SOUTHEAST Asian Games (SEAG) gold medalist John Mark Tokong vanquished the waves of Kata Beach as he captured a gold medal in the Phuket Beach Festival 2022 staged over the weekend.

THE SOUTHERN California Academy (SCA) welcomes Nathan Tan, their first Filipino athlete, into their elite basketball program.

NEW YORK — Emma Raducanu, who made a dream run to the US Open title last year, suffered a nightmare 6-3 6-3 first round loss to France Alize Cornet on Tuesday as the clock finally struck midnight on an improbable tennis fairytale.

THE NBA is revising the health and safety protocol for the 2022-23 season, The Athletic reported Tuesday.

NEW YORK — Second seed Rafael Nadal overcame an early scare to down 21-year-old Australian wildcard Rinky Hijikata 4-6 6-2 6-3 6-3 Tuesday in his first appearance at the US Open after winning in 2019.

THE STAGE is set, the clock is winding down, and the road to the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 begins here.

MARINERONG Pilipino and EcoOil-La Salle cross paths once more to clash for all the marbles in the winner-take-all Game 3 of the 2022 PBA D-League Aspirants’ Cup finals today at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.

GOOD and bad news for the Philippine women’s volleyball team seeing action in the second edition of the ASEAN Grand Prix slated Sept. 9 to 11 in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

NEW YORK — Serena Williams signaled she is not quite ready for retirement advancing to the second round of the US Open on Monday with a scrappy 6-3 6-3 win over Danka Kovinic.

BEIRUT — Crisis-hit Lebanon qualified for the Basketball World Cup on Monday for the fourth time in their history after beating India 95-63 in Bengaluru.

Tickets for first-round matches at Arthur Ashe Stadium the other night were being peddled for much, much more than their face value for one reason alone: aging superstar Serena Williams was slated to burn rubber, and perhaps for the last time in her storied career.

WORLD No. 3 pole vaulter EJ Obiena ruled the True Athletics Classics in Leverkusen, Germany over the weekend in the absence of the world’s best — Swedish star Armand Duplantis.