UFC reportedly coming to Manila in 2014

The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s long-rumored entry to the Philippines could be happening as soon as next year, according to a report.'

In his Twitter account, MMAFighting.com and FOX Sports’ Ariel Helwani posted that UFC president Dana White spoke about staging a fight card in the country in 2014.

“Dana says they will hold a fight card in the Philippines next year,” Helwani said on the social networking site.

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FIBA World Cup in the Philippines? MVP and co. studying possibility

With the Philippines gaining a stellar reputation among officials of FIBA after successfully hosting the Asian championship tournament earlier this month, local basketball officials are studying the possibility of putting up a bid to host the Basketball World Cup in 2019.

Officials of the world basketball body were impressed with the country’s staging of the FIBA Asia Championship from August 1 to 11 at the Mall of Asia Arena, from the venue to the accommodations to the technical aspects of the broadcast.

“They’re using the Philippines as a role model. Legend tayo roon sa mga FIBA officials. Ibang klase raw talaga how the event was hosted, the atmosphere inside the venue and how we were able to put up a world class coverage,” said Reyes.

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The Gilas Pilipinas national basketball team had an unwritten motto – “No Pain, No Spain” which dramatized their readiness to make the sacrifices necessary to be able to fulfill the quest for a place in the FIBA World Cup in Spain, next September.

The sacrifices the players, coaching staff and even the utility guys made were recognized by Samahang Basketbol Ng Pilipinas president, business tycoon Manny Pangilinan whose passionate support for a number of sports, particularly basketball, is legendary.

Pangilinan referred  to “the devotion of these players to their families” citing Marc Pingris, reserve Beau Belga who gave it his all throughout the training stint, Larry Fonacier, Gary David, Gabe Norwood and others.

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SBP praises volunteers as unsung heroes of successful FIBA Asia Championship hosting

Much has been said about the success of the just-concluded FIBA Asia Championship, both in terms of the country’s performance as host and the second place finish of Gilas Pilipinas to qualify for next year’s World Cup in Spain.

Not everybody knows though that had it not been for the some 250 volunteers who manned the groups that worked under the Local Organizing Committee, the Philippines would not have enjoyed the appreciation it is now receiving from all the national delegations representing 15 countries that took part in the 11-day concloave from August 1 to 11.

“Yes, marami nang naisulat, especially on our Gilas Pilipinas’ recapturing our deserved place in the World Championship, pero halos wala tungkol sa mga taong nagkaisang tumulong para maging matagumpay ang ating hosting,” Samahang Basketbol Ng Pilipinas executive director Sonny Barrios related on Friday in the SCOOP Sa Kamayan session at the Kamayan Restaurant-Padre Faura.

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Olympics should be next target for Gilas Pilipinas, says Robert Jaworski

MANILA — For annexing the silver medal in the recent FIBA Asia Championship, the Philippines regained its place in the FIBA World Cup, ending years of futility in.

If Philippine basketball’s living legend Robert Jaworski will have his way, the next target would be to get back to the Olympic Games hoops tournament for the first time since the Munich Summer Games 31 years ago in 1972.

“Yes, I believe that in succeeding in our target to play anew in the World Cup, the next we should aspire for is for us to see action again in the Olympic Games,” Jaworski told the Philippine News Agency in a telephone interview upon arriving from a business trip to China the other day.

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Barrios: SBP will send ‘best’ to Madrid

SAMAHANG Basketbol ng Pilipinas executive director Sonny Barrios said the Philippines will send the “best team” to the 2014 Fiba World Cup in Spain.

“We assure everybody that we will form the best team we can and put all the best players on the floor,” said Barrios during yesterday’s PSA Forum at Shakey’s Malate.

The Fiba World Cup is set Aug. 30 to Sept. 14 in six locations in Spain—Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Bilbao, Granada and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

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So advances in World Chess Cup

Filipino Grandmaster Wesley So crushed GM Alexander Ipatov of Turkey, 1.5-0.5, to advance to the second round of the 2013 World Chess Cup at the Scandic Hotel in Tromso, Norway. 

The 33th seed So (ELO 2708), one of the most popular young players in the tournament, beat 96th seed Ipatov (ELO 2583) in the first game of their standard play after 45 moves of the Petroff Defense late Sunday using white. 

The draw in the second match late Monday was all that the 19-year-old Filipino sensation needed to eliminate the 20-year-old Lviv, Ukraine born Ipatov, the reigning World Junior champion. 

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MANILA, Philippines — If there’s any player who knows how to win in the world stage, it’s Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant.

Bryant, one of the leaders of Team USA which took home the gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Summer Games, shared his thoughts on how the country’s Gilas Pilipinas can take that next step when it competes next year in the FIBA World Cup in Spain.

“Just continue to play together,” said Bryant, who arrived early Monday morning as brand ambassador for Lenovo Mobile, during a press conference at Passion Restaurant at Maxim’s Hotel in Resorts World Manila.

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Reyes, PH team to embark on ‘biggest challenge’ yet in FIBA-Asia

MANILA, Philippines—There’s no denying the immense pressure riding heavily on the shoulders of the country’s men’s basketball team aiming to reclaim its glory in the Asian basketball scene.

And Chot Reyes, the national team coach, knows it well.

“The way to handle the pressure is to acknowledge that it’s there. We cannot deny it. We have to acknowledge it so that we can embrace it,” Reyes said.

“I don’t think there is any bigger pressure than what we put on ourselves and I don’t think anybody is going to pressure us as much as these teams on the table,” Reyes added, referring to fellow FIBA-Asia Championship contenders Kazakhstan, China, Iran and Jordan during a press conference Tuesday.

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