AS THE coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to take its toll across all fronts in the country, a lot of people are being affected or left vulnerable to exploitation, including children online. This is what an upcoming effort – Sweat to Protect -- wants to address.

When Loyola Life Plans agreed to sponsor the match between Asia’s first two grandmasters they pulled out all the stops to make it a true spectacle. Total prize package is P50,000 with P30,000 to the winner. More than the prize fund though they promoted the heck out of the event.

THE coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is hitting the local sporting community hard and the latter is dealing with it as best as it can.

THE National Basketball Association announced Monday it will soon unveil rule changes that will allow teams to open their practice facilities for players to take part in treatment and limited workouts, so long as the city in which the facility is located permits it.

LONDON -- Formula One plans to start its stalled season with two races behind closed doors in Austria in July before more of the same at Britain’s Silverstone circuit, insiders said on Monday.

“You got the great Michael Jordan, the great Scottie Pippen, the great Phil Jackson. But if you take me away from this team, do they still win a championship? I don’t think so.”

Monday’s release of the third and fourth episodes of The Last Dance has brought to the fore the intense rivalry between the Bulls and Pistons during the years spanning the late eighties and early nineties. While director Jason Hehir strives to show an unfiltered unveiling of the proceedings, there can be no mistaking the roles they play in the ESPN documentary series. And even from the vantage point of casual observers, the portrayals are to be expected. For one thing, principal protagonist Michael Jordan provides the clearest lens from which a significant part of the National Basketball Association’s history is seen. For another, the two sides have -- through time, then as now -- seen fit to embrace their predetermined colors.

WHILE ADMITTING to having his hands full with the many challenges that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic present, Filipino mixed martial arts star Joshua “The Passion” Pacio is staying strong, turning to the values he has learned from the sport and his faith to get him through.

RAFA NADAL has said he is very pessimistic about the possibility of tennis returning to normal any time soon because of the new coronavirus pandemic that shut down the sport last month.

Who is Asia’s first chess grandmaster? Everyone knows it is Eugene Torre. Who is Asia’s second chess grandmaster? Strangely enough many people get this wrong, the correct answer is Rosendo Balinas.

HAVING SURPASSED their collective expectations and were in the groove before the National Basketball Association called for a suspension of the season last month over the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James is hoping for league action to resume if conditions permit and finish what they have started.

STOCKHOLM -- After several recent cancellations due to the spread of the coronavirus, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has announced its comeback with three fight cards in the space of a week at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida.