Archive for June, 2011
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Kate Krader (@kkrader on Twitter) is Food Wine’s restaurant editor. When she tells us where to get our grub on, we listen up. If there’s one thing I want to do in a restaurant, it’s eat something amazing. But if I get to eat something good and beat my friend at ping pong, well then [...]
By Daniel Bates Last updated at 4:55 PM on 24th June 2011 Anyone for table-tennis? If nobody replies then don’t worry, you can now play on your own – and without the need even for a television. Japanese programmers have developed a table-tennis game with no screen, no balls and an opponent who isn’t even [...]
The national ping pong team is expected to leave for Lusaka on Thursday where they will compete in the four nations championship that gets underway this weekend. The Tanzania Table Tennis Association (TTTA) secretary general Issa Mtalaso said the Tanzania team would rub shoulders against players from Zimbabwe, Malawi and hosts Zambia. Mtalaso said this [...]
LOS ANGELES — On TV screens around the room, Chinese table tennis players are whirling and vaulting, but Betty Stein isn’t watching them. She’s utterly absorbed in the ball coming right at her, and she nails it — 10, 20, 30 times, shooting it back at her enthusiastic, Ukraine-born coach Bella Livshin. “Gorgeous!” Livshin cries. [...]