Credit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:07:54 +0000
LOS ANGELES: Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 32 points as the Milwaukee Bucks won their third game of the season by 40 or more points with a 133-86 demolition of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Antetokounmpo added 13 rebounds and six assists while playing just 27 minutes for the Bucks, who won their fifth straight game since the […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:06:21 +0000
Standard Insurance-Navy continued to show its a cut above the rest as skipper Jan Paul Morales topped Stage Six while virtually clinching the team title with still four stages to go in the LBC Ronda Pilipinas 10th anniversary race. The 34-year-old Morales, the 2016 and 2017 champion, edged Dominic Perez of Bicycology-Army and Aidan James […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:05:20 +0000
LOS ANGELES: Houston Rockets star James Harden took aim at Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo on Friday (Saturday in Manila), suggesting the reigning NBA Most Valuable Player’s style of play was nothing to get excited about. “I wish I could just run and be seven feet (2.13 m) and just dunk,” Harden told ESPN on Friday. “Like, […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Josef T. Ramos, TMT| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:04:19 +0000
What to do while waiting for a fight? Former world champion Donnie “Ahas” Nietes is focusing on his tracking and coffee shop businesses in Cebu as he waits for a boxing match this year, one that would enrich his account. At 37, the country’s longest reigning world champion in three weight divisions, is hoping that he […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:03:19 +0000
DUBAI: Novak Djokovic saved three match points before defeating Gael Monfils 2-6, 7-6 (10/8), 6-1 to reach the Dubai Championships final on Friday (Saturday in Manila), describing his victory as “an amazing escape.” It was the 17th win of the season for the world No. 1 and a 17th career win over Frenchman Monfils without […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Eddie G. Alinea| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:02:11 +0000
From the time Frenchman Pierre Coubertin revived the Summer Games in 1896, the Games of the Olympiad were canceled only three times. The Sixth Games of the Olympiad in 1916 was scheduled in Berlin but didn’t pursue due to the outbreak of World War 1, while the 12th in Tokyo in 1940 and the 13th […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Josef T. Ramos, TMT| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:01:02 +0000
They may have acquired a legitimate center in JP Erram, but TNT KaTropa team governor Ricky Vargas is hedging his bets. Vargas, also the Philippine Basketball Association chairman, said his team needed to work on their chemistry after acquiring Erram via a three-team trade involving the KaTropa, Northern Luzon Expressway (NLEX) and Blackwater last Friday. […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Associated Press| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:16:17 +0000
MILWAUKEE: The Milwaukee Bucks have a spot in the postseason, only a week after the All-Star Game. The Bucks became the first team in the NBA to clinch a berth Sunday (Monday in Manila) after Washington lost to Chicago. The Wizards are in ninth place in an Eastern Conference that the Bucks have been running […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Josef T. Ramos, TMT| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:15:58 +0000
Gilas Pilipinas coach Mark Dickel wants to establish the Filipino style of play internationally. And that’s “unselfish offense and pressure defense.” Two days after routing Indonesia (100-70) last Sunday in the first window of International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asia Cup qualifiers at the Britama Arena in Jakarta, Dickel said it is time for the Filipinos […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:13:06 +0000
LEGAZPI CITY: Unheralded Ryan Tugawin of Team Tarlac edged Ismael Grospe, Jr. of Go for Gold to claim his first ever lap victory even as Mark Julius Bordeos of Bicycology-Army kept the general classification lead in Stage Two of the LBC Ronda Pilipinas 10th anniversary race that started in Sorsogon and ended in front of […]
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