ALL WEEK long following the May 13 polls, I spent my time gathering the names of athletes past and present and people connected to sports one way or the other who ran for a post in the just concluded elections.
BECAUSE Cebuana Lhuillier joined as title sponsor of the ongoing PBA Commissioner’s Cup Finals, league fans are speculating if the Cebu-based company owned by businessman-sportsman Jean Henri Lhuillier is ready to move up to the next level.
WHOEVER said that the Shanghai Sharks were here in Manila to spread goodwill and play a couple of friendly games with local teams, didn’t know what he was talking about.
I got a bit worried when I read in the papers the other day that Top Rank promoter Bob Arum had picked Brandon Rios to be Manny Pacquiao’s opponent when he returns to the ring on Nov. 24.
GUERRERO, in Spanish, means ‘warrior’. Robert Guerrero, who will challenge Floyd “The Money” Mayweather Jr. at the MGM Grand today for the WBC welterweight title, is confident that he will live up to his name.
PBA legend Vergel Meneses was designated head coach of EA Regen Medical group, a new team in the PBA Developmental League owned by Lubao Mayor Dennis Pineda, when the ballclub first saw action at the start of the conference.
IT WAS about 3 p.m. yesterday when I received the persistent calls on my mobile phone.
IT WAS mere curiosity that prompted me to touch base early this week with Talk ‘N Text coach Norman Black and Rain or Shine team owner Raymond Yu.
HOW UNLUCKY can a man be! Less than a month ago, on March 27, Police Officer 2 Anselmo Lazatin landed at the East Avenue Hospital after he tried to pacify rampaging PBA import Jamelle Cornley who went into a fit of rage when he found out that the three women he had picked up and taken with him to his hotel room had stolen the money in his wallet.
Many boxing writers and experts were on the same wavelength recently. They all believe that Nonito Donaire Jr. lost the fight last Sunday because he had underestimated Cuban boxer Guillermo Rigondeaux.
IT HAS been all quiet on the Patafa (Philippine Amateur Track and Field Association) front since I last talked to Go Teng Kok some months ago.
NONITO “The Filipino Flash” has voluntarily undergone random drug tests for over a year now and wonders why others don’t want to follow his example. He merely wants to protect the integrity of boxing and to make sure no fighter has an induced advantage.
Saturday came and went, but there was absolutely no hint in the media if Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez had made it to Macau for that all-important meeting with Top Rank Promotions chief Bob Arum, who was supposed to seal the fifth fight between the two.
