THE ULTIMATE Fighting Championship (UFC) is aiming to stage a fight card at an undisclosed location next month featuring at least two title bouts, the promotion’s president Dana Frederick White Jr. told its broadcast partner ESPN.

WITH the country boasting among others of beautiful islands and beaches, sailing presents itself as an exciting way to explore the Philippines. It is something that property developer AboitizLand recognizes and pushes for.

Of all organized sports, tennis is argued to be among the easiest to plan for in transitioning to a post-COVID-19 setup. It presents few challenges, at least on paper. It’s a non-contact endeavor, with players, line judges, ball boys, and the chair umpire theoretically able to practice social distancing throughout any given set-to. Then again, it’s one thing to think about the match itself, and quite another to consider both what should come before and what happens after. Relevancy requires that it be part of a tournament, thus presupposing the involvement of hundreds more, at minimum, even absent spectators — from other competitors to coaches to medical teams to organizers to service professionals.

CITING the continuing spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) moved to postpone until further notice matches set for May and June.

LOS ANGELES -- National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver, National Football League chief Roger Goodell and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban are among the 14 sports figures advising the United States government on when to resume with sporting events, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday.

The FIDE Candidates Tournament began on March 16^th, in Yekaterinburg, Russia, with eight of the top players of the world to play a double round-robin over 14 rounds to decide who would challenge the reigning world champion, Magnus Carlsen, in December for the title. Due to the coronavirus pandemic though, the tournament had to be suspended at the halfway point, to be resumed later.

WHILE the resumption of the 2019–20 season of the National Basketball Association is still to be determined at this point, the Milwaukee Bucks are keeping themselves ready in the event the league returns to action.

THE National Hockey League will be prepared for a post-coronavirus relaunch whenever an opportunity presents itself, commissioner Gary Bettman said on Monday.

THE XFL, a reboot of the 2001 league of the same name, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday a month after it had to cancel the remainder of its inaugural season because of the coronavirus outbreak.

One of the best “stretch fours” in the Philippine Basketball Association has called it a career after Ranidel de Ocampo announced his retirement from pro basketball on Monday.

Rudy Gobert was his candid self when he spoke on Instagram Live at the weekend. As the first player in the National Basketball Association to officially test positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 and the trigger for the league to suspend the 2019–20 season, he could have had his experience affect him negatively. Instead, he went the other way, putting the spotlight trained on him to good use by continually promoting good health and safety habits. True, it was penance for the flippant manner in which he treated social distancing measures. On the other hand, there can be no discounting how actively he has tried to make up for his unfortunate misstep. And so we went on social media anew to spread the word as witness to the pandemic’s ill effects.

THE NATIONAL Basketball Association may not know when -- or if -- play will resume this season, but the league reportedly has a plan to get players into game shape and onto the court should that day come.