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Stars Shine in Week I of PBA Bubble
Wed, 21 Oct 2020
The PBA has restarted and so has the race for the first league Bubble MVP.
After a week of action in the lone conference the country’s and Asia’s first play-for-pay league is offering in celebration of its 45th year anniversary – the Philippine Cup – due to the Covid 19 pandemic, Cebuano
Revered boxing guru Freddie Roach comes to Marcial’s rescue
Mon, 19 Oct 2020
Marcial (L) with Roach at Roach's Wildcard Gym.
Twenty eight years ago in 1992, when Freddie Roach was planning to put up his own gym, his training guru, Eddie Futch, the man the acknowledged as the greatest t
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: You read it here first
Wed, 30 Sep 2020
Ernest Obiena.
When Filipino pole vaulter Ernest John Obiena gifted the Philippines a gold medal during the 23rd Asian Athletic Championships held in Dona, Qatar on April 21, 2019, your OUTSIDER here reported that he,
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: Totoy Tingzon, from a player, public school teacher to father of youth baseball
Mon, 14 Sep 2020
Totoy Tingzon.
Rodolfo “Totoy” Tingzon started as a baseball player, became a school teacher and acknowledged as father of youth baseball in the country and the whole of Asia, celebrates another milestone in his life
Advantages boxing Olympic qualifier Eumir Marcial must maintain
Mon, 14 Sep 2020
For being ranked the second best amateur middleweight in the world, Filipino Olympic qualifier Eumir Marcial is still the brightest hope of quenching the country’s long, 76-year thirst for a gold medal in the quadrennial
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: Yuka Saso has Bulakenyo running in her veins
Wed, 09 Sep 2020
Yuka Saso.
Include golfing sensation Yuka Saso in the list of Filipino Olympians hopeful of gifting the country its first Olympic gold medal following 76 years of futility that started when the Philippines first took part in
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: 50 years in sportswriting and counting
Sun, 30 Aug 2020
Eddie Alinea.
August is about to end. On Tuesday, starts the next four months of the year ending in ER. Meaning, too, the start of the longest celebration of the Christmas Season in the world.
This column, however, is n
Surfer Roger Casugay taught the world what sports is all about
Sun, 23 Aug 2020
Casugay.
Eight weeks after Filipino surfer taught the entire sporting world what kind of human beings Filipinos are, his exemplary behavior displayed during the last 30th Southeast Asian Games remains the talk of the tow
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: Elordes play Good Samaritans to Eumir
Thu, 25 Jun 2020
Eumir Marcial.
No training venue? No problem.
Back against-the-wall Olympic qualifier Eumir Marcial will be training on his own in preparing for his bid for the country’s first ever Olympic gold medal at any o
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: All Eumir Marcial wants is to train for the Olympics
Sun, 31 May 2020
Marcial.
This OUTSIDER can only commiserate with middleweight Olympic qualifier Eumir Marcial.
Nearly three months after earning his ticket last March 8 (March 9 in Manila) to the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games, the 24-y
