THE Philippine karate team delivered a medal as promised as John Enrico Vasquez and Sakura Alforte each scooped up a bronze medal in the men and women Under-21 individual kata of the 2021 Asian Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Sunday.

WOMAN Grandmaster (WGM) Janelle Mae Frayna vented her ire on fellow national stalwart Bernadette Galas to spring back to life after a shock opening round defeat to child prodigy Ruelle Canino in the 2021 Philippine National Women’s Chess Championship at the PACE in Quezon City.

MINDORO-EOG Burlington bolstered its quarterfinal hopes with a wire-to-wire 87-73 win over GenSan at the end of its preliminary campaign in the Chooks-to-Go Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) Invitational at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.

TIGER Woods looked solid but not entirely pain-free on his return to competition after a car crash in February that shattered his leg, teaming up with his 12-year-old son Charlie Woods to shoot a bogey-free 62 at the PNC Championship on Saturday.

THAILAND handed Suzuki Cup hosts Singapore a 2-0 defeat on Saturday to maintain their unbeaten record in Group A of the Southeast Asian championship with both nations already through to next week’s semifinals.

AL KHOR, Qatar — Extra-time goals by substitute Amr Sayoud and Yacine Brahimi gave Algeria a 2-0 win over neighbor Tunisia in the Arab Cup final at the Al Bayt Stadium on Saturday.

LEEDS, England — Brazilian forward Gabriel Martinelli’s double helped Arsenal ease to a dominant 4-1 win at Leeds United in the Premier League on Saturday.

SHENZHEN, China — Hosting the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Finals was supposed to put the Chinese technology hub of Shenzhen on the sporting map, but the suspension of the tournament in the wake of the Peng Shuai scandal has left its ambitions in limbo.

LUGUENTZ Dort scored 29 and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander hit a game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the host Oklahoma City Thunder a 104-103 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday.

Seven and a half months ago, a beaming Shad Khan told the assembled media that, “This time, I got it right.” The sentence, which he uttered with no small measure of satisfaction, notably looked to the past as, well, the past, and to the future with finality.

By winning two golds each including the 100m dash By John Bryan Ulanday BAGUIO CITY — National team mainstay Clinton Bautista and hometown hero Katherine Khay...

By Olmin Leyba Meralco turned to full power and fried hard-luck Blackwater, 98-77, for a rousing debut in the 46th Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors’...