Games & Gaming

Cebuana Olympian Mary Joy Tabal is leaving her training camp in Italy for an intensive high-altitude workout in Switzerland.

Filipino Davis Cupper Jeson Patrombon ended his campaign in the second leg of the Hong Kong-ITF Futures on Thursday after losing to Japanese Soichiro Moritani.

The Philippine men’s floorball team will leave for Thailand Tuesday night to compete in the 1st Asia-Oceania Floorball Cup to be held at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok on July 1-6.

The Unified Tennis Group expressed its disappointment at the recent Philta elections.

By Jesse C. Ong  A Philippine national men’s basketball team loaded with tall and promising players is likely to carry the country’s flag in several major tournaments this year as certain young talents, led by Kobe Paras, were recently invited to join the training pool. 

As an avid PBA follower growing up in the late 1980s, I recall developing an aversion toward the Alaska team. 

No less than the Office of the President has taken notice of the recent developments in tennis. 

Four-time wushu world champion Rene Catalan recently won the gold medal in the sambo competition of the Philippine Pre-Aimag at the Harrison Plaza and gained a shot at a berth for the national team seeing action in the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (Aimag) in Turkmenistan. 

Former world champion Rey “Hitman” Loreto of the Philippines will fight again for the world title on July 15 in Chonburi, Thailand. 

By Peter Paul Patrick Lucas The Philippine Amateur Track and Field Association (Patafa) will set up a training camp in Nagasaki, Japan, at least three months before the Summer Games in Tokyo in 2020 in a bid to capture the country’s first Olympic gold medal.