VICTORY at the Tour Championship in Atlanta on Sunday will not completely erase the disappointment of a futile season at the majors for Rory McIlroy, but it may be worth far more than the $15 million he received for winning the FedEx Cup.

THE PHILIPPINE women’s national football team is out to finish a breakthrough campaign at the 2019 ASEAN Football Federation Women’s Championship on the podium when it battles Myanmar for the bronze today at the IPE Chonburi Stadium in Thailand.

NEW YORK -- There will be no shortage of big-name players in action when the US Open begins on Monday but the talk around New York for days has centered around the marquee matchup between Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova.

FRESH FROM their huge skid-busting victory in their last outing, the Arellano Chiefs try to stay on the side of winning when they collide with the San Sebastian Stags in National Collegiate Athletic Association Season 95 action today at the FilOil Flying V Centre in San Juan City.

THE much-awaited fourth staging of the vertical run of Kerry Sports Manila happens next month with a new presenting partner while promising yet again another exciting and challenging event.

GM Evgeny Tomashevsky, nicknamed “The Professor,” won the Championship for a second time with an undefeated 3 wins and 8 draws, 7.0/11, half a point ahead of his pursuers Vitiugov, Matlakov and Inarkiev. Tomashevsky was in the leading group for most of the tournament but it was only in the final round, when he defeated tournament revelation Kiril Alekseenko in a tremendous battle, that he managed to grab the solo lead.

Rory McIlroy was a dejected runner-up at the Tour Championship 11 months ago. Paired with Tiger Woods in the final round, he didn’t quite have his A-game to keep up with the eventual champion. In fact, he wound up being a spectator to one of the most spectacular finishes in the sport -- with the best player of his generation being embraced by an extremely engaging crowd of thousands that literally went inside the ropes to celebrate the outcome. And even as he joined teeming fans in congratulating the comebacking titleholder, he knew he let a grand opportunity slip away.

WITH HIS FIBA-imposed suspension officially lapsing at the weekend, a “hungry” Kiefer Ravena said he is determined to get back on the court and do his thing, beginning with helping the Philippine men’s national basketball team in its bid in the FIBA Basketball World Cup in China.

THE 2019 edition of the FIBA 3x3 U18 Asia Cup concluded at the weekend with teams from Japan and Australia topping the men’s and women’s divisions, respectively, while the Philippine women’s squad fashioned out a podium finish at third place.

KAYA FC-Iloilo sustained its winning run in the Philippines Football League on Saturday, defeating Stallion Laguna FC, 1-0, at the Aboitiz Pitch in Lipa, Batangas.

LEADING telco and digital services provider PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) throw their support behind Gilas Pilipinas as they gear up for the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

WITH the country’s hosting of the 30^th Southeast Asian Games just under a hundred days away, manpower is being built up for it, including volunteers, who organizers said will play a key role in the successful hosting of the biennial regional sporting meet.