Past Filipino sports champions that have long been forgotten may soon receive the benefits and appreciation they deserve through the passage of a Senate bill that will grant them retirement, health, and death benefits.
Staying in a corner of Wild Card Gym and intently watching Manny Pacquiao spar and train Thursday afternoon, Luisito Espinosa couldn’t help but be amazed.
COLMA, California—In this tiny town where the dead outnumber the living, it seems like the only place alive is a casino on Hillside Boulevard. Lucky Chances Casino also happens to be the first Filipino-owned gambling establishment in the United States. The proprietor, self-made millionaire Rene Medina, hails from Arayat, Pampanga. The casino is across a [...]
SACRAMENTO, California—This sounds crazy, but it’s true. Former two-time world boxing champion Luisito Espinosa, now 44, is indeed thinking of a comeback. “Please keep everything hush-hush in the meantime,” Luisito told me in Filipino when I reached him at work by phone yesterday. “My new handlers may not like the premature publicity.” But Espinosa relented [...]
