Meeting my basketball contemporaries By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I’M finally making this piece at home. Yes, despite the big opportunity that Uncle Sam could offer me to live permanently in the land of ‘milk and honey’ that millions of Filipinos are aspiring for, it’s still nice to be back…

Gracias to my Mexican relatives and friends By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. KAPOLEI, HAWAII–After my stressful trips to Houston , Fort Worth-Dallas, McAllen in Texas, Los Angeles, and Santa Maria in California, I’m finally in Kapolei, the newest city of Hawaii for a one-week vacation. This is my fourth time…

Brief but worthwhile visits By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. FORT WORTH, TEXAS–We have moved here with my goddaughter, nee Marilou Cariño, formerly from my place in barangay Buenlag, Mangaldan and now married to an electronic engineer, Giles Honeycut, who picked us up in Houston and took us to their beautiful…

Why Pangasinan riders lost in Padyak Pinoy By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. HOUSTON, Texas- I intended to write this last week but time constraints kept me from doing so. I’m so sorry dear readers. After a stressful pell-mell at the Padyak Pinoy 8-day bikefest, I’m taking a vacation here in…

Champ Pacquiao and his 2010 plan By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. FILIPINO boxing icon Manny Pacquiao proved anew his magnificent skills as a warrior inside the ring by scoring a sensational second round knockout over British hope Ricky Hatton to wrest the International Boxing Organization junior welterweight tiara last May…

A vital union for Pinoy cyclists By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE last of the Marlboro Tours was run in 1998 and won by the diminutive Valenzuela City resident Warren Davadilla. After that, many national tours emerged after three years of absence in multi-stage racing but with different titles. The…

Bitter sweet By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. FILIPINO boxing buffs who came to watch personally the world title fights of our very own Brian Villoria and Nonito Donaire, Jr. at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City went out from the Big Dome with a big smile. Yes, and also the…

Tour of Luzon returns By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IT was the year 1976 when the last Tour of Luzon was held, a multi-stage bicycle road race held annually under the intellectual property ownership of the late Atty. Geruncio Lacuesta. A son of a fisherman named Modesto F. Bonzo from…

2 national tours on this year By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. It was in the years 1974, 1975 and 1976 when two national tours were conducted. These were the Tour of PICCA (Philippine Industrial Commercial Cycling Association) formed by the late Antonio Kairuz, a cycling magnate; and Tour of Luzon,…

Yankees, Cubans no. 1 no more By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. BASEBALL is not in my list of top five favorite sports. Nonetheless, I enjoy watching the big tourneys of both these sports on television with rounds of beers, even when I am all alone in my room or in…