|
|
|
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 |
|
|
|
Lakers keep title bid alive
|
|
LOS ANGELES: Kobe Bryant scored 25 points but made his biggest moves
defensively Sunday to sustain the championship dreams of the Los
Angeles Lakers and deny the Boston Celtics their first title since
1986.
The National Basketball Association Most
Valuable Player made a critical steal off Boston’s Paul Pierce and
finished the play with a slam dunk in the final seconds to help seal
a 103-98 victory in game five of the NBA Finals.
|
|
 Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
O T H E R R E P O R T S
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Pacman’s road to pound-for-pound
throne
|
|
WHILE The Ring magazine, the acknowledged Bible
of Boxing, has yet to officially put it in print, it is a foregone
conclusion that WBC junior lightweight champion Manny Pacquiao will
ascend to the No.1 spot of the magazine’s pound-for-pound ranking
of the best fighters in the world.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
POC tackles swim issue
|
|
THE ongoing controversy in the Philippine Amateur Swimming
Association (PASA) is expected to be tackled in the Philippine
Olympic Committee Executive Board meeting on Tuesday.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
Woods birdies last to force
playoff with Mediate
|
|
SAN DIEGO: Tiger Woods drained a birdie putt at the final hole
Sunday to set up a David versus Goliath 18-hole playoff with
unheralded American Rocco Mediate at the 108th US Open golf
championship.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
Federer pockets Halle title
|
|
HALLE, Germany: World No.1 Roger Federer won his fifth title at the
713,000-euro Halle ATP tournament here on Sunday, beating
Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
Nadal is king of Queen’s
|
|
LONDON: Rafael Nadal was crowned king of Queen’s after beating
Novak Djokovic 7-6 (8-6), 7-5 in Sunday’s final to claim his first
grasscourt title and deliver a timely Wimbledon warning to Roger
Federer.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
Bancod excited to lead Oriental
Mindoro
|
|
TANDAG CITY: International Master Ronald Bancod is thrilled to carry
the banner of Oriental Mindoro in national competition for the first
time.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
