By Atty. Farah G. Decano THE Philippines has been winning a few medals from individual sports category since the beginning of modern Olympics in 1896: boxing, athletics and now, weightlifting. We still have yet to witness a Filipino sports team bag a medal. Commenting on Filipino athletes in general,…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER long four weeks of respite, my fingers pushed me anew to start pressing the keyboard of my computer notebook to do my piece every week as usual. I’m sorry to you, my dearest readers here and abroad (via internet) who missed my sports chronicles…
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in www.advance-africa.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. HINDBAD was a hardworking but poor porter. He lived in Baghdad and earned his living by carrying various packages to given addresses. All…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE “water world” we’ve been seeing in Dagupan City the past weeks (and perhaps in other communities), is definitely merely a preview of the worst to happen. I’m referring to a situation when a code red typhoon hits northern Luzon in the middle of a…
By Al S. Mendoza TOKYO will now go down in history as the repository of our first Olympics gold medal. There’s more. It is there where we produced the first Filipino female athlete to rewrite the books multiple times. Hidilyn Diaz, take a bow. Hidilyn’s golden victory in weightlifting…
By Leonardo Micua MOVE over Manny Pacquiao. We have a new sports heroine, in the person of Hidilyn Diaz who just lifted the109 million Filipinos with her gold medal win in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Only 30 years old, Hidilyn is now the new phenomenon in Philippine sports after snaring…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo WHERE is the scientific proof that vaccinated people can no longer be infected with the COVID-19 virus and its variants and therefore are not “spreaders” of the virus? Had there been a study by the Department of Health (DOH) comparing the “spreader” frequencies in both…
By Atty. Farah G. Decano WHAT with the historic Olympic gold medal win of weightlifter, Hidilyn Diaz, whose femininity is still apparent, perhaps we may now accept the idea of a muscular Filipina without assaulting her womanhood? I remember an article of fellow Sunday Punch columnist, Virginia Pasalo, that…
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in www.advance-africa.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. IN the middle of a beautiful city, there was a museum laid with beautiful marble tiles and with a huge marble statue as…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. SOMETHING doesn’t seem to make sense in Dagupan City that was recently declared a “high risk area” for COVID-19. Within days of that declaration by the Regional Epidemiology Surveillance Unit (RESU), the Lim administration declared the Tondaligan Beach open to families for business and swimming….
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