MANILA, Philippines — A new record in gate attendance has been set in 2013 PBA Commissioner’s Cup double header semifinals on Wednesday night. The Smart Araneta Coliseum was full to the brim, with the number of spectators — who paid to watch the Alaska-San Mig Coffee, Ginebra-Talk N’ Text match ups — reaching 23,108. Standing room only (SRO) [...]
What better place to hold a viewing party of the annual NBA All-Star game or game seven of the NBA Finals than in a league-owned Café?
It’s hard enough to effectively run the point and even tougher to switch from being a playmaker to a scorer.
NCAA Champion San Beda College and Hope Christian High School try to forge a title showdown when they clash against separate rivals in the Final Four of the 1st Philippine Secondary Schools Basketball Championship (PSSBC) Friday at Chiang Kai Shek College gym in Manila.
Taguig’s wonder girl Gianeli Gatinga completed a sprints double with a victory in the 13-under 200-meter dash and matched the five-gold romp by Manila’s Vicente Nabong yesterday in the rain-marred POC-PSC Batang Pinoy 2012 at Marikina Sports Center.
Dennis Rodman has been to the Philippines a couple of times, but Wednesday night was the most memorable trip of all.
FOUR teams coming from different directions collide in two now-or-never semifinal match-ups today in the Baseball Philippines Series 9 at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex.
There’s a statue of a uniformed young man facing the sea here honoring the hidden heroism of a Boy Scout who single-handedly saved the whole parish, already under siege, from death and destruction during World War II.
Late Friday night I got a text message from a colleague who hides under the name “The Inquisitor.” As usual, he had a query and he thought I knew the answer: What happens to Alaska now that the Uytengsus have sold a bulk of their company to a European partner? My first thought after reading [...]
MANILA, Philippines—FILIPINO-AMERICAN mixed martial arts star Mark Muñoz has set his eyes on returning to action in the Ultimate Fighting Championship in July. Munoz was forced to pull out of a UFC main event pitting him and Chael Sonnen recently in what could have been a duel for the top middleweight contender spot. The layoff [...]
—Two athletes who have had to carve their niches under the shadows of Filipino icons grab the lion’s share of the limelight tonight when the Philippine Sportswriters Association honors the top achievers of 2011 in its Annual Awards Night at the Manila hotel.
Barako Bull and Rain or Shine try to stay in the playoff picture of the PBA Commissioner’s Cup when they tangle before Filipino basketball fans in Dubai Sunday night (12 midnight, Manila time).
MANILA, Philippines—National University and Angelicum College downed their respective rivals in contrasting fashion to zero in on the semifinal round in the Shakey’s Girls Volleyball League NCR leg at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig last weekend. The NU tossers subdued the De La Salle-Zobel side in a duel of fancied teams, hacking out a [...]
