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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Harvard center Zena Edosomwan pulls out his cellphone and scrolls back to the photos from his last trip to China. There, he finds a picture of himself at a Chinese market with a small boy of about 6 years old sitting high on his shoulders.Theres so much love and positive energy there, Edosomwan said last week as he prepared to return to China -- this time with the Crimson basketball team for its game against Stanford on Friday night. A lot of Stanford and Harvard players are going to be surprised. Theyre going to be like rock stars there.Two of the top academic universities in the United States, Harvard and Stanford are visiting Shanghai this week to open their mens basketball seasons -- and do a little brand-building while theyre at it. The schools are already well-known internationally -- Harvard has 1,802 students and scholars from China, according to its website -- but few there think of basketball when they think of the two prestigious institutions.Its an amazing chance, and were proud to be a part of it, proud to represent this great brand, this great school in China, Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said last week as he prepared to visit the country for the first time. Were not just thinking just for us; were representing Harvard. We try to do that wherever we go.For Stanford, its the third in-season international trip in the programs 102-year history (Mexico, 2009; Bahamas, 2012), though the team visited Rome, Florence, Venice and Como during a summer tour of Italy in 2015. This years visit by the Pac-12 follows one last year, when Washington beat Texas, and completes a two-year deal. The Pac-12 announced Friday a new two-year deal to play in China, with UCLA and Georgia Tech to play there next year.Visiting Harvard last week, Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said the trip reminded him of the ping pong diplomacy of President Richard Nixons administration and hoped it would help break down barriers between the nations.College sports diplomacy is a great trend, he said. Its a great game, and I think its a great entr?e for people to interact.For sure, it wont just be basketball on this trip.The Crimson arrived in Hangzhou on Sunday night and -- after sleeping off the 30-hour trip -- had a meet-and-greet at the online commerce company Alibaba. They visited some ancient temples on Tuesday and a museum on Wednesday before playing Jiao Tong University in an exhibition. On Thursday, they were scheduled to appear in the Shanghai Disney parade and make an appearance with students from a school funded by the Yao Ming Foundation. Friday is back to work to prepare for the game, which is scheduled for noon Saturday local time, or 11 p.m. back on campus.The Cardinal had a shorter flight -- a mere 14 hours -- with many of the same activities planned, adding a Huangpu River Cruise and an exhibition against Tsinghua.All the while, players will have to keep up with their school work. Amaker said a half-dozen players have exams they will need to take on the trip -- scheduled to coincide with the time their classmates are taking the tests back home. A handful of China scholars and other Harvard officials made the trip with the team.Studying is part of the travel, Amaker said. Its going to be a lot thats put into it, but were hoping were going to gain a lot from it.Asked if there was anything special he was looking forward to on his first trip to China, Amaker said, Other than beating Stanford?Amaker arrived at Harvard in 2007 to find a basketball program with no past and not much of a future. The Crimson had never won an Ivy League championship in mens basketball before winning five straight, starting in 2011. Twice they have advanced in the NCAA Tournament by beating a higher-seeded first-round opponent.With that success has come a highly regarded recruiting class and new opportunities, like trips to the Battle for Atlantis in the Bahamas and the Great Alaska Shootout and now China.This is another layer that we can add to the growth of our program. The success that weve had in the past allows us to be invited and thought of for moments like this. And were proud of that, Amaker said. How lucky are we to have this opportunity in front of us, and to be able to thank basketball for something like this? This is where sports and athletics can provide opportunities that most people wont have.Edosomwan has been to China twice before, running an educational conference there last summer. He has taken six semesters of Mandarin and six other classes on China at Harvard, making him a bit of an expert among his teammates.I guess in a way I know a little bit more, Edosomwan said.And what did his teammates want to know?Mostly, he said, whats the deal with the internet?---AP Sports Writer Janie McCauley contributed to this story from Stanford, California. Stitched Cheap Jerseys NFL . Michell Burger, a woman who lives on an estate next to Pistorius gated community, said she and her husband were awoken by the screams in the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 14 last year, when Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp by shooting four times through a door in his bathroom. Cheap NFL Jerseys China . 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Bob Fitzsimmons became boxings first three-weight world champion when he out-pointed George Gardner on this day in 1903.What was more remarkable was that the Cornwall-born boxer was 40 years old.Fitzsimmons, who moved with his family from England to New Zealand aged 11, had previously held the middleweight and heavyweights world titles.Despite being 14 years older than Irish-born Gardner, Fitzsimmons floored his opponent four times en route to a 20-round points win at the Mechanics Pavilion in San Francisco.This win was not only testament to Fitzsimmons longevity, but also underlined his status as one of boxing historys best pound-for-pound pugilists. He was one of the earliest boxers to be described as scientific for his placing of punches and was renowned for his debilitating body shots.But Fitzsimmons did not exactly fit the image of an elite athlete in any era. He was bald, freckled, with spindly legs and known as Ruby Robert or The Freckled Freak.Fitzsimmons arrived in America aged 28 in 1890 after five years boxing in Australia under the tuition of Jem Mace -- twice Englands bare knuckle champion in the 1860s who left for the New World after retiring from boxing in 1871 -- and his pupil Larry Foley.A year after arriving in America, Fitzsimmons shot to fame when he upset the odds and beat Nonpareil Jack Dempsey for the world middleweight title.ddddddddddddFitzsimmons stepped up to heavyweight to win the world title from Jim Corbett in 1897. But after two knockout defeats to Gentleman Jim Jeffries in world heavyweight title fights, Fitzsimmons reinvented himself in the new light-heavyweight division.After beating Gardner, Fitzsimmons lost the world light-heavyweight title when he was knocked out in the 13th round of a first defence to Philadelphia Jack OBrien in 1905.There were just five more official bouts on Fitzsimmons record, including a knockout defeat to Jack Johnson a year before he became the first black world heavyweight champion.Fitzsimmons died of pneumonia in 1917, three years after his last fight and only 14 years after he became a three-weight world champion.He remained Britains first and only undisputed world heavyweight champion until Lennox Lewis unified the belts in 1999.Only two other British boxers have managed to win world titles in three weight divisions since -- Duke McKenzie and Ricky Burns. ' ' '