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19 articles · INQ7.net
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We owe it to him
?Age,? said Bob Arum, trying to explain away the blindness of the two judges who saw Timothy Bradley winning against Manny Pacquiao, ?is a factor in performance and Exhibit A is myself.…
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Postscript
I?m still terribly pissed off by it and won?t let go of it without a, well, fight. There?s a glimmer of light amid all the gloom. One is Ring Ratings? decision to…
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F?ked!
The comments that followed Tim Dahlberg?s article on the Pacquiao-Bradley fight in Yahoo Sports spoke of the incredulity of the public. This came out immediately after the fight so the reactions were…
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I came, I saw, I left ?bitin?
Understandably, the Mexicans felt raw. When Manny Pacquiao was interviewed on the stage after the fight, you couldn?t hear what he was saying. It was drowned out by a collective boo that…
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Not very great
WHAT THE right hand giveth, the left hand taketh away. A few days before he fought Shane Mosley, Manny Pacquiao appeared before the press in Las Vegas with a message. He was…
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Greatest
THERE WAS a lot riding on Manny Pacquiao?s fight against Shane Mosley last Sunday. At the very least, it was the first time Pacquiao fought with yellow gloves, a symbolism that could…
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Top of the world
IT DIDN?T exactly stop the world. Next day, I looked at the news in the Web and it was just a footnote on things. And true enough, the Pacquiao-Mosley fight didn?t turn…
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Pacquiao and Ali
MUHAMMAD ALI CLOWNED AROUND. Before the fight, he spouted street—or ring—poetry, “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” He wasn’t shy about advertising himself, shouting “I am the greatest,” or saying…
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Pacquiao and Ali
MUHAMMAD ALI CLOWNED AROUND. Before the fight, he spouted street—or ring—poetry, “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” He wasn’t shy about advertising himself, shouting “I am the greatest,” or saying…
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Greatness, sort of
ONE is tempted to say Manny Pacquiao can do without any additional pressure put on his shoulders. And to say that landing on the cover of Time is a pressure is like…
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Comedy
Manny Pacquiao is the face of determination. He?d like nothing better than to fight his next foe. That is, well, whoever he faces for a congressional seat in Sarangani. His desire to…
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Systems
I was one of those who shouted themselves hoarse the other weekend during the Pacquiao-Hatton fight. Not least at the interminable commercials, especially the campaign ads which left a bad taste in…
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Why reps in Vegas are not Pacquiao
When Manny Pacquiao left the country for Las Vegas, his countrymen held their breath. They knew his foe was no pushover. Though Pacquiao?s skills had vastly improved over his last few fights,…
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Hope
It seemed like a small enough matter, but it truly gladdened the heart. That was our item last Monday about Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Alexander Yano…
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Time out
MANILA, Philippines - It?s not really that we don?t have alternatives, it?s simply that for the strangest reasons we somehow cannot see them. This time around though I don?t mean that in…
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Sightings
THE celebrations that erupted, or were whipped up, in the wake of Manny Pacquiao’s victory over Oscar Larios last week suddenly made me think of “aswang” (a kind of ghoul). Indeed, the…
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Cheap thrills
I WISH we?d have some sense of proportion. I mean I?m all for Manny Pacquiao trying to pick up another million dollars, which translates into P53 million (or haven?t you noticed that…
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Fine job
IT WAS with a huge sense of relief that I greeted last Sunday afternoon. I didn’t know how much more of the ads I could take about Manny Pacquiao’s impending fight with…
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Champion
FIRST off, it's a lesson for local TV. Next time it covers a blockbuster sports event, it has to do it in real time. The days when networks can be a little…