Percy D. Della
83 articles · INQ7.net
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Remembering Smokin? Joe
IT MUST have been in the early ?80s or later?I don?t remember the exact year?when a group of expatriate journalists in the United States, including myself, got together at the old Press…
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Mayweather vs Pacquiao? Bah humbug!
Floyd Mayweather Jr. versus Manny Pacquiao?the most recorded apparition in sports history again manifested itself to boxing diehards last week. A long-playing ectoplasmic phenomenon, the ghost match between the ring?s prevailing potentates…
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Pacquiao?s coattails carry former sparring mates
Manny Pacquiao failed to land a knockout punch against his latest foe, a handsome but hapless fighter named Chris Algieri in Macau two weeks ago. Nevertheless, the Pacman?s career-best six-knockdown conquest of…
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Tim Lane and the rubber chicken circuit
SACRAMENTO, California?Don?t laugh because Tim Lane might carve a niche for himself yet. In a culture that thrives on novelty, boxer Chris Algieri?s trainer could end up a star on the American…
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Hopkins bout mirrors Pacquiao?s
SACRAMENTO?The first of two bouts hyped intriguing by HBO happens this weekend. Ageless wonder Bernard Hopkins faces unbeaten light heavyweight boxing titlist Sergey Kovalev at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey…
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Pacquiao back on sports minds
SACRAMENTO, California?The national attention span has been short for the country?s tough campaign in the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. And with the fancied Gilas Pilipinas team spiraling out of the…
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Familiar banter after Mayweather match
SACRAMENTO, California?The banter?s familiar after a Floyd Mayweather Jr. match. It was no different last Saturday at the Della-Brown household in the nearby university town of Davis where the pay-per-view crowd was…
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Baseball not an option for Pacquiao
SACRAMENTO, California?The exodus from Reno, Nevada of vacationers and weekenders started Monday, Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer in America. My wife and I were part of the midday rush. As…
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More bucks required for Pacquiao-Marquez 5
SACRAMENTO, California?The green light only if there are more bucks. That would be Juan Manuel Marquez?s story and he?d be sticking to it. The top handler of Marquez is adamant in saying…
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Pacquiao alters Bradley?s reality
LAS VEGAS??Alter your reality,? proclaims a 20-story electronic mural for illusionist David Copperfield?s show at MGM Grand Hotel. The jumbotron message flashing on the Tropicana Boulevard side of the hotel has possibly…
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Mayweather surprise visitor to Bradley camp
SACRAMENTO, California?Timothy Bradley broke training camp without fanfare, but not before a surprise visit by boxing?s money man himself, Floyd Mayweather Jr. A source with connections to Bradley?s inner circle told the…
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Manny Pacquiao?s entourage plus one
SACRAMENTO, California?They are apt to whistle a happy tune now that the boss has landed in California. They are certainly adding an extra spring in their step and are likely stumbling over…
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Pacquiao vs Mayweather? Operators are standing by
SACRAMENTO, California?Face to face with a good guy like Manny Pacquiao, ESPN?s Keith Olbermann was in his best behavior Wednesday night while talking to the eight-division world boxing champ. On his five-month-old…
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Sports moments for US Filipinos in 2013
SACRAMENTO, California?For sports-minded Filipinos stateside, 2013 seemed filled with drama away from the playing field than on it. Manny Pacquiao beat Mexican-American boxer Brandon Rios in a casino town in China, not…
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TMZ scores TKO of Pacquiao
SACRAMENTO, California?Disdained for celebrity journalism and gingerly credited for being on the ball, TMZ scored another scoop recently, this time about the reported tax troubles of world-renowned Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao. While…
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Pacquiao deals with more US taxes in April
SACRAMENTO, California?Expect Manny Pacquiao to avoid fiscal landmines when he returns to fight in the United States in April of next year. Currently locked in a tax dispute with the Bureau of…
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Mayweather-Pacquiao stuck in limbo
THE GULF has widened between the ?haves? of boxing. American Floyd Mayweather Jr., after masterfully toying with Mexico?s Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez, remains cocky and disrespectful as ever. Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao,…
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Boxing for pesos
(With technical issues resolved, the Association of Boxing Alliances of the Philippines, formerly the Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines, will hold its elections at the Quezon City Sports Club on May…
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Sportsmen in politics
I TEXTED Manny Pacquiao?s top aide about the bills his boss sponsored and shepherded into law during the 15th Congress. The fighting Sarangani congressman?s record probably won?t amount to a hell of…
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Spat over the Donaire snub
IT?S bad enough that you don?t intend to show up at a party honoring you and your peers. What?s worse is when you don?t send word you?re not coming at all. It…