Gumarang to unite local college basketball tourneys? By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. UP TO these days and already two months after the 2014 UCAAP Jimmy Fernandez Challenge Cup was finished and won by the Lyceum Northwestern Dukes (LNU), some basketball aficionados in this city and my town Mangaldan are still…

The Pacquiao-Mayweather battle By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. SUNDAY morning (Dec. 14) when I read the headlines of our national broadsheets saying that the much-awaited megabucks world title battle between Filipino boxing icon Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao and Floyd “Money” Mayweather will finally push through on May 2 next year. I…

They came, they saw, they conquered again By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WE have to thank God that the force of super typhoon Ruby had weakened and most of all the core of its wrath spared our province. Yes, “Prayers can move Mountains!” For this, the Sta. Barbara Cycling Challenge…

Typhoon Ruby jeopardizes Batang Pinoy National Games? By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AS I write this piece Thursday (Dec. 4), PAGASA warned that ‘Ruby’ a new powerful typhoon, has already entered the Philippine area of responsibility and will most likely hit eastern Visayas and Mindanao. If Ruby doesn’t change its…

Is Pacquiao’s knockout power gone? By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. WE saw how our boxing icon Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao battered the ambitious American Chris Algieri in 12 rounds to retain his World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title last November 30 in Macau. We broke into cheers every time the flamboyant…

My sixth world boxing title-watch By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. AS an adventurous former athlete, I gallivant and every time I have enough means to finance a trip to watch an important sporting event, locally or internationally, whether cycling, basketball or boxing, especially if the protagonists are my country mates,…

Pacquiao, Donaire, Melindo to go down their weights By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. MANNY “Pacman” Pacquiao’s chief trainer Freddie Roach said if Pacquiao fails to stop Chris Algieri in their WBO title clash on November 23, he will ask his ward to move down to the light welterweight (140 lbs.)…

Dukes failed to clinch the slot By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. UCAAP champions the Lyceum Northwestern University Dukes, representing our province in the just concluded Philippine Collegiate Champions League (PCCL) North-Central Regional Championship demonstrated a splendid play in its first three games by routing its two opponents the Vigan City…

Donaire failed miserably to do a Pacquiao By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. BESIDES the coming fight of ring icon Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao against the Argentine-Italian blooded American citizen Chris Algieri on November 23 in Macau, the talk among boxing buffs until now especially sports columnists was the failure of our…

How and why Donaire lost to Walters By Al S. Mendoza   ALWAYS, there is a reason why a boxer loses or wins. The better boxer almost always wins. But what about in the case of the recent fight between Nonito Donaire Jr. and Nicholas Walters? Because Donaire lost, did…