Spikers’ Turf powerhouse Cignal and Steven Rotter have mutually agreed to part ways, the team announced Friday night. Rotter played a pivotal role for the HD Spikers over the past year, helping anchor the club’s championship runs in the 2024 Invitational and 2025 Open Conferences. The former AMC Cotabato standout claimed both Best Opposite Spiker […]
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As the calendar flipped and fireworks lit up the sky at the stroke of midnight, the biggest bang of the New Year belonged to Eya Laure. After a year-long absence from the Premier Volleyball League, Laure officially ushered in a new chapter by signing with Choco Mucho, ending months of uncertainty surrounding one of the […]
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Alas Pilipinas spent the year climbing heights it had never reached before. From the indoor courts to the open sand, the program showed a steady rise throughout the year, with its men’s and women’s teams breaking barriers that had long defined the country’s limits on the international stage. Breakthroughs on Both Fronts The ascent began […]
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Two years ago, SIBOL Pilipinas medaled in every event it entered at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games, finishing third overall with two golds, one silver, and three bronzes before going on to reign supreme as overall champions of the IESF World Esports Championship. That success now feels distant, overshadowed by a series of heartbreaks in […]
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The Philippines closed its 33rd Southeast Asian Games campaign with a defining statement—one that now stands as the strongest collective performance by Philippine football and futsal teams in the nation’s SEA Games history. Across women’s football, men’s football, and women’s futsal, Philippine teams advanced deeper than ever before, doing so with conviction, competitiveness, and consistency […]
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Two weeks before the WTA 1000 Miami Open last March, Alex Eala competed in the ITF W75 Trnava in Slovakia. Ranked 140th in the world at the time, Eala was defeated in the second round by world No. 266 Valentina Ryser of Switzerland, 6-4, 2-6, 2-6. Two months earlier, she missed out on the women’s […]
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As 2025 draws to a close, one group stands head and shoulders above the rest in Philippine football — the Philippine Women’s National Football Team. The Filipinas have become the undisputed standard-bearers of the sport in the country. In a year defined by their reclamation of the Southeast Asian throne and cementing their status as […]
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Undermanned but unyielding, University of Santo Tomas–Gameville pulled off a stunning reverse sweep of Far Eastern University–DN Steel, 22-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-23, 15-13, to secure a semifinals berth in the 2025 Spikers’ Turf Invitational Conference on Sunday at the Paco Arena. Playing without stars Josh Ybañez, Al Bukharie-Sali, JJ Macam, and even head coach Odjie […]
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Up against some of the world’s best spikers, Alas Pilipinas places its hopes on its middle blockers and liberos — who vow that, no matter the odds, they will stand as the team’s first and last line of defense. The Philippines’ defensive team is bracing itself for an uphill climb in the 2025 FIVB Volleyball […]
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Whatever milestone Alex Eala achieves in her professional career will always be historic for Philippine tennis. No Filipino singles player — male or female — has ever reached the heights that Eala has attained in the Open Era. On Sunday morning, Philippine time, Eala captured the biggest victory of her career so far. She emerged […]
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Alas Pilipinas enters the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship with nothing to lose and everything to fight for. Ranked second-lowest in the 32-nation field, the Filipinos carry no heavy expectations—only the hunger to prove themselves. For Italian head coach Angiolino Frigoni, the pressure rests not on his squad, but on their seasoned opponents who […]
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