Tag: berths
Cone freezes talk on Gilas berths for Ginebra’s Go, Abarrientos
RJ Abarrientos (with ball) has national team experience but may be too young for the current Gilas pool. —FIBA. BASKETBALL Barangay Ginebra acquired RJ Abarrientos and Isaac Go in time for the Philippine Basketball Association’s (PBA) upcoming 49th season. That gave rise to speculation that Gin Kings head coach Tim Cone, who also calls the…
Read More
Young set of NBA stars take over NBA playoffs and will be disputing berths in NBA Finals
Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton (left) and Minnesota’s Anthony Edwards. | PHOTOS: AFP and AP The NBA conference finals starting on Tuesday will showcase a new generation of stars as Boston takes on Indiana in the East and Dallas clashes with Minnesota in the West for a place in the Finals. Boston’s 26-year-old Jayson Tatum and 27-year-old…
Read More
PH rowers target Paris berths in Korea qualifier
Cris Nievarez, in action in this file photo, becomes the first Filipino rower to make the Games’ quarterfinals. —INQUIRER FILE PHOTO Cris Nievarez banners a lean Philippine rowing team that will set up camp in China starting this week as they gun for Olympic berths in Paris later this year through the Asian and Oceania…
Read More
PH teens book Winter Youth Games berths
No snow? No problem. The Philippines proved that a season is no match for the spirit as three of the country’s rising talents punched tickets to the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics tha gets going on Jan. 19 in Gangwon, South Korea. Peter Joseph Groseclose, Avery Uriel Balbanida and Laetaz Amihan Rabe will carry the country’s…
Read More
Race for UAAP championship series berths gets going, and it could be a sprint for the top two to there
UP guard Gerry Abadiano during a game against Ateneo in the second round of the UAAP Season 86 men’s basketball tournament.–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net The best of the best of the UAAP Season 86 men’s basketball tournament have come this far, to a stage where the veritable men always get separated from the boys. The Final Four,…
Read More
Grieving Lady Tams, Golden Spikers book first semifinal berths – rezal404
Kiesha Bedonia tries to find an angle for a kill off a San Sebastian block. —CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Far Eastern University’s (FEU) Lady Tamaraws and the Golden Spikers of University of Santo Tomas (UST) bagged the first semifinals berths in their respective divisions of the V-League Collegiate Challenge after impressive wins on Sunday at Paco Arena.…
Read More
Carlo Paalam, Nesthy Petecio secure SEA Games boxing bronzes with semis berths – rezal404
FILE-The Philippines’ Nesthy Petecio during the Tokyo Olympics. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO / POOL / AFP) MANILA, Philippines—Tokyo Olympics silver medalists Carlo Paalam and Nesthy Petecio stamped their class and secured sure bronzes in the 32nd Southeast Asian Games at Chroy Changvar Convention Center: Hall G on Monday. Petecio proved too much for Laos’ Minavanh…
Read More