MEMPHIS -- What loomed as a blockbuster bout between two four-times major champions ended up a technical knockout as Brooks Koepka floored Rory McIlroy on the way to a three-stroke victory at the WGC-St. Jude Invitational in Memphis on Sunday.

THE San Miguel Beermen are a win away from a finals return after fashioning out a major comeback against the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters, 117-105, in Game Two of their best-of-five Philippine Basketball Association Commissioner’s Cup semifinal series on Monday at the Mall of Asia Arena.

HAVING SPAWN world mixed martial arts champions in various global organizations, Baguio-based Team Lakay has rendered itself, consciously or otherwise, as the de facto face of the local MMA scene.

MARATHON newcomer Anthony Nerza and back-to-back Manila champion Christine Hallasgo stamped their athletic mettle at the Milo Nutri-Up 42K centerpiece event after beating almost 2,000 elite runners at the Metro Manila Eliminations of the 2019 National Milo Marathon this Sunday.

WASHINGTON -- Cori “Coco” Gauff on Sunday made it through to the main draw of the Citi Open in Washington, needing barely an hour to win her final qualifier.

2019 FIDE Grand Prix series consists of four knockout tournaments, each with 16 players who are paired into 8 mini-matches. The mini-matches consist of two games of classical chess, with a time control of 90 minutes for the 1^st 40 moves then 30 minutes to the end of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1. If the match is tied two 25+10 rapid games are played. If still tied, there are two slow rapid (10+10) games, then two 5-minute blitz games with 3 seconds increment. Finally, if the two players are still tied, a single Armageddon game is played, where White has 5 minutes to Black’s 4 (with a 2-second increment from move 61) but Black wins the match with a draw.

Jeremy Lin sounded somber for the better part of his testimonial recorded by Taiwan-based Good TV. He made the appearance as part of what has now become an annual pilgrimage to Greater China, where he remains the third most popular player from the National Basketball Association after LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. For all his willingness to give of himself by way of hoops clinics and instructionals, he proved to be at his most revealing in front of a packed auditorium of fellow Christians; the league that gave him his biggest break and enabled him to be an ambassador for Asians, he said, has “kind of given up on me.”

THE San Miguel Beermen try to go up 2-0 in their best-of-five Philippine Basketball Association Commissioner’s Cup semifinal series with the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters when action resumes today for Game Two at 7 p.m. at the Mall of Asia Arena.

THE Philippine Olympic Committee has a new president in cycling’s Abraham Tolentino after he defeated athletics’ Philip Ella Juico in special elections held on Sunday at the Century Park Hotel in Pasay City.

PHILIPPINE Air Force FC is no longer winless in the Philippines Football League after breaking through with a 3-2 victory over Global Cebu FC on Saturday at the Biñan Football Stadium in Laguna.

MEMPHIS -- Rory McIlroy grabbed a one-shot lead over Brooks Koepka in the third round at the WGC-St. Jude Invitational in Memphis on Saturday, setting up the prospect of a mouth-watering finale.

A STEADY SUPPORTER of the Chinese national football team, electronics company Skyworth is stretching its wings in sponsorship, coming on board as one of the partners for the 30^th Southeast Asian Games which the Philippines is hosting later this year.