The Governor’s Cup imports have a height limit of only 6′ 5″. Some of the PBA teams were eyeing to recall their previous imports during last year’s Governor’s Cup imports.

Here’s the updates of the 2013 PBA Governor’s Cup Imports:

Rain or Shine:

The Elasto Painters is the depending champion of the Governor’s Cup. They have decided not to call back former Best Import Jamelle Cornley, so right now they are still looking for an able replacement.

San Mig Coffee.

The Mixers will once again hire the services of Marqus Blakely.

Barangay Ginebra.

To tapped Dior Lowhorn, a prolific scorer who played for Saigon Heat in Asean Basketball League. He averaged 26.7 points and 8.42 rebounds in the tournament.

Petron Blaze.

Eyeing for the former Rain or Shine import Arizona Reid, who had 28.67 points, 15.42 rebounds and 4.17 assists average in his 2011 stint with Elasto painters.

Talk N’ Text.

To bring back Tony Mitchell, who saw action in Commissioner’s Cup after replacing Jerome Jordan.

Barako Bull.

Looking forward for a negotiations with Mike Singletary, their import during the Dubai Invitational and in Governors Cup.

Alaska.

The newly-crowned champ Aces will go for back-to-back titles with Wendel McKines.

Globalport.

Looking for the possibility of bringing best import Jamelle Cornley, after Rain or Shine waived their rights to their former reinforcement.

For other teams import such as the Meralco Bolts, Globalport Batang Pier and Air21 Express, we will update this post as soon as we get the details.

The import-laden PBA Governors Cup 2013 will start on August 14, a week after the FIBA Asia Championship in Manila.

Ross Turnball’s son, scored a goal and the crowd goes wild. The baby Turnbull named as Josh scored one of the most adorable goal in soccer history.

The aww-inducing moment at Chelsea’s world recognized home stadium. During the time when Ferreira thanked his team mates on the Public Address (PA) System, the toddler son of backup goalkeeper Ross Turnbull slowly dribbled his way to down field and scored a goal to the delight of the crowd.

The goal was pretty cute, which inspired the Chelsea fans reaction to sign up Josh for the Europa League champion Chelsea. The clip has been a hit on the social web. It was even posted in social media site, Mashable.

Watch the video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3DiBaaGiOM

The Spurs will go up against the Memphis Grizzlies in the Western Conference Finals 2013. Veteran forward Tim Duncan scored a team-high 19 points on 7-of-13 shooting.

Manu Ginobili had a dismal night scoring only with 5 points while Spurs veteran point guard Tony Parker contributed with 13 points. Kahwi Leonard and Tiago Splitter scored with 16 and 14 points respectively.

Warriors Stephen Curry had a solid game for the Warriors, ending the night with a game-high 22 points while Jarret Jack contributed with 15 points for the Golden State Warriors.

Watch the video highlights below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKexxHydSGk

David Beckham is considered as one of the most recognized soccer player in the world. He helped his current team, the Paris Saint-Germain their first title in 19 years in the French Ligue 1.

The husband of Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, began his path to superstardom status playing at Manchester United, scoring 85 goals in 394 games, before switching to Spanish La Liga side Real Madrid.

After Beckham’s stint in Europe he was relocated to Los Angeles and played for the MLS LA Galaxy. Beckham was also the team captain of England during his days in Europe. He won 115 caps for England and netted 17 goals, including a vital free-kick against Greece that took Sven Goran Eriksson’s side to the 2002 World Cup.

David Beckham is married to Victoria Beckham, they were gifted with four children namely; Brooklyn, Cruz, Romeo, and Harper.

Watch the exclusive interview video of David Beckham’s retirement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH76hBG3eyE

Boxing sensation and undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. takes the top spot on this year’s list of America’s richest athlete. Basketball superstar and NBA four-time MVP LeBron James ranked at the second spot.

We have listed below the Top 20 Richest American Athletes of 2013:

1. Floyd Mayweather Jr. —–$90,000,000

2. LeBron James ————-$56,545,000
3. Drew Brees —————$47,800,000
4. Kobe Bryant ————–$46,850,000
5. Tiger Woods ————–$40,838,027
6. Phil Mickelson ———–$39,528,000
7. Derrick Rose ————-$33,403,000
8. Peyton Manning ———–$31,000,000
9. Alex Rodriguez ———–$29,900,000
10. Zack Greinke ————$29,020,000
11. Dwayne Wade ————-$26,682,000
12. Kevin Durant ————$27,670,000
13. Johan Santana ———–$26,300,000
14. Felix Hernandez ———$25,600,000
15. Vincent Jackson ———$25,360,000
16. Carmelo Anthony ———$25,300,000
17. Cliff Lee —————$25,280,000
18. Mario Williams ———-$25,150,000
19. Derek Jeter ————-$25,100,000
20. Joe Mauer —————$25,000,000

 

Some athletes and coaches believe that they can deliver the goods not only on the hard court but also in the field of public service. Some of them lost while others were successful.

