London hosts scaled-down World Pride parade
London hosted a subdued World Pride parade on Saturday after organizers of the gay rights event said they had scaled it back due to funding shortages.
London hosted a subdued World Pride parade on Saturday after organizers of the gay rights event said they had scaled it back due to funding shortages.
The White House came out swinging Tuesday after President Barack Obama was lightheartedly booed in Boston over the trade of a top baseball star to his beloved Chicago White Sox.
Protestant pastors have been coming in droves to Manny Pacquiao’s mansion in General Santos City. And their number is increasing each day.
Even one of the staunchest critics of Manny Pacquiao thought the Filipino boxing hero won the fight against Timothy Bradley Jr.
Despite his defeat, Manny Pacquiao remained a “source of inspiration,” for Filipinos, Vice President Jejomar Binay said on Sunday.
Not content with owning a basketball team, studying business and making wine, China’s former NBA superstar Yao Ming has now become the youngest — and tallest — legislative advisor in Shanghai.
Retired basketball star Yao Ming has added another line to his post-NBA resume — politician.
“Magpakatotoo ka…maging Filipino ka (Be true to yourself…be a Filipino).” This was boxing idol Manny Pacquiao’s message to his Filipino critics, especially those who rooted for Mexican fighter Juan Manuel Marquez during their bout in Las Vegas which resulted in a controversial finish.
When Philippine Amateur Track and Field Association president Go Teng Kok was ousted as a member of the Philippine Olympic Committee, there was considerable press coverage. The POC’s rump resolution was made without due process as required by the Olympic body’s constitution as well as the specific provisions under the International Olympic Committee charter. For [...]
The cash-starved Philippine Sports Commission is bent on wielding the axe on non-performing NSAs (national sports associations) starting with the national delegation that will be seeing action in the 26th Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia on Nov. 11 to 25. With the games only two months away before the country’s hopefuls participate in this biennial [...]
The Cobra Philippine Dragon Boat Federation officials did not attend the meeting called by the House of Representatives, which was trying to strike a deal between the world champion team and the Philippine Canoe/Kayak Federation yesterday.
I know that my stand in defense of the embattled Philippine Olympic Committee versus the now-popular Cobra-sponsored national dragon boat team would provoke and raise a lot of pogrom against me. But I welcome the challenge. In the end, I’ll take solace in the fact that most of my respected sources have always been on [...]
I had wanted to call former POC president Cito Dayrit, who wrote a book on Olympism and is considered an authority on the subject, and ask him to define the role of International Olympic Committee representative Frank Elizalde with regard to the Philippine Olympic Committee. Considering the countless problems plaguing the various National Sports Associations, [...]
