A giant mural of basketball legend Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna was made by Tenement Visual Artists at Tenement Building basketball court in Taguig city as a way of honoring their idol. (MB File Photo / Jansen Romero) Is it safe to say that 2020 is one forgettable year? With the majority of the...
The Olympic rings are reinstalled at the waterfront in Tokyo on December 1, 2020. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) The rescheduled Tokyo Olympics will be the centrepiece of a crammed sporting year in 2021 as sports administrators who had their calendars wiped away by the coronavirus pandemic try...
Olympic Rings are seen a the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, amid the spread of the COVID-19. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) The rescheduled Tokyo Olympics will be the centrepiece of a crammed sporting year in 2021 as sports administrators who had their...
A general view of Yokohama Stadium, the baseball and softball venue for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics scheduled to be held next year, is seen during the light illumination event "Ballpark Fantasia Vega Luminique" in Yokohama on December 12, 2020. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) A majority of...
In this file photo taken on November 9, 2019 Brazil's breakdancer Mateus de Sousa Melo aka Bart competes during the Red Bull BC One, the breakdance one-on-one battle world championship in Mumbai. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP) Breakdancing was one of four new sports along with skateboarding,...
A man walks along a corridor past an official Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics advertisement board in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on November 30, 2020. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) The coronavirus-delayed Tokyo Olympics will cost at least an extra $2.4 billion, organisers said Friday, with the...
The Olympic rings are reinstalled at the waterfront in Tokyo on December 1, 2020. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) A giant set of Olympic rings returned to Tokyo's waterfront on Tuesday after maintenance, with officials hoping the symbol will help build enthusiasm for the coronavirus-postponed...
(Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) The coronavirus-delayed Tokyo Olympics could cost $1.9 billion more than its original budget of $13 billion, a 15 percent increase, a report said Sunday. The Olympics organisers will formally decide the increased budget for the Games as early as mid-December after...
Olympic-bound boxer Irish Magno is putting up a fundraising campaign aimed at helping people affected by Typhoon "Ulysses." In her Facebook post , the 29-year-old is encouraging boxing enthusiasts to support her “Boxing Class for A Cause” program scheduled on Saturday at the FitStart Gym in her...
Venezuelan high-performance epee fencer and London Olympics golden medalist Ruben Limardo Gascon poses for a picture after training session in Gascon Carreno fencing center in Lodz, central Poland, on November 13, 2020. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP) With a large delivery bag on his back...
The NBA will use a playoff tournament to determine the seventh and eighth seeds in the 2020-2021 postseason, according to a new format unveiled by the league on Tuesday. The shortened season tips off on December 22, with each team playing 72 games rather than the traditional 82 games in order to...
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach wears a face mask as he visits the National Stadium, the main venue for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games postponed until July 2021 due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, in Tokyo on November 17, 2020. (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / POOL...
