The Philippine Olympic Committee has submitted the names of 249 athletes who will represent the country in the Guangzhou Asian Games in China this November. The list sent to the Asiad organizers last Wednesday included 48 bets from the two dragon boat teams and 12 from the women’s basketball squad that have yet to justify [...]
MANILA–Perpetual Help tries to make up for its disappointing basketball season when it sets out for back-to-back titles in the 2010 NCAA Cheerleading Championship today at the FilOil Flying V Arena in San Juan. The multi-titled Perps, who won the crown in lopsided fashion last year, lead the nine-school cast vying for the P100,000 purse [...]
Coach Rajko Toroman knew he made a valuable decision tapping Sol Mercado at the end of the Smart Gilas Pilipinas five workout Wednesday night. “I’m satisfied with his first practice,” said Toroman of the 6-foot-1 Rain Or Shine playmaker. “With what he had shown, I think he will fit into the team.” Mercado impressed Toroman [...]
Minus its usual stars, Ferdie Aunzo is the prohibitive favorite to retain his ICTSI-Royal Northwoods championship starting Wednesday at the rolling layout in San Rafael town in Bulacan. The former RP amateur ace will try to become just the second man behind Juvic Pagunsan to repeat against a somewhat weakened field eager to pounce on [...]
MANILA–University of Manila hopes to revive its dynastic rule in the National Athletic Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (Naascu) when it guns for the men’s basketball championship against STI today at the Makati Coliseum. The Hawks, winners of Game 1 (78-73) last Wednesday, can clinch their first title in five years with a win [...]
Jose Rizal U leaned on the trio of Cris Dela Paz, Kevin Oliviera and Jerome Garcia as the Light Bombers trounced the Mapua Red Robins, 83-78, yesterday and stay in the fight for the last Final Four berth in the juniors’ division of the 86th NCAA basketball tournament at the FilOil Flying V Arena in [...]
Philippine Football Federation president Jose Mari Martinez is facing charges for two counts of falsification of public documents for adding the name of a PFF “managing consultant” as one of the signatories in the federation’s bank accounts without the approval of the board. The case was filed before the Office of the Prosecutor in Pasig [...]
The quest for a new breed of cue artists intensifies when the National Collegiate Billiards League, or B-League, begins on Nov. 20 at the Ocean Park at the Rizal Park. Aiming to bring billiards out of smoke-filled halls and into mainstream acceptance, the NCBL will feature players from at least 19 of the country’s leading [...]
TAIPEI—Mars Pucay matched par 72 on a day of tough scoring and trailed leader Peter Karmis of South Africa by two strokes after the opening round of the Mercuries Taiwan Masters on Thursday. The diminutive Karmis, who won his maiden Asian Tour title in Singapore earlier this month, was one of four players to [...]
The Philippines kept second place but defending champion Thailand boosted its lead to six strokes after the penultimate round of Southeast Asia’s official team championship at the Royal Selangor Golf Club in Kuala Lumpur. With only teenager Miguel Tabuena cracking par, the Filipinos could only muster a third-day 216 output even as the Thais moved [...]
A man who never holds back in saying what he feels, Wilfred Steven Uytengsu issued a challenge to new PBA commissioner Chito Salud Wednesday night to curb irregularities in the league and make everyone involved in it even prouder. The outspoken Alaska Milk owner delivered his remarks after accepting the Executive of the Year award [...]
Chinese-Taipei outplayed the Philippines in the final half and stormed into the semifinals of the Fiba Asia Under-18 championship with an 81-64 victory Wednesday at the May gym in Sana’a, Yemen. The Taiwanese outscored the Filipinos in the third quarter, 17-8, for a 55-49 lead, then sustained their momentum to open an insurmountable 69-52 advantage [...]
KHANTY-MANSIYSK, Russia—Grandmaster Wesley So held former world champion Veselin Topalov to a draw, but the Philippines yielded a 1.5-2.5 decision to highly rated Bulgaria in the eighth round of the 39th Chess Olympiad Wednesday. Handling black with precision, the 16-year-old So forced Topalov, currently the world’s second-highest rated player with an Elo of 2803, to split [...]
