Eddie Alinea
1,667 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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MONEY WILL DECIDE WHO KHAN WILL FIGHT NEXT
Money will decide who between Filipino great Manny Pacquiao and Briton Kell Brook former unified junior-welterweight champ Amir Khan will fight next. This developed after a pay-per-view encounter with Brook before an…
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Khan wants Pacquiao in December
Immediately after disposing off Columbian Samuel Vargas on Saturday night (Sunday in Manila), former junior welterweight champion Amir Khan reiterated his preference to fight Filipino legend Many Paquiao next probably in December…
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GATHERING OF PH OLYMPIANS
A representative of the World Olympians Association, Jovina Choo, is scheduled to visit Manila next week to meet the country?s Olympians and help them on how to involve themselves in propagating Olympism.…
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PH Basketball: Good News and Bad News
Greg Slaughter. Barangay Ginebra?s gangling slotman Greg Slaughter has been given the go-signal by FIBA to play as a Filipino in the coming Asia World Cup qualifying window against Iran and Qatar…
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With win over Vargas, Khan closes in on facing Pacquiao
British welterweight Amir Khan fights Columbian-born Samuel Vargas on Saturday hoping for a win that will catapult him back to big time against no less than Filipino legend Manny Pacquiao. The 31-year-old…
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ASIAD Performance Not A Gauge for Next Year’s SEA Games
The Philippines might have, indeed, surprised everyone with its unexpected four-gold medal harvest in the recently-ended 18th Asian Games, three times better than its athletes? solitary first place finish four years ago.…
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Commitment to play for country, key to becoming members of PH 5 to World Cup qualifying tllt
National basketball team coach Yeng Guiao will have a new team but the same problem when he extends his tour of duty in the fourth window of the FIBA World Cup Asian…
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Asiad Post Mortem
L-R: Hidilyn Diaz, Yuka Saso and Margie Didal. The Philippines lowered the curtains in its celebration of its 67th anniversary participation in the Asian Games on a modest four-gold medal harvest, three…
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“I’m very happy, I can’t ask for more,” Guiao said of cagers’ 5th place windup
They came to Palembang and Jakarta a week before the 18th Asian Games opened hostilities. Coach Yeng Guiao and his rag-tag Philippine basketball team had barely a week of preparations in Manila…
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Diaz, Saso, Didal show what woman empowerment is all about – Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski
Mikee Cojuanco-Jaworski. Unless the remaining Filipino male athletes come up with gold medal performances in the final day of hostilities Saturday, the Philippine delegation will be heading home happy with a four-gold…
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President Ramon Magsaysay, savior of PH participation in ’54 world cage tourney
President Magsaysay. One-hundred and 11 years ago on Wednesday, Ramon Magsaysay, fondly called ?My Guy? by his countrymen, was born. He was inaugurated President of the Philippines on December 30, 1953. A…
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Margie Didal: A carpenter’s daughter on a mission
Margie Didal (C) wins gold in Jakarta. Margie Didal is a girl on a mission. The 19-yeare-old daughter of a carpenter father and street hawker mother in Lahug, Cebu had wished her…
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GILAS AIMS TO FINISH 5TH IN ASIAD BASKETBALL
Already assured of an improved finish better than seventh the last time around, the Philippine basketball team tries to improve further to fifth when it faces Syria in its final outing in…
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Include sports facilities in government’s build, build, build program — Romero
Mikee Romero. It?s been 64 years ago since the Philippines host a big sporting event in the magnitude of the Asian Games, which were held in Manila in 1954 but never to…
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Pacquiao mourns Sen. McCain’s death
John McCain. Filipino boxing great and now Senator Manny Pacquiao joined the family of the late U.S. Senator John McCain and the American people in mourning the death of the Arizona lawmaker.…
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PH falls short reaching the medal podium anew
The curse persists. The road to the podium ended anew for the Philippines in the 18th Asiad when its long-time all familiar rival South Korea won a hard-earned, come-from-behind 91-82 victory in…
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“Things are even this time” – Guiao on PH-Korea encounter
Yeng Guiao. Coach Yeng Guiao and the Philippine basketball team are not thinking of the so-called ?Korean curse? media have been floating around as hounding the Filipinos campaign in the sport their…
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Jorge Vargas: Co-founder of the Asian Games Federation
Jorge Vargas. This piece is in response to queries from people who read my column a few Sundays ago on how the Asian Games was born. Questions boiled down to why was…
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Boxing: Traditional medals source in PH’s Asiad campaigns
With a total of 395-medal haul in the past 17 editions of the Asian Games, the Philippines is currently ranked 10th at the all-time Asian Games medal tally. Of the Filipino athletes'…
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Diaz’s long road to Asian Games gold
Hidilyn Diaz. Did you know that had Hidilyn Diaz yielded to pressure the high priests of Philippine sports exerted on her to retire four years ago, the country?s 20-year Olympic medal draught…
