Sunday mourning By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   IF you’re an avid fan of Mexican boxing legend Juan Manuel Marquez like me, it was a day of mourning for us last Sunday. Marquez, whom I predicted to win (not as a friend but from my personal perspective), failed to wrest…

Requiem for SK? By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   THE speculations about the fate of the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) are finally over. President Aquino just signed the bill last October 3 amending RA 9340 postponing the SK elections, and resetting it to between October 28, 2014 and February 23, 2015….

Marquez will win   By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.
  
   A WEEK from now (Oct. 13 PHL time), the United States’ Timothy Bradley Jr. and Mexico’s icon Juan Manuel Marquez ‘s most-touted world boxing mega bucks fight will take center stage. They will square off for the World Boxing Organization…

Lopsided win By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.    THE anticipated close match between the LNU Dukes and UPang-PHINMA Flames in the championship games proved to be a mismatch. The raging Dukes of Atty. Gonzalo Duque showed once more to us basketball buffs that they are indisputably superior and supreme in…

Judge CJ Ross did it again By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. 
 
   AS EXPECTED the flamboyant American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. easily won his fight against the Mexican warrior Saul “Canelo” Alvarez last Sunday via majority decision and brought home the World Boxing Council super welterweight and World Boxing Association…

And then there were only three By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.  
  
   BY the time you read this piece, the second qualifying round of the Universities Colleges Athletic Association (UCAAP) Inter-Collegiate Basketball Championship would still be in progress. The University of Luzon (UL) Golden Tigers and University of Pangasinan-PHINMA Flames…

Well-organized Dagupan duathlon By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.  
  
   I watched the Dagupan City duathlon event last Sunday and found it a very successful affair organized by the Dagupan City Cycling Club (DCCC) with my cumpadre Manny Ugaban at the helm as the president and assisted by his comrades…

Chess genius Rodolfo Tan Cardoso, 75 By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   LAST August 21, I received a shocking text message from Pangasinan Chess League (PCL) events director Allen Garcia informing me that their league president Don Juan Sison had informed him that our good friend, chess genius Rodolfo Tan…

Failures By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   BOXING: The Mexico-vs-Philippines rivalry in professional boxing continues and the latest victim last Sunday was Fil-Am Ana Julaton. Yes, our only Filipino female professional boxer, former world champion Julaton, was unable to outclass her Mexican opponent Celina Salazar last August 18 in a…

PH 5’s dream finally came true THE dream of our Philippine national basketball team to clinch a berth in the world basketball competition was finally realized by placing second in the prestigious FIBA Asia Championship last August 11 at Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City. We saw how our…