Philippine News

October 24 ------ ZUS Coffee brewed a major 25-27, 25-17, 25-20, 25-22 upset of Creamline to stay perfect in the 2025 PVL Reinforced Conference at the Playtime Filoil Centre. At the center of it all was American winger Anna DeBeer who had her second 30-piece of the conference with 37 points. For the first time ever, Frank Lao-backed teams in ZUS Coffee and Farm Fresh share the league lead at 3-0, the last two unbeaten sides in the group stage. Bar a late first-set blunder whe

October 24 ------ FRANCISCO "Django" Bustamante turned back the hands of time, stunning world No. 1 Fedor Gorst to move on to the Last 32 of the Philippines Open Pool Championship at Gateway Mall in Cubao. The Team Asia captain engaged in a hill-hill encounter against the world No. 1 and missed on the 8 in the corner pocket in the clincher, but the American also flubbed his shot at the 9, paving the way for Django to take the deciding rack. It followed up Bustamante’s 10-1 ro

LOS ANGELES, October 24 ------ Victor Wembanyama scored 40 points in a sensational NBA return leading the San Antonio Spurs to a 125-92 season-opening victory over the Dallas Mavericks. The 21-year-old French star hadn't played since he was diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis in his shoulder that required surgery in February. But he launched his third season with a dazzling display on both ends of the floor, adding 15 rebounds, a steal and three blocked shots. Already known f

October 23 ------ KEVIN Alas proved to be the ace that NLEX badly needed, scoring 26 points off the bench to help pull off an 87-81 win over Phoenix in the PBA 50th Season Philippine Cup at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium. Alas buried one crucial shot after another in the endgame to lift the Road Warriors to their second win in three outings, allowing the team to get back on track after a stunning loss to minnow Terrafirma last October 12. Phoenix suffered second loss in three games

October 23 ------ Jimmy Butler III scored 31 points, and Stephen Curry added 23 as the visiting Golden State Warriors opened the season with a 119-109 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. Jonathan Kuminga produced 17 points and nine rebounds, and Buddy Hield also had 17 points for the Warriors, who took control with an 18-4 scoring burst to open the second half. Golden State finished 17 of 40 (42.5%) from 3-point range as Kuminga went 4 of 6 from distance and Hield went 5 of

October 23 ------ THE Ryukyu Golden Kings spoiled the first game of Rondae Hollis-Jefferson in a Meralco jersey, hacking out an 81-72 victory over their Philippine rival to make it to the win column of the EASL Home and Away Season 3. The Golden Kings went on a finishing 7-0 run inside the final two minutes to take the fight out of the rallying Bolts side left without Justin Brownlee and Asian import Mohammad Sina Vahedi before a full-house crowd at the Okinawa Suntory Arena.

LOS ANGELES, October 23 ------ Blake Snell will start Game 1 of the World Series on Friday and Yoshinobu Yamamoto will follow in Game 2 for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Toronto Blue Jays, manager Dave Roberts said. It's a repeat of the pitching order the Dodgers used for the first two games of their four-game sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers in the NL Championship Series. Snell had 10 strikeouts over eight scoreless innings in Game 1 on Oct. 13. He became the first Dodge

MANILA, Philippines, October 22 ------ A sister team showdown turned one-sided in the 2025 PVL Reinforced Conference but not the way everyone expected it to go. The winless Cignal Super Spikers, fresh off releasing its import Eva Chantava and playing without Alas Pilipinas ace Vanie Gandler, snapped the three-conference, 15-game winning streak of sister team PLDT High Speed Hitters in a shocking 25-17, 25-22, 25-21 sweep at the Araneta Coliseum. The breakthrough win under the

MANILA, Philippines, October 22 ------ Alex Eala’s finishing woes came back to haunt her early in the WTA 250 Guangzhou Open as world No. 305 Claire Liu pulled off a monumental 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 opening-round upset. Already up 3-1 in the deciding set after giving up her one-set lead in the second, Eala — currently on a career-high world No. 53 rank — still gave the 25-year-old Liu an open window to capitalize, as she broke her serve that bridged the gap to 3-2 and paved the way f

October 22 ------ WORLD No. 1 Fedor Gorst coasted through to the Last 64 of the Philippines Open Pool Championship at Gateway Mall in Cubao. The American cue master was hardly challenged by Billy Jay Garcia, cruising to a 10-1 victory in the single-elimination tournament as he led the first 40 players to get through to the next round. Carlo Biado gained an automatic bye after his opponent Toby Alcantara failed to show up, and so did Hong Kong-raised Pinoy Robbie Capito, Hanoi

