BAHRAIN-BASED Brave Combat Federation (CF) will stage its debut event in Belarus in June, an event that Filipino fighters under the promotion hope to be part of.

It would be an understatement to argue that the Clippers’ signing of DeMarcus Cousins smacks of desperation. After all, the value of the fifth overall pick in the 2010 National Basketball Association draft is suspect at best. While he has four All-Star and two All-NBA berths to his name, three significant lower back injuries in the intervening seasons have all but eroded his otherwise-prodigious skill set. It’s why even the talent-challenged Rockets saw fit to cut him loose in the face of his depressed numbers through the first third of the 2020-21 campaign, and why he found himself hitherto hard-pressed to latch on to an employer.

CURRENTLY ongoing is the first Magiting “Virtual Run and Bike,” an initiative of Ayala Foundation which seeks to raise funds to help provide learning and hygiene kits for public elementary school students nationwide.

TOKYO — International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach will visit Japan in May, the Kyodo News agency said at the weekend, as the nation struggles to contain a surge in coronavirus cases before the start of the Games.

The fallout from the controversial match in the Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup last week extended at the weekend with the Games and Amusements Board (GAB) suspending the yet-to-start Mindanao leg of the newly launched regional basketball league.

THE Board of Governors of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is set to gather for a special meeting on Monday to reassess the direction the league will take for its Season 46 amid the ongoing conditions with the pandemic.

TOP Filipino golfer Yuka Saso wound up at joint sixth place at the conclusion of the Lotte Championship at the Kapolei Golf Club in Oahu, Hawaii, on Sunday (Manila time).

JAYSON Tatum lost his personal duel with Stephen Curry, but the Boston Celtics won their battle with the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night, outfinishing the visitors for a 119-114 win in a nationally televised duel of streaking teams.

NOTWITHSTANDING the challenges presented by the pandemic, the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) assured preparation for the country’s hosting of the 2023 International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Basketball World Cup is progressing.

BENGALURU — Roger Federer will kickstart his clay court campaign at next month’s Geneva Open as he steps up his preparations for the French Open, the 39-year-old Swiss wrote on Twitter on Sunday.

CHAMPION national athletes Nikko Huelgas and Meggie Ochoa will lead the discussion in session 10 on Wednesday of the 2021 National Sports Summit of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC).

RED BULL’S Max Verstappen won a chaotic and crash-halted Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola on Sunday with Lewis Hamilton second for Mercedes and staying ahead in the championship by a single point.