James Quizon

It’s a match-up that pits the league’s best scorer in Kevin Durant against the NBA’s best passer, Chris Paul as the Oklahoma City Thunder will visit the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night.

Look out Minnesota, a big city team is targeting your prized superstar when the offseason rolls in 2015.

After stirring blowouts to kick-off their respective campaigns in the new season, Michigan State Spartans and Kentucky Wildcats will face off against each other in an early battle between top-ranked teams and preseason favorites.

NBA superstars usually step-up on the court and deliver great performances in all their athletic glory. After the devastation of storm Haiyan in the Philippines, some of those superstars forgot about their stardom and went out of their way—either via twitter or other activities—to show support for the basketball-crazy country.

Struggling for form already to start the season, the Los Angeles Lakers will be missing Steve Nash because of the same injury he suffered last season. The 39-year-old Nash experienced back pains in the first quarter of their game versus the Minnesota Timberwolves last Saturday.

With upsets against higher-ranked players in the group stages, Switzerland’s top two players Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka are into the final four of the 2013 ATP World Tour Finals to take on the top two players in the world in Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, respectively at The O2 in London.

In this section, we’ll be monitoring Andrew Bogut’s production for the entire 2013-14 NBA Season. Can he stay healthy for the entire 82-game grind? Will he improve on his numbers from last season?

After what probably was the longest rally in his career or the eight-year relationship as boyfriend-girlfriend, Novak Djokovic popped the winner question to longtime partner Jelena Ristic in September 2013, and the 27-year-old said yes faster than any of Djokovic’s aces.

The Denver Nuggets are winless through three games in the 2013-14 NBA regular season. A match-up with the Atlanta Hawks, which have yet to win a game in Mile High City since 2006, could be a good opportunity to notch their first victory of the season.

The remaining six couples return for a second and final special Sunday show on November 10 and if the betting odds are to be believed, the 21-year-old model with partner Jade Hatcher or 31-year-old gold medalist pole vaulter with dancing mate Ash-Leigh Hunter will be booted out from the competition.

Just a game after dropping 137 points, the Los Angeles Clippers couldn’t get anything going against the lowly Orlando Magic and suffered a 98-90 loss Wednesday Night. Playing in their first back-to-back games of the season, the Clippers look to bounce back against LeBron James and the rest of the Miami Heat, which are targeting their first three-game winning streak in 2013.

Halfway into the NFL regular season, the Minnesota Vikings can only produce a lone win against seven losses. Against the visiting Washington Redskins Thursday night, they look to snap a four-game skid and try to get some semblance of order in their campaign in 2013.

Novak Djokovic of Serbia and Juan Del Potro of Argentina take on each other Thursday as they hope to join Nadal in the semifinals of the final tournament of the ATP season. Both Roger Federer of Switzerland and Richard Gasquet of France also want to keep their final four hopes alive when they meet in the first match-up of the day.

With the Spaniard’s win over Stanislas Wawrinka in the group stage of the ATP World Tour Finals, Nadal not only earned a semis slot in the final tournament of the ATP 2013 season but also clinched the title as tennis’s best in 2013.

Get ready for a good old western shootout when the Golden State Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves Wednesday night as the two teams aim for conference leadership early in the 2013-14 NBA regular season.

The Toronto Raptors are off to a disappointing home loss to the Miami Heat. Meanwhile the Charlotte Bobcats are coming from an inspiring road win against New York Knicks.

It’s just the round-robin stage, but Rafael Nadal can already lock down the world number one spot in the ATP end-of-year rankings if he can clinch one of the final four slots of the 2013 APT World Tour Finals on Wednesday afternoon at the O2 in London, England.

There’s value in knowing the betting lines in predicting any form of competition—be it in sports or entertainment contests. For the 2013 version of Big Brother Australia, most sportsbooks have declared that Tim is the slight favourite to win this season.

After a promising win versus the Denver Nuggets in their season opener, the Sacramento Kings have suffered back-to-back blowout losses to quality Western teams in their next two. On Tuesday, they'll face an Atlanta Hawks team which they haven't beaten in the last 11 games.

After back-to-back losses, the Miami Heat made sure they snap the losing skid by playing team ball in a win against the Washington Wizards. They’ll need more of the same when they visit the Toronto Raptors with Chris Bosh out of commission.

From 6,352 entries down to nine players in July and then, the November Nine cut down to two players to battle heads up for the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event title and over $8.3M in cash prize for the champion’s purse.

The ATP World Tour Finals 2013 group stages continue play Tuesday as four other contenders and the top three players in the world start their campaign in the final ATP tournament of the season at the O2 in London.

The 2013 WSOP Main Event final table started play Monday evening in Las Vegas with the final nine players returning for a chance for the most prestigious and richest title in the world of poker.

Both the Memphis Grizzlies and Boston Celtics are off to slow starts in the 2013-14 NBA regular season. The latter is expected to go through some growing pains as they are in rebuilding mode but the struggle has been a surprise for the team from Memphis, who was one of the best teams in the league last season.

Kevin Love and the Minnesota Timberwolves are off to a fast start in the 2013-14 NBA regular season with three wins in a row. The same cannot be said of Kyrie Irving and the Cleveland Cavaliers who wants to avoid a third straight loss after winning their season opener.

The Chicago Bears have lost six consecutive games to the Green Bay Packers, which are on a roll winning four straight games entering this Monday Night Football match up with their NFC North rivals.

The ATP World Tour Finals 2013 group stages will begin to play on Monday afternoon at the O2 Arena in London, and all eight contenders have their own reasons why they want to succeed in the ultimate ATP tournament of the season.

It’s “the race that stops a nation” and by all indications the whole of Australia will be taking a break from their daily grind to witness the richest and most prestigious horse racing event in the country.

Betting lines are always good indicators of what will happen in any competition. Last week, we reported that Ms. Philippines Ariella Arida was the favorite among the ladies competing in the pageant to be held at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia on November 9, 2013.