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Harlem Globetrotters versus Ilonggos
by Raffy Uytiepo - November 21, 2023 - 12:00am
Don’t look now but did you know the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters, the wizards of basketball, played in Bacolod City when they first  came to the  Philippines in 1953?.
Ethiopian breaks course record
by Raffy Uytiepo - November 14, 2023 - 12:00am
Tamikat Tola of Ethiopia clocked two hours, 4 minutes and 58 seconds in the recent New York City Marathon to break Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai’s course record set in 2011.
Celtics are scary
by Raffy Uytiepo - November 7, 2023 - 12:00am
In a previous column, I wrote that the Boston Celtics after coming short in the last two seasons are finally on track to win their 18th crown.
Obiena cries foul
by Raffy Uytiepo - October 31, 2023 - 12:00am
EJ Obiena was fuming mad when the wife of former Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie accused the world’s number two pole vaulter of doping. 
The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre
by Raffy Uytiepo - October 24, 2023 - 12:00am
The current war between Israel and the terror group Palestinian-backed Hamas brought memories of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre when eight members of the Palestinian militant organization during the infamous Black...
Kiptum breaks marathon record
by Raffy Uytiepo - October 17, 2023 - 12:00am
I said it before and I’ll say it again, soon the marathon record will fall below 2 hours.
Maybe this year
by Raffy Uytiepo - October 10, 2023 - 12:00am
The Boston Celtics blew two attempts in annexing their 18th crown in the NBA the past two seasons.
Ethiopian breaks marathon record
by Raffy Uytiepo - October 3, 2023 - 12:00am
Ethiopian Tigst Assefa became the first woman to break the 2:12 barrier in marathon history when she clocked 2:11:53 in the Berlin Marathon.
Hangzhou Asian Games
by Raffy Uytiepo - September 26, 2023 - 12:00am
Don’t look now, but the Philippines is out to improve its performance in the 2023 Asian Games, which opened in Hangzhou, China last Saturday.
2024 Usa Supreme Team
by Raffy Uytiepo - September 19, 2023 - 12:00am
After a disappointing fourth place finish by Team USA in the FIBA World Championship, Lebron James, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant signified their intentions to join the American Team in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
World record athletics championship
by Raffy Uytiepo - August 22, 2023 - 12:00am
The World Athletics Championship opened last August 19 in Budapest, Hungary with over 200 athletes from 202 countries, participating in 49 events. Alvaro Martin of Spain took the first gold medal after winning the...
Winning streak
by Raffy Uytiepo - August 15, 2023 - 12:00am
In my last column, I wrote on the first runner-up finish of Western Visayas,in the process crowning themselves kings and queens of athletics in this year’s Palarong Pambansa.
Track kings and queens
by Raffy Uytiepo - August 8, 2023 - 12:00am
Western Visayas achieved it’s highest over-all finish in the Palarong Pambansa in a decade, winning 24 gold  medals in Athletics to place  second behind defending champion National Capital Regio...
Move over Curry
by Raffy Uytiepo - August 1, 2023 - 12:00am
Sabrina Ionescu of the New York Liberty won the WNBA 3-point contest recently in Las Vegas. 
NBA players in the world
by Raffy Uytiepo - July 4, 2023 - 12:00am
Don’t look now, but foreign players in the National Basketball Association are looking forward to hook up with their National Teams.
The first dunker
by Raffy Uytiepo - June 27, 2023 - 12:00am
The first seven-footer player is hardly a big name but Bob Kurland, also known as “Foothills,”
So close but…
by Raffy Uytiepo - June 13, 2023 - 12:00am
The Boston Celtics were on the verged of re-writing history, coming from a -0.3 deficit to win a championship, but it was not to be so.  It also made me a fake prophet, predicting that the Celtics would be NBA...
Boston icon Rick Hoyt dies
by Raffy Uytiepo - May 30, 2023 - 12:00am
Rick Hoyt who was born with cerebral palsy and could not use his arms or legs, finished the Boston Marathon 36 times, using his wheelchair with his father Dick, pushing the chair over 1,000 races. 
Happy days over
by Raffy Uytiepo - May 23, 2023 - 12:00am
In my previous columns, I wrote on the scheming and manipulating ways of hosts countries in the Southeast Asian Games.
Black is beautiful
by Raffy Uytiepo - May 16, 2023 - 12:00am
Segregation was a set of laws that forced people of different races to live separately. 
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