July 06, 2026
Monday
FROM 32 teams, international football’s ultimate quadrennial spectacle, the 20th FIFA World Cup, is down to the Final Four or semifinal stage. Germany (5-1-0) reached the World Cup finals for the first time since 2002 with a 7-1 demolition of host Brazil (4-1-1) in their semifinal match early morning yesterday at Belo Horizonte. Overall, it […]
THE big wheels keep on turning, proud Cebu keeps on burning and rolling. Hoop fans from the Sugbu Nation are rejoicing after two of their favorite sons romped away with the top individual honors for the 2013-14 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) campaign. Tree-like Junmar (June Mar) Fajardo, the second-year pro from San Miguel Beer, was […]
VINTAGE Spurs star Tim Duncan proved the Doubting Thomases like me wrong and deservedly so, San Antonio is this year’s recipient of the Lawrence O’Brien Trophy that goes to the NBA champion. Before nit become a mere footnote in the sports history books, here are some hard facts and figures from the just-concluded NBA Finals […]
AND so it came to pass that the San Antonio Spurs have dethroned the back-to-back titlist Miami Heat for their first NBA crown since 2007. Yet there are some hoops fans from the young generation that still don’t know why the hardware that goes to the NBA champion is named the Lawrence “Larry” O’Brien trophy. […]
GAME Four of the best-of-seven National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals between the two-time league titlist Miami Heat and the regular season-leading San Antonio Spurs will be held tomorrow, June 13 (Manila time, 9:00 a.m.), at the AmericanAirlines Arena. Yesterday (MT), San Antonio regained homecourt advantage by crushing Miami, 112-92, in Game Three for the Heat’s […]
WITH the best-of-seven series deadlocked at 1-1, the 2014 NBA Finals between the two-time defending league champion Miami Heat and Father Time-defying San Antonio Spurs slug it out in Game Three tomorrow, Wednesday (Manila time, 9:00 a.m.), at the AmericanAirlines Arena in Florida. The two clubs had split the first two games on San Antonio’s […]
DID you know that former Philippine national team player and current San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Arthur (Chip) Engelland and one-time Playboy Magazine cover girl bunny and current Los Angeles Lakers part-owner and president Jeanie Buss were once sweethearts during their high school days? Times have changed, of course. Buss, as if you still don’t […]
JUST like what pop icon Michael Jackson titled for a comeback world concert tour that was aborted following his sudden death from drug intoxication in June 2009, the four-tier National Basketball Association playoffs have reached the “This Is it” stage – the Finals, a best-of-seven confrontation between the Eastern Conference champion and the Western Conference […]
OMEGA Pro engineered a huge third-quarter surge on back-to-back triples by African import Mangga en route to a 73-72 victory over the University of San Tomas Growling Tigers Sunday night in the 1st St. Isidore Fiesta Cup held at the St. Bernard Gymnasium in St. Bernard, Southern Leyte. With the victory, Omega Pro, which is […]
FOR the second consecutive year, the Cleveland Cavaliers topped the NBA draft lottery yesterday and will select No. 1 overall in the 2014 NBA draft next month. The Cavaliers, who registered a 33-49 record during the regular wars, only had a ninth-highest chance (1.7 percent) of winning the lottery (featuring the non-playoff teams or the […]
ALL roads lead to the town of Saint Bernard in Southern Leyte for the St. Isidore Fiesta Cup to be held from May 25-28 in cooperation with Local Government Unit (LGU) officials led by the Honorable Municipal Mayor Napoleon Lim Cuaton and Reverend Father Joselito Catubig, the St. Isidore Parish Priest. The St. Isidore Fiesta […]