Vincent Juico

THE Gold Coast located in Queensland (Australia) is a major tourist destination—the city is known for its climate, world-class surfing beaches, high-rise buildings, theme parks, nightlife and rainforest hinterland.

WHEN I was 14 and in my freshman year in high school, I tried to fit in and get along with everyone.

IN sports business, just like in any other business, the company or organization’s identity comes from the person or persons who founded the entity and in Profluence’s case, it’s the group’s founder, Andrew Petcash.

IF attitude alone determines altitude then there should be no problem for Sgt. Andrico Mahilum and Sandi Abahan as their attitude overcame altitude among other challenges to each win a world championship.

I THINK I speak for all parents when I say that we raise them based on values like hard work, honesty, integrity, respect and humility and hope and pray that they turn out alright.

MY maternal grandmother, Magdalena “Nena” Lagdameo-Penson, passed away last Saturday at 97.

RECENTLY on “Sports For All,” The Player Care Group Managing Director Hugo Scheckter discussed the endless and infinite possibilities of the player care industry.

A FEW nights ago, I had the pleasure and privilege of talking with newly-minted jiu-jitsu world champions Kimberly Anne in the 45-kg class and Meggie Ochoa in the 48-kg category.

BEING in sports media for almost 20 years, spontaneity becomes a way of life as what transpired when I sent a text message to NIL Management’s Founder Zach Beebe asking if he’s available for what more looked like a conversation than an interview.

WHEN I first spoke with Tom Lamb, founder of Virtual Soccer Schools (VVS), the potential collaboration with Football For Humanity was farthest from my mind.

GAMES and sports need to evolve in order to keep up with the ever changing behavior of fans and supporters who follow the games.

JULY 1, 2022, marks the one year anniversary of student athletes being allowed to make money off their name, image and likeness, or NIL.

KELI NASCIMENTO was my guest on Sports For All guest a few weeks ago. She talked about gender equity, sports diplomacy, her foundation, The Nascimento Foundation, and a guy who was pretty good at football, Pele.

YOU don’t usually hear climate change said or written in the same sentence nor mentioned in the same breath unless it’s a cause for alarm because it’s making an environmental impact on soccer fields, baseball diamonds, football pitches, cricket grounds and other areas where outdoor sports are played.

I RECEIVED an invitation from Aian Guanzon of “Aian Asks” to appear on his program to explain the recent successes in Philippine sports.

BASKETBALLNEWS.COM gives fans a different perspective on the day-to-day lives of our favorite National Basketball Association (NBA) players through content produced not by them themselves but by the players close to them.

OF all people who saw his gift and talent for fighting, it was Sam Marsters, who was a bouncer at a nightclub where “Super Samoan” Mark Hunt was involved in an altercation who invited Hunt to go to his gym to receive training for kickboxing.

LOGAN ALDRIDGE vividly remembers the day that changed his life like it was only yesterday.

AUSTRALIAN Allan Jefferson is your 2022 Race Across America winner! Before we go to Allan, the Tour de France will be pleased to know that the Race Across America is billed as the “world’s toughest bicycle race.”

SAM HOLNESS has had autism since he was four years old. To him and his father Tony, autism is his “superpower,” neither a disability nor an obstacle.

“THE special thing about a unicorn isn’t it’s horn, it’s the fact that it’s the only one.”- Cam F. Awesome

IF you’re a staunch advocate for LGBTQIA rights, diversity, equality and inclusivity, the Tokyo Olympics were unprecedented.

IN the recently-concluded Vietnam 31st Southeast Asian Games, as far as individual sports is concerned, both male and female athletes received the same amount of cash prize for winning gold, silver and bronze medals.

IN a January 24, 2022 si.com article written by Nicholas Howard, a video was featured wherein New Zealand native Harrison “Harry” Young was surprised by his coaches and teammates with an athletic scholarship to play for the Texas Christian University (TCU) Horned Frogs.

WE saw highlights of the fight between Yordenis Ugas and Errol Spence. The fight was mostly in the middle of the ring with both pugilists exchanging hellacious shot after hellacious shot.

THE Olympic.org.NZ bared that that Otago midfielder/striker Hugo Inglis made his third Olympic appearance in Tokyo after London 2012 and Rio 2016.

ONE of the challenges of being a sports journalist and a host of a sports podcast is constantly being on the lookout for new materials to write about and guests from different angles and perspectives of sports.

