With Gilas Pilipinas unavailable this time, Mighty Sports will once again represent the country in the annual Jones Cup in Taiwan this July where some World Cup-bound teams, including South Korea and Japan, will also see action.
For this mission, Mighty Sports, owned by Alex Wongchuking, has appointed Charles Tiu to call the shots for the team which is hoping to relive its 2016 magic.
The University of the Philippines Fighting Maroons scored a new major backer for their University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Season 82 campaign after it sealed a partnership deal with Palawan Express Pera Padala, the leading domestic money remittance company.
For 22 years, Camp & Play has provided updated sports specific basketball programs all over the Philippines for boys and girls. With a new home at the NBS College in National Bookstore Quezon Avenue Quezon City, the progressive Camp opens on May 20 2019.
The MPBL Datu Cup best-of-five national finals' series shifts to San Juan for the next two games beginning Tuesday’s pivotal Game 3 at the Filoil Flying V Centre.
Expect local fans to drive in full force to pack the venue, much like they did in Game 3 of the semifinal series against Manila. The Knights have a chance to win the series in the next two games as they have an opportunity to return to glory.
Gilas Pilipinas takes on the world’s best nations in the coming 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup in China, and fans can make their voices heard at the venue by purchasing tickets through the official FIBA website.
Fans can follow each of the Philippine national team’s first steps in FIBA’s flagship competition by purchasing the Team Pass.
THE stage is set for the world’s first-ever Super Quest, the Chooks-to-Go 3×3 Asia Pacific Super Quest.
At stake in this FIBA 3×3-endorsed regional meet are two tickets for the 2019 FIBA World Tour Masters Doha, a ticket to the FIBA 3×3 Challengers Penang, two tickets to the FIBA 3X3 Challengers Kunshan, and a total of USD 50,000.
WASHINGTON D.C. — As Zion Williamson’s size 15 shoes pushed the hardwood in and sprung him up towards the jumbotron, the crowd silenced. The world’s most famous teenage athlete was mere fractions of a second from taking his superhuman basketball celebrity to another realm with the most impractical blocked shot in recent memory.
FOR THE second straight year, National U-Manila and La Salle Green Hills-Mandaluyong are set to meet in the 2019 Chooks-to-Go NBTC League National Finals presented by SM after clearing their respective Fearless 4 matchups, Friday at SM Mall of Asia Arena.
By Michael Angelo S. Murillo
THE Philippine national men’s basketball team will take on Italy when it begins its campaign at the FIBA Basketball World Cup in China in August.
Drawn together in Group D of the tournament, number 31-ranked Gilas Pilipinas takes on number 13 Italy on Game Day 1 of the World Cup on Aug. 31 in a still-to-be announced venue. The Philippines will also take on Serbia (#4) and Angola (#39) in the grouping.
National University rallied from four points down in the fifth set to beat University of the Philippines, 25-17, 14-25, 17-25, 25-23, 17-15, sending the suddenly skidding Lady Maroons to their second straight loss Wednesday in the UAAP Season 81 women’s volleyball tournament at the Filoil Flying V Centre.
By Michael Angelo S. Murillo
WITH their spots in the playoffs of the PBA Philippine Cup still anything but assured, the Columbian Dyip and Magnolia Hotshots Pambansang Manok enter their 4:30 p.m. encounter today at the Smart Araneta Coliseum with much urgency.
Currently sporting middling cards of 4-5 and 2-4, respectively, Columbian and Magnolia try to go for that important win against one another that would give their push in the season-opening Philippine Basketball Association tournament a huge boost.
