THE SEASON-ENDING Philippine Basketball Association Governors’ Cup fires off today with a double-header set at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.

EVEN on a bad day the San Beda Red Lions just would not lose in National Collegiate Athletic Association Season 95.

ACTION in the Philippine SuperLiga resumes on Sept. 24 with the start of the Invitational Conference.

DEFENDING Philippines Football League champion Ceres-Negros FC stretched its lead at the top of the ongoing league race after beating rival Kaya FC-Iloilo, 2-0, on Wednesday at the Biñan Football Stadium in Laguna.

THE Philippine women’s national volleyball team finally gets to test the waters in an official tournament when it battles against three other countries in the historic ASEAN Grand Prix today at the Terminal 21 Mall in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

THE PROVINCE of Quirino emerged as the country’s newest wakeboarding haven with the successful staging of the recent 1^st Invitational Wakeboarding Competition at the world-class Quirino Watersports Complex in the capital town of Cabarroguis.

WITH COMPETITION in the ongoing season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines stiffer than ever, the Far Eastern University Tamaraws recognize that they have to adjust accordingly and deliver.

NEW YORK -- 2K is excited to announce it is partnering with the National Basketball Association (NBA), National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), and ESL, the world’s largest esports company, to create the NBA 2K20 Global Championship. Featuring more than $100,000 in prizes, the NBA 2K20 Global Championship is a new competitive tournament designed for aspiring NBA 2K20 players worldwide. The global tournament will feature head-to-head competition in a series of online and offline events that will take place from October 2019 to February 2020, culminating in a final event in the United States to crown the first-ever NBA 2K20 global champion. Registration is open today at www.nba2kgc.com.

Isaiah Thomas just can’t seem to catch a break. Just when he looked primed for a comeback season with the Wizards, he found his preparations derailed by an injury during an otherwise-routine workout early this week. Tests revealed him to have torn the radial collateral ligament in his left thumb, requiring surgery and convalescence for the next eight weeks. Nonetheless, he was typically upbeat, noting in a tweet that he “[h]urt my damn thumb tryna play defense... Never again lol never again!” No doubt, his positive disposition was likewise spurred by prognoses that he, in general manager Thomas Sheppard’s words, will “make a full recovery.”

THE UNIVERSITY of the Philippines Fighting Maroons raced to their second straight victory in UAAP Season 82 at the expense of the “luckless” National University Bulldogs, 80-79, on Wednesday at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.

UNDEFEATED league-leader San Beda Red Lions look to extend their unbeaten streak to 12 games in National Collegiate Athletic Association Season 95 when they face off with the Jose Rizal University Heavy Bombers in league action today at the FilOil Flying V Centre in San Juan City.

BUZZ over ONE Championship’s landmark event in Japan -- “ONE: Century” -- next month entered a new phase with Asia’s largest sports media property holding a media day on Tuesday at Park Hyatt in Shinjuku in Tokyo.