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Posted on March 15, 2010 - Filed Under General Admission, Opinion | Leave a Comment
A walk in the park for Pacquiao
By Al S. Mendoza
THIS one is as fearless as it can get: Manny Pacquiao will win it so easily you’d think he never had a foe at all.
It will be by knockout.
It can happen in the first, second or third, or fifth, ninth or 12th.
Pacquiao would be [...]
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Posted on March 8, 2010 - Filed Under General Admission, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Some politicians are like Gregorio, the winning Purefoods coach
By Al S. Mendoza
THERE are reasons for a team to be called great.
But in the case of Purefoods, which won the KFC-PBA Philippine Cup on Wednesday, will it qualify as one?
I believe so.
Look, third-ranked Purefoods won three straight games to post a 4-2 triumph over No. [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2010 - Filed Under General Admission, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Of PAL Interclub, Tiger & PBA Finals
By Al S. Mendoza
BACOLOD CITY – The break in the 63rd PAL Interclub Golf afforded me the chance to go PBA-watching here Sunday night on TV — and Wednesday night, too.
Never mind that Tiger Woods had grabbed some valuable time from all of us earlier, only to irritate us some [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2010 - Filed Under General Admission, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Buloy Al & Pacquiao are worlds apart
By Al S. Mendoza
YOU don’t have money, you can still run but, most likely, you only have two chances of winning: nil and none.
Only a miracle can make the moneyless candidate win. One proof was the victory of Gov. Ed Panlilio of Pampanga in 2007.
Being a priest, Among Ed [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2010 - Filed Under General Admission, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Zeroing in on Guv Spine
By Al S. Mendoza
HOW can Guv Spine lose?
He is the incumbent.
He is the toast of Pangasinan’s businessmen and the darling of provincial media.
He has been going great guns from Day One, punctuating his first few months in office by transforming the Capitol from a decrepit edifice into what arguably is the [...]
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Posted on February 7, 2010 - Filed Under General Admission, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Why the Lims keep on running
By Al S. Mendoza
DEMOCRACY is what makes us going.
But who was it who said freedom must have limits to individuals but not to nations.
Quite profound.
But let me expound.
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Posted on February 1, 2010 - Filed Under General Admission, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Dance time for the kapitanes
By Al S. Mendoza
TODAY, Jan. 31, marks the barangay day in my hometown (Mangatarem).
To commemorate it, all the 82 kapitanes and their kagawads will hold a grand ball at the plaza auditorium.
Everybody will come dressed-to-kill, so to speak.
Dance for all.
Dance up to the wee hours of the morning.
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Posted on January 25, 2010 - Filed Under General Admission, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Big day in Mangatarem for sports – and roots
By Al S. Mendoza
ANYTHING about my town is almost always grist for column.
That has been the template since I started here in 2003.
Remember that time?
I was in Bacolod covering the PAL Interclub when Jun Velasco, my greatest buddy from Dagupan, sent me a text-message.
“We r waiting 4 [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2010 - Filed Under General Admission, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Mayweather must be crying over spilled milk
Al S. Mendoza
IS it final?
I mean, is the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight finally off?
My take is, it can still be saved.
In boxing, as in politics, nothing is impossible.
The fight was supposed to be held on March 13 in Las Vegas.
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Posted on January 11, 2010 - Filed Under General Admission, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Maguindanao Massacre hits PAL Interclub
By Al S. Mandoza
I FIRST got wind of it from Jun Canton.
I was to board my PAL flight at the Mactan International Airport when I bumped into Jun, a top gun at PAL Cebu.
This was mid-December last year, after I had stood as godfather of Master Mico P. Limpag at the [...]
