THE health pandemic has forced the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) to revisit its plans for its Season 46.

THE Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) will hand out its annual awards in special virtual awarding ceremonies this weekend.

PARIS — Holders France got their World Cup qualifying campaign off to a disappointing start with a 1-1 draw at home to Ukraine on Wednesday while Turkey pulled off an impressive 4-2 win at home to the Netherlands, powered by a Burak Yilmaz hat trick.

MILO Philippines continues to be resilient in seeing through its vision of using sports in building champion citizens as it recently launched its new campaign “Mula Noon Hanggang Ngayon, Tuloy ang Pagiging Champion.”

DONOVAN Mitchell contributed 27 points, seven assists and six rebounds to guide NBA-leading Utah past the short-handed Brooklyn Nets (118-88) on Wednesday night in Salt Lake City, giving the Jazz their first three-game winning streak in a month.

TOKYO — The Olympic torch relay will start in Fukushima on Thursday, kicking off a four-month countdown to the Summer Games in Tokyo, delayed from 2020 and the first ever organized during a global pandemic.

Don’t for a moment be fooled by the Raptors’ victory over the Nuggets yesterday. For all the celebrating they did following their brush with success against hitherto-surging opponents, they remain, for lack of a better term, lost and, evidently, in transition. They hadn’t won in a close to a month, with the unfamiliar swoon wreaking havoc on the camaraderie that fueled their championship run in 2019. Just recently, head coach Nick Nurse and acknowledged linchpin Pascal Siakam even had a confrontation that required others to step in after they suffered an eighth straight setback.

SELECTED by the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel Kings and Terrafirma Dyip, respectively, in the recent Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) rookie draft, Filipino foreign players Brian Enriquez and Joshua Munzon begin the process of finding their place and making it work with their mother teams.

THE Apprentice: ONE Championship Edition had its Asian television premiere last week, expanding the sports media property’s roster of offerings and ONE’s push to represent the region in more ways than one.

THE revamped Manila Chooks TM squad will try to enter the 2021 International Basketball Federation (FIBA) 3X3 World Tour Doha Masters by way of the backdoor against tough opponents.

EXPLORING various opportunities in esports and connecting various stakeholders in Asia are at the center of an online summit happening next month.

BRANDON Ingram scored 36 points and Zion Williamson added 27 as the host New Orleans (NO) Pelicans routed the depleted Los Angeles (LA) Lakers (128-111) on Tuesday night.