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GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) — North and South Koreas reunited at a rare game between two rival North and South Korean women’s ice hockey teams in Gangneung on Thursday (April 7). Seoul has given the North Korean women’s ice hockey team the green light on March 29 to take part in the game as the North’s athletes needed approval from Seoul to enter the South after their 1950-53 Korean War ended with a truce, not […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — DeMarcus Cousins was hit with a one-game suspension on Tuesday following his 18th technical foul of the season in New Orleans’ weekend defeat to the Oklahoma City Thunder, the NBA said. Cousins’ suspension means he will miss the Pelicans clash with the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday. He was given a technical after a clash with Oklahoma City’s Steven Adams just 32 seconds into a game his team eventually lost […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) –Masaya Nakamura, the Japanese video game pioneer known as the “father of Pac-Man”, has died aged 91, his company said Monday. Nakamura, who passed away on January 22, founded a company in 1955 that would later become Namco. The company started out by installing two wooden, mechanical horses on a department store rooftop and went on to develop household and arcade games, theme parks and other amusement facilities. It merged with Japanese […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Nintendo shares surged more than five percent on Wednesday after the game giant said it would release a Super Mario app for iPhones next month. The stock price rose as much as 5.5 percent to 26,215 yen before closing the morning session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange up 4.38 percent at 25,950 yen. Shares in Nintendo, creator of the Pokemon franchise, have been on a tear since the July release of […]
(Eagle News) — Matapos matalo sa ginawang ‘tune-up game kontra’ sa bansang Turkey, inaasahan umanong magsasagawa ng ‘adjustment’ ang Gilas Pilipinas para sa muli nitong paghaharap sa susunod na buwan. Batay sa ulat, sa iskor na 103-68, tila pinaglaruan ng Turkey ang Team Gilas sa nasabing match na isinagawa sa Abdi Ipekci Arena sa Istanbul, Turkey kahapon ng madaling araw. Ang naturang ‘tune-up game’ ay bahagi pa rin ng paghahanda ng pambansang koponan para sa […]
by Jim SLATER CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — LeBron James delivered one of his greatest performances Thursday, scoring 41 points to power the Cleveland Cavaliers over Golden State 115-101 and force a one-game showdown for the NBA title. James, who made 16 of 27 shots from the floor, added 11 assists, eight rebounds, four steals and three blocked shots as the Cavaliers leveled the best-of-seven NBA Finals at 3-3, setting up a dramatic seventh-game specatcle […]
by Jim SLATER CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Defending champion Golden State and the LeBron James-led Cleveland Cavaliers rallied around underperforming stars on the eve of Friday’s turning point fourth game in the NBA Finals. The Cavaliers trail the best-of-seven series 2-1 despite a 120-90 romp Wednesday that has many questioning Cleveland’s need for injured forward Kevin Love and why NBA Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry of the Warriors has had only a so-so finals […]
by Jim SLATER OAKLAND, United States (AFP) — Shaun Livingston injured his left leg so badly during a 2007 NBA game that there was talk of amputation and he needed months of rehabilitation just to walk again. So when the defending champion Golden State Warriors needed a spark off the bench to fight off a Cleveland rally in Thursday’s opening game of the NBA Finals, it was no surprise Livingston had the grit and determination […]
OAKLAND, United States (AFP) — Stephen Curry has called on the Golden State Warriors to build on the momentum of their remarkable comeback win over Oklahoma City as they prepare to face LeBron James and Cleveland in the opening game of the NBA Finals on Thursday. The Warriors begin the defense of their NBA crown at the Oracle Arena on Thursday in a dream repeat of last year’s finals, which saw Golden State win the […]
