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PACQUIAO STARTS LIGHT TRAINING FOR VARGAS BOUT
Sun, 14 Aug 2016
Starting this week, Filipino fighting Senator Manny Pacquiao will be dividing his time between performing his job as a lawmaker and preparing for his comeback fight with American World Boxing Organization welterweight c
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: OBSTACLES HIDILYN HAD TO HURDLE ON THE WAY TO RIO
Sun, 14 Aug 2016
Hidilyn Diaz.
"To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will." - Sugar Ry Robinson
The Philippines had just ended its long, 20-year thirst for an Olympic medal when a short, but well-built H
PACQUIAO WISHES PH OLYMPIANS BEST OF LUCK
Sun, 07 Aug 2016
Boxing great and now senator Manny Pacquiao wishes the Filipino athletes carrying the country's flag the best of luck in their quest for honors in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games which raised its curtains Friday (Saturd
10,000 ATHLETES AND OFFICIALS EXPECTED IN SEA GAMES 2019 IN DAVAO
Sat, 30 Jul 2016
Three years before the country hosts anew the Southeast Asian Games, the Philippine Sports Commission has already set in place preparations to make the event a resounding success like the previous three times the biennial conclave came to this shore.
For various reasons, of course. One, becaus
DUTERTE SENDS OFF PH OLYMPIANS
Mon, 18 Jul 2016
The decades-long tradition that was interrupted for six years will be re-lived today when newly-installed President Rodrigo "Digong" Duterte presides over the send off ceremony for the Rio de Janeiro-bound Filipino athletes competing i
PH TO HOST 2019 SEA GAMES IN DAVAO
Thu, 14 Jul 2016
Clothed with the full support of no less than President Rodrigo Duferte himself, Philippine Olympic Committee president Jose "Peping" Cojuangco flew fo Kuala Lumpur last Tuesday to formally relay to the Southeast Asian Games Federation the country's acceptance of an offer for the Philippines to host
WALANG KAHALAGAHAN ANG PH SPORTS SA ILALIM NGA P-NOY ADMIN
Tue, 05 Jul 2016
Noong Huwebes, ika-30 ng Hunyo, opisyal ba bumaba sa kanyang trono sa Palasyo ng Malakanyang si Benigno Simeon Aquino III upang ilipat sa bagong kahahalal na si dating Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ang pamamahala a bansa bilang Pangulo.
Sa kanyang pagbaba sa Palasyo, opisyal ding naging kaisa
PSC CHAIR RAMIREZ APPOINTS COMMISSIONERS
Mon, 04 Jul 2016
Ramirez.
One is a basketball great. The lone lady appointee is a wife of late president of the pencat silat federation. One other is a sports journalist and still another is a member of an influential religious sect that
PANCHO VILLA, SECOND OF A SERIES
Wed, 22 Jun 2016
Immediately after crowning himself the world flyweight crown via a seventh-round stoppage of defending champion Jimmy Wilde of Wales, Pancho Villa, who thus emerged the first Filipino and Asian to b
JUNE 18, 1923: PANCHO VILLA BECOMES ASIA'S FIRST WORLD CHAMPION
Sat, 18 Jun 2016
On this day in 1923, a bantam-sized but fast, two-fisted Filipino fighter gifted the Philippines, and Asia, for that matter, their first world boxing champion.
Pancho Villa, then only 22, knocked out cold Jimmy Wi
