I WASN’T sure if I was to take the text message lightly since it came from someone inside Manny V. Pangilinan’s inner circle. “Ricky Vargas is going to join show biz very, very soon,” the message read. “This is a scoop you might want to write in your Sunday column, but please don’t mention where it came from.”
Business tycoon Manny V. Pangilinan expressed his gratitude towards PBA Commissioner Chito Salud following the league’s recent moves in boosting the national team’s preparations for the coming Fiba Asia Championship this August.
FOR THE moment, we can forget about Manny Pacquiao showing early signs of Parkinson’s disease, the same ailment that afflicts world boxing legend Muhammad Ali and Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach.
The Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas will prioritize grassroots development and an improved performance by the national team under communications magnate Manny V. Pangilinan, who was elected to another four-year term as head of the cage body.
SPORTS patron Manny V. Pangilinan is expected to get another term unopposed as president of the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas when the country’s governing body for the sport holds its election on Friday at Meralco multipurpose hall in Pasig City.
THE winner of the Ateneo-UST championship series in the 2012 Philippine Collegiate Champions League will keep for one year the MV Pangilinan perpetual bronze sculpture.
When Manny V. Pangilinan turned down, at the last minute, an overwhelming appeal for him to run for president of the Philippine Olympic Committee, the respected tycoon readily explained he was “not turning my back at all on Philippine sports.
MAYNILAD president/CEO Ricky Vargas was the last person I expected to bump into during an intimate birthday luncheon in a farm in San Pablo, Laguna, last Saturday.
Talk about dominating the sports news cycle. Business tycoon Manny V. Pangilinan is no publicity seeker. But by titillating sports reporters and junkies alike recently, he guaranteed himself of an almost round-the-clock sports coverage without really trying.
But on Monday, a good number of national sports association (NSA) heads attended a dinner and formalized their intention to join a movement that would hopefully succeed in working for sound reforms in the Philippine Olympic Committee.
Clamoring for change, a big group of national sports associations attended a dinner-meeting hosted by sports patron and tycoon Manny V. Pangilinan with most of them ready to pledge support.
Incumbent Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Jose “Peping” Cojuangco Jr. yesterday cried foul over what he described as a “concerted smear campaign” against him in his bid for a third term in the Olympic body.
After the prelude, after the fanfare, tycoon Manny V. Pangilinan will drop the bomb sooner than later. Will he run or won’t he run for president of the Philippine Olympic Committee?
