PGA TOUR rookie Davis Riley shot a blazing 62 on Saturday to vault to the top of the leaderboard Saturday owning the 54-hole scoring record at the Valspar Championship at Palm Harbor, Fla.

I’m the aftermath of a rare victory away from the Crypto.com Arena, Lakers head coach Frank Vogel remained sufficiently grounded to note in his presser that top dog LeBron James may well be sitting out the next leg of the road trip.

PROTECTING the quarterfinal order is the theme for No. 1 Magnolia and No. 4 Meralco as they set out to get their passes to the Philippine Basketball Associaiton (PBA) Governors’ Cup semifinals on first take on Friday at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.

THREE-TIME defending champion Ateneo and the beefed-up University of the Philippines headline the explosive quadruple-header offering of the 84th UAAP Season when it plunges back to action on March 26 after a two-year hiatus.

BALER, Aurora — Ryan Tugawin was living a simple life with simple dreams as a farmer in Solano, Nueva Vizcaya. And then he discovered cycling and began to have dreams of grandeur.

THE Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) cracked the whip on the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA) and Philippine Tennis Association (PHILTA) by suspending the two for 90 days due to separate reasons.

LILLE, France — Holders Chelsea made light of their off-pitch problems to reach the Champions League quarterfinals by beating Lille 2-1 away on Wednesday to complete a 4-1 aggregate victory.

LONDON — A clinical Liverpool beat Arsenal 2-0 to cut Manchester City’s once double-digit lead at the top of the Premier League table to a single point on Wednesday, leaving the title race wide open.

SIMONA Halep took less than an hour to breeze past Petra Martić (6-1 ,6-1) on Wednesday and reach the semifinals of the World Tennis Association (WTA) Indian Wells tournament for the fourth time, while Iga Świątek also advanced in style dismantling Madison Keys.

RAFA Nadal toppled big-serving American Reilly Opelka (7-6(3), 7-6(5)) to remain perfect on the year while unseeded Serbian Miomir Kecmanović stunned world number six Matteo Berrettini (6-3, 6-7(5), 6-4) in the fourth round of Indian Wells on Wednesday.

KARL-Anthony Towns scored 30 points and Anthony Edwards added 27 as the Minnesota Timberwolves never trailed in a 124-104 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday in Minneapolis.

Considering how Phil Mickelson’s attacks on the PGA Tour backfired spectacularly, not a few quarters believed LIV Golf Investments would want to let the controversy die down first before pushing through with its launch of a breakaway campaign.