Lingayen vs Manaoag, Urdaneta vs. Sto. Tomas in semis By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. AS I predicted, three of the top-seeded five teams in the 3rd Governor’s Cup Inter-Town/ City Basketball Tournament landed in the top three and advanced to the league’s semifinals. Joining them bagging the fourth and last…

Results of Groups A and B quarterfinals By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE Groups A and B quarterfinals of the 3rd Governor’s Cup Inter-Town/City Basketball Tournament organized by Gov. Amado “Pogi” Espino, III ended last March 17 with a big bang. Seven teams were ousted and eight teams are still…

Lingayen, Manaoag enter regular quarterfinals By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. DEFENDING champion Lingayen and twice first runner-up Manaoag teams extended their winning streaks sans loss by repulsing their respective rivals in their particular group (A and B) quarterfinals and officially entered the league’s regular quarterfinals of the 3rd Governor’s Cup…

Lingayen and Manaoag fives stay untarnished By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. THE teams of defending champion Lingayen and two-time first runner-up Manaoag continue to live up their billing as the top two seeded squads in the 3rd Governor’s Cup Inter-Town/City Basketball Tournament. The won all their games in their respective…

Provincial basketball quarterfinals’ skirmishes By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE quarterfinals of the third edition of the “3rd Governor’s Cup Inter-Town/City Basketball Tournament of Gov. Amado Espino III participated in by 24 towns and cities kicked off last February 23. Fifteen teams bracketed in two groups led by defending champion…

More cycling races in Pangasinan this year By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. NATIONAL scribes and cycling buffs outside our province keep wondering how and why our province is able to  continue to produce national champions with international caliber in cycling,. I volunteer four reasons. Pangasinan is the pioneer in this…

He came, he saw, he conquered By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. OUR country’s first (of two) annual multi-stage cycling road races called “Ronda Pilipinas” was conducted this year in five days, unlike the previous nine years which was run in ten days. It started this time in Iloilo City on…

Binmaley five fail this time By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER three tries with one championship in their pocket, the fans of the very popular Binmaley quintet were surprised to see the later fail to enter the second round of the 3rd Governor’s Cup Pangasinan Inter-Town/City Basketball Tournament. I don’t…

Goodbye JunV By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. LAST January 22, I was stunned to learn from my friend Passky that our good buddy Juanito M. Velasco (fondly called by his relatives, friends and media colleagues as JunV) suffered a heart attack on January 19 and was confined at Villaflor Hospital…

Life begins at 40 By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. “LIFE begins at 40,” a very popular maxim commonly expressed by middle aged people upon reaching 40. Pioneered by American story-writer Walter B. Pitkin in 1932, the saying became more popular to the world when the late American singer-actor Elvis Presley…