By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   THE 1995 five-day Tour of Pangasinan bikefest dubbed as “OO Na, Takbo Na” became the standard for competitive cycling among the Pangasinan cycling enthusiasts who participated. Today, the same contestants, most of whom are already retired, keep asking me if there will be a…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. (First of two series)   WHEN our former governor Oscar Orbos told me on the phone two months ago that he’s planning to return to politics and to run again as representative of the First District of Pangasinan, I just shrugged it off.  I thought…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   AFTER a long period of assessing his boxing career following his failure to recapture the World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight tiara against less-known fighter Yordenis Ugas of Cuba, the Philippines’ boxing icon Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao finally decided to call it ‘quits’. He formally announced…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE NBA 2021-2022 regular season starts on October 19 and some of the league’s teams are encountering domestic hitches due to the refusal of some of their respective cagers to be inoculated, mainly because of their religious beliefs and constitutional rights. The first of the…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   INDISPUTABLY, Filipinos’ top 20 favorite sports nowadays are basketball, boxing, volleyball, pool (billiards), football, our national sport called sepak takraw, badminton, lawn tennis, golf, chess, volleyball, cycling, running, table tennis, taekwondo, kickboxing, shooting, bowling, archery and the newest e-sport. Obviously, pole vault is less-known…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IF you are really a sports lover, like me, you should know who is Leylah Fernandez and Alex Eala in the world of tennis. They are indubitably the latest Philippine teenage lawn tennis sensations and I believe that based on their latest performances, someday soon…

By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. THE 21-day 2021 Tour of Spain popularly known in the cycling world as Vuelta a España ended last Sunday, September 5. Being a former professional cyclist, I cannot help but comment on this multi-stage annual bikefest considered by the world governing cycling body Union Cycliste…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   AFTER one week of rest and treatment of the bruises he sustained in his botched attempt to regain the World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight diadem from defending champion Yordenis Ugas of Cuba last August 22 (PH time) in Las Vegas, our boxing icon Manny…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. GONE are his footwork, reflex, agility, elusiveness, punching power, stamina, but his cleverness still stays. That’s what we observed last Sunday, August 22, how our boxing icon Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao suffered an startling defeat in the hands of little known Cuban pug and failed to…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. We watched the world bantamweight title tussle between our countryman John Riel Casimero against Cuban Guillermo Rigondeaux on TV last Sunday, August 15, where the Ormoc City, Leyte-born Casimero successfully defended his WBO (World Boxing Organization) 118 pounds tiara via split decision, 117-111, 116-112, 113-115….