Stupendous victory by LNU Dukes By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. “EXPECT the unexpected” as the saying goes. And that’s what happened during the duel of the province’s two titans in college basketball that saw the Lyceum Northwestern University Dukes of Atty. Gonzalo Duque totally drenching the blazing fire of UPang-PHINMA…

Piteous referees By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. AS expected, the province’s two titan teams led by defending champions Lyceum Northwestern University Dukes and 2005 titlists UPang-PHINMA Flames eventually ended up the best in the 2014 UCAAP Jimmy Fernandez Basketball Challenge, outclassing six other tertiary school teams. Both now ready to…

How the Flames won By Jesus A. Garcia THE much-awaited battle between two undefeated school titans in the 2014 Universities and Colleges Athletic Association of Pangasinan (UCAAP) Jimmy Fernandez Basketball Challenge finally took place last Thursday. Although it’s a no-bearing game for the two who already entered the semifinals, having…

Dreaming the impossible dream? By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. AS of this writing (Friday), our lone survivor in boxing for gold medal lightweight, Charly Suarez, is fighting Mongolian Dorjnyambuu Otgondalala, 17th ranked in the world. Our three semifinalist pugs headed by Olympian and 2013 Southeast Asia Games flyweight gold medalist…

Free throws, learning a lesson By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. THE Lyceum Northwestern University (LNU) Dukes I guess learned a big lesson when they almost fumbled in their initial victory against the Urdaneta City based International College of Excellence (ICE) Maharlika during the opening of this year’s UCAAP Jimmy Fernandez…

UCAAP cage tilt opens By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE much-awaited Universities and Colleges Athletic Association of Pangasinan (UCAAP) Jimmy Fernandez Basketball Challenge was officially opened last Thursday afternoon at Dr. Salvador T. Duque Fieldhouse at Tapuac, Dagupan City. The opening ceremony was conducted with a lot fanfare and most…

Pain and gain in Spain By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. PRIOR to our Gilas Pilipinas’ joust in this year’s FIBA World Cup in Spain, Filipino basketball pundits had mixed analysis how far our nationals can go against the Goliaths of the world. Some critics initially said we can’t win even…

The split in Dagupan City caging  By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. “IF YOU want to be a great athlete, you have to fight the best!”  This is an iconic maxim of former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali about athletes in any kind of sports particularly his fellow boxers. He…

PH sports woes By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. AT last our prayers to win at least one gold medal in this year’s Youth Olympic Games (YOG) was answered, courtesy of archer Luis Gabriel Moreno in tandem with Li Jiaman of China in the international mixed double’s event. And perhaps his…

All letdowns in PH athletes joust abroad By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. EVEN BEFORE our national teams enplaned abroad, they were already saddled by mountains of problems at home which I believe was the major reason why our nationals performed lackadaisically in their respective joust overseas this month. First to…