By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   FIRSTLY, my heartfelt congratulations to the top five podium finishers in the province’s latest cycling road race held last May 6 in conjunction with the May 1 to 7 Calasiao town fiesta celebration. Dubbed as “First Calasiao Mayor Kevin Roy Cup Cycling Challenge,” the…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. DESPITE the inability of Calasiao town to produce their own prominent cyclist to date, the town is not giving up and is still highly confident that someday soon this Class A municipality of Pangasinan will eventually produce an elite road biker to give honors to…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   “THERE’S always a first time in life,” as the saying goes. And that happened to TNT Tropang Giga basketball team last April 21 after their countless attempts to win the prestigious PBA’s Governors’ Cup title since entering the professional league, they finally clinched the…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr   THE first four games of this year PBA’s Governors’ Cup best-of-seven championship series between the reigning and defending champion Ginebra Gin Kings and title-contender TNT Tropang Giga resulted all in a tension-filled skirmishes with deadlocks, 1-1, 2-2, all held at the historic Araneta Coliseum….

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE first two games of this year PBA’s Governors Cup ‘best-of-seven’ championship series between reigning champion Ginebra Gin Kings and title contender TNT Tropang Giga were already held at Araneta Coliseum last April 9 and 12, respectively. As predicted by die-hard buffs of basketball, the…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I’M making this piece prematurely, April 4, because of the seven-day (April 2-9) Lenten season break. So, I believe that you, my co-basketball aficionados had already watched on TV the April 9 (Easter Sunday) first game of the best-of-seven series of this year PBA’s Governors’…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   I WAS invited as race consultant to the Mapandan bikefest last March 25 to assist and observe the event closely knowing that majority of the 76 contestants were young and amateur riders, largely inexperienced in this kind of event. The 42-kilometer bikefest was initially…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   WE, avid fans of basketball games, watched on TV how the two professional teams of San Miguel Corporation booted out their respective opponents convincingly in the quarterfinals of this year’s Governors’ Cup held last March 17 and March 19, and both entered the semifinals….

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   MORNING of March 3 when my son Jazy told me the news that the Mangaldan town fiesta bikefest dubbed “2023 Mayor Bona Cup Werweran ed Mangaldan” supposed to be held last March 12 was canceled by the town’s chief executive Bonafe de Vera Parayno…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   “IT has been said, and it will be done.” That was my reading of the thoughts of my beloved town Mangaldan’s chief executive Bonafe de Vera Parayno on the return of Pangasinan’s biggest, oldest and the most prestigious one-day bikefest in the province popularly…