After a debacle, it’s either a revamp or sports summit that comes next.
This time, focus will be on the sports summit which the Philippine Sports Commission will host starting Thursday and Friday at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium and comes two months after the country’s worst campaign in the Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia.
After 17 years, Palarong Pambansa is going back to Lingayen, Pangasinan.
The Department of Education has awarded the hosting of the annual talent search for public elementary and high school students to the town which staged the Palaro in 1995 during the term of former President Fidel V. Ramos, who hails from Asingan, Pangasinan.
Eighteen-year-old Alexis Sy banked on an explosive performance in the step-ladder finals to capture the girls masters crown and lead the Philippines to a second overall finish in the recent 16th Asian Youth Tenpin Bowling Championships at the International Bowling Center in Nasr City in Cairo, Egypt. Sy, the 2010 Philippine International Open youth girls [...]
Mexican ring warrior Jorge Arce stopped Venezuelan Lorenzo Parra in the fifth round of their super bantamweight nontitle bout Saturday and wasted no time in calling out Nonito Donaire to sign the contract for their much-anticipated showdown.
Argentine boxer Luis Lazarte was banned for life for threatening the referee and sparking an ugly riot right after losing to Filipino fighter Johnriel Casimero in their IBF interim flyweight title fight in Buenos Aires, last week.
Jeson Patrombon and Johnny Arcilla made quick work of their rivals in the reverse singles as the Philippines completed a 5-0 shutout of Pacific Oceania in their Asia-Oceania Davis Cup Group 2 tie Sunday at the USANT Forum here.
The Philippines labored through a first-set hiccup and hammered out a tough 6-7 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4) victory over Pacific Oceania to complete a sweep of their Davis Cup tie with an insurmountable 3-0 lead.
IRIGA CITY—Jeson Patrombon came out firing from all angles and managed to control his jitters as the match wore on to complete a 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 (7-4) dismantling of Cyril Jacobe of Pacific Oceania, helping the Cebuana Lhuillier-Philippines team to a 2-0 lead in their Davis Cup Group 2 encounter Friday at the USANT Forum [...]
Eighteen-year-old Jeson Patrombon gets the daunting task of opening the Philippine campaign when he faces Cyril Jacobe of Pacific Oceania in the first singles Friday while Treat Huey takes on Michael Leong in the other singles of the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group 2 tie here.
nown for its abundance of natural crystal springs, this second and less popular city in Camarines Sur takes a crack at hosting an international sports event when the Cebuana Lhuillier-Philippine Davis Cup team launches its bid to get back to the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group 1 this weekend.
Treat Huey, the Philippines’ top gun in the coming Davis Cup tie, and Dominic Inglot of Great Britain reached the men’s doubles final of the German ATP championship before losing to Sweden’ Johan Brunstrom and Denmark’s Frederik Nielsen, 3-6, 6-3, 10-6, Saturday.
Nonito Donaire Jr. guns for his fourth title in as many weight divisions when he clashes with former world champion Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. for the vacant WBO super bantamweight title Sunday at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
Nonito Donaire Jr., and Wilfredo Vazquez Jr., traded dagger looks and exchanged heated words during the final press conference for their WBO super bantamweight title fight on Saturday (Sunday morning in Manila) at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
