Pacquiao takes earlier flight to LA

RETURNING HOME Manny Pacquiao and his family board Philippine Airlines Flight PR103 in Los Angeles for their return flight to the Philippines after the boxer’s unsuccessful bid against world welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. The Pacquiaos are expected to arrive in Manila before dawn today. REM ZAMORA

Team Pacquiao will leave for the United States on March 12, three days earlier than planned, for the final phase of Manny Pacquiao’s training for his third showdown with Timothy Bradley on April 9 in Las Vegas.

Pacquiao and chief trainer Freddie Roach agreed to leave for Los Angeles on Saturday, along with assistant trainers Buboy Fernandez, Nonoy Neri and Roger Fernandez and sparring partners Ghislain Maduma and Lydell Rhodes. Roy Luarca