San Miguel Beer hurdled the determined challenge of Rain or Shine to come away with a 101-98 victory and draw first blood in their best-of-seven semifinal series in the PBA Philippine Cup Friday at Mall of Asia Arena. June Mar Fajardo produced another double-double, Marcio Lassiter waxed hot from the outside in the first half
MANILA, Philippines — National University is proud to make history by ruling the UAAP Season 86 men’s and women’s volleyball tournaments, playing in jampacked venues throughout their Finals series against teams from University of Santo Tomas. For the first time in the school’s history, the NU men’s and women’s volleyball squads were crowned champions in
PARIS — With Victor Wembanyama as the focal point, France head coach Vincent Collet announced an extended list of 19 players on Thursday for his preliminary roster for the Paris 2024 Olympics. Fresh off winning the NBA Rookie of the Year award, the 7-foot-3 Wembanyama will bolster France’s medal aspirations alongside key players like Rudy
MANILA, Philippines — National University’s MVP duo Bella Belen and Alyssa Solomon have begged off participating in Alas Pilipinas’ upcoming AVC Challenge Cup campaign while University of the East star rookie Casiey Dongallo has also been ruled out due to a right wrist fracture. Philippine women’s volleyball team coach Jorge Souza De Brito told Inquirer
The Indiana Pacers’ NBA season is on the brink. It’s win or it’s over. So the last playoff team with a perfect home record has to dig deep and make the most of the energy it receives from its own crowd as it tries to rebound from an embarrassing loss at New York with a
BOSTON— Opposing fans have been begging for matchups with the Celtics this NBA postseason. And they are all now wishing that they hadn’t. Miami Heat fans chanted, “We Want Boston!” after earning a first-round matchup with the Celtics last month. Boston beat them in five games. Cleveland Cavaliers fans got into the act following their
MANILA, Philippines—What a difference three days make for coach Dante Alinsunurin On Sunday at Araneta Coliseum, Dante Alinsunurin watched as Creamline celebrated the PVL’s All-Filipino Championship at the expense of his Choco Mucho Flying Titans. He could’ve thrown a fit of rage or shed a tear or two, but he didn’t. READ: After Choco Mucho,
MINNEAPOLIS— Anthony Edwards flashed seven fingers to the roaring crowd as he walked off for a fourth-quarter timeout during a blowout by the Minnesota Timberwolves. He had that tenacious look of a superstar player refusing to cede to the defending champs all night. Edwards scored 27 points to pull the Timberwolves out of their mid-series
Coach Yeng Guiao immediately played down Rain or Shine’s chances of pulling off an upset of mighty San Miguel Beer in the PBA Philippine Cup semifinals. But Guiao and the Elasto Painters won’t just surrender the best-of-seven series, which starts on Friday at Mall of Asia Arena, on a silver platter. “We don’t have anyone
Juami Tiongson wants Terrafirma to “run it back” and build on what it was able to do in the PBA Philippine Cup, where it defied traditionally low and came within a win of making the semifinals. Tiongson, who led the Dyip’s Cinderella run that finally struck midnight with a loss to the mighty San Miguel
Jema Galanza has been with Creamline through the good times and bad. And after clinching an eighth championship, she made her intentions clear. “I love them (Cool Smashers) and I love volleyball,” Galanza told the Inquirer when asked how she continues to deliver for her squad. “With everything I have experienced, I felt like this
In a span of three years, the National University (NU) Lady Bulldogs have been through a lot. They ended a 65-year title drought by cruising to the UAAP Season 84 women’s volleyball crown in unbeaten fashion, behind the league’s first Rookie-Most Valuable Player, Bella Belen. And just as they were being touted to become the
Coach Yeng Guiao described Rain or Shine’s entry to the semifinals of the PBA Philippine Cup as a crowning achievement for arguably the league’s true independent team. “In one minds, we feel like we’re already champions,” Guiao said after the Elasto Painters earned the right to face the San Miguel Beermen by defeating the TNT
MANILA, Philippines —After a successful championship run in the UAAP Season 86 women’s volleyball tournament, NU Lady Bulldogs’ stars Bella Belen and Alyssa Solomon are both taking a breather before deciding on the next steps in their young and their promising careers. Belen and Solomon have proven that they’ve been the most lethal dynamic duo