Local Sports

Lagging behind on the first kilometers of the competition,51 year old,  JICA personnel, and 1 time champion of Yamagoto Bike Race 24 years ago, Masakatzu Komatsu used his experience and expertise to break away from the pack at the exhausting and very excruciating  series of up and down hills of Nga…

Forty PBA members woke up early morning on Sunday to conducted, September 20, 2009 a Clean-up drive.  The activity gave PBA members a chance to help keep Palau beautiful and to get to mingle with the old and the new faces who shares similar passion on the sport of badminton.  The five kilometer wal…

Kabiriel is among the five athletes from CNMI who will participate in the half-marathon that will kick off at the Gov. Joseph Flores Memorial Park in Tumon on Oct. 18. The female Saipan athlete who will join them is Mamiko Berger. Kabiriel said over 500 athletes from many countries have already sig…

Aside from the three ongoing basketball events, the other community sports like the fun run on Banzai Cliff, the private school volleyball and fundraising golf tournaments that are scheduled from Friday to Sunday were all cancelled due to the typhoon which was anticipated to be strong with 133 mph …

Kiyoshi and Ichihara took turns in hitting shots to outscore Hi-Five’s trigger man, Ezra Caro who controlled his team’s offense in the first period. Dino Palacios scored eight of his 14 points to help Runnin’ Rebels widen the gap towards the end of the first half when Kiyoshi and Ichihara also bask…

The game drew a huge crowd to witness which of the teams will taste first defeat. Hyatt stunned IT&E with an early bombing campaign as Bernard Aquino and Ronald Delos Reyes poured eight and seven points respectively in the first quarter. Both teams gave each other a narrow path ahead resulting …

To mark the 25t anniversary of their controversial first aborted match in Moscow — where Tolya led 5-0 only to allow Garik to recover and notch three wins — the two titans played four rapid and eight blitz games in Valencia, Spain on Sept. 21-24. According to IM Malcolm Pein, who annotates our feat…

Dolly Pamintuan, the shop’s manager handed yesterday a well-designed jacket to NMI’s veteran referee, Arnold Mesa who is playing with Team Guam in the World Masters Olympic set to kick off on Oct. 10. Tailored, Barbara Francisco, the suit is made of a material tough enough to protect Mesa from Sydn…

Gener Lazona, Aris Olivos and Jao Bernardo took turns in firing successful two-pointers to pull Olivos away and secured its 90-55 win. Camacho fired a three-point shots in the fourth quarters while Capalad basketed his three penalty shots. Both Lazona and Bernardo chipped in 12 points, while Emil O…

Dan Mateo fired his second three-point shot and Christian De Vero added four points in the final half of the game to help the G-Stars rout the Celtics. Rodney Salas launched the rally early in the first half and Nate Mateo barreled through Celtics defense to pick up fouls then, basketed all his six…