By Marlon Bernardino | PhilBoxing.com

PADDINGTON, CENTRAL LONDON — Filipino Johann Randall Paton-og Abrina grabs the silver medal for winning the speed cards category by memorizing a deck of cards in lightning fast 1 minute 20 seconds in the just ended 4th U.K. International Open Memory Championships at the 4th level of MWB Business Exchange, One Kingdom Street here in Paddington, Central London on Friday. Read the full story…»

By Marv Dumon | Examiner

BOXING  – ‘Philippines vs the World’ was held by ALA Promotions on Saturday, August 28, 2010 at the Waterfront Hotel & Casino in Cebu City, and broadcast on television network ABS-CBN. Read the full story…»

By Olmin Leyba (The Philippine Star)

MANILA, Philippines – While the shooting machine that’s Allan Caidic got the Big Dome’s scoreboard on overdrive, a 59-year-old retiree dubbed “Fortune Cookie” caught the discerning eyes of the NBA legends during Friday’s free-wheeling NBA Asia Challenge 2010 game. Read the full story…»

By ABS-CBN News

MANILA, Philippines – Expect a record crowd to fill up the Cowboys Stadium in Texas when the junior middleweight title clash between Filipino champion Manny Pacquiao and Mexican toughie Antonio Margarito takes place on November 13. Read the full story…»

By Abac Cordero (The Philippine Star)

MANILA, Philippines – The country’s No. 2 table tennis player yesterday cried foul over the lifetime ban imposed on him by the Table Tennis Association of the Philippines (TATAP) following the controversy that took place during the World Table Tennis Championships (WTTC) in Moscow last May. Read the full story…»

By JVP, GMANews

A whirlwind press tour set next week jumpstarts the promotional hype for the Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito showdown for the World Boxing Council (WBC) light middleweight crown. Read the full story…»

Games Thursday (Araneta Coliseum)
2 p.m. — Adamson vs UP
4 p.m. — UE vs Ateneo

Three-peat seeking Ateneo shoots for the second Final Four berth when it battles University of the East this Wednesday in the 73rd UAAP basketball tournament at the Araneta Coliseum. Read the full story…»

By Joey Villar (The Philippine Star)

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino pool legends Efren “Bata” Reyes and Francisco “Django” Bustamante renew their celebrated partnership as they shoot for a third straight crown in the PartyPoker.net World Cup of Pool slated Sept. 7-12 at the Midtown wing of the Robinson’s Place Manila. Read the full story…»

By AP

LOS ANGELES – Tiger Woods will compete at the Barclays this week, an event which will not only help determine his stature in the PGA Tour playoffs but also his first competition in six years as a single man. Read the full story…»

(Updated 10:06 p.m.) The dismissed policeman who held more than 20 people hostage inside a tourist bus in Manila Monday for close to 11 hours was killed by SWAT operatives in a daring nighttime assault.

SWAT team members also started carrying bloodied bodies from the bus, a report on GMA News’ “24 Oras” said.

Most of the hostages were Chinese tourists. Read the full story…»

By Manila Bulletin

The Philippines ended its three-on-three basketball campaign on a bright note, scoring a 34-23 win over Puerto Rico to finish ninth in the 2010 Youth Olympic Games on Monday at the *Scape Youth Space court in Singapore. Read the full story…»

By Gary Lim | TNP Singapore

MOHD Hanurdeen Hamid nearly choked on his lunch when he learnt who was trying to reach him on his mobile phone. Read the full story…»

By Nelson Beltran (The Philippine Star)

MANILA, Philippines – Six-foot-six center Billy Mamaril has moved back to Barangay Ginebra after seeing action with Air21 briefly towards the end of the 2010 PBA Fiesta Conference.

Air21 dealt Mamaril back to Ginebra in exchange for a future draft pick. Read the full story…»

By Eddie Alinea | PhilBoxing

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The PBA Legends USA Foundation is giving out educational and scholarship grants to three educational institutions as its initial attempt to help less-endowed students in the Philippines. Read the full story…»

BY RCJ, GMANews

Leave it to the eminent Don King to hype and advertise Floyd Mayweather Jr.

In his latest testimonial glorifying the undefeated loud mouth from Michigan, King boldly predicted that Mayweather would knock out Manny Pacquiao if and when the two biggest names in boxing today get to face each other inside the ring. Read the full story…»