Watch UAAP Athlete of the Year Johansen Aguilar pass the dilemma of every student athlete—managing school and sports—with flying colors. Clinching seven individual golds in the UAAP, setting a new Philippine record in the 26th Southeast Asian Games, then still finishing with first honors after a hectic term, Aguilar is a living proof that you [...]
One more gold might yet be counted for the Philippines in the 2011 Southeast Asian Games.
This possibility cropped up after two medal-winning athletes from Malaysia failed their doping tests, one of them a member of the 4X400-meter relay team that beat the Filipino squad for the gold medal, according to a wire report quoting an article from the newspaper The New Straits Times.
The 150 elite athletes who will get priority funding from the Philippine Sports Commission will come from the roster of 169 medalists in the Indonesia Southeast Asian Games last November.
Picking up from where it left off, Philippine football scaled new heights in 2011 and lured a global icon as it firmly established a following in this basketball-crazy nation.
The Azkals fashioned out two historic achievements—qualification to the AFC Challenge Cup main tournament and the second round of World Cup Qualifying—in a stirring follow-up to their amazing semifinal run in the Suzuki Cup in December 2010.
Philippine Sports Commission chair Richie Garcia will spare athletes with high medal chances from the drastic financial cut to be imposed on their nonperforming national sports associations (NSAs).
Beijing Olympian Hidilyn Diaz and Asian Youth and Junior gold medalist Nestor Colonia may just make it to the London Olympics after their impressive showing at the recent World Weightlifting Championships in Paris.
For the past six months, Mary Grace delos Santos has religiously trained in Baguio City in a bid to make it to the national team.
She was bypassed by the Philippine team to the Southeast Asian Games, but her no-nonsense attitude and hard work paid off Sunday at the 35th National Milo Marathon at the SM Mall of Asia grounds.
Eduardo Buenavista seeks a fourth National Milo Marathon title Sunday in the 35th edition of the prestigious footrace starting and ending at the SM Mall of Asia Grounds in Pasay City.
The 33-year-old Buenavista will be looking to preserve his status as the country’s finest after a disappointing performance in the 26th Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia.
The jury is still out for German coach Michael Weiss close to a year into his reign as Philippine Azkals mentor.
Azkals manager Dan Palami, who hired Weiss last January as part of a financial assistant package with the German Football Association (DFB), said he could not completely evaluate Weiss’ performance because there are many factors that need to be considered.
As a taxpayer, I have always been conscious about the medals our athletes could win in international sporting events chiefly because a big bulk of public funds is spent in these meets. I was therefore terribly disappointed when the Philippines only landed sixth in the overall standings of the recent 26th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games [...]
Team Philippines, made up of legend Efren “Bata” Reyes and fellow world champion Rubilen Amit, retained the World Mixed Doubles title Friday by beating a crack United States team in Hangzhou, China.
The winds of change appears to be blowing once again for Philippine sports.
But it might not be the one Philippine Sports Commission chair Richie Garcia had in mind.
While the longtime PSC official said he agreed that the sports body may have outlived its usefulness and that it should be abolished in favor of a cabinet-level body, speculations were rife that he may be very well on the way out.
Senator Antonio Trillanes IV will sponsor a bill seeking to abolish the Philippine Sports Commission and replace the sports-funding agency with a cabinet-level government office answerable only to the Office of the President.
Trillanes called for the establishment of a department for sports whose top official would enjoy the same rank as the other secretaries of the cabinet.
