Sarno sets lofty goals in final Olympic qualifier
VANESSA Sarno is determined to lift over 249 kilograms in the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Cup and hopes it will be good for a ticket to the Paris Olympics.
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VANESSA Sarno is determined to lift over 249 kilograms in the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Cup and hopes it will be good for a ticket to the Paris Olympics.
Shohei Ohtani could be more open with teammates without ‘buffer’ Mizuhara, Dodgers manager says
CHANDLER, Ariz. — Caitlin Clark makes pulling up from the midcourt logo look easy, routinely hitting shots most players would consider a heave.
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia thrashed Lebanon 5-0 and became the first team to advance to the third round of Asia qualifying for the 2026 World Cup on Tuesday.
JIMMER Fredette, Kareem Maddox, Canyon Barry and Dylan Travis piled up enough wins together last year to get USA Basketball qualified in men’s 3×3 for the Paris Olympics.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Defending Miami Open champion Daniil Medvedev won his 350th career match to move into the quarterfinals for a fourth straight year, beating Dominik Koepfer, 7-6 (5), 6-0 on Tuesday.
Austin Reaves had a triple-double and made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 37.8 seconds left in the second overtime as the Los Angeles Lakers overcame the absence of LeBron James and rallied to beat the Milwaukee Bucks 128-124 on Tuesday night.
SYDNEY — Basketball star Lauren Jackson is coming out of retirement again in a bid to make the Australian team and compete at a fifth Olympics.
NFL owners didn’t vote on Tuesday on Tom Brady’s bid to purchase a stake in the Las Vegas Raiders, putting into question how long the transaction will take or if it will even occur at all.
ATLANTA — Georgia’s Republican state senators are making another attempt to impose a conservative stamp on the state’s public schools, passing a bill Tuesday that would ban transgender girls from playing high school sports with other girls, limit sex education and require a system for notifying parents of every item a child obtained in a school library.
ATLANTA — All-Star guard Trae Young will enter the next step in his rehabilitation from finger surgery, the Atlanta Hawks said Tuesday, but it’s still not known when he can rejoin the lineup.
THE final week for players to try to get into the Masters through the world ranking has rarely held so few possibilities.
FANS remain loyal to the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), according to Commissioner Willie Marcial, as evidenced by the growth in television ratings and the league hopes more fans will return to the venues as the PBA approaches its 50th anniversary.
EUMIR FELIX MARCIAL is getting more comfortable as a light heavyweight and he is convinced he can deliver in the Paris Olympics.
CREAMLINE is in familiar territory but Choco Mucho, PLDT, Chery Tiggo, Petro Gazz and Cignal are in for a big fight as the race to the semifinals promises to be fierce and intense when the Premiere Volleyball League All-Filipino Conference (AFC) resumes on Easter Tuesday at the PhilSports Arena in Pasig City.
CHANDLER, Arizona—Caitlin Clark makes pulling up from the midcourt logo look easy, routinely hitting shots most players would consider a heave.
IF there is one thing one must know about chess Grandmaster (GM) Rogelio “Banjo” Barcenilla, he is extremely loyal.
BOASTING one of the best—if not the best—fans in the world, the Philippines savors a breakthrough opportunity to become the world’s volleyball homecourt as solo host of the FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championships 2025 for the first time in history.
PETRO Gazz got back on track with a 25-11, 25-19, 25-14 victory over Capital1 on Tuesday, boosting its bid ahead of the semifinals of the Premier Volleyball League All-Filipino Conference at the Philsports Arena in Pasig City.
HIDILYN DIAZ-NARANJO flies to Phuket on Holy Wednesday hoping to nail a return ticket to the Olympics via the sixth and last qualifier for Paris—the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Cup set from Monday to April 11.
THE Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) wants the Philippine National Anti-Doping Organization (PHI-NADO) to become a fully independent body just like anti-doping agencies in other countries.
COLLEGE of Saint Benilde wielded the broom in ruling the National Collegiate Athletic Association Season 99 tennis tournament at the Philippine Columbian Association courts in Plaza Dilao in Paco, Manila.
BEIJING—The former president of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) has been sentenced to life in prison amid a wide-ranging crackdown on sports corruption.
IT is no secret that cases of player-to-player relationships in women’s sport are rampant in many parts of the world, especially in America and Europe. First-world countries seem to treat it as common as coughing.
MIAMI GARDENS, Florida — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek and US Open champion Coco Gauff have been knocked out of the Miami Open.
THE NBA has opened an investigation into Toronto two-way player Jontay Porter amid gambling allegations, something Raptors coach Darko Rajaković said he became aware of shortly before the team’s game on Monday night.
LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani said Monday he never bet on sports or knowingly paid any gambling debts accumulated by his longtime interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The 2025 European gymnastics championships will not be staged in Tel Aviv as scheduled because of Israel’s war with Hamas.
STORRS, Conn. — Minutes after his team won the Big East Tournament championship, UConn coach Dan Hurley was worrying aloud about one of his freshmen being lured toward the transfer portal with name, image and likeness compensation offers from other schools.
FORMER NBA guard Ben Gordon, who was arrested after a Connecticut juice shop disturbance last year, could see the charges erased from his record under a probation program approved by a judge Monday.
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