Three Cebuanos win gold, earn Southeast Asian Games slots

Glendale Rosal 12/14/2018

Three Cebuano weightlifters earned slots to compete in the Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) the Philippines is hosting next year after winning gold medals in the 6-in-1 National Weightlifting Championships, which came to an end on Friday at…

Kiyomi Watanabe begins journey to 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Mars G. Alison 03/31/2018

3-time Southeast Asian Games gold medalist Kiyomi Watanabe, whose mother, is a native of Toledo City, Cebu, will begin her journey to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics this May in the Mexico Grand Prix. The Cebu-born Watanabe is…

Tabal receives P100K from Capitol

Morexette B. Erram 09/20/2017

THE Cebu Provincial Government handed P100,000 worth of cash incentive to gold medalist Mary Joy Tabal as recognition for her victory in the Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) held in Malaysia last August. Tabal gave paid a…

The joy of being Joy

Glendale G. Rosal 09/08/2017

ONE of the more famous athletes in the country today is Cebuana Mary Joy Tabal. The 28-year-old marathoner from Barangay Guba, Cebu City made headlines in sports pages  after winning gold in the recent Southeast Asian Games in…

PH struggles vs Singapore, guns for basketball gold

Inquirer.net 08/25/2017

Kuala Lumpur — With Gilas head coach Chot Reyes on the bench, the Philippine men’s basketball team scored an underwhelming 68-60 victory over Singapore to make the Southeast Asian Games finals Friday. Disjointed and groping for form…

Cebuano booters suit up for PH squad in SEAG

Glendale G. Rosal 08/12/2017

ASIDE from Valentino Calvo, another Cebuano will also don the national tri-colors in the Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this month. Fil-Australian booter Jordan Blair Jarvis will see action alongside Calvo in the biennial…

Local sports officials weigh in on Tabal’s exclusion from SEAG

Glendale G. Rosal 06/01/2017

Local sports officials had different takes on the exclusion of Cebuana Olympian Mary Joy Tabal from the athletes’ lineup for the upcoming Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this August. The Philippine Track and Field Association…

Italy training is pushing Tabal beyond her limits

Glendale G. Rosal 05/11/2017

CEBU’S pride, Mary Joy Tabal, is making the most out of her training in Tuscany, Italy. The 27-year-old Tabal, the first Filipina marathoner to vie in the Olympics, is in the middle of a month-long training at…

Cebu spikers show wares in nat’l camp

John Carlo Villaruel 03/21/2017

CESAFI stars Alden Dave Cabaron, John Eduard Carascal and John Kenneth Sarcena got their first taste of action up north as they went toe-to-toe with the other members of the 25-man pool of the Philippine Men’s Volleyball…

3 Cebuano spikers make it to nat’l pool

John Carlo Villaruel 02/28/2017

Three spikers from Cebu will be part of the 20-man training pool for the Philippine Men’s volleyball team for the upcoming Southeast Asian Games slated August in Malaysia. National coach Sinfronio Acaylar, in a text message sent…

Cebu-born Watanabe bags silver in Europe judo open

Rabboni Centino Borbon 02/19/2017

FILIPINO-Japanese Kiyomi Watanabe reaffirmed her status as one of the country’s top judokas as she snatched a silver medal in the 2017 European Judo Open Women yesterday in Oberwart, Austria. Watanabe, born and raised in Cebu, collected…

‘El Presidente’ to go after Patafa for ‘mishandling’ Cebuana Olympian Tabal

Glendale G. Rosal 02/18/2017

PHILIPPINE Sports Commission (PSC) Commissioner Ramon Fernandez vowed to look into the alleged unfair treatment that Cebuana Olympian Mary Joy Tabal got from the Philippine Amateur Track and Field Association (Patafa). Fernandez was outraged when he learned…

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