OVER 3,000 professional and recreational cyclists joined one of the largest bike events of the year, the 7-Eleven Tour 2019 which took place last April 7.

AUGUSTA, GEORGIA -- World number one Justin Rose is the man to beat at this week’s Masters, where recent history suggests the sport’s heavyweights will populate the leader board by Sunday at a major championship that is more predictable than any other.

For the first time in its young Philippine Basketball Association history the Phoenix Pulse Fuel Masters are in the semifinals of a league tournament.

It’s never easy to predict winners in golf, and it’s infinitely harder at the Masters. Forget about the points system the organized tour has had in place since 1986; only four times in the history of the sport’s preeminent tournament has the designated World Number One managed to claim the coveted Green Jacket. Not coincidentally, Tiger Woods was the last to do so; in 2002, he succeeded in defending his title as the prohibitive favorite. And not coincidentally, his odds are pegged at 12/1, the same as that of current rankings pacesetter Justin Rose.

THE “Manila Clasico” quarterfinal series between the Magnolia Hotshots Pambansang Manok and Barangay Ginebra San Miguel Kings is set for a one-game decider after the former took Game Two of the best-of-three affair, 106-77, on Monday at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.

LOS ANGELES -- The Golden State Warriors celebrated their final regular-season game in Oracle Arena with a third-quarter explosion Sunday night, producing a 131-104 win over the Los Angeles Clippers in Oakland, Calif., that clinched top seeding throughout the Western Conference playoffs.

FRANCIS MATEO pulled off a come-from-behind 4-3 victory over Geona Gregorio in the finals of the Makati Pool Players Association (MAPPA) Predator-Wilde Blu 8-Ball Cup Sunday night was held at the AMF-Puyat Superbowl and Billiards Center, Makati Cinema Square in Makati City.

LATER this week, 24 of the top cliff divers in the world will descend on the Philippines to take part in the first leg of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in El Nido, Palawan.

WHAT is being positioned as a bigger staging of PRURide PH in 2019 got off to a good start with the successful holding of its first leg Criterium in Filinvest, Alabang, on Sunday.

The 20^th European Individual Championship took place from 18-29 March this year in Skopje, organized by the government of North Macedonia. The prize fund is €100,000 (about P5.9 million), with €20,000 (about P1.18 million) for first prize. Aside from the prize money the first 22 placers will qualify for the next World Cup, scheduled to take place Nov. 4-30 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The World Cup, aside from its huge money prizes (even the losers go home with around P250,000 each), will qualify its top finishers to the Candidates’ tournament, the final step in determining the challenger for the world title.

It’s the last week of the regular season, and the top of the pecking order couldn’t be clearer. The Bucks are proud owners of the best record in the National Basketball Association, while the Warriors have clinched the Number One spot in the West. Yesterday’s runaway triumph over the Clippers ensured the standing of the defending champions, holders of a tiebreaker against the second-running Nuggets. For those still angling to claim playoff seedings, however, the outcomes of the games still to be played out remain relevant.

THE Rain or Shine Elasto Painters are moving to the semifinals of the PBA Philippine Cup after eliminating at the first instance the undermanned Northport Batang Pier, 91-85, in quarterfinal action on Sunday at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.