Starting ‘em young By Jesus A. Garcia Jr DESPITE our debacle in the World Cup this year placing 32nd and last in the overall standing, our bias for basketball is endless. Filipinos continue to favor the sport that James Naismith created.  Perhaps basketball world leaders saw the opportunity to help…

Biggest SM-NBTC league By Jesus A. Garcia Jr I FAILED to attend the opening ceremony of the SM-NBTC (National Basketball Training Center) tourney last year, but I managed to watch this year’s at the DWAD gym last October 22. It was the most colorful opening of the eleven-year-old cage league…

Cycling great Eddy Merckx falls, hospitalized By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. LAST Monday morning (October 14) I was surprised to learn through Eurosport (internet) that my age contemporary and cycling idol Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx suffered a bad fall during his physical fitness riding with his friends that made him…

Visiting Dubai By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I FAILED to make my column last week because I was in the city of Dubai, a well-known city in United Arab Emirates, a booming, ultra modern city, but with blistering heat climate. Unlike my previous trips overseas, I didn’t bring my tablet…

2020 Ronda Pilipinas routes bared By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. FOR the first time after many years of absence, the country’s longest cycling road race, “Ronda Pilipinas”, will ride through Pangasinan on February 29 as one of the sixth stage terminals and, on the seventh stage start on March 1,…

4th Governor’s Cup cagefest unfurls Nov. 16 By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. ELATED by the success of the first three editions, our sports-minded Governor Amado “Pogi’ I. Espino, III is gearing up anew to hold the fourth season of his brainchild, the provincewide popular cagefest “4th Governor’s Cup Inter-Town/City Basketball…

Gilas needs longer training period OUR national basketball squad “Gilas” all composed of professional players came home from China last Tuesday empty handed in this year’s FIBA World Cup. Upon arrival at the airport, the team’s head coach Yeng Guiao explained that their debacle after being pitted against the best…

Gilas Pilipinas’ three bizarre losses By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.  DAYS before the start of this year’s World Cup, President Rodrigo Duterte made a fearless forecast that our national basketball team Gilas Pilipinas will surely not beat the Italian squad in their opening game on August 31. The prediction of…

Cignal HD spikers By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I NEVER failed to watch a national and international championship clash on television especially if the games being played is among my top ten favorite sports like cycling, boxing, basketball, pingpong (table tennis), volleyball, lawn tennis, baseball, swimming, running (marathon) and mixed…

Racism has no place in sports By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WE, the dedicated basketball fans know how to accept defeat, and how to act if our team wins. And that’s exactly how we felt last August 16 when the San Miguel team after trailing, 1-2, in the best-of-seven finals…