SAN FRANCISCO— Natalie Nakase throws her arms up to guard Gabby Williams one moment, then moves to defend Veronica Burton the next as Golden State’s high-octane coach gets into it to help the Valkyries gear up for the WNBA Finals. She briefly steps out of the action to observe before jumping right back in to

NEW YORK–Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs were predicted to win the 2027 title with the French superstar taking Most Valuable Player honors in an NBA team general managers survey released on Thursday. In the 25th annual survey, general managers answered 48 questions and could not vote for their own team or personnel. READ:

LONDON— Serbian tennis player Stefan Milićević has been given a 24-year ban for allegedly fixing multiple matches and recruiting other players into a “corrupt network,” the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Thursday. The agency said the 29-year-old Milićević was charged with fixing six matches — including five of his own — and trying to fix

MANILA, Philippines–Alex Eala said one of the most important lessons of her tennis career has been learning that her value as a person should not depend on whether she wins or loses a match. The world No. 18, who talked about the change in her mindset during Maria Sharapova’s “Pretty Tough” podcast, was responding to

WUHAN–Iga Swiatek hit a new milestone on Thursday as she stormed into a second consecutive Wuhan Open quarter-final with a 6-1, 6-4 win over American lucky loser Ashlyn Krueger. The six-time Grand Slam champion recorded the 150th WTA 1000 victory of her career to continue her march towards a 13th title at this level. Since

LOS ANGELES — After 44 years, the Milwaukee Brewers are finally going back to the World Series. Propelled by a lockdown bullpen and repeated comebacks, the young and fearless Brewers swept the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers out of the playoffs Thursday with a 6-4 victory in Game 4 of the National League Championship

Phoenix erased an early 13-point deficit to beat Meralco, 105-101, on Friday at the Ynares Center in Antipolo and secure a spot in the PBA Governors" Cup quarterfinals.

Former Olympic champion Mima Ito has been dropped from Japan’s latest national table tennis squad, replaced by 28-year-old breakthrough player Hitomi Sato, who finished runner-up at the recent WTT China Smash. Across the border, meanwhile, followers of rival powerhouses China have focused their attention on widely circulated Chinese media reports that the Japan Table Tennis Association plans to dismantle the high-profile mixed-doubles pairing of Sora Matsushima and Miwa Harimoto. Under the...

Former Olympic champion Mima Ito has been dropped from Japan’s latest national table tennis squad, replaced by 28-year-old breakthrough player Hitomi Sato, who finished runner-up at the recent WTT China Smash. Across the border, meanwhile, followers of rival powerhouses China have focused their attention on widely circulated Chinese media reports that the Japan Table Tennis Association plans to dismantle the high-profile mixed-doubles pairing of Sora Matsushima and Miwa Harimoto. Under the...

Renz Villegas led Lyceum of the Philippines University past San Sebastian College-Recoletos, 78-77, in a close escape on Friday in the NCAA Season 102 men"s basketball tournament at the Filoil Centre.

Golf’s Asian Tour has postponed the Saudi International indefinitely and cycling’s Urban World Championships have been cancelled following a deadly attack on Riyadh, although local organisers said next year’s Asian Cup football tournament remained on track. Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement claimed ‌responsibility for Saturday’s strike on Riyadh’s international airport that killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 300. The Urban Cycling World Championships had been scheduled for...

Converge annihilated Macau, beating the Giant Pandas, 162-108, in the latter"s final game in the PBA Governors" Cup on Friday at the Ynares Center in Antipolo.

Elite runners Richard Salaño and Edna Magtubo ruled the Manila leg of the Philippine Half Marathon Series, held last Sunday at the Mall of Asia Complex.

Mapua University extended its winning streak to five games after outlasting the University of Perpetual Help System DALTA in overtime, 65-60, in the NCAA Season 102 men"s basketball tournament.

Hong Kong will host a World Fencing League event next year, bringing the sport’s best and brightest to the city for one day in April, sources have told the South China Morning Post. The brainchild of 2016 US Olympic team foil bronze medallist Miles Chamley-Watson, WFL staged its inaugural event in Los Angeles earlier this year, and featured the likes of Hong Kong’s Ryan Choi Chun-yin, who captained Team Shield. Sources said the league was being pencilled in for the penultimate week of April, a...