Here’s the list of Basketball Stars who joined Politics:

Yeng Guiao, Rain or Shine coach: Winner

Coach Yeng Guiao emerged as the biggest winner among the basketball stars after he nabbed a congressional seat in the First District of Pampanga. The Rain or Shine coach garnered a total of 82,886 votes to beat political foe Francis Nepomuceno, who had 63,037 votes.

Guiao is no stranger to politics, being the son of former Pampanga Gov. Bren Guiao. He was also a former board member and vice governor of Pampanga.

Jack Santiago, Air 21 assistant coach: Winner

Jack Santiago was a former PBA player and embarked on a coaching career. He ranked number 2 in the list of winning first district councilmen in Navotas City.

Jason Webb, former Tanduay point guard/current PBA commentator: Winner

Webb is best known for his playing years with De La Salle in the 1990s. He is the top vote-getter among candidates for councilor in the 1st District of Parañaque City with 42,910 votes.

Franz Pumaren, Air 21 coach: Loser

Franz Pumaren was one of the San Miguel Beermen stalwarts during the 90′s, he also coached the DLSU Green Archers in the UAAP. He try to returned to Quezon City Council in the third but was defeated after he servied 3 consecutive terms.

Rodney Santos, former Ginebra guard: Loser

Santos, who is known as “The Slasher” during his heydays in Ginebra and Alaska, ranked 15th in the race for the Meycauayan, Bulacan city council.

Joey Marquez, former Ginebra player: Loser

Joey “Tsong” Marquez was used to be a part of Ginebra in the 80′s, he was a showbiz personality who became a Mayor of Parañaque City. He failed his latest bid for congressional seat in the second district of Parañaque.

Ato Agustin, former Petron coach: Loser

Ato Agustin is a former coach of Petron Blazers and failed his attempt to become the vice-mayor of San Fernando, Pampanga.

He got a total of 1,207 statistical points including 120 first-place votes from a panel of 121 voters that consisted of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada as well as an NBA.com MVP fan vote.

With the NBA MVP award given to LeBron James, he made a record as the only fifth player in league’s history to win at least four regular season MVP’s, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (six), Michael Jordan (five), Bill Russell (five) and Wilt Chamberlain (four).

Trailing James in voting were Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant (765 points), the New York Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony, (475 points, one first-place vote), the Los Angeles Clippers’ Chris Paul (289 points), and the Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant (184 points).

The controversial Mayweather will return to the ring after a year’s absence that included his two-months jail terms successfully weighed at 146 pounds while Guerero weighed on the limit of 147 pounds.

Mayweather had an unbeaten record of 43-0 with 26 knockouts and he is raring to execute his game plan. The WBC title-holder went to jail last June for domestic violence and after his release he has been working to regain the fitness needed to defend his place atop the list of boxing’s biggest moneymakers.

Meanwhile his opponent, fellow American Guerrero, 31-1 with 18 knockouts and a 15-fight win streak dating to 2005, insisted again that he would hand Mayweather the first defeat of his career.

Watch the weigh-in video replay below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR4EIWQKl8g

During the elimination round, Ellis scored with two consecutive 50 points from the panel of judges which includes former PBA superstars Bong Ravena and Gerry Codinera.

The 24-year-old Chris Ellis performed a tribute dunk to his idol and mentor, Samboy Lim, the current Ginebra Team Manager. One of the player to score a perfect 50 during the elimination is the sensational Alaska rookie Calvin Abueva but he failed in his next attempt so he failed to make it the finals.

Chris Hodge also scored a perfect 50 points but his first dunk was not enough therefore he was eliminated. During the finals the game was between two Ginebra players namely Espiritu and Ellis.

Ellis failed to impressed the judges in his attempt but his second attempt was enough to capture the crown as Espiritu failed to execute his final dunk.

Watch the video replay of the PBA All-Star Slam Dunk Competition:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7jiBiT1uwE

Stephen Curry of the Warriors scored with 22 points and added with eight assist to lead his team into the next round with an impressive performance from team mate Andrew Bogut who broke out with his best performance after an injury-saddled season.

Andrew Bogut contributed significantly in the Warriors victory over the Nuggets by making his season-bests and career-playoff highs of 14 points and 21 rebounds while rookie Draymond Green added with a career-high 16 points and 10 rebounds to power the Golden State Warriors into the second round for the first time in six years.

Andre Iguodala scored 24 points and Ty Lawson had 17 in another disappointed early exit for Denver, which has lost in the first round nine of the past 10 seasons. The Nuggets won 23 of their final 26 regular season games to earn the Western Conference’s third seed, then lost four of six to the hot-shooting Warriors.

Watch the highlights video of the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4FOiUUy61c