ON Oct. 13 mixed martial arts veteran star Brandon “The Truth” Vera will take on one of the biggest challenges in his career, going for a second ONE Championship world title. And he intends to go about it by digging to his bag of experience as a fighter.

THE NATIONAL Chess Federation of the Philippines has tapped GM Darwin Laylo to replace GM Julio Catalino “Ino” Sadorra in the national team competing in the 44^th World Chess Olympiad set August 5 to 18 in Moscow, Russia.

Before we go to our main topic I’d like to point out the name of IM Vincent Keymer, the last-placer. You might be wondering what a mere IM with a rating of 2516 is doing in the company of such elite chessplayers. The answer is that he had qualified for it. Alongside the Chess Classic there was the GRENKE Chess Open. Keymer won it in a great upset last year and qualified to play in the main event. This year the winner of the Open was the German #3 Daniel Fridman who took the top honors. There were seven other grandmasters who tied for first: Anton Korobov, Andreas Heimann, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Gukesh, Matthias Bluebaum, Alexander Donchenko and Tamas Banusz.

FOR THE SECOND straight play date, men’s basketball action in National Collegiate Athletic Association Season 95 was cancelled because of the expected bad weather brought about by Typhoon Hanna and subsequent suspension of classes in the metro.

TOKYO — “ONE: Century,” the 100^th live event of ONE Championship since being established in 2011, will be broadcast live to the United States on Sunday, Oct. 13, and it is a huge step for the organization in being introduced to a new set of audience. This is according to the company’s heavyweight champion Brandon “The Truth” Vera.

A NEW season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines kicks off on Saturday, Sept. 8, with the league highlighting its standing as “where it all begins.”

LOS ANGELES -- When Gregg Popovich agreed to take over as head coach of USA Basketball for Mike Krzyzewski, many envisioned names such as Harden, Love, Lillard, and Davis on the backs of the uniforms.

Have you ever heard of the Barry Attack? White plays 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bf4 Bg7 5.e3 0–0 6.Be2 and then attempts to assault the Black king with Ne5 followed by h2-h4-h5.

PROVING himself very deserving of a shot at the International Boxing Federation (IBF) minimum weight title following an impressive win on May 13 in...

NO LONGER under radar like in the 2017 edition of the Southeast Asian Games, the Philippine national men’s hockey team said it is expecting the road to be tougher as it tries to win back-to-back gold medals in the regional meet happening later this year in the country.

INTERNATIONAL Boxing Federation super flyweight champion Jerwin “Pretty Boy” Ancajas retained his title on Sunday (Manila time) after his technical knockout win in the seventh round over Japanese challenger Ryuichi Funai at the Stockton Arena in California.

Unlike the Men’s and Women’s team competitions in the 81^st Season of UAAP Chess, where were blowout victories for FEU and DLSU, respectively, the competition in the High School section was very close and indeed FEU and UST finished the double round-robin event tied at 33 points apiece. The tie-breaker was the match points and so FEU, which won nine matches against a draw and two losses (to UST and Adamson), was awarded the title against the Thomasians who only had seven team wins, two draws and three losses (to FEU, NU and UE).