Even before Yao Ming played his first NBA minutes—even before he was drafted by the Houston Rockets—there was intense speculation about how the 7-foot, 5-inch center would measure up in the real big ...

was skeptical when his firm's president came up with the idea of recruiting NBA megastar Yao Ming for its first cell-phone game for the mobile-phone market in China. Orr knew from the 10 years he ...

Chinese basketball legend Yao Ming has for the first time addressed his encounter last month with tennis star Peng Shuai, describing her as in “pretty good condition.” Peng’s well-being has become a ...

LOS ANGELES — As Yao Ming enters the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton about 15 minutes before the limousine is scheduled to take him and Tracy McGrady to Monday's taping of an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live ...

Yao Ming had told the story often, but it never ceased to amaze him. Perhaps the night in Shanghai that in hindsight seemed to portend so much about his life to come was filled only with coincidence.