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2013 NBA Finals: Heat, Spoelstra get Pinoy love
Sat, 08 Jun 2013
MANILA -- Filipino basketball fans are considered one of the most knowledgeable in the sport out by the fact that the
shoot-and-dribble discipline is the game they most love.
In the on-going NBA championship playoff betwe
EUGENE TORRE LOOKS BACK, LOOKS FORWARD
Fri, 07 Jun 2013
Torre.
MANILA (PNA) -- In 1982, Grandmaster Eugene Torre, who was the best chess player there ever was in the country and Asia, advanced into the quarterfinal round of the Candidates Matches, which, at that time, was the sys
Gilas hopes to avoid big guns in FIBA-Asia draw
Wed, 05 Jun 2013
(MANILA) ? Avoiding an early clash with the big guns in the elimination round and escape early elimination will be the Philippines? target in the drawing of lots for the FIBA-Asia groupings the country is hosting Aug. 1-11.
FIBA Asia secretary-general Hagop Khajirian of Lebanon, along with Samaha
Gilas-Pilipinas plays against Lithuanian clubs
Wed, 05 Jun 2013
MANILA (PNA) -- Gilas-Pilipinas starts testing its potential to carry the country?s colors in the coming 27th FIBA-Asia championship when it faces powerhouse Klaipedos Neptunas opening its six-game tune up and exhibition series Wednesday at the Svyturio Arena in Klaipeda City in the Baltic Republi
Gilas-Pilipinas starts Lithuania training stint
Mon, 03 Jun 2013
MANILA(PNA) -- By early evening today (Manila Time) the Gilas-Pilipinas national basketball training pool would have landed in
Klaipeda City in Lithuania to begin its rigid two-month preparations for the World Championship qualifying tournament FIBA-Asia Championship here in Manila this coming Augu
Gilas-Pilipinas trains in Lithuania
Sun, 02 Jun 2013
MANILA (PNA) -- Gilas-Pilipinas flies today to Klaipeda City in Lithuania to begin what coach Chot Reyes termed as its ?61-Day Trip to History? in the hope of forming a competitive team for this year?s FIBA-Asia World Championship qualifying tournament the county is hosting two months from now.
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Pinoy Duathletes to compete in World Games
Sat, 01 Jun 2013
MANILA (PNA) -- Sterling performances in the respective qualifying competitions they took part in earned for the grizzled Filipino internationalists Carlo Pedregoza and Mirasol Abad the right to represent the country in the duathlon events of the 2014 World Games set July 26-29 in Cali, Colombia.
PACQUIAO'S DETRACTORS ARE AT IT AGAIN
Fri, 31 May 2013
MANILA (PNA) -- Detractors of Sarangani Congressman and eight-division world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao are at it again.
Six months before the 34-year-old Filipino ring idol?s comeback fight against Brandon Rios following his twin defeats last year, Pacquiao?s enemies, this early, have alre
NO JONES CUP DEFENSE FOR GILAS
Wed, 29 May 2013
MANILA (PNA) -- Preparations of Gilas-Pilipinas national team for the 27th Fiba-Asia championship the country is hosting suffered yet another big blow when organizers of the Jones Cup tournament banned the Philippines from the 2013 edition of the annual tournament set July 6-14 in Taipei.
The tou
POC to use Sports Science to boost athletes? performance
Fri, 24 May 2013
MANILA(PNA) -- Unknown to many, the Philippine Olympic Committee been embarking on an ambitious scheme using sports science in the hope of revolutionizing the Filipino athletes training program.
Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Jose ?Peping? Cojuangco announced that his agency has cre
