TOURNAMENTS featuring foreign reinforcements in the Philippine Basketball Association may be sidelined for a while as the league finds its way back from the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

THE Philippine men’s national rugby union team has been competing in many international competitions in the last decade and given pride to the country in the process but it admits that playing in front of the Filipinos later this year at the 30^th Southeast Asian Games is something they are looking forward to and excited about.

CHICAGO -- LeBron James registered a triple-double with 30 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, and the Los Angeles Lakers stormed back from an 19-point second-half deficit for a 118-112 win over the host Chicago Bulls on Tuesday night.

FOLLOWING weeks of much discussion involving one of their key players who has since been traded, the Alaska Aces are now moving on and focusing on preparing to compete in the next season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

PHILIPPINE basketball saw its share of ups and downs in the Year 2019, carrying with them lessons that should serve to steer the sport into the coming years.

INTERNATIONAL Master (IM) Paulo Bersamina, one of the country’s top bets in this year’s Manila Southeast Asian Games ruled via tiebreak the qualifying round of the Grandmaster Rosendo Balinas Jr. Memorial Chess Tournament was held at Alphaland Makati Place in Makati City on Saturday.

Time flew by like a breeze and the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) has just turned a year older.

COMPARED to other Japanese martial arts, the number of people doing kendo in the Philippines may not be as big, but practitioners of it in the country are undeterred in bringing it to the fore to have more Filipinos appreciate it and, maybe, pick it up.

STRUGGLING teams in the ongoing PBA Philippine Cup battle in key matches today at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.

COLLEGIATE sporting season commences later this week with the opening of Season 95 of the National Collegiate Athletic Association which aims to celebrate unity amid the competition.

PROMISED to bring the heat in his Manila debut for ONE Championship, Filipino Lito “Thunder Kid” Adiwang delivered on it, emerging on top in the opening round over Thai Pongsiri Mitsatit in their strawweight fight at “ONE: Fire & Fury” on Friday at the Mall of Asia Arena.

ON Friday, Jan. 18, the one-year countdown to the country’s hosting of the 2020 ASEAN Para Games officially began with organizers and proponents highlighting accessibility of the event for the athletes as one of the keys to a successful staging.