Eddie Alinea
1,667 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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Harden, a cinch for NBA MVP honor
On June 25, the NBA will honor Season 2017-2018?s top individual performers in its Awards Night at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. With barely over a week away from the…
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Matthysse is strong, dangerous, but — Fortune
Starting this week, boxing great Manny Pacquiao?s build up program for his coming fight with World Boxing Association welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse gears towards tactics and strategies. The normal routine -- sparring…
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Coach Steve Kerr wants NBA champion Warriors to reclaim No. 1 seed next season
Barely a week after winning his third NBA championship as a coach, Golden State bench tactician Steve Kerr, this early, expressed his preference that his Warriors regain the top-seeding comes the 2018-2019…
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Rain or Shine Painters on a roll
That might very well describe Rain or Shine?s campaign in the on-going Commissioner?s Cup in this, the PBA?S 43rd season. Only in the second year under comebacking head coach Caloy Garcia, the…
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Pacquiao to reach razor-sharp form in two weeks time
Handlers of Manny Pacquiao said Wednesday that the Filipino fighting senator will reach razor sharp fighting form in two to three weeks time. The reason, they added, why Pacquiao can afford to…
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No White House Visit for Curry, Warriors
Will the long-practiced tradition of championship-winning pro sports teams visiting the White House be a thing of the past? Or at least during the administration of President Donald Trump? It sure seems…
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‘Pacman’ the dog is retired
He might no longer be able to perform the job he?d been doing for more than 10 years but Manny Pacquiao?s long-time training companion, Pacman, the dog, remains loyal to his boss…
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Warriors offering Klay, Draymond contract extension
With the NBA Finals over and while discussion shifts to what team LeBron James will play next, comes newly-crowned three-time champions Golden State Warriors? owner Joe Lacob laying down plans to at…
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T’was Warriors’ second 4-0 sweep win in the Finals
This year?s Golden State Warriors? 4-0 sweep of the NBA Finals over the Cleveland Cavaliers was actually the second for the Bay Area dribblers to apply the broom on their rivals to…
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The Golden State Warriors: A dynasty in the making
To some, the Golden State Warriors? third NBA title conquest in four finals appearances may not be a dynasty in the sense that it still lacks the third consecutive title that the…
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OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: Only two Warriors make it to NBA Major Awards candidates list
This OUTSIDER, like many Filipino NBA fans wonder why there are no Golden State Warriors, except in two categories, in the list of candidates for major individual awards, including MVP, Rookie of…
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LeBron talks on Game 4 scenario
So far, 131 teams have tried, and 131 have failed. This is the grim fact, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers are facing with they play the Golden State Warriors in Game…
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Pacquiao doing well in training, will peak in time – Fortune
World Boxing Association welterweight challenger Manny Pacquiao is fast peaking and will be in fighting form in time. This was how strength and conditioning coach Justin Fortune assessed the progress of Pacquiao?s…
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Curry shows way in NBA Finals MVP race
The third quarter of Game 2 of the ongoing NBA Finals between Golden State and Cleveland last Sunday ended with Warriors guard Stephen Curry landing into the Cavaliers bench after missing a…
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Can Fil-Am Jordan Clarkson help save Cleveland?
The Golden State Warriors didn?t have to capitalize on JR Smith?s big dying seconds blunder in their lopsided 122-103 Game 2 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday. Unlike in their closer…
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Why basketball is Pacquiao’s passion
It?s no longer a surprise to many that after a grueling, day-long grind on the road and inside a boxing gym, you still see Manny Pacquiao in a basketball gym playing the…
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Pacquiao, other Pinoys pick Warriors to win back-to-back NBA title
?Golden State is a team made up of players playing as a group who can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.? Thus was how Manny…
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OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: A drama-filled Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Dubs and the Cavs
The NBA Finals has always been a dramatic segment of the world?s oldest and biggest professional basketball league since its inception in 1949, and J.R. Smith of the Cleveland Cavaliers authored some…
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The late Senator Tañada, the athlete
Last Monday, May 28, marked the 26th death anniversary of former Senator Lorenzo Martinez Ta?ada, a Filipino nationalist, the longest-serving member of the Upper House (24 years from 1947 to 1971). Not…
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Early odds favor the Warriors over the Cavs in NBA Finals
For the fourth straight time since 2015, NBA Finals will be disputed by the defending champions Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Warriors won the championship the first time they…
