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The Philippines has pocketed one silver and three bronze medals at the 6th Indonesia Soft Tennis Championships held from Dec. 1-4 in Jakarta. Joseph Arcilla and Sherwin Nuguit delivered the silver medal in the men’s doubles category where they lost to He-na A and Meng Ju Hsieh of Chinese Taipei, 4-5 (6-8), in the final. Adjuthor Moralde and George Patrick …

One of the most successful teams in regional basketball is making its way to the Pilipinas Super League (PSL).  The league announced recently that the San Juan Knights are confirming their participation in the ongoing DUMPER Cup.  Team owner Jinggoy Estrada welcomed PSL president Rocky Chan, vice president Ray Alao, head of basketball operations Leo Isaac, and commissioner Marc Pingris …

Army Woman Grandmaster (WGM) Private 1st Class Janelle Mae Frayna captured her fourth title in the blitz category of the 2022 National Women’s Chess Championships grand finals at the Philippine Academy for Chess Excellence in Quezon City on Wednesday. The 25-year-old Frayna, the country’s first woman Grandmaster, also pocketed the silver medal in the Standard chess category of the tournament …

Have you heard of the word “blockchain”? “Blockchain,” says Wikipedia, is a system of recording information in a way that makes it difficult or impossible to change, hack or cheat the system. It is a digital ledger of transactions that is duplicated and distributed across the entire network of computer systems. In other words, the contents, infinite of them, are …

M88 Mansion, Asia’s online gaming giant, presents Sevilla FC midfielder, Ivan Rakitić as a featured player for the LaLiga Santander Season 2022-23. In line with this, several activities were drawn up for Rakitić including an exclusive interview with the Croatian superstar. He also guested in a special podcast called Monday Motivations in Indonesia.  In a statement, Rakitić mentioned: “I’m truly …

The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved on third and final reading a measure seeking to grant Filipino citizenship to Barangay Ginebra resident import Justin Brownlee. With 274 affirmative votes, no negative vote, and one abstention, the chamber passed House Bill 6224 to allow Brownlee as a naturalized player of Gilas Pilipinas to the FIBA Basketball World Cup next year …

Six aerobic gymnasts led by Southeast Asian (SEA) Games bronze medalist Charmaine Dolar are set to join the Suzuki World Cup 2022 in Japan on December 12-14. The Filipinos will be up against the best athletes from Australia, Hungary, Japan, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mongolia, Thailand, and Chinese Taipei in the tournament scheduled to be held at the Ota City General …

President R. Marcos Jr. has issued a challenge to the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) for better performance among Filipino athletes come the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.  POC president Bambol Tolentino said recently that Marcos wants the Philippine team to exceed its historic four-medal haul in Tokyo in 2021 highlighted by Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo’s gold medal in weightlifting.  “The President wants …

The Philippines ended its campaign at the Thailand Open Track and Field Championships with five gold medals, including two from the women’s heptathlon and men’s 4x400m relay events recently.  Sarah Dequinan tallied 5,280 points in the women’s heptathlon while the 4x400m relay team of Edgardo Alejan Jr., Michael Carlo del Prado, Joyme Sequita, and Francis Medina prevailed after clocking 3:11.83 …

The University of Santo Tomas (UST) still looked like the championship contender that it is despite the three-year absence after a 106-70 beatdown of Adamson in the return of the UAAP women’s basketball tournament on Saturday at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City. In the first UAAP women’s basketball game amid the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, the Golden …