Games & Gaming

By Jesse C. Ong There are a number of reasons, de­spite being picked during the recent Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) rookie draft by a team with a proud winning tradition, Gilas cadet Jio Jalalon is reportedly unhappy settling with the Purefoods Star Hotshots.

The ultimate 5k running and music festival drew nearly ten thousand runners when it first made waves in the Philippines last year. This year, The Music Run™ by Philam Vitality returns to pump up an equally large— or even larger—crowd with everyone’s favorite hits playing on 120 con­cert-quality speakers across McKinley West in Taguig City.

The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is looking to improve its social media outlets and will soon introduce a new digital apps in an effort to reach out to more Filipino basketball fans at home and anywhere in the world.

Rio de Janeiro—The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) has been fined for the second time in less than a month for homopho­bic chants by fans.

By Jesse C. Ong His heads-up plays and awesome rebounding might were such a revelation in Ginebra’s triumphant campaign in the recent PBA (Philippine Basketball Association) Governors’ Cup that not a few see great promise in rookie sensation Scottie Thompson early in his cage career. 

Eighty-nine years since legendary football superstar Paulinho Alcantara retired from FC Barcelona, homegrown Filipino booters will once again step on the popular Premiere League team’s pitch, but this time for an advanced training and schooling with some of the Spanish club’s most revered coaches and trainers. 

An up-and-coming bowling prodigy and a top bowler from Quezon City bested rivals in separate categories en route to ruling the SM Bowling Millionaires Cup Year 3 Grand Finals held recently at the SM Megamall Mega Fashion Hall in Mandaluyong City.

The Triathlon Association of the Philippines (TRAP) launched its Balik Subit campaign as it looks to bring together both elite and age-group triathletes who previously raced in Subic by inviting their participation in the Subic Bay International Triathlon (Subit), set for April 29 and 30, 2017. 

Brisbane, Australia—Roger Federer and Milos Raonic will meet again in the Brisbane International final in a reprise of the 2015 decider at the Australian Open warm-up tournament.

By John Leicester / The Associated Press Paris—Underdogs had their days, plenty of them, in 2015: Leicester City snapping at the heels of England’s Premier League giants, Japan beating South Africa at the rugby World Cup, Roberta Vinci derailing Serena Williams’s drive for a calendar-year Grand Slam.