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Posted on February 6, 2012 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Leave a Comment

Gumarang deplores basketball team selection By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WHEN I got word from my cousin Alex Aquino that the University of Luzon (UL) will officially represent region 1 in the forthcoming National Students Basketball Championship (NSBC) slated on February 27-March 3 based on what his son UL player Aljick told him, I just [...]

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Posted on January 31, 2012 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Leave a Comment

Cycling, chess and basketball By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER my brief meeting with Palarong Media overall chairman Andy Estrada last January 21 about the format of the table tennis event that I have to handle on February 11, I quickly motored to San Fabian to catch the start of the 3rd San Fabian Mountain [...]

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Posted on January 22, 2012 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Leave a Comment

SK cagefest returns in Mangaldan  By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER an absence of five years due to the lack of interest of the former Mangaldan SK federation president in basketball, the town’s new SK federation prexy Charlene Joy Flores is reviving the annual cagefest dubbed this year as “Bakbakan 2012 Matira ang Matibay Basketball [...]

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Posted on January 17, 2012 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Leave a Comment

Unforgettable January 9  By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THERE are five most important and so unforgettable dates in my life since I reached the ripeness of my age. First and foremost, of course, is when I first saw the light of this world on December 18, 1945. Second was the time when I registered my [...]

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Posted on January 8, 2012 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Leave a Comment

Pangasinan’s best athletes of 2011 By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. SORRY guys if you missed my column last week. I was not able to beat The PUNCH deadline which fell on a Thursday (December 29), not remembering that the following day was Dr. Jose Rizal’s day, a national holiday. My topic was supposed to have [...]

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Posted on December 26, 2011 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Leave a Comment

Cyclists Barnachea, Catalan deserve recognition By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. YEAR 2012 promises to be a most memorable year for us sports devotees because it’s an Olympic year, with the games set in London, England. And I’m sure those athletes I saw during the First Youth Olympic Games staged in Singapore last year, especially the [...]

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Posted on December 19, 2011 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Leave a Comment

Segura and Viloria  By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. YOU and I saw the fight. You watched it on TV but I watched it personally at Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig City last Sunday. We saw how the Narvacan, Ilocos Sur-born Brian Viloria scored a devastating eight round stoppage over the dreaded Mexican ring gladiator Giovani [...]

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Posted on December 5, 2011 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Comments Off

Controversy in PRISAA gold medal match By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS officially invited so I attended the news conference of the PBA Legends/Movie Stars Goodwill Games held at Lyceum Northwestern University (LNU) multipurpose hall last Tuesday. Initially, I thought of not going because I anticipated that two of my four former basketball friends [...]

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Posted on November 28, 2011 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Comments Off

PH team should be overhauled  By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE TWO top honchos of sports in the country, Philippine Olympic Committee president Jose “Peping” Cojuangco and Philippine Sports Commission chairman Richie Garcia, bragged and made a rosy forecast that our national athletes will win at least 70 gold medals in the 26th Southeast Asia [...]

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Posted on November 20, 2011 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Comments Off

Mixed opinions By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WE saw the fight and we all know how our compatriot and world boxing icon Manny Pacquiao won via a majority decision over his long-time nemesis Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico to retain his World Boxing Organization diadem. The verdict of the two judges (116-112 and 115-113) created [...]

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