Lots of stuff to unpack from the myriad cultural insights offered by this year’s list of top videos from YouTube. Haha, no, I’m just kidding! This year’s list once again reminds us that not only have we developed terrible taste in music, but we spend inane amounts of time watching people perform various idiocies, like […]
Tag: PingPong
The Korean Version of Ping-Pong Diplomacy
The Chinese women’s team had swept eight consecutive titles at the biannual world table tennis championships, racking up a string of victories from 1975 to 1989. Led by 4-foot-11 Deng Yaping — aka the “Ping-Pong Witch” — they looked on track to bag a ninth gold medal at the 1991 tournament, held at Chiba, Japan, […]
The Inside Story of Africa’s Unlikely Ping-Pong Star
Aruna Quadri is a powerhouse on the court. When he wins a match, he lets out a fierce yell, pumping his fists in triumph. When he loses, Quadri stomps his feet and muscled quads. The floor rumbles, like an earthquake.All this over something as mighty and as formidable as … a puny Ping-Pong ball. At […]
