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Saul ?El Canelo? Alvarez: This cinnamon needs spice
The red haired boxer from Guadalajara, Mexico is only a month shy of his twenty first birthday. Take away the stardom, the title and the sport out of him and he probably…
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Has Manny lost killer’s instinct?
WBO welterweight champion Rep. Manny Pacquiao went the full route in his last three fights against Joshua Clottey, Antonio Margarito and Sugar Shane Mosley in that order. Clottey was never in danger…
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Ball in Donaire’s hands, says Arum
Nonito Donaire Zoom MANILA, Philippines - Top Rank chairman Bob Arum said yesterday he?s hoping for a quick resolution of Nonito Donaire?s case so the WBC/WBO bantamweight champion can move forward in…
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Bracing for ‘hard’ fight
There?s a noticeable trend in WBO welterweight champion Rep. Manny Pacquiao?s choice of opponents since he scored a split 12-round decision over Mexican whiner Juan Manuel Marquez in March 2008. Top Rank…
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Expecting A Joyous July
Filipino boxing fans await July with bated breath as two top Filipino flyweights figure in world championship battles against two Mexican titlists within two weeks of each other. Adding to the excitement…
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Manny’s source of power
WBO welterweight champion Rep. Manny Pacquiao couldn?t have said it better. In the 200-page book ?Box: The Face of Boxing? (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2010), Pacquiao is one of over 150 fighters…
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The Boys of Summer
On July 2, in faraway Mexico, a brown-haired young fighter from my hometown M'lang, North Cotabato will challenge World Boxing Association (WBA) flyweight champion Hernan "Tyson" Marquez. Edrin Dapudong, 24, who joined…
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Now, Back to Poor Luisito
I have made a promise to myself that I will not stop writing about the injustice done and inflicted on former world bantamweight and featherweight champion Luisito Espinosa until I see something…
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Hall of Fame awaits Manny
CANASTOTA ? WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao isn?t eligible for induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame because he remains active in the ring but five years after his retirement, there…
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Will There Be Another Manny Pacquiao?
Will There Be Another Manny Pacquiao? In two years, or after four more fights at the most, Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao is expected to hang up his gloves. The tell-tale signs…
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Barkley on LeBron: “He’s just not a cold-blooded killer”
IN THE refuge that is the Miami Heat locker room, LeBron James' stall is marked "king-size." But given how small he played in the 2001 NBA Finals, is a size-change in order?…
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“LeBust” James: A Prince not a King
ONE OF the things that LeBron James loves to do after a big play is to clench his right hand into a fist and pound it as hard as he repeatedly can…
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Dirk No-ring-ski no more: Dallas Mavericks capture NBA title
NO-RING-SKI. No-win-ski. No more. The doubters can now put all those disparaging remarks to bed. Dirk Nowtizki is an NBA champion, at last. He also has a Finals MVP award to go…
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Ruckus By Rufus
Luisito Espinosa. Congressman Rufus Rodriguez, the former commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID) during the term of President Joseph Estrada, is a man with a smile more mystic and…
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King James or King Flop?
THE BURDEN of unmet expectations is eating up LeBron James, holding him down like the weight of unconfessed sin. A member of the fabled draft class of 2003, LeBron, then a high…
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Mavs shoot lights out, take 3-2 NBA Finals series lead
IN THE past four games of these NBA Finals, Dallas needed it's lone superstar to come up big and somehow equalize Miami's Big Three. So far, Dirk Nowitzki has never failed to…
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Calling Dirty Harry
There is a reason why "Batman and Robin," "Spiderman," "The Equalizer" and other filmworks with a similar theme enjoy a huge following. There is a reason why in many areas in rural…
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Manny film docu shown worldwide
MANILA, Philippines - The work-in-progress movie is still untitled but fans all over the world are eagerly awaiting the international theatrical release of WBO welterweight champion Rep. Manny Pacquiao?s feature film documentary…
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Nauseating Hypocrisy
Many years ago, a British animal rights group castigated the Igorots of the Philippines for slaughtering dogs as part of their cultural cuisine saying this was cruelty to animals. An Igorot intellectual…
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Big Dirk shines; ties the NBA Finals at 2-2
USING Game 4 of the 2011 NBA Finals as a canvas, Dirk Nowitzki painted another playoffs masterpiece Tuesday night at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. The Big German drilled 10 of…
