OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT L ast week, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) report on the Philippines’ death statistics for January 2019 through December 2020 must have surprised many. The PSA reported fewer deaths in 2020 relative to 2019 tally. Despite the 9,244 deaths due to COVID-19 in...
The unemployment rate in the country stayed steady in January despite efforts to restore millions of lost jobs due to the pandemic, but the Duterte administration’s economic managers said they now see signs of promising recovery. The jobless rate among Filipinos in the first month of the year was...
MPBL Commissioner Kenneth Duremdes graces the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) online Forum Tuesday straight from Subic Bay where the regional league resumes the remaining playoff games of the Lakan Cup. Duremdes will talk about how the division Finals and subsequently, the best-of-five...
Photo from AFP Even during the most challenging period in Philippine sports history, young golfer Yuka Saso still found a way to stand up and deliver. The 19-year-old Saso was a bundle of hope and inspiration for the more than 100 million Filipinos at a time when local sports took a severe beating...
MJAS Zenith Talisay top officials Jhon Santos and Michael Aldover expressed confidence that the team has the right materials to win the inaugural Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup next month. Santos, the team manager of Talisay, said Tuesday that when the opportunity arrived to join the fledgling league,...
One of the teams seeing action in the inaugural Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup and a newly-founded sports marketing organization aimed to help the progress of Philippine sports in this time of the pandemic will be the guests in a two-part session of the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) online...
ONLINE AWARDS - The Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) is set to stage its Annual Awards Night for the first time in a virtual setup on March 27 amid the coronavirus pandemic. (MB File Photo) For the first time in its storied history, the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) will be...
Philippine Superliga (PSL) chairman Philip Ella Juico assured that the historic 2021 Gatorade-PSL Beach Volleyball Challenge Cup bubble will push through as planned on Feb. 26 to 28 in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone. "Everything is in order. There are certain things to be ironed out but the event...
Sportsman and Standard Insurance Group Chairman Ernesto "Judes" Echauz makes a rare appearance in the online session of the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) Forum on Tuesday. Echauz will talk about duathlon and road race events of cycling in the coming Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam...
The Philippines’ rice inventory as of January this year declined by 12.8 percent year-on-year after both commercial warehouses and state-run grains agency National Food Authority (NFA) ended with lower stocks during the period. Data from Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that as of...
With pork and chicken prices in Metro Manila markets still relatively high, consumers are assured of enough supply of fish, which could fulfill the metropolis’ demand for an affordable source of protein. In a statement, Asis Perez, convenor of food security advocacy group Tugon Kabuhayan, said...
Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa) President Philip Ella Juico gives an update on the Filipino tracksters’ bid for the coming Tokyo Olympics in Tuesday’s session of the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) online Forum. Juico will talk about the preparations being...
