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Pacquiao Watch: Please call the USADA
A KNOCKOUT, according to the venerable American novelist Norman Mailer, is a disease. However, not all knockouts are the same. There are down-the-floor knockouts, standing but shaky knockouts, outright count-outs, technical knockouts,…
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That old (Norman) Black magic
WHEN Freddie Roach achieved the ultimate with Filipino boxing superhero Manny Pacquiao, the famous American trainer got the extreme compliment. He was named trainer of the year a total of three times.…
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Team Pacquiao can afford a tuneup
Manny Pacquiao is definitely coming back to fight this year. But before he even makes his first official move, it might help if he could first check on the condition, state of…
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Buhay Kamao has got a punch!
IT?S no fault of the president of the Mindanao Professional Boxing Association if she had sounded strictly frantic in making sure her announcement of a big launching event would get published. Ageless…
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Why Pacquiao must avoid The Ghost
(NATIONAL SALUTE: Here?s hoping they had offered a prayer for Gonzalo ?Lito? Puyat, two-time president of the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) in yesterday?s start of PBA Philippine Cup Finals at the Smart-Araneta…
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Brenda or not brenda; to quit or not to quit?
There?s every reason for Manny Pacquiao to feel displeased at that prescription for him to undergo an extensive brain check following the frightening knockout he suffered against Juan Manuel Marquez early last…
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A Gringo coup to save Lt. Col. Pacquiao?
WHAT?S wrong with suggesting if they could also help protect the fallen Manny Pacquiao from himself? Yes, saving Pacquiao from Pacquiao. ?If that?s what you think,? cries a US-based Filipino boxing expert,…
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Protecting Congressman Pacquiao
THE once improbable fifth fight has suddenly become almost a certainty. Bob Arum, prime promoter of all things good and bad for Philippine boxing, said there should be a fifth encounter between…
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How much can Pacquiao give?and take?
Shouldn?t Manny Pacquiao first be getting medical attention like, say, a brain scan before he?s let loose on the exacting comeback trail? Bob Arum said Pacquiao should get some cranial check following…
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THE BOY WHO HAD NOTHING
GOING by stories of his hungry boyhood, Manny Pacquiao should be counted among those starless little boys in poor, dusty slum villages who never had the luck of owning a Christmas toy…
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Can Donaire restore the Pacquiao monument?
HIS latest stoppage, brilliant and crisp, had more than enough solid elements of a gross mismatch. But after the carnage in Houston over the weekend, Nonito Donaire Jr., in a flash, was…
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Questions, Questions: More? More? More?
DID it mean Juan Manuel Marquez was right in claiming Manny Pacquiao had never beaten him in all their three previous fights? Who?s to blame? Manny Pacquiao rose from the canvas and…
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There?ll never be another Storm like him
IT will henceforth be called and celebrated as the Golden Era of Manny Pacquiao. Once upon a time, there ruled a warrior fondly called the Pacific Storm. He established a noble dynasty…
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No early KO in today?s menu
THE customer is always right, but sorry Manny Pacquiao is not likely to get his order for a quickie finish. After all was said, it suddenly turned out the wished-for toe-to-toe clash…
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Pacquiao must go for secret aggression
MANNY Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez trained in two separate camps. The grim rivals adopted different philosophies and perfected strictly contrasting styles. But they came to Las Vegas yesterday for their fourth…
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Even shot at winning?and losing
NO reason to doubt Juan Manuel Marquez will loom thicker, tougher, more menacing than Manny Pacquiao when they step into the ring for their fourth duel in Las Vegas this weekend. Pacquiao,…
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Dear Madame Miriam: The IOC stinks
NEXT time out, the feisty and fabulous Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago need not size up an imported sexy bottom or be a victim of world-record bedlam to determine who's fooling the audience, who…
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Pacquiao, Marquez tied in Word War
Verbosity, not action, has become the mode of combat in the runup to two vital contests?the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez Act 4 bout and the Philippine Olympic Committee polls. Nothing truly unusual…
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MANNY COUNTERS, STEPS ON THE GAS AGAIN
IT will be different from all the three previous fights, promoter Bob Arum says of the Dec. 8 fourth bout between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez. Different, Arum explains, because both…
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Time for Brian to join Manny?s elite gang
BRIAN Viloria scored a knockdown each with a selection of killer punches?an opening right cross, a rocket-like right straight, a culminating left hook?to stop Mexico?s Hernan Marquez and unify the WBO and…
