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Yi Jianlian in Hot Water Over Nightclub Incident
Published 7/1/2008 by Tuffy at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... Olympic athlete) has been spotted in a nightclub at a very late hour with his Chinese celebrity girlfriend. Yi has been at the centre of a tabloid sensation since being seen in the early hours drinking at the top-end night club last week and photographed embracing his pop singer girl friend Shi Yanfei . Clearly, his commitment to basketball and his country must fall into question because of this major distraction. We could not be more disappointed. Yi Jianlian (Yi and she) Welcome to the new China, Yi Jianlian . Looks an awful lot like the old one ...

China has a problem with Yis carousing, but not Jie Zhengs skirt?
Published 7/1/2008 by Billy Krumb at Clubhouse Cancer
... However, those Chinese sports officials…in a desperate effort not to look like Chinese sports officials…have been quick to shoot down the discipline rumors. ...

Yi having too much fun
Published 7/2/2008 by Loren (noreply@blogger.com) at Pure Point
... internal punishment," the China News Service quoted Hu Jiashi, vice head of the China Basketball Centre, as saying while denying the reports. "We don't have anything like internal punishment" is a funny thing to say in general. What if Yi punched Yao Ming, would there be internal punishment? In any case, the real story here is how smoking hot Yi's girlfriend is. And from what I've seen of Chinese pop stars, she probably doesn't have to kneel. [Yahoo! News Phillipines] | [Sports by Brooks] | [Shi Yanfei]