After ending his homer drought with a massive blast in his final game of the year, Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani announced his intention to become a two-way player again next season.

The Philippine Tennis Association on Friday clarified that Alexandra “Alex” Eala"s participation in the WTA 125 Philippine Women"s Open in January “remains uncertain.”

Seventh-seeded Iga Swiatek of Poland reached a milestone and moved into the quarterfinals with a 6-1, 6-4 victory against Ashlyn Krueger at the Wuhan Open on Thursday in China.

Chad Schofield rates Ka Ying Rising “probably one of the best we’ve ever seen”, but the former Hong Kong-based jockey is confident his The Everest mount Tempted has what it takes to beat the world’s best galloper at Randwick on Saturday. Hong Kong champion Ka Ying Rising chases a 22nd straight victory in the world’s richest turf race, but a rain-affected track and Tempted’s hot form has boosted Schofield’s confidence. Since running second to Ka Ying Rising in The Everest (1,200m) 12 months ago,...

ANTIPOLO—Bella Belen welcomed the appointment of Angiolino Frigoni as the new Alas Pilipinas women’s volleyball coach after delivering a career-high 35 points to power Capital1 past Akari, 28-26, 22-25, 25-15, 23-25, 21-19, in the PVL All-Filipino Conference Siklab Series on Thursday at Ynares Center Antipolo. The coaching change came as no surprise to the Alas

Pickleball world No. 1 Anna Leigh Waters has finished her three-day Philippine tour, and plans have already been finalized to bring her back in December. The 19-year-old star of the fast-rising global sport announced during a press conference she is returning to Manila on Dec. 9 to grace the IAM Worldwide Pickleball Showdown at Smart

Converge coach Delta Pineda was talking about adjustments the team still needs despite coming off a decisive rout of Titan Ultra in the PBA Governors’ Cup recently. “We need to find a way to maintain our intensity, especially on defense,” Pineda said in Filipino after the 152-119 victory over the Giant Risers. “There are still

Robert Bolick understood where Jimmy Alapag was coming from when the NLEX coach made sure he would get his message across after a sluggish first half against Titan Ultra on Wednesday. The Road Warriors would eventually wake up from their slumber to secure a 147-115 victory at Ninoy Aquino Stadium and close in on the

Rupert Zaragosa came back from two shots down at the start of the day to win for the first time this season, as a closing four-under-par 68 gave him a one-shot win over Zannie Boy Gialon and Keanu Jahns in the ICTSI Pueblo de Oro Championship in Cagayan de Oro on Thursday. The pint-sized 29-year-old

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The 0.1 second that stood between Yvette Kong Man-yi and qualifying for the 2012 Olympics was “unbearable”, the Hong Kong swimmer writes in her newly published memoir, The Unmeasured Human. It was, the 33-year-old recalls years later, “too small to feel and too large to survive unchanged”. Fourteen years on, Kong is grateful for the heartbreaking experience, telling the South China Morning Post that “challenge is fundamental to human growth and spirit”. “I needed to find the courage to try again...

Amar'e Stoudemire has traded in his jersey and shorts for a dress uniform and a badge.

Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs were predicted to win the 2027 title with the French superstar taking Most Valuable Player honors in an NBA team general managers survey released on Thursday.

As the former world champion and most decorated athlete with disabilities Vietnamese history, the 42-year-old powerlifter will serve as one of the title candidates of the men's 49kg category in Japan

After their season was torched by “the biggest crash in SailGP history”, New Zealand’s Black Foils team are already plotting to use Hong Kong as the launch pad for a historic and redemptive 2027 season. Despite boasting the Olympic gold medal and multiple America’s Cup-winning pair of Blair Tuke and Pete Burling as crew mainstays and co-CEOs, the Kiwi boat is still waiting for its first SailGP title. The 10½-month championship features 13 race weekends, where 13 identical F50 catamarans – up to...