Credit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:07:54 +0000
LOS ANGELES: Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 32 points as the Milwaukee Bucks won their third game of the season by 40 or more points with a 133-86 demolition of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Antetokounmpo added 13 rebounds and six assists while playing just 27 minutes for the Bucks, who won their fifth straight game since the […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:06:21 +0000
Standard Insurance-Navy continued to show its a cut above the rest as skipper Jan Paul Morales topped Stage Six while virtually clinching the team title with still four stages to go in the LBC Ronda Pilipinas 10th anniversary race. The 34-year-old Morales, the 2016 and 2017 champion, edged Dominic Perez of Bicycology-Army and Aidan James […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:05:20 +0000
LOS ANGELES: Houston Rockets star James Harden took aim at Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo on Friday (Saturday in Manila), suggesting the reigning NBA Most Valuable Player’s style of play was nothing to get excited about. “I wish I could just run and be seven feet (2.13 m) and just dunk,” Harden told ESPN on Friday. “Like, […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Josef T. Ramos, TMT| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:04:19 +0000
What to do while waiting for a fight? Former world champion Donnie “Ahas” Nietes is focusing on his tracking and coffee shop businesses in Cebu as he waits for a boxing match this year, one that would enrich his account. At 37, the country’s longest reigning world champion in three weight divisions, is hoping that he […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:03:19 +0000
DUBAI: Novak Djokovic saved three match points before defeating Gael Monfils 2-6, 7-6 (10/8), 6-1 to reach the Dubai Championships final on Friday (Saturday in Manila), describing his victory as “an amazing escape.” It was the 17th win of the season for the world No. 1 and a 17th career win over Frenchman Monfils without […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Eddie G. Alinea| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:02:11 +0000
From the time Frenchman Pierre Coubertin revived the Summer Games in 1896, the Games of the Olympiad were canceled only three times. The Sixth Games of the Olympiad in 1916 was scheduled in Berlin but didn’t pursue due to the outbreak of World War 1, while the 12th in Tokyo in 1940 and the 13th […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Josef T. Ramos, TMT| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:01:02 +0000
They may have acquired a legitimate center in JP Erram, but TNT KaTropa team governor Ricky Vargas is hedging his bets. Vargas, also the Philippine Basketball Association chairman, said his team needed to work on their chemistry after acquiring Erram via a three-team trade involving the KaTropa, Northern Luzon Expressway (NLEX) and Blackwater last Friday. […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Catherine S. Valente, TMT| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 16:25:58 +0000
A petition of the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) to nullify ABS-CBN Corp.’s franchise will still push through even after President Rodrigo Duterte accepted the network giant’s apology over a critical campaign commercial, a Malacañang official said on Saturday. In a media interview, Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo reiterated that Duterte’s displeasure with ABS-CBN had […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Leah C. Salterio| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 16:25:04 +0000
She gamely accepted the responsibility of continuing the business legacy of her grandfather Lee King Yek, who founded the LKY Group of Companies. Despite being only 26, she has definite ideas about running a hotel chain and is determined to see The Oriental Hotel and Resorts be recognized internationally. “I have to ensure that our […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Mayvelin U. Caraballo, TMT| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 16:20:28 +0000
PROPOSED amendments to the 84-year-old Public Service Act (PSA) would boost job-generating foreign direct investments (FDI) in the country, but regulators must ensure these would be properly implemented, analysts say. This comes after some lawmakers have criticized the planned amendments, raising concerns that once passed, these would allow foreign companies to fully own certain public […]
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