By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   “THERE’S always first time in life,” one of the world’s popular cliché, that happens to me time and again. Last January 15 during the “First. Jesus Rivera Garcia, Sr. Lingayen Gulf Landing Memorial Race” an amateur bikefest, I sponsored for my first bikefest in…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. YOU, like me, being ardent enthusiasts of sport basketball, watched all the six games, the best-of-seven championship series of PBA’s Commissioner’s Cup this year between the multi-titled Ginebra San Miguel versus the foreign squad, the Hongkong based Bay Area Dragons. The sixth game last Wednesday…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   FIRSTLY, according to my reliable source in cycling, definitely there will be no LBC Ronda Pilipinas bicycle race this year. My source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said insiders from the sponsoring company did not give any reason. He just said the ten-day…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   SOME of my cycling mates, my age contemporaries, my relatives, friends, media colleagues and especially numerous cycling avid aficionados, keep asking me if I still ride my bike even for just for fun, only. Their biggest question is, if I don’t…why not? My answer…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   AFTER the race that I organized and directed last December 18 sponsored by Excellent Noodles in conjunction with the celebration of my 77th birthday, many cycling fans especially the young ones and a few of my age contemporaries were curious why I look like…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   I’M making this piece on December 14, four days before my 77th birthday, or 11 days before Christmas. This date is so memorable to me because it recollects the death of our friend, our province mate, the famous handsome actor Fernando Poe, Jr. popularly…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   MARCH 2, 2013 was when I watched the first of two boxing matches between Mexican Moises Fuentes and our Donnie Nietes for the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) light flyweight title battle held at Mall of Asia. Unfortunately, I failed to interview the two…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   THE University of Luzon (UL) basketball squad is definitely one of the best cage teams in the province, if not the best. That’s how I view UL being a keen observer of Pangasinan tournaments since I started to write in this weekly paper on…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. PANGASINAN’s popular basketball squad, the multi-titled University of Luzon Golden Cubs, extended its winning streak to nine wins sans loss and only just one win away to notch the province-wide coveted diadem in this year’s “Excellent Noodles Cup DBL Pangasinan Inter-Town/City/School U18 Basketball Tournament 2022.”…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   WATCH out for the Alcala, UL, Asingan, PAMMA teams! Alcala quintet that topped the elimination round in the Eastern Conference with unblemished record of six wins sans loss proved their worth anew by repulsing the host and unbeaten Western Conference elimination round champ, San…