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         |       |            All articles by Eddie Alinea       |     There are 1,667 articles attributed to this author. Displaying articles 511 to 520.PACQUIAO STARTS LIGHT TRAINING FOR VARGAS BOUT  Sun, 14 Aug 2016
   
Starting this week, Filipino fighting Senator Manny Pacquiao will be dividing his time between performing his job as a lawmaker and preparing for his comeback fight with American World Boxing Organization welterweight c
  OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: OBSTACLES HIDILYN HAD TO HURDLE ON THE WAY TO RIO  Sun, 14 Aug 2016
   Hidilyn Diaz.
"To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will." - Sugar Ry Robinson
The Philippines had just ended its long, 20-year thirst for an Olympic medal when a short, but well-built H
  PACQUIAO WISHES PH OLYMPIANS BEST OF LUCK  Sun, 07 Aug 2016
   
Boxing great and now senator Manny Pacquiao wishes the Filipino athletes carrying the country's flag the best of luck in their quest for honors in the  Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games which raised its curtains Friday (Saturd
  10,000 ATHLETES AND OFFICIALS EXPECTED IN SEA GAMES 2019 IN DAVAO  Sat, 30 Jul 2016 Three years before the country  hosts anew the Southeast Asian Games, the Philippine Sports Commission has already set in place preparations to make the event a resounding success like the previous three times the biennial conclave came to this shore.
 
For various reasons, of course. One,  becaus
  DUTERTE SENDS OFF PH OLYMPIANS  Mon, 18 Jul 2016
   
The decades-long tradition that was interrupted for six years will be re-lived today when newly-installed President Rodrigo "Digong" Duterte presides over the send off ceremony for the Rio de Janeiro-bound Filipino athletes competing i
  PH TO HOST 2019 SEA GAMES IN DAVAO  Thu, 14 Jul 2016 Clothed with the full support of no less than President Rodrigo Duferte himself, Philippine Olympic Committee president Jose "Peping" Cojuangco flew fo Kuala Lumpur last Tuesday to formally relay to the Southeast Asian Games Federation the country's acceptance of an offer for the Philippines to host
  WALANG KAHALAGAHAN ANG PH SPORTS SA ILALIM NGA P-NOY ADMIN  Tue, 05 Jul 2016 Noong Huwebes, ika-30 ng Hunyo, opisyal ba bumaba sa kanyang trono sa Palasyo ng Malakanyang si Benigno Simeon Aquino  III upang ilipat sa bagong kahahalal na si dating Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ang pamamahala a bansa bilang Pangulo.
Sa kanyang pagbaba sa Palasyo, opisyal ding naging kaisa
  PSC CHAIR RAMIREZ APPOINTS COMMISSIONERS  Mon, 04 Jul 2016
   Ramirez.
One is a basketball great. The lone lady appointee is a wife of late president of the pencat silat federation. One other is a sports journalist  and still another is a member of an influential religious sect that
  PANCHO VILLA, SECOND OF A SERIES  Wed, 22 Jun 2016
   
Immediately after crowning himself the world flyweight crown via a seventh-round stoppage of defending champion Jimmy Wilde of Wales, Pancho Villa, who thus emerged the first Filipino and Asian to b
  JUNE 18, 1923: PANCHO VILLA BECOMES ASIA'S FIRST WORLD CHAMPION  Sat, 18 Jun 2016
   
On this day in 1923, a bantam-sized but fast, two-fisted Filipino fighter gifted the Philippines, and Asia, for that matter, their first world boxing champion.
Pancho Villa, then only 22, knocked out cold Jimmy Wi
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