Philippine Basketball Association forward Vic Manuel finally got his wish to be traded after the Alaska Aces sent him to the Phoenix Super LPG Fuel Masters on Tuesday.

HONED by his experience in doing combat sports and establishing a career in the corporate world, Louie Sangalang savors the opportunity to participate in the upcoming reality TV show The Apprentice: ONE Championship Edition.

THE Royal and Ancient (R&A) and United States Golf Association (USGA) on Monday announced proposals to change to the rules of amateur status, including removing sponsorship restrictions and allowing amateurs to enter competitions as professionals.

BRADLEY Beal scored 33 points and Russell Westbrook added 32 on Monday as the visiting Washington Wizards rallied for a 127-124 overtime victory over the Los Angeles Lakers for their first five-game winning streak in three years.

SYDNEY — Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic were rightly hailed as deserved Australian Open champions at the weekend, but the ashen-faced former tennis coach standing behind them on the podium might be considered the real hero of the year’s first Grand Slam.

MELBOURNE — Novak Djokovic will need to spend some time on the sidelines recovering from a muscle tear that hindered him in the later rounds of the Australian Open, the Serbian said as he celebrated his ninth Melbourne Park title on Monday.

TURIN, Italy — Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Juventus strolled to a 3-0 home win over bottom side Crotone in Serie A on Monday, with the victory taking the champions up to third in the standings.

Novak Djokovic was his usual confident self when he headed to the Rod Laver Arena for the Australian Open singles final last Sunday. It didn’t matter that he went through a more rigorous test than he envisioned through the last fortnight; his third-round match against gritty Taylor Fritz was particularly testy, lasting all of five sets and forcing him to compete with a torn abdominal oblique muscle from then on. And never mind that he faced red-hot Daniil Medvedev, whose 20-match win streak had a number of quarters wondering if the new batch of talents would finally break through in a major championship. As far as he was concerned, Melbourne Park was his home, and it remained as welcoming as it had been in 2019 and 2020, and in the six other times he went home with the Norman Brooks Challenge Cup.

WITH the rescheduled Olympic Games in Tokyo just five months away, the Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines (ABAP) is preparing to up the ante in its preparation to have as many boxers as possible to represent the country and have them ready for the competition.

SYDNEY — Novak Djokovic’s “unbelievable” performance to win his ninth Australian Open final was a statement to the young guns looking to break the stranglehold of the “Big Three” on Grand Slam titles, according to seven-times major winner Mats Wilander.

Team Philippines is set to compete in 46 sports events at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) announced on Monday.

“THE Demolition Man” is back in mixed martial arts (MMA).