
Eddie Alinea
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Antonio De Las Alas remembered
By Eddie Alinea
He is acknowledged as the man responsible for the planning and construction of the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex, then the first multi-purpose stadium in Asia. Antonio de las Alas, then the Secretary…
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PSC starts paying athletes? monthly stipend this month
By Eddie Alinea
The good news is that members of the national training not belonging to the elite category will resume receiving their monthly stipend from the Philippine Sporrs Comission efective this month. The bad…
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RTU Thunders rule 1st semi-pro softball series
By Eddie Alinea
The Rizal Technological University men?s softball team has come of age. Lingered in the confines of the minor State Colleges and Universities Athletic Association league, which they, nevertheless, dominated, the Blue Thunders…
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NSA?s to be given free hand in choosing ASIAD team members
By Eddie Alinea
There will be no criteria to be followed in the selection as to who will represent the country in this year?s Asian Games this November in Guangzhou. The seven-man working group, formed…
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Yldefonso: Father of ?Modern Breaststroke?
By Eddie Alinea
Did you know that the late Teofilo Yldefonso, the first Filipino Olympic medallist and the only back-to-back winner of the same color, is acknowledged as the father of the ?modern breaststroke? practiced…
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Teofilo Yldefonso to be inducted to International Swimming Hall of Fame
By Eddie Alinea
Move over, Manny Pacquiao, two-time Olympic bronze medalist Teofilo Yldefonso became the next Filipino to have been elevated to the world Hall of Fame. Sixty eight years after his death as one…
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2010 Asian Games Updates from SCOOP
By Eddie Alinea
There?s no substitute to early preparations. With this in mind, the Philippine Olympic Committee is calling on all national sports associations whose sports will be played in this year?s Asia Games to…
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Biggest multi-event sports meet set
By Eddie Alinea
What could be the biggest gathering of athletes in the tertiary level unfurls Feb. 22-28 with the staging of the CHED (Commission on Education) National Games at the historic Rizal Memorial Sports…
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Multi Gold medal winning shooter Tac Padilla still dreams of Olympics
By Eddie Alinea
Thirty four years ago in 1976 at a very tender age of 12, Filipino marksman Nathaniel ?Tac? Padilla had already crowned himself the world junior champion in his favorite ? rapid fire,…
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Elizalde talks on problems plaguing R.P. Sports in SCOOP
By Eddie Alinea
International Olympic Committee representative to the Philippines Francisco Elizalde yesterday said that, so far, there has not been any intervention on the part of the government in purely affairs of the Philippine…
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Pacquiao to raise $.5m for Gorres
By Eddie Alinea
A fund-raising dinner that is hoped to generate $500,000 will be hosted by seven-division world champion Manny Pacquiao for his fallen compatriot Z. Gorres. Michael Koncz, Pacquiao?s Canadian adviser, announced that the…
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Quest for RP?s first Olympic gold on
By Eddie Alinea
The quest for the country?s first ever gold medal continues. And with a new partner in Puerto Princesa City Mayor Edward Hagedorn, Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines president Ricky Vargas expressed…
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ColumnNIETES CONFIDENT OF WINNING 4TH TITLE DEFENSE
By Eddie Alinea
If the fight will be held today, the World Boxing Organization minimumweight crown will stay on the head of Filipino Donnie ?Ahas? Nietes. This, Nietes assured yesterday during the SCOOP Sa Kamayan…
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Mayor?s Cup Invitational Volleyball this Feb.
By Eddie Alinea
How far the ambitious three-year sports development program initiated by Imus (Cavite) Mayor Manny Maliksi has gone will be tested with the staging of the Mayor?s Cup Invitational Volleyball Championships Feb. 6…
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Manny to complete a Triple Crown in 2010
By Eddie Alinea
Did you know that World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao stands to score a triple whammy before the end of 2010? The 31-year-old seven-division belt-holder is set to defend his 147-pound…
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VILORIA, NIETES GUESTS AT SCOOP sa KAMAYAN
By Eddie Alinea
Title-defending world champions Brian ?Hawaiian Punch? Viloria and Donnie ?Ahas? Nietes will be the main guests in Friday?s edition of the SCOOP Sa Kamayan weekly session at the Kamayan Restaurant-Padre Faura. Viloria,…
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PACQUIAO VS CLOTTEY: Catchweight or no catchweight, that is the question
By Eddie Alinea
If you believe that the Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey welterweight championship fight is already a done deal, think again. Just as when the talks for the fight, set at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium,…
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ColumnPacman is PSA `Athlete of the Decade?
By Eddie Alinea
No less than three-time ``Trainer of the Year?? awardee Freddie Roach saw this coming when, during the first time Manny Pacquiao worked the mitts with him nine years ago, he foresaw the…
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Pony Baseball int?l to honor Tingzon
By Eddie Alinea
Businessman-sportsman Rodolfo ?Totoy? Tingzon, acknowledged as the father of youth baseball movement in the country and the whole of Asia, will be inducted into the PONY Baseball/Softball International Hall of Fame as…
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SCOOP sa Kamayan Updates on Youth Olympic Games
By Eddie Alinea
Young Filipino tennister Francis Casey Alcantara has been given outright entry to participate in the First Youth Olympic Games slated middle of this year in Singapore. The 17-year-old wonder from Cagayan de…