Sportsmen in politics
By Percy D. DellaI TEXTED Manny Pacquiao’s top aide about the bills his boss sponsored and shepherded into law during the 15th Congress.
I TEXTED Manny Pacquiao’s top aide about the bills his boss sponsored and shepherded into law during the 15th Congress.
TO ERASE the perception that they are desperately clinging to power, a number of national sports association (NSA) leaders are calling for elections this month.
(My friend and fellow Inquirer Sports columnist, Recah Trinidad, launches his historical novel, “Tales of the River” at the new Mandaluyong City Hall at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The book retraces Recah’s youth on the Pasig when, like Old Man River, it just kept rolling along.)
“IF THE prize is right, they will come,” gushed my friend Joaquin “Jake” Ayson, a former national golf official, while ticking off the dueling golf Opens that have turned or will turn PH into a tantalizing stop for the world’s touring pros this year.
ATHLETICS chief Go Teng Kok was on world-record pace the other day. He got on the horn a good three minutes after I left him a message by cell phone.
COUNT eight years before the Azkals are bannered by domestic talent, Philippine Football Federation president Mariano Araneta says with a bit of unease.
IT’S as tight as a Scottish Highlands drum. It’s as fine as Shetland wool. It’s the Royal and Ancient Golf Club—one of golf’s oldest and most prestigious—and often referred to as the home of the game.
A new SM Mall on JP Laurel Avenue here attracts droves of people like a magnet. A stone’s throw away, a building is rising while hardly anyone notices.
IT’S bad enough that you don’t intend to show up at a party honoring you and your peers. What’s worse is when you don’t send word you’re not coming at all.
His craft spans the ages. He became a newspaperman in 1962 when lovers everywhere sighed to Bobby Vinton’s “Roses are Red,” when everyone shook with Chubby Checker and the Twist.
MAYBE he’d been burned by reporters before that he finds it prudent to think media questions through first, or better yet filter these through his staff—a “comite de festejos,” joked a sports editor.
PAPA, the Kings could be staying after all,” our grandson Isaiah Rashid excitedly reported by phone from Sacramento, California yesterday. “Mayor (Kevin) Johnson has formed a group of rich people to block the team from moving to Seattle.”
I HAVE on occasion taken a swipe at our presence in the Southeast Asian Games, thinking that my hostility to this sporting meet was about as feeble as President Noynoy’s opposition to his vice president’s opposition party.
