Manantan Tech quintet, the team to reckon with By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. BASKETBALL aficionados, including this writer, were surprised to learn that a once bucolic team has turned to be a giant today in the collegiate basketball caging. The Manantan Technical School squad being sponsored by LBS International Recruitment…
Meeting ex-world champ Barrera in the flesh By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I BELIEVE you watched the World Boxing Organization (WBO) light flyweight title fight on TV two Saturdays ago between defending champion Filipino Donnie Nietes and WBO minimum weight titlist Mexican Moises Fuentes held at the Waterfront Hotel…
My fifth world boxing title watch By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. BY the time you read this piece I would have already returned from Cebu City with my two sons Jazy and Moses. At presstime, we are preparing for our trip to watch the World Boxing Organization (WBO) light flyweight…
Dukes deserve the silver medal victory By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WHAT could have influenced my friend and media colleague Orly Navarro in spreading a false report contra Atty. Gonzalo Duque anent the Region 1 team semifinal victory over the dreaded NCR squad? Some say it could be because of…
Dukes played against the odds By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE REGION 1 basketball team represented by the province’s well-known college squad Lyceum Northwestern University Dukes of Atty. Gonzalo Duque finally achieved its highest victory so far in the history of PRISAA National Collegiate Games by winning the silver last…
Mangaldan SK cagefest the 2nd time around By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. MY TOWN Mangaldan will be holding its second edition of the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) basketball tournament starting February 24 under the leadership of the town’s SK federation president Charlene Joy Flores. But unlike last season, this time it…
Shortest lap proved to be most crucial By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IT HAPPENED before in the Tour de France and it was not unlikely that it would happen here too in the Philippines that the shortest lap in a multi-stage bicycle racing could be the decisive and the most…
Panagasinan athletes glow By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. OUR Pangasinan athletes started the season with high notes and I believe they are on the road to glow and bring more laurels to the province this year. After that first-ever gold medal victory by our local boys in basketball 3-on-3 during…
Armstrong, disgraced but honest in exit By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. FINALLY the Lance Armstrong doping scandal that has baffled world cycling fans is over. Armstrong obviously exasperated, tired and maybe pressured during the last two years for being accused of using performance-enhancing drugs to catapult him to win seven…
Pacman should retire if reports are true By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE FIRST unpleasant news this year in world professional boxing was the report that Filipino boxing icon Manny “Pacman” Paquiao is on the brink of suffering from the dreaded “Parkinson disease” (PD) if he continues to fight. This…
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