Diana Lorena Taurasi, the all-time leading scorer in WNBA history out of the Phoenix Mercury, is seeking to extend her glittering Olympic women’s basketball record of consecutive gold medals to six when the United States seeks an eighth successive gold in the Paris Olympics
![At the wake of former Pasig City Vice Mayor Rosalio "Yoyong" Martires on June 20, 2024. [Brian Yalung photo]](https://sportsbytes.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/viber_image_2024-06-21_10-35-48-871-400x200.jpg)
Rosalio “Yoyong” Martires fought until his last breath for as long as he could. The illness happened after a provincial trip. He was given all the medical attention possible but complications on his pneumonia were too much to handle for the Filipino Olympian, comedian, basketball player and politician.
![Yuka Saso [photo credit: LPGA.com]](https://sportsbytes.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/yuka-saso-lpga-400x200.jpg)
THE news of Yuka Saso winning the US Open for the second time was heard round the sporting world.
Legendary great Arnold (Red) Auerbach, who piloted the Boston Celtics to nine NBA championships in 10 trips to the NBA Finals from 1957-66, once named his 12 players he had most wanted for his team in the playoffs in an interview with prominent Sports Illustrated reporter Jack McCallum.
![Historic Golden Bronze [PNVF photo release]](https://sportsbytes.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Alas-Pilipinas-Release02-400x200.jpg)
When we were young and careless (progressives is a better description), Erwin Tulfo, now one of the country’s leading public servants, told me that he would not let me down.
The Yco-Ysmael Steel rivalry was the fiercest rivalry in the commercial leagues from 1958 to 1967.
It would seem light years away but ‘Zen Master’ Phil Jackson, the winningest coach in National Basketball Association (NBA) history with 11 titles, once set foot on Philippine soil.
Imagining the unimaginable, the Quezon Titans are reaping the sweet results of their wonderful journey in the Pilipinas Super League President’s Cup.
For legendary Los Angeles Lakers great Jerry West, whose silhouette appears on the National Basketball Association (NBA) logo, it’s back to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for an unprecedented third time in mid-August this year – this time in the Contributors category as an executive and consultant
Traditionally, April 9 has been a “red-colored” national holiday in the Philippines as we Filipinos commemorate the fall of Bataan to the invading Japanese military forces during the four-year World War II hostilities.