The 6 th Asian Beach Games has been postponed for the second time due to the pandemic. In a recent statement, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) deemed it necessary to move the event following growing concerns over the coronavirus particularly on a potentially more dangerous variant discovered...
After a number of sports leagues turned professional last year, expect more to follow the same route in the coming months under strict health guidelines, Games and Amusements Board (GAB) chairman Abraham “Baham” Mitra said Monday. The health crisis caused by the COVID-19 outbreak postponed or...
Games and Amusements Board (GAB) chairman Baham Mitra said Friday that the Supplemental Guidelines to the Joint Agreement Order (JAO) will be distributed to sports organizers aiming to conduct sports meet particularly at the professional level. According to Mitra, a former Palawan governor, the...
Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Bambol Tolentino urged national sports associations (NSAs) to prioritize athletes participating in Olympic qualifiers and the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) should they plan to hold a training bubble. Speaking in the Philippine Sportswriters...
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) Amid the slew of cancelled sports spectacles worldwide last year, the sputtering attempts to restart in empty arenas stalled events,...
President of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah holds a placard announcing Doha as the host of the 21st Asian Games 2030 during the 39th OCA General Assembly Meeting in Oman's capital Muscat on December 16, 2020. (Photo by Haitham AL-SHUKAIRI / AFP) Doha will host the 2030...
Ar-Ar Andales scored a third round technical knockout win over Zandre Padiran in their minimum weight collision that highlighted the return of boxing in Luzon after a successful four-card fight by the Quibor Boxing Promotion last Sunday in Rizal, Laguna. The 21-year-old Andales, the reigning World...
Olsen Racela (Photo from UAAP) Olsen Racela is rarely candid about the heartbreak that was the semifinals of the 2002 Busan Asian Games. But when he does, the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel assistant and Far Eastern University coach is making sure that it counts. “What doesn’t kill you, makes you...
The Games and Amusements Board recently lauded the staging of the first of two tournaments marking the Philippine Golf Tour restart after an eight-month hiatus due to pandemic and endorsed the staging of more pro golf events in the coming year. In a report to GAB chair Abraham Mitra, the...
Anakalusugan Party-List Rep. Mike Defensor--the "last man standing" among the close allies of the previous Speaker--gave Alan Peter Cayetano his just desserts for helping stage the successful hosting of the 30th Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) in the Philippines on its first year anniversary. Defensor...
After separate events in Visayas and Mindanao, it’s now the turn of Luzon to take center stage for a restart with a four-card fight by Quibors Boxing Promotion on Dec. 6 in Rizal, Laguna. Quibors Boxing manager and promoter Gerry Balmes said Wednesday that they already secured permission from the...
Former WBO bantamweight champion Marlon Tapales scored a second round knockout win against Eden Sonsona as boxing resumed in Mindanao last Saturday with an exciting fight card presented by the Sanman Boxing Promotion at the Sanman Gym in General Santos City. The win of the 28-year-old Tapales in...
