Lin isn’t just some player Chou looks up to. Like him, she is changing the perception of Asian-American basketball players. Chou was born in Texas, but her mom, Quanli Li, grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and was a member of Beijing’s best girls’ team, which led to Quanli being moved away from her family to train with the national team when she was 13. By 18 she was playing professionally in China.

Disney may not have scored with an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs‘ “John Carter of Mars,” but the author’s estate still hopes his book series can become a film franchise. The movie, TV and merchandise rights to “John Carter” have reverted back to Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.

Col. Aminu Iliyasu, Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 6 Division, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, disclosed this in a statement in Port Harcourt on Friday. Iiiyasu said that the army made the donation to give succour to the flood victims displaced from their homes in the two most affected states. “On Oct. 31 and Nov. 2, 3,112 victims were presented with relief materials at Internally Displaced Persons camps at Igbogene, Yenagoa, Bayelsa and in Ogbe-Ijoh, Warri South-West, Delta, respectively.

The outgoing Governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, has urged the governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke to start planning toward delivering his electoral promises to the people instead of “peddling lies and propaganda” to earn public sympathy. This comes after Adeleke’s spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, in a statement on Thursday, accused Oyetola’s appointees of looting the state’s properties under the governor’s supervision. “We have it on good authority that Osun state assets within the state, Kogi, Lagos, Abuja and outside the country are being tampered with for private acquisition,” Adeleke had alleged.

Sports5 months ago NFF Urges Falconets To Move On After Losing All African Games To Ghana The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president, Ibrahim Gusau, has urged the Falconets to move on from their defeat to Black Princesses of Ghana in the final... ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7r63Io5innaeoe6S7zGirqKiZmHynrcucpqedpGQ%3D