Phil headed back to the Lakers?
By Percy DellaTHIS soap opera has been written. The characters are already in place. Crank up the late night updates and a publicity machine to feed the morning papers and we’re in business.
THIS soap opera has been written. The characters are already in place. Crank up the late night updates and a publicity machine to feed the morning papers and we’re in business.
SACRAMENTO—Humpty Dumpty almost had a great fall and all the Kings’ men were around to put Humpty back together again, just in case. But last Monday, the NBA’s Sacramento Kings averted a grievous plunge and a tangle of financial and bureaucratic arrangements elsewhere. The Maloof family, which owns the team, has decided to stay in [...]
The boxing world is upside down and needs help to straighten it up.
SACRAMENTO, California—“This is b_ll sh_t, this is b_ll sh_t,” the crowd at the Theater of the Madison Square Garden roared in frustration last night as the bell rang for the 10th round of Nonito Donaire Jr’s twin bantamweight title defense against Argentina’s Omar Narvaez. “I’m bored,” the Filipino Flash deliberately muttered to his trainer Robert [...]
SACRAMENTO, California—Episodes of grief punctuated the basketball universe in September. The National Basketball Association and its players’ union, led by recent Manila visitor Derek Fisher of the Los Angeles Lakers, will meet again in New York today. Their elusive target: end the three-month old players’ lockout sparked by dispute over the distribution of the league’s [...]
SACRAMENTO—It is said that the Filipino diaspora is so widespread that in all probability, there’s a Pinoy in every corner of the globe. Kalamazoo, Michigan, is no exception. The Wolverine State’s southwest region is home to a vibrant adobo nation of mostly health care professionals, engineers and business people. Every chance they get, these expatriates [...]
