LAS VEGAS— Sebastian Fundora is eyeing a shot at boxing’s undisputed super welterweight title, but the WBC champion knows he cannot afford to look past Saturday night’s defense against unbeaten mandatory challenger Ermal Hadribeaj. Fundora (24-1-1, 16 KOs) enters the bout at The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas riding a four-fight winning streak

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

The Kia Tigers and the LG Twins, the two teams that have combined to win the past three Korean baseball championships, will renew their postseason rivalry starting this weekend. The two clubs will have their first Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) postseason showdown in 10 years when the first game in their best-of-five semi-final round opens at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Tigers' home, Gwangju-Kia Champions Field in Gwangju, some 270 kilometers south of Seoul. The Twins are the defending Korean Series champions and they also won the 2023 title. They are trying to become the first team since the 2015-2016 Doosan Bears to capture back-to-back Korean Series titles. The Tigers were the 2024 Korean Series champions but missed the postseason in 2025. The Tigers will host the first two games, with the second game scheduled to start at 2 p.m. Sunday. The series will shift to the Twins' home turf, Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul, for Game 3 at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and, if necessary, Game 4 at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. If the series goes the distance, the deciding fifth game will be back in Gwangju at 6:30 p.

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...

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.

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.

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...

Gareth Ainsworth knows Accrington inside out and has warned the Gills they must match the hosts’ intensity if they are to make it back-to-back wins.

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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