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MANILA--It may be dwarfed by other nation’s sporting prowess, but the Philippines’ fervor for basketball is gigantic, and enthusiasm for the sport is only intensifying ahead of the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, which opens in Manila on Friday.
It may be dwarfed by other nation's sporting prowess, but the Philippines' fervour for basketball is gigantic, and enthusiasm for the sport is only intensifying ahead of the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, which opens in Manila on Friday. Basketball is played everywhere and by almost everyone in the Philippines, which counts the sport as a national obsession along with boxing and beauty pageants. There is a basketball court of sorts set up near most churches, and whether it is in a cemetery or near a sewer, these places of worship are ubiquitous in this majority Catholic nation of ...
The past links with the present in a celebration to remember to toast the best and brightest of 2022 in the San Miguel Corporation-Philippine Sportswriters Association (SMC-PSA) Annual Awards Night Monday, March 6, at the grand ballroom of the Diamond Hotel. Olympic gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz, ha
HIDILYN DIAZ-NARANJO and dozens other champions and heroes in the previous year step on centerstage for the 2022 San Miguel Corp.-Philippine Sportswriters Association (SMC-PSA) Annual Awards Night Monday at the grand ballroom of the Diamond Hotel. The country’s first Olympic gold medalist Diaz-Naranjo will be the star of the night…
Olympic gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz is the recipient of a separate special award in the San Miguel Corporation-Philippine Sportswriters Association (SMC-PSA) Annual Awards Night on Monday, March 6, at the grand ballroom of the Diamond Hotel. Apart from her Athlete of the Year trophy, the 32-year-o