Quality, daily physical education in schools not only reduces obesity amongst our children, but it improves academic performance. With more than 40 years in the field of education, Zientarski has created a highly successful program called the Learning Readiness Physical Education (LRPE) program at Naperville Central High School. The program has produced such dramatic improvements […]
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By Dr. PHILIP ELLA JUICO and DINA BERNARDO, De La Salle University AB Sports Studies has become the default course offering of De La Salle University (DLSU) for most of its varsity athletes. Since January 2014, however, former professors of Sport and Recreation Management at the DLSU Masters Degree Program (such as the authors of […]
Young Tacloban Native Hopes to Fulfill Basketball Dreams with Nike Campaign Tacloban native Jair Borne Marabe, 17, was one of several standouts during the Cebu tryouts of the Nike documentary basketball program “Rise,” headed by former national team coach Chot Reyes. Read more here. Congressman Pacquiao Supports Push to Increase the PSC Budget “Kung hindi magaganda ang […]
By Luigi Bercades, Ph.D., Sports Science and Medicine Anyone with the right sense for sports understands the importance of grassroots development. While many a sport association will bewail “lack of budget” first before lifting a finger, national futsal team’s Coach Rex is driven by his singular dream to cultivate the best possible pipeline of the […]
2015 FIBA Asia Championship: Gilas Grouped with Kuwait and Palestine Interaktv.ph reports: “Gilas Pilipinas was drawn with Middle East teams Kuwait and Palestine — not really known to have strong basketball teams — and a squad from East Asia yet to be determined in Group B of the 16-team tournament slated from September 23 to […]
By Dina Bernardo, SportPhil Founder The Philippines sustained numerous devastation in 2013. Below are four (4) relief efforts that used sports to give affected places something to root for past their post-disaster problems. Can Sport be the Answer? Since 2002, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) have researched and documented the timely and purposeful administration […]
5 Filipino Surfers Compete in the Asian Surfing Championship Tour in Bali Five of the country’s best surfers will be joining the Quicksilver Canggu Challenge, an Asian Surfing Championship-sanctioned competition in Bali, Indonesia this weekend. Read more here. What’s Wrong with Having Fil-Foreign Athletes, Says Juico Amid SEAG Criticisms Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa) president […]
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Seeking the Peripheries in Sports: A Journal at the 2015 Philippine National Open Athletics Championships
By Airnel T. Abarra, Ateneo de Davao University Being inside a Jesuit University, we at the Ateneo de Davao University Athletics office are always reminded by our University President Fr. Joel Tabora, SJ to follow the request of His Holiness Pope Francis to go in the “Peripheries.” In the sport that I am coaching, it […]
Azkals Win Over Bahrain in World Cup Qualifier The Philippine national men’s football team pulled off an upset win 2-1 against higher-ranked Bahrain squad last Thursday match at the Philippine Arena, Bulacan, keeping the country’s hopes alive in qualifying for the next FIFA World Cup tournament in 2018. Full story here. Philippines Ends Friday with 24 Gold […]
The ancient style of the sport of table tennis has successfully been kept alive by a country that has never really been known for playing it, but is now in the perfect position to make the….