SAN MIGUEL Beer simply had more firepower than Barako Bull to notch its sixth-straight win, 104-89, on Sunday night in the KFC-Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup at the Araneta Coliseum.

Arwind Santos posted a career-high 33 points and the rest of the Beermen contributed significantly to the victory, the team’s six in a row after starting the season with back-to-back losses.

A DAY after arriving from Guangdong where she won for the country its first gold medal in 22 years in the Asian Athletics Championships, Marestella Torres is back sweating at the historic Rizal Memorial oval.

Her next target? Break the 20-year-old Southeast Asian (SEA) Games long-jump record in Laos next month.

LAS VEGAS—The quest to have you part with $54.95 to see the Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto fight on Saturday night on HBO pay-per-view was in its homestretch here on Wednesday.

If this is a tough sell, it is only because slugfests are not high priority in sluggish economies. Or because the stars, Pacquiao and Cotto, seem to be decent people who speak with respect and are about as controversial as a table napkin.