Eddie Alinea
1,667 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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Pacquiao-Mosley ticket sales exceed expectations
Who said the Manny Pacquiao-Sugar Shane Mosley fight won?t draw the crowd? Why, there was even a suggestion from boxing pundits to boycott the World Boxing Organization welterweight championship encounter because it…
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Wushu Winners Commended
Six wushu aces who gifted the country honors in several international competitions last year, headed by World Cup silver medalist Jessie Aligaga and World Junior Championship winner John Keithley Chan, were honored…
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Julaton willing to fight for PHIL Team
Filipino-American World Boxing Organization super-bantamweight champion Ana Julaton would be willing to shed of her professional status and represent the Philippines in next year?s London Olympic Games. That is if the International…
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Gymnastics at SCOOP sa Kamayan
Saying her association is just being honest and cannot afford to submit a shallow plan, Gymnastics Association of the Philippines president Cynthia Carrion defended the P49 million budget she submitted to the…
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LOOKING BACK: Pres. Cory and the PSC (Conclusion)
The creation of the Philippine Sports Commission was one of the biggest legacies President Cory Aquino left behind was proven five years after the late Chief Executive signed Rep. Act 6487 into…
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Looking Back: Pres. Cory and the PSC
Had President Corazon Aquino, acknowledged as the mother of Philippine Democracy for inspiring the unprecedented EDSA Revolution of 1986, been alive today, she would have turned 78. As if by coincidence, yesterday…
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Adamson wins UAAP Women?s Softball title
Right-hand throwing Julie Mari Muyco shackled University of the East for mere three hits in powering Adamson University to a 2-0 shutout victory to regain the UAAP Women?s Softball Championship via a…
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Codinera at SCOOP
The man who helped University of the East win its last UAAP men?s basketball championship 25 years ago vowed to to bring the Warriors back to their glory days in the 60s…
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De Vega laments on the sorry state of Phil. sports
"It's sad." Former Asia's fastest woman Lydia de Vega-Mercado declared this yesterday in answer to the question as to why she has to work overseas to earn a living. "Nakakalungkot talaga, but…
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Jaworski and De Vega talk Sports
Basketball?s living legend Robert ?Sonny? Jaworski and former Asian Sprint Queen Lydia de Vega-Mercado met last Wednesday and what they did they talk about? Jaworski, whose passion for basketball, particular, is comparable…
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Blown chances at the 2010 Asiad
The Philippines had not had a decent finish in the Asian Games since ending up in second place in the fourth edition of the quadrennial conclave 58 years ago held in Jakarta.…
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Rizal as Sportsman
Last Thursday, the nation commemorated the death anniversary of National Hero, Dr. Jose P. Rizal, who was shot dead by musketry at Bagumbayan (now Rizal Park at the Luneta) on December 30,…
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De Vega looks back at Tatang’s teachings
Former Asian Sprint Lydia de Vega-Mercado refused to see her father Francisco ?Tatang? de Vega?s remains in the entire week of her former coach?s wake at the family residence in Barangay Calvario…
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Without Tatang there would be no Lydia de Vega
?Very strict ? super strict.? This was how former Asian Sprint Queen Lydia de Vega-Mercado described his late father-coach Francisco Tatang? de Vega. ?Super-duper, I tell you,? she said in between sobs…
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Can Pacquiao knock Mosley out?
Okay, nobody wants boxing?s pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao to fight the over-the-hill Shane Mosley. Except, of course Top Rank bossman Bob Arum, Pacquiao?s trainer Freddie Roach and the ?Pacman? himself. An ESPN…
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1980?s TRACK ICON PASSES AWAY
Francisco ?Tatang? de Vega, one of the most colorful figures Philippine sports has produced, is gone. Tatang, Father-coach of former Asian Sprint Queen Lydia de Vega-Mercado passed away last Sunday due to…
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Pacquiao looks back at 2010
Manny Pacquiao set the pool cue into his hands and bends down to eye the angle of a long bank shot. It was past midnight Thursday, eve of his 32nd birthday celebration…
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Imelda to watch next Pacquiao fight ? Roach
For future Hall of Fame boxing trainer Freddie Roach, meeting former First Lady Imelda Marcos is one experience he will never forget. ?It was one of the best things that happened to…
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Roach OK with Pacquiao training in Baguio
Baguio, yes. Manila or Cebu, no. Pound-for-pound King Manny Pacquiao's chief trainer Freddie Roach the other day said he is amenable for the eight-division champion to start training anew at the country?s…
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PACQUIAO TURNS 32 FRIDAY
GENERAL SANTOS CITY ? Eight division world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao celebrates his 32nd birthday Friday as he girds towards another chapter of his successful life. A colorful, fiesta-atmosphere affair in what…
