By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER three years of hiatus due to the pandemic, the world’s big sports activities like football, baseball, basketball, boxing, cycling, marathon, to name some, are on the rise again. Officials of five towns of our beloved province are finally ready to stage sports activities…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THERE will still be no national multi-stage bikefest this year after efforts to do it last year failed. According to my reliable source close to our national media colleague based in Metro Manila, Dwain Badua of the well-known Dwain Entertainment, the people behind the bikefest…
No national multi-stage bikefest again this year
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. SELDOM can we can find a female professional athlete really willing to give back to her community by promoting her chosen sport, organizing the tournaments for the game she loves so much among her fellow athletes in Pangasinan specially from her hometown. Fortunately, my…
Mangaldan’s volleyball standout Doria promotes her sport
By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. FIRSTLY, my big thanks to God anent the bikefest that I organized and directed held last December 17 in conjunction with the celebration of my natal day, a day prior to my actual birthday (December 18) which I dubbed it this year as “3rd JAG,…
Pangasinan cyclists deteriorating?
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE Philippine National Games (PNG) and the Batang Pinoy Championships (BPC) resumed last year after three years of suspension due to COVID-19. This year, Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino said the twin annual sports events will be held on December 17-22…
The PNG, Batang Pinoy, plus my birthday bike race this week
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS born a week before Christmas Day and that’ one of the two reasons why my first name is Jesus. The second, it’s also the first name of my father, Jesus Rivera Garcia, the late Mexican blooded U.S. army veteran hombre who came…
Another cycling race on my birthday
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. KNOWING our province capital town Lingayen’s chief executive Leopoldo N. Bataoil, an avid sports buff especially in cycling, he did not think twice when I proposed to him the holding of a bicycle road race in his town on November 27, in conjunction with the…
Another historic day for Pangasinan cycling
By Jesus Garcia Jr. THE star-studded Lingayen bikefest dubbed as “Arangkada Lingayen Cycling Classic 2023” will definitely push through on November 27, 2023, which coincides with the celebration of one our national heroes, Andres Bonifacio. The star-studded cycling road race is another sports project organized by the LGU of Lingayen…
Lingayen Mayor Bataoil leads the way
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE country’s oldest sports media organization, the Philippine Sports Association (PSA) headed by Philippine Star sports editor Nelson Beltran, will hold its traditional Awards Night on January 29 next year at Diamond Hotel in Manila. PSA will fete our country’s top performing athletes this year…
PSA’s “Athlete of the Year” awardees, then and now
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. OUR national weather bureau just announced that the wet season this year is already over and clarified that there might be some rain showers during the night. These are the signs that Christmas time is already just around the corner. Our athletes, particularly those…