Tryouts for big-league spots
THE newly formed Filipino Australian Basketball (FAB) is opening the door for young players with tryouts for spots in a big-name team of the National Basketball League (NBL). In a first for the Filipino basketball community, three of the best players selected from the tryouts may fill one reserve point-guard position and two development team positions More...
‘Assassin’ books June date
AUSTRALIAN light-welterweight champion Jack ‘Assassin’ Asis returns to the ring in Toowoomba on Friday, June 7, for a stoush with Jose Saez, of Argentina. Jack Asis (left) lands a jab on the face of More...
Bully for Bailey
BANKSTOWN soccer club picked a 12-year-old Filipino-Australian for its Men’s State League Premier 2 rep team this season and already the young striker has rewarded the club with three goals and several assists More...
Multi-talented Fil-Aussie teen wins basketball dream
Rising Filipino-Australian cage star, Ridge Dominic Mantua, a consistent recipient of MVP awards in junior leagues, bagged a basketball scholarship at the Sacred Heart College-Ateneo de Cebu High School. Ridge Dominic More...
‘Hand-of-Stone’ retains title
CMPBELLTOWN-based Filipino, Roberto ‘Hand of Stone’ Lerio, retained the Australian bantamweight championship belt with a third-round knockout of Australian Brad Hore at the Royal International Convention More...
Basketball aficionados hatch ‘Eagles’
Basketball NSW welcomed last week the latest push for an officially state-sanctioned Filipino-Australian basketball association, and called on the growing number of Filipino-Australian players, officials and clubs More...
Taking rugby league to Filipino youth
AFTER his retirement in March 2013, Philippine National Rugby League (PNRL) board member Tom Simpson didn’t take long to move his family and start development of rugby league in the province of Zambales, north More...
Day beats his idol but misses Masters jacket
FILIPINO-Australian Jason Day (-7) beat his golfing idol, America’s Tiger Woods (-5), by two strokes to place third outright in the final round of the 2013 US Golf Masters tournament in Augusta, Georgia, on More...
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