DANIEL ‘Danby’ Henares dominated the 2018 Quarter Benchrest Rifle Championship recently with a gold and silver medal in as many events at the Marine...

CURRENTLY the hottest team in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner’s Cup, the Alaska Aces look to extend their tournament-best six-game winning streak when they return to action today against the struggling NLEX Road Warriors in the 7 p.m. main game at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.

HAD their National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Season 94 debut postponed twice already, the Arellano Chiefs finally get to play their first game, taking on the Emilio Aguinaldo College (EAC) Generals today in an “NCAA on Tour” fare at the Arellano Gym in Legarda, Manila.

LOS ANGELES -- The Golden State Warriors are favored in the NBA Finals for the fifth consecutive year, as they opened as heavy favorites against the Toronto Raptors late Saturday night.

FILIPINO Grandmasters (GMs) Eugene Torre, John Paul Gomez and Darwin Laylo along with International Masters (IMs) Paulo Bersamina, Jan Emmanuel Garcia and Daniel Quizon will spearhead the country’s campaign in the Asian Continental Chess Championships (Open and Women’s Championships), slated June 7 to 15 this year at the Hongshigou Quesheng Bieyuan Hostel in Xingtai, (People’s Republic of) China.

Mr. Florencio “Campo” Campomanes was the moving spirit behind the participation of the Philippine national team in the 1956 Moscow Olympiad. He did everything -- organized the team, arranged for funding, coordinated with the Russian organizers and a hundred and one other tiny details.

2017-2018 UAAP Chess Championship (Juniors) 1st Flr., QPAV Building, UST, España St., Manila Feb. 17-April 8, 2018

ONE of the feel-good stories in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines is set to be immortalized as a coffee-table book on the inspiring run of the University of the Philippines men’s basketball team in Season 81 is being cooked up.

THE Barangay Ginebra San Miguel Kings staved off elimination in the Philippine Basketball Association Commissioner’s Cup after winning over the TNT KaTropa, 80-72, in Game Three of their best-of-five semifinal series on Tuesday at the Mall of Asia Arena.

THE planned boxing fight between Filipino legend Manny Pacquiao and mixed martial arts (MMA) superstar Conor McGregor has been rendered in doubt after the Irishman suffered a technical knockout loss in his Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) return at the weekend.

FILIPINO chess wizard Jasper Concepcion Faeldonia finished tied for first in the 35^th Singapore National Age Group Chess Championships last Sunday at the Kallang Theatre at the Singapore Sports Hub. The 14-year-old Faeldonia, a grade 8 student of Arellano University -- under the watchful eye of National Master Rudy Ibañez and Odiongan, Romblon mayor Trina Firmalo-Fabic -- defeated Fook Weng Pheng of Malaysia in the eight and final round. Faeldonia needed two hours and 30 minutes to beat his last round opponent using the black side of the Chebanenko Slav in 35 pushes.

YOUNG cue artist Bernie Regalario will lead the youth invasion in the Predator-Volturi 9-Ball Cup 2020 tournament on Saturday at the AMF-Puyat Makati Cinema Square, Makati City.