PBA holding out hope that season can resume

THE Philippine Basketball Association remains hopeful that its currently suspended Season 45 would be able resume amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

MPBL player Bustos parading wares on a different field

CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE to do his thing as a player in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) as action is suspended with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Jesse Bustos is flexing his other skill while basketball is in hiatus -- as a photojournalist.

FIFA vice-president ponders calendar year season in Europe

ROME -- FIFA vice-president Victor Montagliani has said that moving the European soccer season to the calendar year is a “possibility to be discussed” in the wake of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic which has brought football to a standstill around the world.

Teams worried about coronavirus affecting older staff

THE National Basketball Association will have to decide who is considered essential game staff should play resume amid the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, ESPN reported.

Linsanity

By Anthony L. Cuaycong
Jeremy Lin didn’t exactly have an amicable parting of ways with the Knicks in 2012. He was just five months removed from a run of games that plucked him from obscurity and catapulted him to the limelight, and yet his place with the orange and silver proved far from secure. Resident superstar Carmelo Anthony considered him a threat (and an undeserving one, to boot), and so he viewed his future to be better elsewhere. And he was proven right; for all the front office’s pronouncements that any contract offered to him would be matched, he was allowed to walk away and head to the Rockets as a free agent. True to form, though, owner James Dolan didn’t forget the perceived slight; at no instance in the next seven years was he given any acknowledgment as a visitor at the Madison Square Garden.

Soccer-MLS opens up training fields for individual workouts

You can now download all free assets in one place. This includes Watermark, Keyframe, Screener, XML, and Shotlist. Players will be able to use outdoor...

NBA eyes Disney World as return-to-action venue

THE National Basketball Association (NBA) is looking at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida, as a possible playing site should the 2019-20 season resume, and has even gotten the OK from Disney to use the site, Stadium’s Shams Charania reported Wednesday.

Early resumption of Premier League not safe for players — Neville

BENGALURU -- Rushing to resume the 2019-20 Premier League season stalled by the COVID-19 pandemic could jeopardize the lives of players and staff, former Manchester United defender Gary Neville said.

CSB Blazers coach Tang holds free online basketball clinic

WITH OUTSIDE movement currently limited because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, people are looking for creative and alternative ways to try and get back to the swing of things.

Red Bull River Runes makes Philippine return

ESPORTS ACTION in the country buzzes this month despite the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with the return to the country of the Red Bull River Runes tournament.

Packers QB

By Anthony L. Cuaycong
Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers haven’t always been friends. In fact, their relationship arguably started off as icy at best. The latter was selected 24th overall in the 2005 draft precisely to replace the former, who hitherto remained outstanding for the Packers, but who nonetheless appeared to be on the downside. Pride, not coincidentally that which fueled their competitiveness and success, got in the way of smooth interpersonal relations. “My contract doesn’t say I have to get Aaron Rodgers ready to play. Now, hopefully, he watches me and gets something from that,” the incumbent starter then defiantly told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Which, creditably, the quarterback-in-waiting did, the absence of active mentorship (and petty pranks) notwithstanding.

Players should not be rushed back to action, says WPA

ATHENS -- Professional athletes across the world should not be rushed back to action once the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, and they must have a strong say in determining the conditions for their return, the World Players Association (WPA) said on Tuesday.