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Cruiserweight contender and fight analyst BJ Flores thinks that a bout between Manny Pacquiao and his former training partner Amir Khan would make a compelling fight.

The fact that they have sparred with each other in the past should play a major factor, as they are already familiar with each other’s styles, Flores told On The Ropes Boxing.

The Philippine national men’s football team will get much-needed competition from an old foe in its preparations for its match against Uzbekistan in the FIFA World Cup qualifiers in September.

The 125th-ranked Azkals will play the 175th-ranked Maldives in a friendly match on September 3, 8:00 pm at the Rizal Memorial Stadium.

Marc Pingris dropped by Gilas Pilipinas practice on Saturday afternoon to formally inform coach Tab Baldwin of his unavailability to suit up for the national team.

The Star Hotshots forward was teary-eyed as he talked to the American-Kiwi mentor at the Meralco Gym in Pasig City, getting emotional for his inability to serve the flag.

Barangay Ginebra fans have spoken. They want no less than Eat Bulaga’s emerging star Yaya Dub (Maine Mendoza in real life) to be the team’s muse for the opening of the PBA’s 41st season this October.

Social media accounts of Ginebra fans have been flooded by requests to make Yaya Dub the Kings’ muse ever since her onscreen love team with Alden Richards in the ‘Kalyeserye’ of the country’s longest-running noontime show rose to phenomenal heights.

After his performance at the 2015 Adidas Global Nations camp (WATCH KOBE PARAS HIGHLIGHT VIDEOS HERE), Kobe Paras captured the eye of a NBA scouting website as one of the top wing prospects for high school classes 2016 and 2017.

Mike Schmitz, a video scout for Draft Express, included the 17-year-old Filipino cager as one of the standouts during the training camp.

Marcus Douthit will no longer be part of the Philippine national men’s basketball program.

Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas executive director Sonny Barrios confirmed to InterAksyon in a text message that the 6-foot-10 naturalized player, who had represented the Philippines several times over the past four years, will not have his contract renewed once it expires in September.

Gilas Pilipinas open its campaign in the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship in taking on Palestine at 11:45 a.m. on September 23 at the Changsha Social World College Gymnasium in Changsha, China.

The Nationals, in a light preliminary-round bracket, next play Hong Kong at 9:30 a.m. the following day, then Kuwait at 4:45 p.m. on Sept. 25.