Building ‘courts of inspiration’
By Jovic Yee
The Filipinos’ love for basketball is undeniable. In practically every town in the country, you’ll find at least one basketball court.
The Filipinos’ love for basketball is undeniable. In practically every town in the country, you’ll find at least one basketball court.
Swatch joins tennis fans everywhere in anticipating the excitement and high drama of center court action at the Roland Garros French Open 2013.
The powerful spikes used to echo in the gym. It’s a sound he remembers well, says coach Ramil de Jesus of this season’s champions, the La Salle women’s volleyball team. On many occasions, he had to deal with the loneliness of a quiet court.
For one weekend, they became surfers by day and DJs by night. At the recent Billabong All Girls Surf Camp, 24 young women experienced the surf-and-music lifestyle on the sunny shores of San Juan, La Union. Held March 15-17 at San Juan Surf Resort, the girls worked on perfecting their surfing skills—under the watchful eye of pro surfer Luke Landrigan, and Elaine Abonal of Surfista Travels, a surf tour company.
If silence had a name, it was probably stuck in the open mouths of a thousand stunned spectators inside a mall theater one particular Sunday afternoon in December. Just moments ago, the revitalized crowd cheered as their icon pummeled away at a ghost he had failed to bury several times in the past, the roar [...]
Standing 10 meters from the target, Richard Gomez pulls a pencil-thin arrow from the pouch on his hip. With his bow stave positioned toward the target, he aims and releases the arrow. It lands, piercing the board, which is as tough as cement.
When Calvin Abueva signed up for the rookie draft, he listed his height as 6’4”. Turns out-after an official measurement-he actually stands just 6’1½”.
Mabuhay Miles Elite Invitational, a one-day golf tournament at the sprawling Eagle Ridge Golf and Country Club in Cavite, marked two important milestones—the 10th anniversary of Mabuhay Miles, Philippine Airlines’ (PAL) popular frequent-flyer program, natch, and the 20th year of the tournament itself, dahlings.
During the polo season, the players make their dashing runs and glorious strokes on various polo fields around the south of Metro Manila. The numbers of players participating are growing and more women are joining this male-dominated sports.
Year 2014 can’t come soon enough for football fans, but they will have to take the backseat for now as 2013 is still the year for running.
Most tennis players know that the biggest tournaments of the year are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. But for Filipino tennis players, none is bigger than the Philippine Columbian Association (PCA) Open, now on its 31st year. Held at the Philippine Columbian Sports Complex on Plaza Dilao in Paco, Manila, it is the longest running tennis tournament in the country.
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