Largest and nicest game By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. LAST Sunday and Monday, three sports championships were held for us. One in international boxing and one each for national and provincial basketball competitions. In the international sphere, Filipino boxing icon Manny Paquiao retained his WBC (World Boxing Council) super featherweight…
Another milestone for GenVel By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. PANGASINAN sports lovers, especially in the field of basketball, are aware that the town of Sta. Barbara is a producer of sports celebrities. PBA’s Marlou Aquino and Christian Calaguio are the current luminaries from that town. Well, if you consider body-building…
Pratfall and rhubarb By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. BOXING, wrestling, karate, jujitsu, basketball, football, and baseball are some of the dirtiest sports that man invented. It is because these are “contact” games. And in case you don’t have any experience yet watching them live, I think you already have some…
Pangasinan cyclists strike again By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. The months of July, August and September are supposed to be the rainy season. PAGASA earlier said this year is supposed to be characterized by La Niña, a weather phenomenon of abundant rains. But it has been the other way around….
From nine down to four By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THIS year’s Southeast Asia (SEA) Games is just around the corner. Compared to the first and second times we hosted this biennial meet, the third time, which was held again in Manila in December 2005, was a very different story….
THE Milo Little Olympics for Luzon, now on its 10th season, unwraps on September 21 at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center in Lingayen. The annual multi-sporting event for17 year-old students and below will be played in different categories with huge cash prizes, trophies and medals at stake for…
Stunning and Saddening By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THOUGH it was saddening to know that Philippines just landed ninth-place in the FIBA-Asia Beijing Olympics qualifying tournament held recently, it was also disheartening to learn that our country is now ranked 62nd among the best men’s basketball teams in the world,…
Pangasinan’s longest and biggest By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. FIRST, I have to thank the Lord for hearing our prayers not to pour rains during the 2007 PD Cycling Challenge last Sunday. As I said last week, a bicycle road race with rains, especially with gusty winds, will surely endanger…
“Rain, rain go away…” By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. LAST March, our weather experts from PAGASA predicted that when the rainy season comes this year, we will be suffering from La Niña, especially here in Luzon. More typhoons will bring rains that will flood the lowland areas, they said. (While…
Oscar dela Hoya: A good fighting blood By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IT was the evening of November 25, 2006 when I personally met for the first time the illustrious and universally celebrated boxer Oscar dela Hoya, the top honcho of the well-known boxing promotion group called “Golden Boy Promotions.”…
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