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Raul “Yayoy” Alcoseba, our Cebu City Councilor, is the most famous and triumphant coach in our land’s basketball history. Back in 1986, he started coaching for Michel Lhuillier and his cluster of basketball teams. Since then, he’s won 350… 650… possibly thousands… of games during the 23-year span. Recently, Coach Yayoy and his M. Lhuillier [...]

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www.cebumarathon.com Running has replaced badminton as the most popular recreational sport in Cebu today. If you arise early on a Sunday and visit the two parks—Cebu Business Park and the Asiatown I.T. Park—you will see women and men in short shorts, leggings, sleeveless shirts. On their feet are soft, thick-padded shoes and they’re all moving [...]

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Good to see the top eight men’s tennis players in the world. They’re in London for the annual, year-ending Masters Cup. The bad news? No cable TV coverage!

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No Filipino athlete, female or male, has ever earned one billion pesos in total prize money in her or his entire career. And here comes a former construction worker who could barely feed himself two meals a day, who finished only his elementary education, who started boxing to lift himself from poverty at the age [...]

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Zeta Celestino Oliveros Gorres, or “Buchoy” to his close friends and family, is known to us by only one letter: Z. Nine days ago, a terrifying incident happened. At the Mandalay Bay House of Blues—on an eerie Friday the 13th—Z Gorres won his fight but then collapsed. Z was in Zzzzs. He was in a [...]

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Text messages I received… Isolde Amante: MP a hero? If a hero is one who overcomes difficult circumstances, develops his potentials to the fullest and inspires others to do the same, then yes. But this refers only to Pacquiao as an athlete. Bro. Carlo Bacalla: Pacquiao is special because 1) He has d heart of [...]

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Adjectives like “unbelievable” and “astonishing” and “stunning” are no longer befitting the task of describing Manny Pacquiao. And so, I propose that Webster Dictionary add a new adjective to its vocabulary: Wapakman. Never before have we witnessed such a man. What Pacman has done, no other Pinoy has done. Not in the past. Not in [...]

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The day has arrived. The day we’ve looked forward to for weeks, hours, months. This day is special. There has never been a day like Nov. 15, 2009. Elections happen in our land every 36 months—but that’s insignificant compared to this 36-minute mega-fight. This day—win or lose—will be remembered next year, in 2015, and 30 [...]

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Here are a few of the best articles I’ve read about tomorrow’s fight… AskMen Dan Rafael The Queensberry Rules Times Online Phil. Star And, of course, the site where to get it all…. Philboxing.com

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If you access the 5th most visited website in America and type the 13 letters of this Filipino boxer’s name, you will be astounded by the volume of videos that you can watch. As of 6:42 last night, it’s 23,900 videos. If you total the number of views that these Manny Pacquiao videos harvest, it [...]

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When our Filipino hero fought Ricky Hatton last May 2, I penned an article that morning entitled, “MP’s secret is spelled MP.” In that piece, I elaborated saying that MP’s success formula—apart from his speed and muscle—is his mental backbone. Mind Power. That’s MP’s MP. I likened his psychological tenacity to Tiger Woods’ and Rafael [...]

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