot Beijing... More »

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China • Ping Pong diplomacy • table tennis

Ping-Pong Got Ball Rolling to Beijing Games

Two players braved Sino-US frost with landmark '71 visit

Jun 12, 08 12:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - It wasn't statesmen who broke China's 22 years of isolation from the West in 1971, but rather, Sports Illustrated notes, grown men with paddles. When Glenn Cowan accidentally jumped on the Chinese team bus during world table-tennis championships in Japan, star Zhuang Zedong brushed aside Mao's anti-capitalist harangues to greet... More »

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China • United Nations • United States • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Mao Zedong • Ping Pong diplomacy • table tennis

 Game, Set, Match to China 

World of table tennis is international, but not really

Apr 11, 08 11:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Go to a table tennis match between, say, Poland and Finland, and you’ll see something confusing. “It’s just Chinese playing against each other,” says America’s national team coach. China is so mind-bogglingly dominant at table tennis that it exports players throughout the world and still... More »

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China • immigration • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Ping Pong diplomacy • table tennis

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