By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   AFTER four times of tryouts in Calasiao and in Alaminos City gyms, the formation of our provisional Pangasinan Heat team quintet for the coming 2024 Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) was finally known last Thursday by our Pangasinan squad head coach Jun Marzan, the…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   BESIDES being the most strenuous sport, many say that cycling is one of the riskiest sports that this world ever produced. Yes, I agree, sans doubt. The two-wheeled sport already killed thousands of avid cyclists all over the world either as their means of…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AVID fans of basketball in Pangasinan who may still not know must be made aware that there are already two professional basketball leagues in the country. First was the PBA. The latest that emerged six years ago was the little-known Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL)….

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   I WAS not surprised at all on learning that international pool veteran Carlo Biado won the 2nd Chinese Taipei Open 9-Ball Pool Championship in Taiwan last January 12. I’ve been following Biado’s career since his climb to Asia’s top level that rates him today…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   AFTER three years of hiatus due to the pandemic, the world’s big sports activities like football, baseball, basketball, boxing, cycling, marathon, to name some, are on the rise again. Officials of five towns of our beloved province are finally ready to stage sports activities…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THERE will still be no national multi-stage bikefest this year after efforts to do it last year failed. According to my reliable source close to our national media colleague based in Metro Manila, Dwain Badua of the well-known Dwain Entertainment, the people behind the bikefest…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   SELDOM can we can find a female professional athlete really willing to give back to her community by promoting her chosen sport, organizing the tournaments for the game she loves so much among her fellow athletes in Pangasinan specially from her hometown. Fortunately, my…

By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. FIRSTLY, my big thanks to God anent the bikefest that I organized and directed held last December 17 in conjunction with the celebration of my natal day, a day prior to my actual birthday (December 18) which I dubbed it this year as “3rd JAG,…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   THE Philippine National Games (PNG) and the Batang Pinoy Championships (BPC) resumed last year after three years of suspension due to COVID-19. This year, Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino said the twin annual sports events will be held on December 17-22…

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   I WAS born a week before Christmas Day and that’ one of the two reasons why my first name is Jesus. The second, it’s also the first name of my father, Jesus Rivera Garcia, the late Mexican blooded U.S. army veteran hombre who came…