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PETALING JAYA: Football and other sports competitions with viewers will be permitted from Jan 1, but this will depend on the restrictions on travel affecting the local venues, coupled with strict distancing regulations and health checks. Senior Security Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said sports and leisure activities and competitions in areas with a maximum of 4,000 spectators or 10 percent …

Admit it or not, Pacman is still one of the world’s favorite boxer. In fact, there are four potential dates on the table for the next fight for super WBA welterweight champion for this current senator and Saudi Arabia is looming as the host country to mark his first title defense since July last year’s dethronement of Keith Thurman in …

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness since it went true in the Philippine Cup Finals for the Barangay Ginebra Gin Kings. A healthy, well fitted and rested team made up against an injury-hit squad in the TNT Tropang Giga, was the point of victory for the Gin Kings, particularly in the title-clinching Game Five where exhaustion was evident …

The Philippines is honored to celebrate the boxers Leopoldo Serantes, Roel Velasco, and Mansueto Velasco who will be among the latest group of athletes to be included in next year’s Philippine Sports Hall of Fame. This is because in an online meeting a few days ago, the PSOF Review Committee adopted a new resolution authorizing the automatic nomination of Olympic …

In the midst of pandemics, Filipino players continue to shine in the field of basketball. In the second window of the 2021 FIBA Asia Cup qualifiers, the youthful Gilas Pilipinas lineup was tried and checked in the glare of the international scene. The 15-man pool of collegiate and fresh-out-of-college stars, while lacking in expertise and adequate training, had little fear …

METRO MANILA – The National Basketball Association (NBA) has laid down the blueprint and now it’s the Philippine Basketball Association’s turn to aim and achieve the same success of a safe and secure ‘basketball bubble’ until December. The Asia’s oldest professional league aims to replicate the process of NBA that completed it’s three-month bubble in Orlando, Florida. According to NLEX …

MANILA – PBA commissioner Willie Marcial confirmed that Makati Medical Center contacted them late Monday regarding the available dates for swab testing scheduled for PBA players, coaches, staff and in trainers participating on the practice session that be commenced on August 6-7. The available dates given will delay PBA activities for another two weeks. Those who will undergo the swab …

MANILA – Grandmaster Rogelio “Banjo” Barcenilla Jr. eyes an Olympic stint after topping the topping the tournament in the FIDE Online Olympiad 2020. GM Barncenilla, a two time Asian Juniors champion in India and Dubai and a Bronze medalist in the 1991 World Juniors championship took a step closer toward slots to the inaugural FIDE Online Chess Olympiad. He will …

MANILA – Hidilyn Diaz continues to ramp up her preparations for the remaining qualifiers on the Tokyo Olympics, setting a personal record in backs squats. The 2016 Olympic silver medalist lifted a personal record of 161 kilograms in back squat to show how she’s serious she is in staying in form amid the rescheduleding of the Olympics due to the …

China’s twice-time Olympic badminton champion Lin Dan revealed his retirement today in a social network post, thanking his family and fans in the process. The statement implies that Lin, who took gold at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Games, will not participate in the forthcoming Tokyo Olympics, which was delayed until next July in 2021. The Chinese badminton great, …