Pacquiao’s speed will send Cotto to dreamland By Al S. Mendoza IT’S prediction time again. It’s a difficult job. But I need to do it. Most expect us, so-called sports analysts, to predict the outcome of fights. Goes with the territory. And so, here we go again: Will Manny Pacquiao…

I will miss Pacquiao-Cotto but still, thanks to Kuya Mario By Al S. Mendoza (Belated happy birthday to my brother, Kuya Vicente, on Nov. 7. Also on Nov. 10, happy birthday to another brother, Kuya Onie. Manang Rose has prepared her delicious pancit on both occasions.  More birthdays to come…

When deadline comes knocking at your door By Al S. Mendoza TOKYO, Japan — I had to rush this piece, as I need to rush to the Narita airport. Narita became controversial when its construction in the seventies displaced hundreds of farmers. Today, though, those farmers – many of them…

Excuse me, while I eat sushi and sashimi By Al S. Mendoza TOKYO, Japan — I guess, you know by now. I’ve written about it here a couple of times already, if not more. I come to this city once in two years. That has been the routine since 1993….

I’m serious. Make Prez dam Boss By Al S. Mendoza WE all know that dams kill, destroy. But why do we leave them to the care of some managers not maybe steeped on the rules of life preservation, if not the moral side of things? It’s downright scary, I tell…

To beat Ateneo is to beat a champ’s heart By Al S. Mendoza WHEN I was asked on Wednesday which team would win, I never had any second thought. “Ateneo,” I said. Why Ateneo? “Because Ateneo is easily the superior team,” I said. “University of the East is nothing but…

Typhoons, floods come yearly; gov’t absent all the time By Al S. Mendoza DO you remember having a year without a typhoon hitting us? I guess, not. Do you remember having a year without a flood hitting us? I guess, not. Do you remember having a year without a bad…

Marquez was Mayweather’s mere conduit to meeting Pacquiao By Al S. Mendoza ONCE in a while, we go BR. BR, as in Bragging Rights, as what the discerning folk of Bogtong Silag led by Julian Apostol love to say. Act proud?  Showboat?  Be gaudy? Not at all, please. I did…

Mayweather fights rust; Marquez drinks his own urine By Al S. Mendoza (Cheers to Melchor Co, the unfading top honcho of Ilocandia’s Honda Cars in San Nicolas, whose expert stewardship of Honda Cars Dagupan, has made him a legend in the motoring world!) * * * * ONE is unbeaten,…

Victory and defeat, or why we need reprogramming now By Al S. Mendoza IT was a week of both victory and defeat. Our five boxers got wiped out in Milan, Italy. It came on the heels of Marvin Sonsona’s sensational world title win in Ontario, Canada. Sensational because Marvin, also…