“It has been said, and it was done” By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   PRIOR to this year’s NBA best-of-seven championship tussles between the heavily favored Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat, majority of the world’s basketball forecasters predicted an easy victory for the multi-titled Lakers. That became evident after…

Lakers championship victory in the offing By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I’M sure that during these days we, basketball buffs, are closely following this year’s NBA championship games between the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat.  We just watched the fourth game yesterday (I’m writing this piece on October 8)…

NBA championship reels off By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THREE of the world’s well-known and prestigious annual sporting events were successfully conducted last month despite the deadly threat of contagious COVID-19 disease. First to finish this year was the U.S. Open (lawn tennis) on September 13 held in New York…

A new cycling star is born By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WORLD cycling experts say that no cyclist in the world will ever win the Tour de France (TdF) in his first try. But a young and neophyte rider named Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia proved the globe’s connoisseurs wrong. He…

NBA, TdF, U.S. Open defy COVID-19 pandemic By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER a three-month lull due to the scary COVID-19 pandemic that already killed almost one million inhabitants of the globe, three of the top 20 well-known and prestigious sporting events in the world decided to defy the threat…

Pangasinan’s PBA player, Orly Bauzon, 75 By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTERNOON of September 6 when I read in Facebook that the former Olympian and ex-PBA player, our kabaleyan Orlando Bauzon met his untimely death due to cardiac arrest, late night of September 5. My first reaction was it could…

Magic store’s discrimination policy vs. elderly By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. SORRY my dear readers but my article this week is not about sports. Honestly, this is my first time to digress since I started writing in Sunday PUNCH for more than 15 years. I want to share here a…

Amid pandemic, Tour de France reels off By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. ALL of the world’s prestigious and biggest sports events like the NBA, Tour de France, England’s Wimbledon, U.S. Open, and especially the esteemed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games suddenly came to a halt temporarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic….

ALA’s closure, PH boxers’ big loss By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS so shocked and sad to learn about the unexpected closure of “ALA Boxing Promotions, the Philippines longest and number one boxing promoter in the country. Formed by Antonio Lopez Aldeguer in 1985, the 35-year-old professional boxing promotions…

NBL Philippines seeks to turn pro By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. THE country’s premiere amateur basketball organization, the National Basketball League Philippines, is now determined to turn professional, according to the league president Celso “Soy” Mercado. And yes, if this plan pushes through with the approval of our country’s professional…