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JOSE RIZAL University (JRU) ended a seven-game losing streak by beating San Beda, 83-80, in the National Collegiate Athletic Association seniors basketball tournament Tuesday at the Filoil EcoOil Centre in San Juan. Agem Miranda finished with a game-high 21 points for JRU, which last beat San Beda, 97-88, on September…

TALK about commitment to the highest level and Meralco’s Chris Newsome has tons as he continued to show up at Gilas Pilipinas’s weekly practice despite a calf contusion that forced him to miss their Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner’s Cup game against Barangay Ginebra last Sunday. Newsome was one of…

FANCIED Norman Enriquez and doubles partner Jose Maria Pague disposed of their respective rivals in lopsided fashions as they moved into the quarterfinals of the Buglasan Festival National Open Tennis Championships at the Praxevilla hard courts in Dumaguete City last Sunday. The top two seeds came out strong after drawing…

TOKYO Olympian Kurt Barbosa leads a star-studded cast in the Smart/MVP Sports Foundation National Carlos Palanca Jr. (CPJ) Taekwondo Championships set October 8 and 9 at the Ayala Malls Manila Bay in Pasay City. The country’s lone taekwondo bet in Tokyo last year who’s a  two-time Southeast Asian Games champion…

PHILIPPINE Cup champion San Miguel Beer opens its Philippine Basketball Association Commissioner’s Cup campaign on Wednesday with a last-minute change of import against Blackwater at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. Thomas Robinson, a highly-caliber 6-foot-10 reinforcement who played for several National Basketball Association (NBA) teams, couldn’t play because of back spasm…

IMPORTS will always dominate a conference that features foreigners in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).  That’s a truism as old as the Pasig River. Already, some new faces from overseas have started showing their wares in the ongoing Commissioner’s Cup.  One import, an American-born Serbian with a tongue-twister for a…

OLYMPIC gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz Naranjo will go after a world championships gold medal—the only title missing from her collection—but admitted she’s barely starting from scratch to get her winning numbers back. After getting married to her coach Julius Naranjo in Baguio City last July 26—exactly a year after she…

RIANNE MALIXI gets another chance to prove her worth against some of the country’s top lady pros and fellow amateurs she humbled the last time out as she clashes with Harmie Constantino and title-hungry Marvi Monsalve at the start of the International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) Riviera Championship in…

An early jostle for position takes shape as the Philippine Golf Tour resumes Tuesday with the ICTSI Riviera Championship in a four-day duel not just of power and shotmaking but also of will and character at one of the country’s tough championship courses.

The Facebook page of an electronic card service discouraged card holders from putting stickers on their cards. In a reminder on September 26, the Facebook