THE PUSH of newly approved professional league Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3x3 to start its season got further wind with the first batch of teams having their coronavirus tests and later on proceeding to practice.

ONE Championship holds another live event in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday and it will feature two Filipina fighters out to do well and give their respective careers a boost.

COMMITTEE on Youth and Sports Development congressmen promised their support when the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) lobbied for Tokyo 2021 budget support from the House of Representatives during the committee regular meeting held Wednesday.

THE MOST intriguing first-round series of the NBA playoffs moves to a Game 6 on Thursday with the second-seeded Los Angeles Clippers one victory from advancing past the seventh-seeded Dallas Mavericks.

THE BMW Championship, which figures to occupy golf habitues this weekend, is being compared to the 2003 United States Open for good reason. Apart from sharing the Olympia Fields Golf Club in Cook County, Illinois, as the venue, the first stop on the FedEx Cup Playoffs rota likewise looks to sport penal conditions reminiscent of typical setups for the major tournament. And it doesn’t help that the weather slated to reign at least through the first two rounds will make the Bent grass fairways hard and Blue grass greens uninviting. Under the circumstances, players are right to expect high scores, and certainly well north of those that bombarded The Northern Trust at TPC Boston over the weekend.

PAUL GEORGE and Kawhi Leonard made sure the Los Angeles Clippers had short memories in Game 5 of their Western Conference first-round series against the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night near Orlando.

OFFICIALLY back to doing activities after being inactive for nearly half a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) said it would strictly monitor the teams to make sure that the league’s push to resume is a success.

RIGHT in the midst of an investigation on the alleged training bubble held in Sorsogon by the University of Santo Tomas (UST) men’s basketball team, the school’s athletic director, Fr. Jannel Abogado, O.P., stepped down from his post.

NEW Philippines Football League entrant United City Football League recently unveiled its home and away kits for the 2020-2021 season done in partnership with Monte’ Athletics.

MILWAUKEE Bucks star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo was named NBA Defensive Player of the Year on Tuesday.

GRANDMASTER (GM) Mark Paragua will be seeking another online chess title when the Baby Uno Chess Challenge dubbed as Grandmaster Rosendo Carreon Balinas Jr. online chess championship set on Sept. 6, 2020 at 11 a.m. at the lichess.org.

LONDON — Formula One (F1) fleshed out its 2020 calendar to 17 races on Tuesday, with the Chinese Grand Prix cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic but Turkey back on for the first time since 2011 and Bahrain handed two rounds.