John Pages
101 articles · Sunstar Cebu
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PacMan + YouTube = millions of hits
By John Pages
IF YOU access the 5th most visited website in America and type the 13 letters of this Filipino boxer’s name, you will be astounded by the volume of videos that you can…
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Rey Bautista: Will his punches boom-boom?
By John Pages
HIS first fight was at the Gaisano Country Mall. He was one week shy of his 17th birthday. Against an unknown Reyco Compendio, he won that battle on June 12, 2003. Since…
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Lessons we can learn from Dr. Pacquiao
By John Pages
AS president of the Sportswriters Association of Cebu (SAC), I was tasked to give the Closing Remarks at last Wednesday?s 27th SAC-SMC Cebu Sports Awards at the Casino Espa?ol. I prepared a…
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MP, MP at the Cebu Sports Awards
By John Pages
THE Casino Espa?ol de Cebu, one of this city?s most stellar of clubs, is the venue tomorrow night for an event that is illustrious and peerless. MP? Whose initials are those? Filipinos…
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Pacman vs. Hitman: Man, this will be a clash!
By John Pages
WEMBLEY Stadium, according to Wikipedia, ?is the largest stadium in the world with every seat under cover.? Having hosted football?s most honored trophies?the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Champions League?it seats…
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Pacman one of top Singapore stories? Yes, No
By John Pages
SINGAPORE?The Straits Times, the leading newspaper here, yesterday devoted nine full pages to sports. Football, the most popular game in this nation of 4.8 million people, dominated the news?with four full-page spreads…
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Boxing? A sport? No, it?s entertainment
By John Pages
ANTONIO Lopez Aldeguer, quoted by Quinito Henson in yesterday?s issue of The Philippine Star, summed it up best: ?Boom-Boom was in top shape. I don?t know what to say. We did our…
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ALA says: ?No excuses, he wanted it more?
By John Pages
WHEN Antonio Lopez Aldeguer speaks, you listen. Yesterday morning, exactly 36 hours after his most prized apprentice, AJ ?Bazooka? Banal, collapsed in one of Cebu?s monumental upsets, I listened. When I asked…
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On ?Laban na Banal,? a Q & A with Michael A
By John Pages
LAST night at 6:30 p.m., I spoke to one man who?s largely responsible for the mega-production that Cebuanos will witness this Saturday: the WBA interim super flyweight championship battle between Panama?s Rafael…
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11 points for Pac-Man who scored 11 out of 10
By John Pages
ONE, we pity David Diaz. My father-in-law, Jack Mendez, one of the toughest men I know who runs Centurion Security Agency and it?s over 1,000-strong force, wiped a tear in his eye…
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Jonathan Davis, top boxing judge, speaks
By John Pages
I HAD to call. I had to seek the opinion of this highly-esteemed Filipino boxing judge. And so yesterday, at 5 p.m., I called. Jonathan Davis, 58, first sat on that high…
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Lucky (or unlucky) 13 for Manny?
By John Pages
TODAY is Manny Pacquiao?s 13th boxing fight in America. I looked up ?13? in Wikipedia and it brimmed with dozens of ?Unlucky 13? versus ?Lucky 13? examples. For instance: Some airlines skip…
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LA or Cebu? Pacman better off in Hollywood
By John Pages
NINE days from today, all 91 million Filipinos scattered around the globe will sit around TV screens, clap, stomp their feet, pray, and stare at the muscled sight of a hero who?ll…
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Z vs. V: Who’ll be put to Zzzzz’s in this fight?
By John Pages
LAST Sunday morning at the Casino Espa?ol de Cebu, I chanced upon meeting Michael Aldeguer. I’ve known Michael since high school—we played basketball against each other; he donned the Sacred Heart uniform…
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Hello, 2008
By John Pages
Yesterday--last year--was a major time for sports. Manny Pacquiao fought three times: he won in April (against Jorge Solis) and in October (vs. Marco Antonio Barrera) but lost in the month of…
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At the Aldeguer home, Chris is the most athletic
By John Pages
ALA is The Father. You know him. Everyone knows him. Mention the words ?boxing? and ?godfather? and ?Cebu? in the same line and you receive one reply: Antonio Lopez Aldeguer. ALA has…
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Boom! Flash! Boxing exams answered today
By John Pages
HE?S handsome, single, turned 25 years old when he celebrated his birthday in Cebu last Nov. 16, he?s world-famous, makes ladies swoon when they stare at his shiny left-ear stud, he weighs…
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My favorite RP sports website?
By John Pages
EACH morning after exercise, I flip open my laptop, click on the Safari web browser, and visit websites all lumped under the same theme: Sports. I visit about two dozen. CNNSI. Fox…
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Boom-Boom as tough as Pacquiao? Let?s see
By John Pages
WHEN Daniel Ponce de Leon dismantled and pulverized an explosive firecracker named Boom-Boom in a first-round KO last Aug.11, he didn?t just flatten Rey Bautista?he devastated him, humiliated his ego, extinguished his…
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Prayers by many help lift Manny
By John Pages
DIDN?T your hands feel clammy? Didn?t your heart pump thrice as fast? Didn?t your legs shake and feet stomp the floor and fist clench your knuckles? I did. You did. My father-in-law…