CHOOKS-TO-GO PILIPINAS will now handle the MPBL’s operations and is girding for an invitational tournament set for next month. — CHOOKS-TO-GO PILIPINAS By John Bryan Ulanday THE Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) is set for a major reboot including a planned transformation to a professional league soon and the lifting of restrictions for Filipino-foreign players. […]Read More
1 of 2 DONOVAN Mitchell scored 27 points to lead five Utah Jazz players in double digits en route to a 110-98 home win over the struggling Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday night in Salt Lake City. Utah’s defense, led by reigning Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert, also had a big night, holding the […]Read More
TAMPA BAY Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady (12) passes the ball against the Philadelphia Eagle at Lincoln Financial Field. — REUTERS TOM Brady came out of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Week 9 bye as the co-MVP favorite after his closest competitors endured a damaging week. Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen was the +250 favorite last week, […]Read More
THE training of the national athletes plunging into action in the Hanoi Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in May next year starts on Jan. 10 next year. Ramon Fernandez, the country’s SEA Games chef-de-mission, yesterday said the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) where he serves as a commissioner is targeting the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in Manila […]Read More
FREEPIK FILIPINOS Jasper Rom and Darry Bernardo down their respective rivals to catch up on countryman Sander Severino in the top 10 after five rounds of the World Chess Championship for People with Disabilities on Tuesday night. Mr. Rom blasted Mario Pallerols Duran of Cuba in 43 moves of a Queen’s Gambit while Bernardo waylaid […]Read More
INFIELDER Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. of the Toronto Blue Jays and outfielder Bryce Harper of the Philadelphia Phillies were named winners of the 2021 Hank Aaron Award on Tuesday night. Guerrero won the honor for the American League while Harper was the recipient for the National League. It marks the second time Harper was won the […]Read More
UNSEEDED Chinese Wang Xinyu caused an upset at the Linz Open on Tuesday as she took out US Open champion Emma Raducanu (6-1, 6-7(0), 7-5) in an absorbing three-setter to book her place in the quarterfinals of the WTA 250 event in Austria. The defeat brought the curtain down on Raducanu’s breakthrough season, during which […]Read More
BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS said Wednesday that they support a continued investigation in the Senate into the sale of stakes in the Malampaya operators, citing the threat to national security. “The government should scrutinize the buyer’s financial and technical capabilities and interests and should reserve, enforce, and exercise its right to block and invalidate transfers of shares […]Read More
AIR QUALITY standards are falling behind international norms, with the two-decade-old Clean Air Act not up to the task of minimizing untimely death as a result of substandard air, clean air advocates said in a report. The Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) […]Read More
THE Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) said Wednesday that it successfully auctioned the site of a former power plant in Limay, Bataan to Panasia Energy, Inc., which submitted the top bid of P1.02 billion. In a statement, PSALM said the Limay site consists of 14 lots covering an area of about 139,054 […]Read More




















