Eddie Alinea of The Manila Times
37 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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Stars Shine in Week I of PBA Bubble
The PBA has restarted and so has the race for the first league Bubble MVP. After a week of action in the lone conference the country’s and Asia’s first play-for-pay league is…
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Revered boxing guru Freddie Roach comes to Marcial’s rescue
Marcial (L) with Roach at Roach's Wildcard Gym. Twenty eight years ago in 1992, when Freddie Roach was planning to put up his own gym, his training guru, Eddie Futch, the man…
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OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: You read it here first
Ernest Obiena. When Filipino pole vaulter Ernest John Obiena gifted the Philippines a gold medal during the 23rd Asian Athletic Championships held in Dona, Qatar on April 21, 2019, your OUTSIDER here…
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OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: Totoy Tingzon, from a player, public school teacher to father of youth baseball
Totoy Tingzon. Rodolfo “Totoy” Tingzon started as a baseball player, became a school teacher and acknowledged as father of youth baseball in the country and the whole of Asia, celebrates another milestone…
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Advantages boxing Olympic qualifier Eumir Marcial must maintain
For being ranked the second best amateur middleweight in the world, Filipino Olympic qualifier Eumir Marcial is still the brightest hope of quenching the country’s long, 76-year thirst for a gold medal…
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OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: Yuka Saso has Bulakenyo running in her veins
Yuka Saso. Include golfing sensation Yuka Saso in the list of Filipino Olympians hopeful of gifting the country its first Olympic gold medal following 76 years of futility that started when the…
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OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: 50 years in sportswriting and counting
Eddie Alinea. August is about to end. On Tuesday, starts the next four months of the year ending in ER. Meaning, too, the start of the longest celebration of the Christmas Season…
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Surfer Roger Casugay taught the world what sports is all about
Casugay. Eight weeks after Filipino surfer taught the entire sporting world what kind of human beings Filipinos are, his exemplary behavior displayed during the last 30th Southeast Asian Games remains the talk…
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OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: Elordes play Good Samaritans to Eumir
Eumir Marcial. No training venue? No problem. Back against-the-wall Olympic qualifier Eumir Marcial will be training on his own in preparing for his bid for the country’s first ever Olympic gold medal…
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OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: All Eumir Marcial wants is to train for the Olympics
Marcial. This OUTSIDER can only commiserate with middleweight Olympic qualifier Eumir Marcial. Nearly three months after earning his ticket last March 8 (March 9 in Manila) to the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games,…
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Marcial to accept best deal for him to turn pro
Eumir Marcial. From the time Filipino middleweight Olympic qualifier Eumir Felix Marcial earned his ticket to the re-scheduled Tokyo Summer Games, he had been working in a makeshift gym inside his home…
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Laura Elorde, light in the path of “Flash” to greatness
Laura Elorde. Laura Sarreal Elorde, widow of Filipino boxing great Gabriel “Flash” Elorde is gone. She was 92. Mrs. Elorde, simply “Laura” to relatives and close friends and members of Philippine Media,…
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PBA rivals RSA, MVP set aside rivalry in time of Covid pandemic
With the continuation of what is turning out a storied rivalry in the PBA stymied by the government’s lockdown on all sports activities, the San Miguel Corp. and the Manny V. Pangilinan…
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Has PSC abandoned fight vs Covid 19?
Ramirez. Authorities, last Friday, reported 284 new coronavirus infections and 11 more deaths, bringing its total number of cases to 8,772 and fatalities to 579. Forty one more individuals had recovered, bringing…
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PBA resumption remains uncertain
Willie Marcial. The Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila and several provinces in Luzon has, again, been extended by the government for two more weeks lasting until May 15. And this…
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Marcial can turn pro and still compete in the Olympics – IOC
Eumir Marcial. International Olympic Committee rules allow Olympic qualifier Eumir Marcial of the Philippines to compete in the rescheduled Olympiad in Tokyo next year as pro. In a text message sent to…
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PBA continues helping fight vs Covid 19
THE PBA has started distributing PPEs (Personal Protective Equipment) to their intended recipients around Luzon in the play-for-pay’s efforts in further helping front liners in the current battle against the spread of…
