TOM Brady threw for a touchdown to punch his ticket to the playoffs as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers breezed to a 32-6 win over the host Carolina Panthers on Sunday in Charlotte, N.C.

MANCHESTER City led the way in a bumper Boxing Day goal feast in the Premier League on Sunday with a 6-3 win over Leicester City sending them six points clear at the top of the standings.

SAN MIGUEL Beermen (SMB)  raised a glass for its third consecutive win in the 46th Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors’ Cup via a business-like, day-after-Christmas 100-88 disposal of Terrafirma at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.

THE National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) will hold face-to-face competition after a two-year pandemic hiatus starting in the first week of March next year with only four events to be played in Season 97 including basketball and volleyball.

PHILIP Manalang and Basilan-Jumbo Plastic Medical Depot waited all year to gain a shot at redemption after being denied a chance to bid for the MPBL Lakan Cup crown last March in Subic bubble by virtue of forfeiture due to a number of positive coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in its squad.

THE Philippine Muay Thai team is optimistic it can duplicate, if not surpass, its three-gold medal performance in the 2019 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Subic Bay, Zambales.

FILIPINO volleyball star Marck Espejo is making the most out of his time playing in the V.League All-Star Game in Japan.

PHILIPPINE Olympic Committee (POC) president Abraham Tolentino will attend the chef de mission meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam next month with an intention of submitting the same number athletes — 626 — it has passed during the last deadline before the 31st Southeast Asian (SEA) Games was reset from this year to May next year.

THIRDY Ravena scored 11 points as the San-en NeoPhoenix grounded the Seahorses Mikawa, 88-80, to snap their 14-game losing skid in the Christmas weekend offering of the Japan B. League at the Wing Arena Kariya on Sunday.

INDONESIA needed extra-time to see off eight-man Singapore in the Suzuki Cup semifinals on Saturday as Shin Tae-yong’s side won a drama-filled second leg 4-2 to advance to this week’s final with a 5-3 aggregate victory.

THE Tampa Bay Buccaneers have plenty to figure out for their next game, including how to break through on the scoreboard.

WORLD number one Novak Djokovic will not travel to Sydney for the men’s season-opening Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Cup next week, Serbian daily Blic reported on Saturday.