MANILA, Philippines, October 22 ------ Alas Pilipinas men seek to return to the Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) final in December after turning heads in the FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship. The Alas official page has revealed the groupings in the 33rd SEA Games in Thailand with the men’s national volleyball team being grouped with three-peat champion Indonesia, fast-rising Cambodia, which reached the 2023 final and won bronze in 2022, and Myanmar in Pool B. Pool A

MANILA, October 21 ------ Alex Eala brings with her a new career-best ranking ahead of her return to action in the WTA250 Guangzhou Open on Tuesday after she improved to World No. 53. Despite her early exit in the WTA250 Kinoshita in Japan, the 20-year-old Eala still managed to jump a place higher from her previous ranking of No. 54. This is a much-needed boost for Eala, who has now earned 1131 points, as she will be competing both in the singles and doubles tournament of the

October 21 ------ PENCAK Silat rising star Kram Airam Carpio won the first gold medal for the Philippines at the 3rd Asian Youth Games in Manama, Bahrain. A silver medalist at the Asian Championships, Carpio proved to be too much for her youth counterparts as she swept all her assignments in the event which will officially open on Wednesday. The soft-spoken pride of Laguna dismantled Qiken Dwi Tata Olifia of Indonesia, 33-19, in the gold medal round. Carpio’s victory was a st

October 21 ------ DWIGHT Ramos and Francis Lopez split their first faceoff in the Japan B.League as the Levanga Hokkaido hosted the Fighting Eagles Nagoya this weekend at Hokkai Kitayell. Ramos anchored Hokkaido's 90-74 victory, putting up 13 points, eight assists, one rebound, and one steal against Lopez' two boards, an assist, and a block in 13 minutes. The former University of the Philippines forward drew first blood on Saturday as Nagoya took the 91-74 win, finishing with

October 21 ------ With LeBron James sidelined, Luka Doncic opens the new NBA season as unquestioned leader of the Los Angeles Lakers, the Slovenian superstar eyeing a long-awaited MVP and hoping to turn his dominance into silverware for the storied franchise. The 26-year-old guard enters his first full season in purple and gold after signing a three-year, $165- million extension over the summer. He is in top form, having led Slovenia to the EuroBasket quarterfinals, where he

MANILA, Philippines, October 20 ------ The Meralco Bolts lost an 18-point lead but made key plays down the stretch to win their third straight game in the PBA Philippine Cup at the expense of Magnolia, 78-76, as they handed LA Tenorio his first defeat as head coach.   The Bolts, playing in their third game in five days, held on against the gritty Hotshots as they now turn their attention to their EASL game in Japan later this week. CJ Cansino continued his dazzling display th

October 20 ------ CARLOS Yulo booked a place in the vault and floor exercise final of the 53rd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia on Sunday.   The two-time Olympic champion topped the qualification round of the vault with a total of 14.750, and finished second in the floor exercise with a score of 14.700. Yulo will first compete for the gold medal in the floor exercise on Friday, followed by the vault on Saturday.   The 25-year-old Yulo is only comp

MANILA, Philippines, October 20 ------ Not a few raised their eyebrows on the selection of teenager AJ Manas to the star-studded Team Asia side ahead of its title defense against the equally talented Team Rest of the World (ROW). “Hayaan ko na lang sila, basta ako gagawin ko na lang ‘yong best para ma-prove na karapatdapat ako rito,” the 19-year-old Manas confidently said last Wednesday.   True to his words, Manas anchored the Asian bets with a dominating 11-3 win over ROW to

October 20 ------ The stardust had barely settled over Dodger Stadium before the debate got under way. Was this the greatest performance by the greatest player in baseball history? Shohei Ohtani wrote another entry into his ever-expanding catalogue of the improbable on Friday, blasting three home runs and recording 10 strikeouts to send the Los Angeles Dodgers back to the World Series.   The Japanese superstar’s sensational display in a 5-1 victory that completed a series swe

October 19 ------ THE FILIPINAS will play a friendly against Uzbekistan on October 29 as part of the collaboration between the Philippine Football Federation and GoTyme Bank. The friendly, dubbed as the ‘GoTyme Bank Match Up,’ will be held at the Rizal Memorial Stadium and serves as tune-up for the Nationals' participation in the 2026 AFC Women’s Asian Cup in Australia. Uzbekistan, ranked No. 52 in the world, will also be in action in the Asian Cup. “This international friend