The FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 has launched its global creative campaign, ‘Nothing Else Matters,’ ahead of the highly anticipated men’s flagship event getting underway later this month.
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A new day beckons for two-time ONE Lightweight World Champion Eduard “Landslide” Folayang as he makes his much awaited return to the ONE Championship Circle.
The Philippines first played host to the FIBA World Cup (then known as the FIBA World Basketball Championship) in 1978.
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Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman Richard Bachmann applauded the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) Games Visayas Regional leg in his opening speech in its opening ceremony on Sunday, August 13, in IloIlo City.
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James Harden trade talks have reportedly bogged down and the Philadelphia 76ers plan to keep the 2018 NBA Most Valuable Player for now when the 2023-24 season starts.
National University sets out as the prohibitive pick when the V-League Collegiate Challenge comes off the wraps on Wednesday, Aug. 16, with eight teams seeing action at the Paco Arena in Manila.
Chico Lanete will suit up for Cebu Chooks! in the FIBA 3×3 Sukhbaatar Challenger 2023 in Ulaanbaatar.
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Dave “Kintas” Bangguigui absorbed his first loss in ONE Championship as he got decimated by Sanzhar “Uzbek Tiger” Zakirov at ONE Friday Fights 28 on Friday, Aug. 11, at the Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.
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There will be a new team that will light up the Premier Volleyball League starting in the third conference later this year.
The Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) added wrestling’s Alvin Aguilar and volleyball’s Donaldo Caringal as deputy chefs de mission to the Hangzhou 19th Asian Games that are due to open in 42 days.