By Al S. Mendoza THE latest news on John Amores, the obviously mentally troubled kid, is a bit troubling. Amores was expelled this week by Jose Rizal University (JRU), his alma mater. That was off-key. That was flawed. That was downright harsh. Amores did wrong, no doubt. By running…
Healing process ditched in Amores case
By Al S. Mendoza PHILIPPINE basketball was rocked by an ugly incident this week. No, it is not a game-fixing scandal. Far from that. No, it is not a blockbuster trade involving marquee players from San Miguel Beer and Barangay Ginebra. Far from that. And no, Manny V. Pangilinan is…
Saving a kid from the brink
By Al S. Mendoza I write about the Los Angeles Lakers not only because they are the NBA’s most glamorous team but also because they are the Filipinos’ favorite squad in the NBA. Likewise, I find joy digging on their feats because their 17 titles is an NBA record…
Zeroing in on the Los Angeles Lakers
By Al S. Mendoza SAN Miguel Beer has been the favorite clubhouse talk in Philippine basketball for quite some time now. That’s understandable. For one, the team that has been the lone remnant of the roster of gallant founders of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) in 1975, including the…
With Fajardo out, San Miguel Beer struggling
By Al S. Mendoza SAN Miguel Beer’s Grand Slam dream may vanish yet again. That’s because June Mar Fajardo, the team’s cornerstone for the longest time, has been declared out of commission from four to six weeks due to a throat injury. That’s definitely a bomb explosion of a…
San Miguel struggling without Fajardo
By Al S. Mendoza WAS Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri lying? Or was Huang Xilian, the Chinese ambassador to the Philippines, trying to save face? Zubiri grabbed news headlines this week when he said that China had blacklisted the Philippines as a destination for Chinese tourists. Almost immediately,…
The word war between Zubiri and Huang
By Al S. Mendoza WHEN is free time considered free time? To be more precise, when does the President have free time? What is free time, by the way? It can be personal, impersonal or, in a polite way, official. Like, by free time, we can mean the President…
Defining a president’s free time
By Al S.Mendoza MANNY Pacquiao is staging a comeback. But it is not really a comeback in the strictest sense of the word. He is coming back to fight but not actually in a real brawl. Well, it will still be a fight atop the roped ring when he…
Pacquiao is not done yet
By Al S. Mendoza WILL Navarro was hot news this week on the sporting front. Not because of his on-court skills but, alas, on his off-court misstep of monumental proportions. Navarro was a star of the Ateneo basketball team that won multiple times in the UAAP events in recent…
