Thrilling NBA Conference championship playoffs on By Al S. Mendoza THE Finals of both the Western and Eastern Conference series of the National Basketball Association (NBA) are on. It is Miami and Boston battling in the East and the Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets tangling in the West in the so-called NBA […]
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Sports fast coming back to life By Al S. Mendoza THERE is the so-called backdoor sweep and gentleman’s sweep in basketball. Both will happen usually when there’s a mismatch. In the ongoing NBA playoffs in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, the first backdoor sweep materialized between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Portland Trail Blazers. […]
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Denver turns 1-3 deficit to 4-1 victory over Utah By Al S. Mendoza DENVER was not supposed to win but it did. Down 1-3 and precariously one game away from elimination, the Nuggets rallied mightily to score a 4-1 victory over the hard-luck Utah Jazz. That was definitely a beautiful thriller for Denver, but […]
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NBA players raise their voice against racism By Al S. Mendoza AS I write this, the ongoing NBA (National Basketball Association) first round playoff games had been stopped. It was the result of a boycott of the players supposed to play three games on Thursday at Lake Buena Vista, near Orlando, Florida. Cancelled were […]
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Sapla makes Supreme Court soar to heights By Al S. Mendoza IN January 2014, Jerry Sapla was arrested by the police in Tabuk City, Kalinga province. His “crime?” Accused of owning four bricks of marijuana. Three years later, in January 2017, Sapla was convicted by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 25 of Tabuk. […]
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NBA helping us forget, if not crush, the virus By Al S. Mendoza THE National Basketball Association (NBA) has sort of become a savior. Savior, meaning the NBA has saved mankind from extended boredom. The sporting mankind, I mean. If you look at the sports pages today, virtually the NBA dominates the section. Which is […]
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We must never surrender By Al S. Mendoza WE remain gripped by the virus scare, stalling many plans and actions of both public and private sectors. Practically all of the government’s concerns address the COVID-19 pandemic bedeviling the world for nearly five months now. Our poor folk aren’t only losing their jobs, they are […]
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‘I’m inutile… and I cannot do anything’ By Al S. Mendoza FOREIGN policy has always been a tricky, if not bothersome, business for any sitting president of the republic. President Duterte is no exception. At the outset of his administration following his landslide victory in 2016, Mr. Duterte has immediately admitted that foreign affairs […]
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My SONA By Al S. Mendoza THIS is my own State of Nothing Address (SONA). Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. What’s for dinner? Let Valentin Dakuykoy, my legman forever, provide the answer. And his answer would be inabraw, dinengdeng and pakbet. What’s going to wash them down? Megan Gana, my work-from-home secretary, would surely […]
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Blow to both press freedom and the people By Al S. Mendoza THE hardest hit in the recent killing of the ABS-CBN franchise renewal are the 11,000 or so employees of the TV network. Anyone disputing that has a stone for a heart and deserves no place in a humane society. Multiply the displaced […]