Recah Trinidad
1,137 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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Gilas and MVP must learn
WRONG, the Philippine national basketball team debacle in the Incheon Asian Games did not come to an end with its filthy last gasp against Kazakhstan on Sunday. As it would turn out,…
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Ridiculous last gasp caps Gilas voyage
PLEASE don?t believe that Marcus Douthit was restored into the Gilas Pilipinas line-up on Sunday for that tasteless task of sinking the ball in the opponent?s goal. With the choking desperation, coach…
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Gilas: Enough of the heartache, please
THE saddest part of the Gilas Pilipinas national basketball team?s tragic voyage is that fans, young and old alike, were never prepared for the heartbreak. In fact, despite a so-so (1-4) output…
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Gilas must wake up and sizzle
IT won, but it was far from a glittering debut the celebrated Gilas Pilipinas national basketball team put up when it beat India in the Incheon Asian Games on Tuesday. There were…
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Gilas Pilipinas in hot spot
SORRY, but despite all the drumbeating, the Philippines is back at that spot in the quadrennial Asian Games when all other national competitors could again afford to slip and lose?except for the…
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Lost in our own survival Olympics
THE New York Times on Saturday called the monster flooding caused by superstorm Mario a diluge that brought Manila to a standstill. Correct, but not really a standstill, because the general scene…
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WHICH SIDE OF HIS MOUTH DID FLOYD JR SPEAK OUT?
LISTEN again, please: ?If the Pacquiao fight materializes, let?s make it happen.? That was the supremely evasive Floyd Mayweather Jr. making a startling declaration on the century?s most elusive boxing bout. Yes,…
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USA soars; Spain sinks in nightmare
TEAM USA shoots for the 2014 FIBA World Cup Basketball title Monday riding on an overwhelming ability to push its strength to a desired level at any point in the game. If…
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ISN’T GILAS GOOD FOR YOUR HEART?
MANY Pinoy basketball fanatics have started to ask: After the agony and ecstacy, where to Gilas Pilipinas? There were also overzealous female fans who claimed they could no longer bear the killing…
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Gilas digs deep into FIBA war zone
SUDDENLY, it?s no longer right to ask how far the Gilas Pilipinas national basketball could go in the FIBA Basketball World Cup now being fought in Spain. The Philippine national squad has…
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Gilas Pilipinas: Rousing the defensive demon
IT did not come as a surprise that the Gilas Pilipinas national basketball team got deserved commendation in its losing stand against the tall and rugged Dominican Republic squad, and not for…
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NO STOPPING THE MANNY PACQUIAO ROADSHOW
HE WAS listed as the oldest (35) and shortest (5 feet, 6 inches) among entries in the PBA Rookie Draft. There were earlier fears Manny Pacquiao would altogether skip the official draft…
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Can Gilas Pilipinas really go to war?
THEY won?t go to Spain without a seven-footer, national basketball team coach Chot Reyes swore at the close of the FIBA Asia championship at the Mall of Asia last July. Reyes has…
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Gilas Pilipinas: Defensive anemia exposed
FANS and critics were one in praising the Gilas Pilipinas national basketball squad for its strong stand against the 5th-ranked French national squad over the weekend. Gilas Pilipinas, as unanimously observed, did…
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PACQUIAO DEFENSE LACKS SPECIFICS
THE sales chart and the odds for the WBO welterweight championship slated in Macau next November remain at a sorry stand still. A second check with the bookmakers this week showed American…
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?Pagpupugay? gets deserved praise, acclaim
Villanueva. AFTER Cebu sportsman and boxing godfather Tony Aldeguer learned last May that boxer Anthony Villanueva was gravely ill, he wasted no time and sent financial assistance to the first Filipino Olympic…
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HELP THIS WORLD TITLE BOUT RISE
IT?S no longer funny where the Manny Pacquiao-Chris Algieri world title bout scheduled in Macau next November has headed. Last seen and heard, it was trying to get off the floor. If…
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PACQUIAO-ALGIERI: WHO GETS THE CUTTING EDGE?
RARING to honestly be at his best, WBO junior welterweigt titlist Chris Algieri has reportedly started working out in earnest a full month before formally opening the training camp for his world…
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PACQUIAO-ALGIERI HAS MAKINGS OF A CLASSIC
SAYING what he saw, Freddie Roach stated: ?Chris Algieri has got a jab, that?s it.? Going by the pre-fight script, Roach should be coming up with a loftier assessment of Algieri, who…
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CHALLENGER SNEEZES AT PACQUIAO FIREPOWER
TALL Chris Algieri has an idea on how to deal with Manny Pacquiao. It must be a pretty sound theory that has convinced the unbeaten American he will surely beat the Filipino…