IN my program “Sports For All” last Friday, National Basketball Association (NBA) legend Rick Barry called out sports broadcasters, specifically play-by-play announcers and commentators, who keep calling the obvious like poor shot selection or bad passes or unforced turnovers.

IN his opinion piece on CNN.com on Saturday, sports journalist Bruce Berglund writes about Russian athletes, even para athletes or differently-abled athletes both from Russia and Belarus who have been punished for their leadership’s transgression against Ukraine.

ALMOST a month ago, Dr. Lindsay Krasnoff was a guest on my program “Sports For All.” Dr. Krasnoff, according to en.unesco.org, is “a communications professional and historian with expertise in storytelling, global sport, and sports diplomacy. Proven track record thinking outside-the-box, analyzing information, identifying key issues, creating strategy, executing interdisciplinary projects, and relaying on multi-platform knowledge to diverse audiences, from CEOs and ambassadors to athletes and beyond. Author of The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010 and Views From the Embassy.”

EASTERN Washington University isn’t exactly known for its football program, but a product certainly delivered for the newly-minted 2022 National Football League (NFL) champions Los Angeles Rams.

TO say it was an honor to be in the presence of one of the finest basketball players the great state of Indiana has ever produced is an understatement.

FROM growing up in Libreville, Gabon, to Youthsports Academy as its Chairman and President. To say that Stevy Worah-Ozimo has come a long way is an understatement.

FORGIVE my ignorance Baltimore Ravens fans, especially supporters of quarterback Lamar Jackson. Aside from the San Francisco 49ers rookie quarterback Trey Lance, only Russell Wilson of the Seahawks, Patrick Mahomes of the Chiefs, Kyler Murray of the Cardinals and the GOAT himself, Tom Brady of the Buccaneers are the only other QB’s I’ve been following.

THE new year means a fresh start, everybody starting from scratch, and a blank canvass for everyone to paint on.

STYLES make fights not only in boxing, but also in MMA.

IS mountaineering or mountain climbing a sport? According to flypgs.com, “Mountaineering, otherwise known as mountain climbing, is a very popular outdoor sport. There are thousands of mountains in the world, all with their own unique terrain, their own challenges and excitements.”

GEORGE “FEROCIOUS” KAMBOSOS JR., Senator Manny Pacquiao’s many-time sparring partner, won a few belts of his own by upsetting heavily-favored Teofimo Lopez who beat Vasiliy Lomachenko just 13 months ago.

AKEEM “THE WOLF” SCOTT has been around the game for a long time. From High Point University in North Carolina to playing guard for the Danang Dragons in the Vietnam Basketball Association (VBA).

I CAME across the Sports Illustrated Daily Cover article, “How One Women’s Football Team Took Control Away From the Men” by Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D’Arcangelo. As I was doing my research on women’s American football, there’s a lot of history behind the effort to establish the sport.

CONVERSING with Tamir Goodman, his life has been a series of twists, turns and detours, but his passion for his faith is as straight as straight can be.

TO say that Canadian Olympian women’s canoeist Haley Daniels has had an eventful 19 months is an understatement. The past 19 months, in my opinion, have been the most challenging and difficult for an athlete.

WE were picking the brain of a coaching mind with an arsenal powered by 30 years of teaching the game and mentoring young men to play hoops the right away.

A THEN 17-year-old AJ Galante becoming the president and general manager of his own hockey team—something out of a Disney movie but it ain’t no Disney film and AJ ain’t no Disney character.

AS a former Math and Science teacher, Dan Pfaff dealt and taught an abundance of analysis, science and critical thinking which carried over to almost 50 years of coaching in athletics, specifically track and field.

THE air was rife with excitement, enthusiasm, and anticipation as I conversed last Friday with Cebu Football Club owner Ugur Tasci, head coach Oliver “Bing” Colina, team manager Hannah Wong and captain Evren Tasci.

CHRISTY MARTIN—former boxing world champion, Nevada Boxing Hall of Famer and International Boxing Hall of Famer—beat the devil in her Netflix documentary “Untold: Deal with the Devil.”

JOGO Football founder David Dwinger told the story aboutf how the AI-Powered Football App came about.

MIKE WINTERS still exudes calm and confident demeanor even after 25 years in high school basketball, 18 as head coach and seven as an assistant.

RECORDS are made to be broken, and a lot of them were broken in athletics at the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics. There’s an ongoing discussion whether it was the track or was it the shoes?