FIVE-TIME Philippine Basketball Association most valuable player June Mar Fajardo of the San Miguel Beermen is to miss time on the court after suffering a leg injury in practice at the weekend, his mother team announced on Wednesday.

OUT TO bring the race back to the Filipinos, the LBC Ronda Pilipinas will revert to an all-Filipino race when this year’s edition of the competition unfurls later this month.

The new FIDE rating list has been released and the Tata Steel Masters, being the only strong tournament rated in January, played a big role in the new rankings (the Gibraltar Chess Festival was also concluded in January but the results were submitted too late to be included in this list):

Graeme McDowell is no stranger to slumps. In fact, he had one shortly after he won the 2010 United States Open. Still, it didn’t take him long to recover. He had solid seasons in 2012 and 2013, and the manner in which he rebounded to crowd the top of the sport gave rise to the contention that he would have plenty more highs than lows. In his own words, however, life “just got in the way,” and he saw bliss off the course, courtesy of marriage and fatherhood, coinciding with tumult inside the ropes. “I don’t think I’ve ever sat back and rested in my laurels. Just my practice changed, the time I was giving to the game changed, and I was less effective in what I was doing.”

WHEN the Philippine Basketball Association’s Season 45 unfurls beginning March 1 it will see the league spreading its wings, adding new offerings to complement its steady fare.

MIAMI -- Five-time All-Star Jimmy Butler -- playing against the team that traded him last year -- scored a season-high 38 points in just 29 minutes to lead the host Miami Heat past the Philadelphia 76ers 137-106 on Monday night.

AFTER two decades at the helm of the National Basketball Association’s push in the country, Carlo Singson is stepping down as managing director of NBA Philippines, the league announced on Tuesday.

PICKING UP from its move to support the 30^th Southeast Asian Games here in December, Ajinomoto recently unveiled its thrust to continue its commitment to champion various sports in the country.

IT’S shaping up to be an exciting year for gamers in the Queen City of the South as Lenovo opens its Legion concept store in SM City Cebu.

OSHRIE Jhames “OJ” Constantino Reyes, grade 3 pupil of GNC Montessori, Pampanga, defeated Yuan Carl Ditao in the ninth and final round to top the FIDE/NCFP Standard rating grand finals age group chess championships held at in Olongapo City on Jan. 31 to Feb. 2.

FOLLOWING the exhilarating 2019 race that saw 10,000 runners participating, the De La Salle Alumni Association Pampanga (DLSAA-P) Chapter will hold the TCS Clark Animo International Marathon 2020 on March 8. This year’s event will have exciting new features that will complement the internationally certified courses and special activities.

If you happened to be active on Facebook like this writer, you might have come across a thread on your feeds asking to name your favorite players of all-time from each of the 30 National Basketball Association teams and after which copy and repost them for others to give theirs.