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Pinarangalan ng British Embassy sa Pilipinas ang siyam na Pinoy na  sumabak sa nakaraang 2012 Paralympic Games na ginanap kasabay ng  paglulunsad ng final leg ng Run For Pinoy Glory series noong Martes ng  gabi sa SM Aura Premier sa Taguig City. Ang lungsod ng London ang siyang naging host ng 2012 Olympic at  Paralympic Summer Games noong nakaraang taon. Sabay na gugunitain ng  British Embassy sa Pilipinas ang unang anibersaryso ng legacy na  iniwan ng 2012 Games. Sina Andy Avellana, Martires Burce, Roger Tapia at Isidro Vildosola ng  athletics; powerlifters Adeline Ancheta, Achelle Guion at Agustin  Kitan; Josephine Medina ng table tennis at Beariza Ma Roble ng  swimming ang mga lumahok sa nakaraang Paralympic Games. Ang huling leg ng Run for Pinoy Glory, na may temang A Gift To Our  Filipino Paralympians, ay gaganapin sa Setyembre 8 sa Camp Aguinaldo  grounds lungsod ng Quezon. Ang kikitaan sa naturang patakbo, kasama ang naunang ...

Brandon Rios is not only aiming to beat Manny Pacquiao but to convincingly win that will force the eight-time world division champion into retirement. Rios (31-1-1 with 23 knockouts), the former World Boxing Association lightweight, will face Pacquiao (54-5-2 with 38 KOs) on November 23 in a 12-round non-title bout at the Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort in Macao, China. The 27-year-old Mexican-American told FightNews.com that he wants to send the aging and struggling Pacquiao into permanent retirement. "One Mexican [Juan Manuel Marquez] knocked him out; this Mexican will retire him. I'm going to retire him after this," said the Lubbock, Texas-born orthodox fighter. Pacquiao appeared to be sluggish in his last two fights where he suffered a sixth-round KO loss to Marquez and a stunning split decision setback against Timothy Bradley prompting some boxing analysts that he has lost his killer instinct and age seemed to be catching up with him. Pacquiao, a still respect...

Team Manila Head Coach Ana Santiago believes there is no reason for them to repeat as Big League World Series champions even if there are only three members of last year’s winning squad left on the team. "Skills-wise mas may advantage kami ngayon compared to last year’s team. Six of my 15 players are pitchers who can also play different positions,” said Santiago. "They are quick and at the same time, seven are all power hitters. We are better prepared this time at kaya namin mag to repeat as champions. Balanced ang team kaya confident ako na makukuha namin.” "The only problem I see is how will my players react to the pressure of playing at the international level,” added the Adamson mentor, who tagged California, Michigan, and Puerto Rico as the teams to beat in the 2013 Big League Softball World Series from Agust 4 to 10 in Sussex County, Delaware. Santiago, who steered the Adamson Lady Falcons to a third straight and 12th overall University Athletic As...

Rising athletes from different elementary and high schools in the National Capital Region will again converge at the Marikina Sports Park in Marikina City for the 27th Milo Little Olympics. The two-weekend competition will be held from August 30 to September 1 and September 6 to 8. Athletics, badminton, basketball, chess, football, gymnastics, scrabble, sepak takraw, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, and volleyball are the events to be contested. Organizers also added the biggest delegation, loudest cheer, cheer dance, best marching band and saludo, Miss Milo Little Olympics, and photo contest as side events. Three slots from the National Finals in the elementary and high school, boys' and girls' divisions, are also at stake. The deadline for registration is on August 19 at the Milo Little Olympics secretariat at the Marikina Sports Park, where the coaches and referees meeting will also be held on August 24 from 1 to 3 p.m. For more information, call or tex...

A look of disappointment was written all over Adamson University Head Coach Leo Austria’s face after a dying second unsportsmanlike foul was called on Gian Abrigo and cost the Soaring Falcons a potential come-from-behind victory over De La Salle on Wednesday in the 76th University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) men’s basketball tournament at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. Abrigo and Green Archers big man Norbert Torres were jockeying for position in De La Salle’s inbound play in the final 15.9 seconds of the game—with De La Salle on top, 67-65—when referee Francisco Olivar whistled the Adamson forward for an unsportsmanlike foul. That changed the complexion of the crucial stage of the game as Torres sealed the Green Archers’ win from the free-throw line. “It is very frustrating, that kind of call. I don’t know what has got into the referee who made the call,” said Austria. “[The referees] should have let the players decide the game. Imagine we were down by 16 or 20 ...

For two straight seasons, Letran’s homegrown talent and guard Mark Cruz used to play behind the shadows of Kevin Alas and Franz Dysam. Now, the spotlight has been thrown on the five-foot-six guard after Alas opted to skip his final year with the Knights and the unexpected incident that happened to Dysam. Cruz had back-to-back 20-point games to help keep Letran undefeated in the 89th Season of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), earning him the league’s ACCEL/3XVI-Player of the Week honors backed by Gatorade. The 21-year-old Management major played his best game so far in Letran’s 87-68 demolition of Mapua, which is also the Knights’ seventh straight win. He finished with 22 points on an impressive 10-of-17 shooting from the field, eight-of-12 from two-point range. Cruz also grabbed 10 rebounds–nine at the defensive end– to go with five assists and four steals in 29 minutes of action. “Nakuha ko na ang kumpiyansa ko sa last game at nagsisilbing ...

The first round of the 76th University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) men's basketball tournament turned out  to be another painful one for the University of the Philippines Fighting Maroons. The boys from Diliman slumped to its seventh straight setback this season, a 57-62 loss from the University East Red Warriors on Saturday at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.  It was also UP's 13th overall defeat dating back from last year's second round. UP Head Coach Ricky Dandan is fully aware of how his wards are trying hard just to earn a win but the Fighting Maroons' inexperience proved to be costly adding that  they manage to hang on and keep in step with their opponents for two to three quarters but could not close out the game. "I said it before that it will be a tough season since the level of competition is high. We're always there fighting, but could not close out the game and that points to our relative inexperience," said Dandan, who want...