NOT UP TO STANDARD:The teams criticized the aging Luodong ballpark, which has not hosted a CPBL match in five years and experienced a blackout during the game

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 23, 2016
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter

CPBL fans in Yilan County’s Luodong Township (羅東) were treated to a rare baseball feast on

Thursday night, as the Uni-President Lions demolished the Brothers Baseball Club 22-13 in a record-breaking game.

It was the first time a CPBL game has been played at the Luodong ballpark in five years and the two teams did not disappoint the capacity crowd as they combined for 41 hits, including four home runs and 10 doubles.

With their bats pummeling the Brothers’ pitches, the Uni-President Lions cranked out 22 hits and scored 22 runs, setting a new franchise record for the most runs in a game. The previous record was 21 runs.

Both sides turned up their offense to push baserunners home for a total of 35 runs, which was the second-highest total in CPBL history.     [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: July 22, 2016
By: Joseph Yeh

President Tsai Ing-wen on Thursday presented a national flag to Taiwan’s Olympic delegation to

boost team morale, as a record number of Taiwanese athletes will soon head to Rio de Janeiro for the Summer Olympic Games.

Speaking at the national training center in Kaohsiung’s Zuoying district, where top-notch Taiwanese athletes have been in intensive training, Tsai encouraged the athletes to do their best to achieve glory for the nation during the upcoming games, as she presented the national flag and a Chinese Taipei Olympic flag to the team.

Tsai said that a record 59 athletes will compete in 18 sports in the games, proving the nation’s growing athletic presence on the global stage.

Taiwan competes in major international sports events under the name “Chinese Taipei.”

During her address, the president pledged to increase the nation’s budget allocated for sports development by at least 10 percent to boost the local sports industry.     [FULL  STORY]

FIGHTING THROUGH:Sam Querrey said that his win over Bjorn Fratangelo was one he ‘just had to fight my way through,’ while Christina McHale beat Monica Niculescu

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 21, 2016
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AP, WASHINGTON

Taiwanese No. 1 Lu Yen-hsun advanced to the second round of the men’s singles at the Citi Open

in Washington on Tuesday, while Sam Querrey also advanced, despite not being at his giant-slaying best.

World No. 71 Lu took 1 hour, 15 minutes to dispatch world No. 133 Austin Krajicek of the US 6-1, 7-6 (7/3) in the US capital.

He saved three of four break points and converted three of seven, firing down nine aces and winning 67 of the 114 points contested to advance to a second-round clash with second seed Gaels Monfils.

The world No. 17, who received a bye into the second round, is likely to prove a much tougher obstacle for Lu, who has a 0-2 career record against the Frenchman after defeats in Johannesburg in 2010 and at the Australian Open in 2013.     [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: July 22, 2016
By: Michael Scotto, AP

NEW YORK, — Jeremy Lin has officially returned to the New York area. He captivated the city in

his Linsanity era when he averaged 24 points, nine assists and four rebounds for the Knicks during a 10-game stretch in February 2012.

Lin comes to Brooklyn as the starting point guard for the Nets. He’s reuniting with coach Kenny Atkinson, the former Knicks assistant coach who helped him develop.

“The way I was looking at free agency is kind of when you invest in a start up company,” Lin said. “You don’t necessarily look at the product right then and there at that moment. That is a big part of it, but you’re kind of betting on the founder a lot of times. You’re betting on what that person is capable of doing because sometimes as you go through the process the final product is going to change a lot and that’s very common in start ups. I feel like that’s kind of like how I saw this. I’m betting on certain people. I’m betting on Kenny (Atkinson). I’m betting on Sean (Marks). I’m betting on myself. I’m betting on Brook Lopez.”

Lin wants to prove he can be a full-time starting point guard as he was during Linsanity.     [FULL  STORY]

MILESTONE LOOMING:Venus Williams defeated Magda Linette at the Bank of the West Classic to move into the quarter-finals, three wins away from her 50th career title
Taipei Times
Date: Jul 22, 2016
By: AFP, WASHINGTON

US top seed John Isner and French second seed Gael Monfils cruised into the third round of the

Citi Open in Washington on Wednesday, but former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki dropped out due to injury while leading.

Flamboyant Monfils, who had lost three matches in a row after suffering a mystery illness, fired 10 aces and lost only two points on his first serves in a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Taiwan’s Lu Yen-hsun.

“I played a very solid match,” Monfils said. “I was surprised I could play that good so soon and I want to keep it going for the next few matches.”

Next for Monfils is Croatian 16th seed Borna Coric, who downed Japan’s Yuichi Sugita 6-4, 6-4. Isner is to meet Cypriot 15th seed Marcos Baghdatis, who ousted Australian John Millman 6-2, 6-4, for a quarter-final berth.     [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: July 22, 2016
By: Joseph Yeh

President Tsai Ing-wen on Thursday presented a national flag to Taiwan’s Olympic delegation to

boost team morale, as a record number of Taiwanese athletes will soon head to Rio de Janeiro for the Summer Olympic Games.

Speaking at the national training center in Kaohsiung’s Zuoying district, where top-notch Taiwanese athletes have been in intensive training, Tsai encouraged the athletes to do their best to achieve glory for the nation during the upcoming games, as she presented the national flag and a Chinese Taipei Olympic flag to the team.

Tsai said that a record 59 athletes will compete in 18 sports in the games, proving the nation’s growing athletic presence on the global stage.

Taiwan competes in major international sports events under the name “Chinese Taipei.”     [FULL  STORY]