A millionaire cyclist coming up By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WROTE here on the May 29, 2011 issue about the ‘richest’ bikathon so far conducted in the country, which was the 2011 Camsur Tour held in April. The nine-day bikefest sponsored by Gov. Villafuerte awarded a total of P4.7M…

To be or not to be By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE 2011 UCAAP-PRISAA Inter-Collegiate Basketball Championship is scheduled to commence this coming July 25 at the Dagupan People’s Astrodome. Unlike in the last three years where the league was successfully directed by Angel C. Gumarang as the commissioner, the…

Meeting two Bayambang czars By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I BELIEVE many of us Pangasinenses, especially the entrepreneurs, have heard of the name Cesar T. Quiambao, the businessman who owns Stradcom Corporation, CS First Bank and Royal Mall, to name a few. For those who are unaware, Stradcom is under…

I was right and… wrong By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I KNOW that you sports fanatics like-me, especially the basketball aficionados, followed the NBA playoffs and all the way to the finals. We had our own fearless forecasts before the playoff games and most especially during the best-of-seven championship series….

Camsur Tour, richest PH bikefest is born By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS just a little kid when the first professional multi-staged bicycle race was held. It was called the Tour of Luzon (ToL). That was in summer 1956. The bikefest was won by Sta. Rosa, Laguna marquee rider…

NBA finals predictions and analysis By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE global sports scene is now focused on the French Open and the NBA finals. But Filipino sports fans follow the NBA finals more than the French Open as basketball is indisputably the numero uno sport for Filipinos. Basketball fans…

Pangasinan cyclists shine in Camsur tour By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. DESPITE the hyped and much-feared ‘end of the world’ prediction of doomsday foreteller Harold Camping, which was supposed to take place on May 21, the organizers and participants of the Camsur Tour spearheaded by Camarines Sur Gov. Erley Villafuerte…

PNoy promotes bicycling By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. TWICE we read in our national broadsheets and saw that our president PNoy was having fun riding his mountain bike. He did not say that bicycling is his favorite sport but averred that he usually rides a bike because it helps him…

What a shame, Mosley By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IF you saw the fight, I believe you were also disgusted. The verdict was undeniably right, a clear victory for Pacman, but we can consider the fight one of the dullest of Paquiao since he reached stardom. But please don’t blame…

The Espino bikefest By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IT’S summer time again and as in the past we are experiencing a heat wave. There have already been reports of people suffering from heat strokes, some were fatal cases. But believe it or not, the cyclists who participated in the Gov….