FRESH from his successful title defense of the International Boxing Federation (IBF) super flyweight title, Filipino champion Jerwin Ancajas is now eyeing possible bouts against top fighters in his division, including versus fellow champ Juan Francisco Estrada of Mexico.

THE Philippine 3x3 national team will begin its bid in the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) in Graz, Austria, on opening day on May 26 in Pool C.

THE men’s tryouts for the national volleyball team were successfully held at the Subic Gym “bubble” on Thursday.

Yesterday, the Pelicans lost to the Nuggets by a basket after Zion Williamson failed to dunk the ball following a successful contest by Nikola Jokić with 2.2 ticks left in the match. In the aftermath, he — and plenty of other quarters, head coach Stan Van Gundy included — noted that his attempt was foiled, but not after contact to the hand and head. To be sure, their contention was valid; replays showed the coverage wasn’t exactly clean, and the National Basketball Association’s Last Two Minute Report, issued whenever scores are within five points of each other in the crunch, will no doubt validate the eye test.

TOKYO — Organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics rolled out stricter coronavirus countermeasures on Wednesday, including a plan to test athletes daily, as they try to reassure a Japanese public made increasingly skeptical by the resurgent pandemic.

ANKARA — Turkey will replace Canada on this year’s Formula One calendar after the June 13 race in Montreal was canceled on Wednesday for the second year in a row due to the coronavirus pandemic.

FILIPINO veteran mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Eduard “Landslide” Folayang fell to Japanese Shinya Aoki once again in their third ONE Championship encounter on Thursday in Singapore.

BENGALURU — World number one Novak Djokovic will not defend his Madrid Open title next week as he decided against traveling for the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Masters 1000 event, organizers said on Wednesday.

WHEN the new season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) will start remains uncertain, but the league said the plan is still to have it going as soon as possible.

RUSSELL Westbrook had a triple-double, Bradley Beal scored 27 points and the Washington Wizards beat the visiting Los Angeles Lakers (116-107) on Wednesday.

TO SUCCEED in any business venture, one has to put in the needed work and give commitment through and through.

For the second season in a row, the Packers dominated the conversation in the National Football League draft for all the wrong causes. Even as they made the right decision in taking cornerback Eric Stokes with the 29th overall pick, it came a year too late for most quarters — and certainly for quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The reigning league Most Valuable Player, notorious for keeping grudges, was obviously still smarting from their ill-advised move to trade up in the 2020 draft in order to latch on to Jordan Love, his evident replacement under center.