April 25, 2024
Thursday
What a game. For nearly half my life — 1996-2001 with the Gokongwei family and 2001-2020 with the Inquirer Group of Companies — I had been with Bandera as sports editor and, for the last five years, associate editor of this popular daily tabloid. Right from the tip-off mark on September 10, 1990, Bandera positioned […]
SPORTS fans all over the world got a reprieve from boredom last Monday (Philippine time) with the release of The Last Dance, a 10-part documentary featuring Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls’ 6th championship run during the 1997-98 NBA season. The first two episodes were streamed on Netflix last Monday and two more episodes will […]
Sa dami ng sad news na naririnig at nababasa natin ngayon dahil sa COVID-19 ay uhaw na uhaw na ang sambayanan sa good news. Kaya naman laking tuwa ko nang ibalita sa amin ni Games and Amusements Board (GAB) chairman Baham Mitra na natanggap na ni dating two-time world boxing champion Luisito Espinosa ang $5,000 […]
Hindi na mabilang ang biktima ng COVID-19. Ang mas nakatatakot pa nito ay wala pang nakikitang tunay na lunas para pugsain ang nakamamatay na coronavirus. Bagaman kasalukuyan nang ipinatutupad ang lockdown o community quarantine sa milyon-milyong katao sa buong mundo ay hindi talaga nito mawawakasan ang pandemic na ito bagkus ay nalilimita lamang nito ang […]
COVID-19 has already disrupted the world sports calendar. Sports leagues all over the world are already at a standstill. Major events have already been postponed. And tournaments have been called off. Athletes — as healthy and as vigorous as they are — have not been spared from the new coronavirus. In the NBA alone, […]
WHICH came first: the chicken or the egg? This is probably the issue most difficult to settle, the problem most difficult to solve, or the question most difficult to answer. True, chickens came from eggs but, on the other hand, eggs are laid by chickens. Two sides can argue on this eternally and still can’t […]
THE internet is here to stay and the social media is eating up our day. There is no denying the fact that the way we live is now dictated by the digital world. But how do we cope? I was recently invited to a forum by leading sports nutritionist Dr. Dana Ryan on “How […]
IF you base everything on prevailing rules and by-laws, the curious case of the Philippine Volleyball Federation (PVF) is easy to decide. The PVF is the federation recognized by the FIVB, the world governing body of volleyball. In fact, during the 2018 FIVB World Congress held in Cancun, Mexico, the FIVB General Assembly rejected the […]
GUESS who’s back in the Philippines. It’s former two-time world boxing champion Luisito Espinosa. Espinosa, who is now works as a gym instructor in China, is in the country for a month-long vacation. He dropped by the National Press Club on Thursday morning to grace the Usapang Sports forum organized weekly by the Tabloids Organization […]
SENATORS Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara and Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go graced the opening of the first ever Philippine Professional Sports Summit yesterday at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) and promised to give their all-out support in legislation pertaining to pro sports. “Whatever is discussed and agreed upon today, we welcome it and if legislation […]
LAST year, Antonella Berthe Racasa became the country’s youngest Woman Fide Master at age 11. Last week, she stirred the international chess community when she scored six wins and two draws against higher rated opponents in 11 rounds at the World Cadets Chess Championships in Shandong, China. Yesterday at the Usapang Sports organized by the […]