And they knew he had a ping there, and so they were ready, when he landed in Detroit, to question him about that -- that ping against the TIDE database.
Stackhouse also likes the TopSpin concept because he is an avid ping-pong player.
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Nowadays, as Gates rolls out his ever-expanding ideas for Dorchester, he's also ping-ponging to museum shows, art fairs and collector dinners the world over as befits an emerging artist on the cusp of superstardom.
In 1985, along with business partner Roy Chung Chi-ping, he founded Techtronic Industries in Hong Kong, which had six employees and focused on producing rechargeable battery packs in hand tools.
Around his home village, Fuk Hing, which means Celebrating Fortune, he was also known by a nickname that he did not much care for: Lang Tou Ping, or Inveterate Gambler Ping.
With the same determination that led him to ping pong glory at the Maccabiah Games, he got a scholarship to go to America and Stanford University.
"You don't have to be a ping-pong player to like it, " he says.
He ended his night by challenging Rockets general manager Daryl Morey in ping pong on a table that was a centerpiece to the gala.
Mr. Weitzman says his lifelong love of ping-pong was rekindled about six years ago when he was visiting a friend.
Ping also got a lot of attention with Watson because he played the tournament with woods that had a pink club shaft and pink club head.
But Ping Ke, a former radio DJ who quit because he was bored playing the same songs over and over again, says that the Internet has changed everything.
He is one of Chicago's wealthy black professionals, who made his money out of a ping pong business before branching out into management consultancy.
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