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.”
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.
Are his eyes on the prize—a second term as president of the Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines?
I FIRST got wind of some trouble brewing in the PBA when I saw Talk ’N Text’s top honchos Manny V. Pangilinan and Ricky Vargas talking about how unhappy they were over the officiating in the recently concluded PBA Commissioner’s Cup championship series.
The player transfer form request that would send sensational Powerade rookie Marcio Lassiter to Petron Blaze was finally received by the PBA Tuesday, prompting one prominent board member to comment that “it doesn’t make sense.”
The drive to give the country its first Olympic gold is as strong as ever, but Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines president Ricky Vargas feels the country needs to send more qualifiers to the world’s greatest sporting event.
Talk ‘N Text (TNT) cager Ali Peek was shot in the neck Monday night, but the gun used was not powerful enough to knock down the hulking player.
We have consistently maintained that when athletes represent our country in various athletic disciplines in the international arena, we have an obligation to support them. If they win we share in the pride of their victory and feel happy for them. If they lose we share in the agony of their defeat but never, ever [...]
Smart Gilas Pilipinas leaves Tuesday for the Fiba Asia Championship in Wuhan, China, needing to win the continental tournament to secure an outright berth in the 2012 London Olympics.
Philippine Sports Commission chair Richie Garcia’s utterly uncalled for remark on the ABS-CBN television show “Hardball” capped a day of infamy in Philippine sports.
To cap it all off, he has initials that underscore his worth to Philippine sports.
Prime prospect Ian Clark Bautista stunned European Cup champion Alexander Samoylov of Russia with a smashing 13-5 score to nail his second straight win and assure himself of at least a bronze medal in the 21st President’s Cup at the Senayan Indoor Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia, late Tuesday. The 16-year-old Bautista, a prized find from [...]
