Nets trade Harden to 76ers in deal for Simmons, others in blockbuster deal

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 03:28:47 +0000

NEW YORK (AFP) – Three-time NBA scoring champion James Harden was traded by the Brooklyn Nets to the Philadelphia 76ers in a deal for Australian Ben Simmons and other players, the Nets said Thursday. The deal will deliver the Sixers a backcourt dynamo in Harden as well as Paul Millsap in exchange for Simmons, who […]

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Scribes cite Magsayo, ‘Malditas’ for big showing in January

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 09:43:09 +0000

Boxing Mark ‘Magnifico’ Magsayo and the Philippine women’s football team Malditas delivered as the country opened 2022 with a bang. Continuing the Filipino athletes’ triumphant run the previous year, Magsayo wrested the World Boxing Council featherweight title in Atlantic City, while the Malditas clinched a historic ticket to next year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup. For […]

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At last, EJ Obiena agrees to join PSC-initiated mediation

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:45:16 +0000

By KRISTEL SATUMBAGA Pole vaulter EJ Obiena and the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa) have finally agreed to mediation following Monday’s online Senate inquiry. The development – which many believed is good for both parties – came after Obiena and Patafa presented their cases to a number of Senate and sports officials for […]

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Basketball, horse racing at virtual PSA Forum

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:20:16 +0000

It’s a loaded virtual Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) Forum on Tuesday (Feb. 8) as topics on basketball and horse racing will be up for discussion. Gilas Pilipinas coach Chot Reyes along with Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) Executive Director Sonny Barrios and his deputy Butch Antonio are going to talk about the preparations and plans […]

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MVP making ‘serious moves’ to convince FIBA to allow Clarkson play as ‘local’

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2022 07:57:41 +0000

By JONAS TERRADO The Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) will try to once again convince FIBA to allow NBA cager Jordan Clarkson play as a local in time for the country’s hosting of the 2023 World Cup. Returning Gilas Pilipinas coach Chot Reyes bared that SBP chairman emeritus Manny V. Pangilinan hopes to travel to […]

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On rare occasion, Yuka Saso misses cut; Bianca makes it

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 05:58:07 +0000

By KRISTEL SATUMBAGA Yuka Saso missed the cut for the first time in 22 tournaments while Bianca Pagdanganan advanced to the final round of the LPGA Drive On Championship in Fort Myers, Florida on Friday. True to her promise, Saso bounced back from a disastrous opening-round 77 by carding a five-under-par 67 in the second, […]

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Mike Nieto signs 2-year deal with Rain or Shine

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 05:08:56 +0000

By JONAS TERRADO Mike Nieto became the first player from the special Gilas Pilipinas round of the 2019 draft to formally sign with a PBA team after agreeing to a two-year deal with Rain or Shine. Rain or Shine announced the signing of the former Ateneo mainstay Friday, Feb. 4, days after being released from […]

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COVID-19 patient dies in Marawi hospital

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 02:45:02 +0000

  COTABATO CITY – A person under investigation (PUI) died at the Amai Pakpak Medical Center (APMC) in Marawi City on Tuesday as provincial authorities confirmed a total of seven PUIs and 90 persons under monitoring (PUMs) across Lanao del Sur. The fatality was one of four PUIs admitted to the APMC and had a […]

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Ex-soldier shoots self dead after killing 4 in Cavite

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 09:40:52 +0000

By ANTHONY GIRON   CAMP GEN. PANTALEON GARCIA, IMUS, Cavite — The Cavite Police Provincial Office (PPO) assured on Monday the implementation of crime preventive measures after a former soldier went on a shooting rampage in General Trias City that resulted in the death of four persons and himself last Sunday. It was the first […]

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2 NPA rebels killed in Negros Oriental clash

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 04:26:47 +0000

  BACOLOD CITY – Two suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were killed during an encounter with military troops at Sitio Agpapatao, Barangay Binobohan, Guihulngan City in Negros Oriental on Friday. The military identified the slain rebels as Edgar Bonifacio and Randy Canumay, both residents of the said village. They were allegedly members […]

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