STERN TALKS … NBA Commissioner David STORY COURTESY OF THE SUN NEWSPAPER IN ENGLAND AND CORRESPONDENT MARK GILBERT NBA season to start on Christmas Day By MARK GILBERT THE NBA and its players have reached a tentative deal on a new collective bargaining agreement which paves the way for a 66-game season starting on Christmas [...]

Alberto “Big Boy” Reynoso passed away last Tuesday at his home in Sacramento, California last Tuesday according to Ruffy Ignacio, secretary general of the PBA Legends USA Foundation. Ignacio informed the Manila Standard that he had received a call from Francis Arnaiz who played alongside Reynoso in the early years of the PBA to relay [...]

Doctors are deciding on whether to remove the bullet lodged in the base of Talk N’ Text power forward Ali Peek’s skull or to let it remain there. Talk N’ Text coach Chot Reyes who is regarded as one of the closest friends and confidants of Peek told the Manila Standard  that should the doctors decide [...]

    Talk N’ Text center/power forward Ali Peek was shot from behind in the neck at the parking lot of RFM after finishing his workout at the gym around 7 p.m. Former PBA chairman Ricky Vargas told the Manila Standard that Peek was shot by an unidentified assailant . Vargas who is at the [...]

  PBA Press Corps Awards:  Embodying the Genuine Spirit of Basketball Heroes and Champions   (Speech delivered by Chief Justice Renato C. Corona during the Philippine Basketball Association Press Corps Annual Awards Dinner, 7:00 p.m., September 30, 2011, at Gateway Suites, Cubao, Quezon City .)     Philippine Basketball Association Board of Governors, led by Chairman [...]

  2010 Asian Games flyweight gold medalist Rey Saludar clashes with Tajikistan’s 2010 World Combat Games silver medalist, 19 year old Safoviddin Yusufi in a top sixteen bout late tonight at the World Boxing Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. Yusfi lost in the finals to China’s superstar Zou Shiming 7-1 in the finals. An AIBA report [...]

  Congressman Roberto “Robbie”Puno has filed House Resolution 1761 commending and congratulating the Smart Gilas national basketball team for finishing 4th in in the recently concluded Fiba Asia Championship held in Wuhan City, China after dropping a 70-68 heartbreaker to South Korea.   Puno, a longtime basketball fan and sportsman filed the House resolution that gives [...]

  The Philippines, behind the efforts of the Smart Gilas national team has climbed eight places in the FIBA World Rankings and in so doing has broken into the top 50. The latest FIBA rankings places the Philippines at No. 45 just behind 2012 London Olympic Games hosts Great Britain and Portugal. The Philippines heartbreaking [...]

China has always been suspected of doctoring the ages of their players to enable them to qualify for the international youth basketball tournaments of FIBA.