Have the Washington Wizards turned the corner? It’s a fair question in light of their gains of late, with the small sample size offset by the quality of the opposition. Yesterday, they managed to overcome their biggest challenge yet; there can be no discounting their gritty homestand against the vaunted Rockets, never mind that it took them an extra period to do so. The bottom line: They got the job done, just as they did versus the West-leading Los Angeles Clippers last week.

THE ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup 2018 held on Nov. 13, 17, and 21 at the Panaad Park and Stadium in Bacolod City saw the Philippine Azkals fighting off the challenge posed by teams from Singapore and Thailand.

FIRST to barge into the finals of University Athletic Association of the Philippines Season 81, the defending champions Ateneo Blue Eagles are now awaiting their possible opponents. But they were quick to say that they have no preference on who to face, focusing instead on themselves and what they need to do come the championship series.

AFTER missing out on the semifinals of the AFF Suzuki Cup two years ago, the Philippine men’s national football team is back in the championship round of the biennial regional tournament.

TWO of the hottest teams in the MPBL Datu Cup will try to keep their winning ways when they take on separate rivals on Tuesday at the Batangas City Coliseum.

MELBOURNE -- Thomas Pieters and Thomas Detry won the $7 million World Cup of Golf by three strokes in Melbourne on Sunday to secure Belgium’s first title in the team event after surviving a late wobble and a charge from hosts Australia.

LOS ANGELES -- Ricky Rubio amassed 27 points, seven rebounds and five assists while Rudy Gobert added 18 points, 15 rebounds and five assists to lead the Utah Jazz to a 133-112 win over the host Sacramento Kings on Sunday night.

LILLE, FRANCE -- Marin Cilic clinched Croatia’s second Davis Cup title by crushing France’s Lucas Pouille 7-6(3) 6-3 6-3 to give his side a decisive 3-1 lead in an historic final at Lille’s Stade Pierre Mauroy on Sunday.

Khanty-Mansiysk is a city in the center of the Khanty-Mansi Okrug (an administrative unit providing autonomy to indigenous peoples of Northern Russia, in this case the Khanty and the Mansi people) located in Western Siberia. The city has around 100,000 inhabitants and its climate extreme -- temperatures as low as -56 degrees and as high as 94 degrees Fahrenheit.

Patterns aren’t easy to spot when it comes to the Los Angeles Lakers. For all their seeming success with LeBron James headlining their cause relative to their evidently rudderless campaign last season, they remain very much a work in progress. They’re capable of putting up points as quickly as of giving them up -- buoyed by bursts of inspiration that enable them to forge ahead, and then deflated by boneheaded plays that have them backpedaling. They perform to potential, until, that is, their Hyde side takes over for all the wrong reasons.

THE defending champions Ateneo Blue Eagles are heading back to the finals of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines after topping the Far Eastern University Tamaraws, 80-61, in their Final Four matchup on Sunday at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.

THE foothold of Filipino fighters at ONE Championship was further enhanced on Friday night when the number of current world champions from the Philippines in Asia’s largest sports media property increased to five.