Exasperating week By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. ORGANIZING a bicycle race and still cover a two-day basketball tourney within a week is much too hectic but it happened to me again last week, the second time in my life. And despite the seemingly endless exasperation doing both in the province,…

PH fails again By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I’M DOING this piece earlier than usual to give myself time to sort out the November 28 bikefest in Bugallon, to be held in conjunction with the celebration of the town fiesta. Details of the bikefest was in last week’s issue. After that…

8th wonder of the world By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I’M sure you sports aficionados like me saw the fight where our very own boxing superhero Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao pummeled another Mexican ring gladiator named Antonio “Tijuana Tornado” Margarito and wrested the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) super welterweight, his…

Successful basketball officials’ seminar By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I ARRIVED late and attended only half of the first of the two-day seminar-clinic and accreditation event organized by the National Amateur Basketball Referees Organization (NABRO) last November 6 and 7 at the St. John’s Cathedral covered court. The occasion was…

Pacquiao will win By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. ONE week to go and the most-awaited, most-ballyhooed World Boxing Council (WBC) super welterweight title fight between our very own Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao and Mexican Antonio Margarito will be staged. It will be held at Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, about…

Can we trust this man? By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. I WAS surprised to receive a call from Seato Gonimil, chief de mission of Dagupan City’s delegation to the Region 1 PRISAA Games. He was fuming mad as he reported that the general services officer of Dagupan City, named Ed…

Ceralde, the basketball referee By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. UNLIKE the previous years, Dagupan City-born basketball referee Jorge B. Ceralde did not officiate this year’s PRISAA-UCAAP Inter-Collegiate Basketball Championship due to his previous and more important commitment to blow his whistle in Metro Manila caging particularly the prestigious National Colleges…

Can the UL five do it? By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. BY THE time you read this piece, our Pangasinan delegation to the Philippine Collegiate Championship League (PCCL) North-Central Luzon tilt, the University of Pangasinan Golden Tigers, will already be in Vigan City battling the best in this area headed…

Déjà vu for cycling By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS surprised, saddened and puzzled to learn that four of our local riders who topped the qualifying race last July 24 and earned the privilege to automatically become members of the Philippine national squad for this year’s Guangzhou Asian Games…

Cycling blues By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS stunned to know that my new cycling idol Alberto Velasco Contador of Spain was tested positive for a banned drug after winning this year’s Tour de France and has been formally and provisionally suspended by the world cycling governing body Union…