BAKU, Azerbaijan—The PLDT-Abap national boxing team suffered its first setback Thursday as Delfin Boholst dropped a hard-fought battle to Stephen Danyo of the Nederlands, 16-11, in the 2011 World Boxing Championships in this “City of Winds” by the Caspian Sea. Boholst tried to dictate the tempo of the fight by attacking early, but Danyo proved [...]
The much-awaited 2011 Philippine National Shooting Association (PNSA) National Open fires off Saturday with Randy Paronda shooting for his fourth straight title and rising star Jason Valdez out to enhance his growing reputation as the country’s top air rifle shooter at the PSC-PNSA Shooting Range in Fort Bonifacio.
Even though he is now 54 years old, bowling great Rafael “Paeng” Nepomuceno is not yet retiring. “As long as I feel that I’m still competitive, I will go on playing,” said the six-time world champion, four of them during the much-coveted World Cup which he won in four different decades (1976 in Iran, 1980 [...]
SACRAMENTO, California—Episodes of grief punctuated the basketball universe in September. The National Basketball Association and its players’ union, led by recent Manila visitor Derek Fisher of the Los Angeles Lakers, will meet again in New York today. Their elusive target: end the three-month old players’ lockout sparked by dispute over the distribution of the league’s [...]
Ateneo didn’t mind the long wait as the Blue Eagles see themselves staying sharp in their chase for a fourth straight UAAP championship.
CALAPAN CITY—Exploding in the final 800 meters to the hilltop finish line, Irish Valenzuela, officially Team 7-11’s No. 2 rider, wound up first in the fourth stage of the LBC Ronda Pilipinas Friday. Valenzuela launched a furious assault to steal the stage victory from Bicolandia’s Alvin Benosa, who suffered a flat tire just as he [...]
MANILA, Philippines—It took a gutsy Kevin Alas to topple the squad that dominated all season. Alas knocked in a wide-open triple with 22.9 seconds left as the Knights halted San Sebastian’s unbeaten run, 82-81, in overtime in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament Friday at the FilOil-Flying V Arena in San Juan. “I was looking at [...]
Chieffy Caligdong struck twice but the Philippine Azkals couldn’t finish off what could have been a comeback for the ages and settled for a 3-3 stalemate against defending champion Hong Kong Friday night in a highly-physical Long Teng Cup opening-match at the National Stadium here.
Kevin Alas’ first triple of the night sealed Letran’s stunning 82-81 victory over San Sebastian and thwarted its sweep bid Friday in the 87th NCAA seniors’ basketball tournament at the Arena in San Juan.
BEIJING—World number one Novak Djokovic apologized to his fans on Twitter Friday after pulling out of the China Open with a back injury he aggravated during Serbia’s Davis Cup semi-final defeat. “Because of my back injury, which is very particular, and restrains me from rotating my upper body in serve motion, I am not able [...]
LONDON—Britain’s former world welterweight champion Ricky Hatton admitted on Thursday that his brutal defeat at the hands of Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao drove him to the brink of suicide. Hatton, who retired in July, was demolished inside just two rounds by Pacquiao in Las Vegas in May 2009, a fierce battering which caused his life [...]
TRECE Martirez, Cavite—Gene Bondoc closed out with a double bogey and settled for a 4-under-par 68 that dropped him to a four-way tie for the first round lead in the ICTSI Sherwood Hills Classic here. Former Philippine Open champion Elmer Salvador and fellow veterans Mars Pucay and Antonio Lascuña wound up sharing the lead with [...]
MANILA, Philippines—Mexcian World Boxing Organization light flyweight champion Ramon Garcia is going full steam in his title defense against Filipino Donnie Nietes on October 8. Garcia and his training team arrived in the country two weeks earlier than expected for his 12-round showdown with Nietes at the University of St. La Salle Stadium in Bacolod [...]
