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Archers play for win, Eagles for pride
It will be a no-bearing game for top semifinalist Ateneo when it tangles with archrival De La Salle University today, but expect the Eagles to battle the Archers as though a championship is at stake as the elimination round of the UAAP basketball tournament comes to fitting close at the Araneta Coliseum.
WBC chief criticizes Pacquiao-Hoya fight
Jose Sulaiman, the long-reigning president of the World Boxing Council (WBC), lashed at the multi-million match starring Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao by way of the Spanish-speaking media, calling the Dec. 6 event a fight between “a pachyderm and a hobbit horse.”
NCAA semis race tightens as MIT wins
Mapua refused to give up yesterday, avoiding a defeat that would have ended its season for good as the Cardinals shot down the Jose Rizal University Heavy Bombers, 72-61, to stay alive for a semifinals seat in the NCAA basketball tournament.
GMs Torre, So in P1-million duel
The much-anticipated chess duel between Asia’s first Grandmaster Eugene Torre and rising star GM Wesley So next year was finally sealed Thursday at the Sulo Hotel.
Castro gets green light for TNT
Jason Castro has been cleared to play for Talk 'N Text in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) after the Singapore Slingers agreed to cut short his contract.
Cojuangco to seek reelection
After reportedly receiving endorsements from a number of sports leaders, former Tarlac Rep. Jose "Peping" Cojuangco yesterday formally declared his bid to seek a second term as head of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC).
La Salle, San Beda eye WNCAA semis
La Salle and San Beda College-Alabang shoot for at least a tie for junior semifinal berths today while the senior quarterfinal phase gets going tomorrow in the 39th WNCAA tournament in separate venues.
RP Olympic chess team confident
Despite the absence of Grandmasters Eugene Torre, Joey Antonio and Mark Paragua, the Philippine chess team is confident of putting up a strong performance the World Chess Olympiad on Nov. 12 to 25 in Dresden, Germany,
JRU’s Agovida fires 82 points
Keith Jasper Agovida of Jose Rizal University lit up the scoreboard with 82 points yesterday, a new NCAA junior basketball tournament individual record, as he scored on nearly every possession in the Light Bombers’ 127-49 rout of Malayan High School of Science at the Astrodome.
China waylays RP five, 86-63
TEHRAN, Iran — Reigning champion China pummelled the Nokia-Philippine Youth team, 86-63, yesterday to deny the Filipinos a chance for a fifth place finish in the FIBA-Asia Basketball Championships for Junior Men at the Azadi Stadium here.
Liga Pilipinas
Taguig thumps MisOr
Cheer-dance tilt is latest chart-buster
Kristel Ramos, a University of the Philippines student, woke up at 4 a.m. yesterday in the hope of securing tickets for the 2008 UAAP cheer-dance competition set tomorrow at the Araneta Coliseum.
Bayron loses touch, drops to 2nd place
A triple bogey did Rufino Bayron in and the Filipino, leader for two rounds, surrendered the third round lead after a three-over 75 at the Taiwan Amateur Open Golf Championship Thursday.
RP bets wiped out in Macau poker tilt
MACAU — And then there was none.
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