By Al S. Mendoza ALEX Eala became the newest sports sensation when she won the U.S. Open tennis junior singles championship last weekend in New York, USA. That is no mean feat as Alex crowned herself the best tennis player in the 18-year-old and below in the whole wide…
By Al S. Mendoza LET’S call a spade a spade. Chot Reyes has just committed a monumental boo-boo that will haunt him for the rest of his life. He chose a meaningless chore over a hugely important mission. Instead of putting his heart into TNT’s title-retention campaign, he shuttled…
By Al S. Mendoza FIRST was the sugar shortage. Second, the salt scarcity. What’s next is the 64-dollar question so to speak. But first things first. Who floated the sugar shortage scam? He/she remains unidentified up to now. Pending revelation of the guilty party, a purchase order for 350,000 metric tons…
By Al S. Mendoza TIME to sing praise for Dante M. Velasco, a great son of Dagupan City whose corporate feats have become so global that Nobel Prize-like plaudits for him have long been overdue. Always a step ahead of his peers, Dante is a many dimensional dude worthy…
By Al S. Mendoza ONE can buy a laptop for at least P35,000. Good quality already. But over at the Department of Education (DepEd), that one is considered mediocre. Mine was even cheaper and, therefore, more lo-tech? I got it for 32k last Christmas—a gift from a niece. It works…
By Al S. Mendoza KAI Sotto is coming home and Lydia de Vega has gone back to her Creator. Kai is the Filipino beanpole long wanted by the Philippines to help our country’s campaign in the Fiba World Cup set in JIP (Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines) next year….
By Al S. Mendoza KATIPS is going to be a film for the ages. That’s a prediction as fearless as me saying China won’t stop punishing Taiwan over Nancy Pelosi’s defiant stand to visit Taipei just days back. If there’s one country as onion-skinned as Imee Marcos, that’d only…
By Al S. Mendoza IN his inaugural speech as the country’s 17th president on June 30 at the National Museum, Ferdinand “BBM” Marcos Jr. did not mention about unity. A surprise, indeed, as he kept mouthing the word in his numerous speeches during the campaign for the May 9…
By Al S. Mendoza IN his inauguration speech on June 30 as the country’s 17th President, Bongbong Marcos said: “Ang pangarap ninyo ay pangarap ko.” Not once, not twice but several times he had said that. Who said the London-schooled BBM is not well-versed in Tagalog? Roughly translated, his line…
By Al S. Mendoza GOLF, tennis and Philippine basketball grabbed sporting headlines this week. Tiger Woods is back in golf’s big league, entering the British Open that is famously known simply as The Open. To those not in the know, The Open is the oldest golf tournament in world….
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