MELBOURNE — The Australian Open, the country’s oldest and most prestigious golf event, has been postponed from its scheduled staging in November due to COVID-19, organizers said on Tuesday.

JUST four days after beginning a truncated coronavirus-delayed season, Major League Baseball (MLB) ran into a serious obstacle on Monday with the postponement of scheduled games due to a COVID-19 outbreak among Miami Marlins players.

Three-time Sixth Man of the Year Lou Williams parties hard. Everybody knows it. Everybody’s mother knows it. And not only is it not a secret in hoops circles; he’s proud of it. As ESPN scribe Zach Lowe recounted him saying in the latest The Lowe Post podcast, “sometimes, I just don’t tell the young players where I’m gonna go out at night, ‘cause they all want to come with me, and they can’t hang. They can’t play the next day doing what I do, but I can play the next day.” Which, in a nutshell, was why no surprise greeted news that he was photographed holding a drink while in a strip club late last week. It was Williams being, well, Williams.

NOW the home of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the country, Cignal TV, Inc. expressed its excitement, seeing it as very significant in filling a huge space in the puzzle in its push to be the premier destination for sports programming in the Philippines.

WHILE the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has made it challenging for athletes to squeeze in their usual training regimen, Filipino-American pole vaulter Natalie Uy has managed to stay the course, making most of her time honing her game during the lockdown.

ITS scheduled return to activities last week not pushing through pending formal authorized notice from the government, the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is hoping that it could finally resume practices before this month ends.

BLAINE, Minnesota — American Michael Thompson won the 3M Open in Blaine, Minnesota on Sunday by two strokes to claim his second career PGA Tour victory and his first in seven years.

WORLD number two Simona Halep has withdrawn from next month’s Palermo Ladies Open following Italy’s decision to impose a mandatory quarantine for people coming from Romania and Bulgaria amid the coronavirus pandemic, organizers said on Sunday.

MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United and Chelsea secured places in the Champions League with wins on the final day of the Premier League season while Watford and Bournemouth were relegated along with bottom club Norwich City.

TURIN, Italy — Juventus won Serie A for the ninth season in a row when Cristiano Ronaldo set them on the way to a 2-0 win over Sampdoria on Sunday although the Portuguese veteran missed a late penalty.

THE truncated Season 82 of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) officially drew to a close last Saturday with the closing ceremony done online.

THE Philippine Sports Commission’s (PSC) online coaching seminar begins on Monday and seeks to continue with its goal of enhancing further local coaches’ competencies and skills and establishing a national standard for sports coaching in the country.