Confident jins not pinning hopes on luck of draw
For a change, a couple of Filipino athletes competing in the Beijing Olympics are not really counting on the luck of the draw.
“I don’t want to say that during the drawing of lots, we’ll be hoping that they are not drawn with the top guns,” said RP taekwondo chief Robert Aventajado in yesterday’s PSA Forum.
He [...]
Narvasa overrules UE protest vs FEU
UAAP commissioner Chito Narvasa yesterday turned down the protest filed by University of the East contesting a no-call in the last 3.03 minutes of its 69-71 setback to Far Eastern U Saturday at the Philsports Arena.
In a seven-page decision obtained by The STAR, Narvasa said the bone of the Warriors’ contention, a supposedly 24-second clock [...]
Gin Kings in Finals
They form one of the league’s most prolific backcourt tandems but Ginebra’s Mark Caguioa and Jayjay Helterbrand have found themselves locked in a fierce battle for the Best Player of the Conference (BPC) award.
Already leading the BPC race after the elimination round, Caguioa and Helterbrand further boosted their bid for the coveted plum when they [...]
Team RP leaves for Beijing
The main group of athletes and officials in the 37-member Team Philippines will leave for Beijing on Aug. 5, three days before the 29th Olympic Games comes off the wraps in glittering rites.
Chef de Mission Monico Puentevella and Arturo Macapagal head the 27 athletes, coaches and officials taking a Philippine Airlines for a four-hour trip [...]
Pagulayan rips Orcollo for crown
SINGAPORE – Former World Pool champion Alex Pagulayan ended the Chinese Taipei stranglehold of the Guinness 9 Ball Tour 2008 as he defeated compatriot and current world No. 1 Dennis Orcollo, 11-6, in an All-Filipino finals of the Singapore leg last night at Velocity@Novena Square.
Pagulayan’s victory earned him the top prize of $15,000 (P675,000) while [...]
AJ Banal KO at 10th
Panama’s Rafael ‘El Torito’ Concepcion willed his way to overpower the slick-punching but late last night a totally exhausted AJ ‘Bazooka’ Banal of the Philippines to win the WBA superfly interim title at the full house Cebu Coliseum here.
Concepcion sent Banal kneeing to the canvas in the 10th round where Banal was unable to beat [...]
Pacman must be at his best vs Oscar
Manny Pacquiao vowed to be in his best shape ever if and when he gets to fight Oscar dela Hoya in December.
“If it’s Oscar I’m fighting, training should be at least eight weeks. Even 12 or 13 weeks or three months,” said the boxing superstar Wednesday.
Pacquiao knows too well that a fight with the Golden [...]
Streaking JRU battles MIT
Fresh from scoring its biggest win, Jose Rizal University guns for a fourth straight victory when it plays Mapua in the NCAA basketball tournament at the Astrodome in Pasay City today.
The Heavy Bombers and Cardinals tangle at 2 p.m. with the Mandaluyong-based squad determined to follow up their stunning 79-74 win over defending champion San [...]
Fil-American joins Giants’ pitching crew
Another player with a Filipino lineage has made it to a Major League Baseball club after the addition of 25-year-old pitcher Geno Espineli to the San Francisco Giants’ roster earlier this week.
Born as Eugene Macalalag Espineli on Sept. 9, 1982 to Filipino parents in Houston, Texas, the southpaw hurler played for one inning during the [...]
Ginebra Wins
Barangay Ginebra kept the momentum of its Game One win over Red Bull and took control practically throughout, repeating with a 111-104 win over the Bulls in Game Two of their Smart PBA Fiesta Conference Final Four showdown at the Araneta Coliseum.
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