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WHAT are at stake when Manny Pacquiao fights Timothy Bradley a third time (they split the first two) on Sunday, April 10 (Manila time), in Las Vegas, Nevada?
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WHAT are at stake when Manny Pacquiao fights Timothy Bradley a third time (they split the first two) on Sunday, April 10 (Manila time), in Las Vegas, Nevada?
PRAISE when there is reason to praise. Hit when there is reason to hit. These are the code words that have governed this corner all this time. As it seemingly appears thus far, the sailing’s fine. Thank you.
GREECE is where the Olympic Games started. Fittingly, Olympia is the name of the exact place where it all began.
THE founder was absent, and that was just too bad. It would have been profoundly nice if he were around.
THIS early, three tournaments for April are in my calendar. But I don’t know if I could play in all three. Golf is so difficult a game that I still wonder why, up to now, I haven’t kicked the habit.
IT’S been a decade. That long, indeed. We started in 2007 and this year—just last week to be precise—our Kabig (Kapalohan Bisita Iglesia Group) completed its 10th straight Bisita Iglesia. To the uninitiated, this is our devotion, panata, to pray the 14 Stations of the Cross commemorating the Death, Passion and Resurrection of our Dear Lord Jesus Christ leading to the Holy Week observance (March 20 to 27).
NOTHING is new in the case of Maria Sharapova. She had just lost lucrative endorsements as a result of her admission that in January, she took meldonium, a drug banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) only last December.
NEXT month will mark the first year after I had renewed my driver’s license in April 2015. Up to now, however, I have yet to receive my plasticized license from the Land Transportation Office (LTO). I drive with a piece of paper with the marking, “Temporary license.”
THE Manila Southwoods had just scored its own bit of history by winning the recently ended Philippine Airlines Interclub Golf Championship at Clark Field, Pampanga. It was its first back-to-back championship, after capturing the crown last year in Cebu City. With this exceptional feat, the happiest guy would be Thirdy Escaño, the winning team captain.
MODESTY aside, I was a title contender again in the just-ended PAL Media Golf Tournament.
IT was a truly hectic weekend for me the week past. I was in Bohol for the historic launch of Toyota’s innovative multipurpose vehicles (IMVs) Fortuner, Innova and Hilux from February 26 to 28.
WHAT’S the significance once again of the Philippine Airlines (PAL) Interclub Golf to Philippine sports?
MICHINOBU “THE ROCKER” SUGATA has been a bit gone and now holds a pivotal position in Tokyo’s Toyota Motor Corp. headquarters. But he remains a hot topic of conversations among both industry captains and others he had touched while he was here, including mere motoring kibitzers like yours truly. The reason for this, in large part, is his six-year stint as president of Toyota Motor Philippines was marked by stupendous achievements that were mostly unprecedented. There are just too many of them to mention here but two will stand out.
HERE is an e-mail I recently received that is worth reading. It says, among other things, that Filipino swimmers are set to cross the English Channel, the world-famed body of water that separates France and England. It came from Melissa Grace “Mel” Dizon-Dulalia, who is the public-relations director of 1FIM (First Filipino International Movement).
MITSUBISHI and Toyota made a combined smashing splash last week worth remembering. For Mitsubishi, it was a triad of industry-shaking achievements.
TWO dudes today: Miguel “Migs” Tabuena and Ivan “The Terrible” Johnson.
THE safety of motorists has always been the passion of the top honchos at the Manila North Tollways Corp. (MNTC)—yes, the builder and concessionaire of the Nlex (North Luzon Expressway). In fact, the Nlex is a paragon of safe road travel, which has become the mantra of the guys on the forefront of the world-class expressway. Over there, the immortal code words are: “Motorist safety is our priority.”
THE Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner’s Cup gets going on Wednesday but San Miguel Beer (SMB), fresh from its historic conquest just last week of the Philippine Cup, will not see action until February 20 when it battles the Mahindra Enforcer of Manny Pacquiao.
AS I keep saying, there is no saying that isn’t true. Like this one: “Time flies.”
MONUMENTAL moment of truth. That is what it’s about today.
IT’S been said before, but let me say it again because it’s worth retelling: The industry sold more than 320,000 units in 2015, or an astonishing surge of 36 percent from the 2014 sales result, which was 234,747 units. And even before 2016 could get rolling, car moguls are already saying of at least a 10-percent growth, or a sales forecast of 350,000 plus by December. This, they based from a steady demand from the domestic market because of the twin triggers of the consumers’ resurgent buying power and sales-inducing, much-reduced car-loan rates peddled consistently by banks.
I USED to write sports stories for Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc—LJM to many—when she was my editor at Panorama, the Sunday magazine of martial law Bulletin Today. Boxing. Tour of Luzon bikathon. Chess. My piece on the World Chess Championship between Russian Anatoly Karpov and Russian-turned-Swiss Viktor Korchnoi in Baguio City was a cover story for the magazine (was it 1978?).
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