Semifinals Blog Posts

Serena Williams is now convincingly penetrated the semifinals of the tennis tournament in Rome. The U.S. number 1 in the world won 6-2 6-0 by the Spanish Carla Suarez Navarro. Williams is her 22nd win in a row. Last week, she’s extended at the...

Down three games to one and facing elimination, the Chicago Bulls brought a valiant effort to AmericanAirlines Arena on Wednesday night, but couldn’t hold off the defending champs as Miami rallied for a 94-91 victory to close the series. The Bu...

Since dropping Game 1, the Miami Heat have come to life in their best-of-seven series with Chicago. On Monday night, Miami routed the Bulls 88-65 to take a commanding three games to one lead in the series. The Miami defense held Chicago to just 26 pe...

The top-seeded Pittsburgh Penguins never led on Saturday night, but rallied to win on an overtime goal from Brooks Orpik, 4-3. With the victory, Pittsburgh advances to the Eastern Conference Semifinals by taking the series 4-2. The teams traded goals...

Two conference semifinals series began on Monday. Tuesday will feature a pair of Game 2s. Eastern Conference Semifinals – Game 1 (5) Chicago Bulls 93, (1) Miami Heat 86 Miami opened its biggest lead of seven with 6:30 to play, but Chicago finis...

One day after being named MVP, LeBron James and the Miami Heat let Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals slip away on Monday night. The Chicago Bulls closed Game 1 on a 24-10 run to win 93-86 and now lead the best-of-seven series 1-0. James sco...

It became official on Sunday that Miami Heat forward LeBron James is the 2013 Kia NBA Most Valuable Player. James averaged 26.8 points, 8 rebounds and 7.3 assists-per-game this season and led Miami to the best record in the league at 66-16. James gar...

Today, you got the great headlines about Champions League Semifinals: Final, Dortmund 0, Real Madrid 2 – New York Times (blog). We idea you can suffer it. Brilliant in the initial leg as great as dauntless in the second, Borussia Dortmund moder...

What if Jim Ross was covering Ginebra vs. Talk 'n Text last Sunday? For those who watched Game 2 of the PBA Commissioner's Cup semifinal series between Barangay Ginebra San Miguel and the Talk 'n Text Tropang Texters, aside from the result, you saw...

While the Orlando Magic were in no way close to making the playoffs this season, Orlando does have a long playoff history. The Magic have two NBA Finals appearances and some very good playoff memories. But for all the good, there are just as many if...

Prior to Wednesday night’s 101-97 loss to the Chicago Bulls, the last time that the Miami Heat had lost was February 1st. At that time, the New York Giants were still reigning Super Bowl champions, the pope’s name was Benedict and Josh Sm...

Maria Sharapova has Wednesday to the semifinals of the tournament in Miami fought. The Russian number two of the world recorded a laborious victory Sara Errani of Italy 7-5 7-5. Sharapova hit a whopping 14 double faults. She also had a hard defensi...

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INDIANAPOLIS – Dwyane Wade scored 41 points as the Miami Heat erased an early deficit to defeat the Indiana Pacers 105-93 in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. With the win, the Heat take the series four games to two and advance to th...

Talk N' Text Tropang Texters gives the Barako Bull Energy Booster their own doze of medicine after trouncing the series leader 108-90.  Despite a cut on his right eyebrow,  Ranidel De Ocampo showed everyone why he is a National Team Mate...

B-MEG Llamados overcome a scary first-half deficit and en route a trip to the finals as they defeat the Barangay Ginebra Gin Kings with a sounding beating 108-84. B-Meg banked on their regular locals led by James Yap and Joe Devance who s...

Due to lack of name suggestions (and with the hype of B-Meg winning over Ginebra still on me), I just placed the topic of my new post as the title. As the name obviously suggests, the UEFA Champions' League is now on its semifinal stage. Only Real Ma...

Chot Reyes and his wards found themselves in an unusual Suddent-Death Match against a team that they first though would be easy for them.  The Tropang Texters were stunned on the first game of the series by the Manong Brig...

Before I start, I'll gonna quote two tweets that flashed on my Facebook and Twitter walls this past weekend: Don't blame refs. It's like this. You own 2 teams. 1 has healthy lineup; the other isn't. You face mortal enemy next. Which will you send.

Mick Pennisi, Gabe Freeman and company only needs one more win to advance to the finals of the Commissioners Cup as they pounded the Defending Champion Talk N' Text Tropang Texters 85-81 in game three of their series at the Cuneta Astrodome.  M...