The Shanxi Brave Dragons were among China's worst basketball teams when team owner Boss Wang hired NBA coach Bob Weiss to help them improve. Wang promised Weiss he would be able to employ his American methods, but things didn't exactly play out that way.

Jim Yardley, who chronicles an American coach’s efforts in China, is a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. (RUTH FREMSON) In “Brave Dragons,’’ Yardley, a Pulitzer-Prize winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times, chronicles the experi

The Taiyuan Brave Dragons were down double digits at halftime and, as often was his custom, team owner Boss Wang was berating his players in a manner that could make Bob Knight blush. Dragons coach Bob Weiss and American import Bonzi Wells, the former Po

Wang Xingjiang, the megalomaniac owner of the Shanxi Brave Dragons of the Chinese Basketball Association, fired an average of three coaches a year, hit a player who didn't follow his instructions, and is "regarded as just short of a madman" by his peers.

PRINCETON — West Windsor-Plainsboro North leading scorer Marc Kolber has gotten a lot of attention this season for his scoring exploits. But with the Northern Knights facing the fourth-seeded Hopewell Valley Bulldogs in the quarterfinals of the Mercer Co

Complete Release (PDF) I Game Central I Tickets Portland Pilots (6-18, 3-8) vs. LMU Lions (15-9, 8-3) Date: Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 Tip-off: 8:00 p.m. Location: Portland, Ore. Arena: Chiles Center (4,852) Television: CSN-NW Radio: 800 AM Overall Series: 4