A knockout, please, or nothing at all By Al S. Mendoza THE world welterweight crown held by Timothy Bradley is on the line today in Las Vegas. But for Manny Pacquiao, recapturing his crown back should merely be secondary. What should be primary for the PacMan is his career….
Capa case another reason P-Noy has gone astray By Al S. Mendoza THIS is the sorry story of Police Senior Supt. Conrad Capa. For having led the arrest of fugitive real estate magnate Delfin Lee (now charged with syndicated estafa in connection with a P7-billion housing racket), Capa was sent…
Guv Spines keeps his promises By Gonzalo Duque IT will soon be April 5—our province’s founding Day! Happy birthday, Pangasinan! It’s also Bayambang’s Foundation Day! Happy birthday, Bayambang! This columnist has a historic stake in the province’s Founding Day. You, dear readers, you all who have followed how the…
For Cudia: From soldier to lawyer By Al S. Mendoza A friend of mine has flubbed the bar exams for the second straight time. But that does not diminish the luster of his character. Lawyer or not, what counts is a man’s substance. A good person will always be a…
The ‘ampaw’ in P-Noy & the ‘ampaw-ness’ of it all By Al S. Mendoza I like what a friend of mine had texted me only a while back. “Let us support the recent call of President Aquino,” he said. “Let us not vote for an ‘ampaw’ in the coming…
On Slaughter & Lassiter, values misplaced By Al S. Mendoza THERE is both praise and criticism for Ginebra’s Greg Slaughter and San Miguel Beer’s Marcio Lassiter. For declining an offer to join the Gilas Pilipinas basketball team, Slaughter and Lassiter got applause for their unselfish act. But others said…
Cristina’s cry scripted? By Al S. Mendoza CRISTINA Ponce Enrile has come forward in defense of her husband. She said Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile, her husband of 56 years, is a womanizer but “he is not a thief.” We all know that Enrile was implicated in the P10-billion scam of…
Cornering Cone is SMC’s master stroke By Al S. Mendoza WHY did San Mig Coffee win again? Only last October, San Mig Coffee won the PBA Governor’s Cup basketball title, beating sister-team Petron Blaze in a thrilling 4-3 count. On Wednesday night, San Mig Coffee captured the PBA Philippine Cup,…
I go Cebu for Wigo—and golf By Al S. Mendoza I AM here at the PAL Mabuhay Lounge, Centennial Airport (Naia 2), writing this column while waiting for my PAL jet bound for Cebu. Yes, God willing, I’d be in Cebu Feb. 18 for a business trip. The trip…
Second straight PBA title for Cone? By Al S. Mendoza FATE just played a cruel joke on both Petron Blaze and Barangay Ginebra. Petron stormed to a 7-game winning streak at the start of the PLDT MyDSL PBA Philippine Cup, only to sputter before eking out a trip to…
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