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Do US Laws Have Enough Teeth to Protect Pacquiao? <br>(Third of a Series)
LOS ANGELES?While Manny Pacquiao?s wily promoter Murad Muhammad and his cohorts think they have scored a fast one over the Filipino, set US laws will be put to test to reclaim what…
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Negotiating the web
By Gail Ilagan
DAVAO CITY -- Jerry agreed that there should be nothing reprehensible about a poor boy from Dadiangas doing a stint at the MGM Grand for the money. He went on to say…
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No revenge for Pacquiao as Morales goes heavier
FILIPINO boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao will not get a shot at vengeance against Erik "El Terrible" Morales. The other day, the Mexican legend Morales announced that he will most likely be moving…
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The Pacman Cometh
The Philippines has often been compared to the world of Eugene O?Neill?s Broadway play The Iceman Cometh: a cruel place where despair is a constant presence and relief comes in pipe dreams.…
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Lesson from Morales defeat
By Nick Giongco
HAVING REALIZED his mistakes the last time, Manny Pacquiao is considering training away from the madding crowd. With this mind, Pacquiao is looking at either in Big Bear in southern California with…
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Manny to train in new gym, away from spies
By Jasmine Payo
OTHER than acquire extra skills, Manny Pacquiao yesterday vowed to move out of Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood and train in a new gym to prevent spies from studying his moves.…
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Pac Man urged to enter politics
By Eddie Alinea
MANNY PACQUIAO, like many sports heroes who have captured the national imagination, is being urged by his friends to enter politics. But Pacquiao is not ready to jump into this uncharted water.…
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Twice a ‘victim’ of a double whammy?
For openers? I lately talked to second cousin Gaudencio Calva of Cambayog, Compostela, the hilly neighbor of picturesque Cabadiangan valley. He insists that Dionisia, the mother of Manny Pacquiao, is his illegitimate…
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Pacquiao’s handlers now snipe at each other
THE furor over how and why our own Manny Pacquiao was beaten despite being the pre-fight favorite, should have subsided by now. The Filipino champion is back and is meditating perhaps on…
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Bautista captures fancy of US sports scribe
BOHOLANO boxing sensation Rey ?Boom-Boom? Bautista never ceases to amaze. Training at the Wild Card Gym of Freddie Roach, the talent and skills of the youthful Bautista caught the fancy of California…
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A big mistake
After Manny Pacquaio’s heartbreaking debacle to Mexican Erik Morales spawned a nationwide finger-pointing and blame-laying deluge, Pacquiao’s renowned trainer, American Freddie Roach, admitted that the Pacquiao camp also made a mistake when…
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Hamed-Pacquiao: Futuristic Superfight?
By Press Guy
Intimate sources surrounding the business team of former world featherweight champion ?Prince? Naseem Hamed indicate that Hamed is set to resume his boxing career later this year, only with an intriguing and…
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Pacquiao to train secretly
There will be no more distractions for Manny Pacquiao when he resumes training in the United States within the next three weeks. His trainer Freddie Roach told the 26-year-old Pacquiao to prepare…
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Ronnie Nathanielsz speaks out
Dear Dong: Let me state for the record that indeed we advised Manny Pacquiao to sign the addendum to his mother contract with promoter Murad Muhammad after the eminent lawyer and founding…
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Philippine government shuts down indefinitely<br>National budget lost in Pacquiao wager
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has declared a nationwide State of Panic (SOP) as government offices shut down today. ?We have no choice but to declare a nationwide SOP in view of the present…
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MORALES, PACMAN, BARRERA AND MORE
Morales, Pac, Barrera, Mac & the Great Brian Mitchell Yes, Morales-Pacquiao was a great fight - Fight of the Year, probably, even though we're not even out of March yet. Yes, Erik…
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Pacquiao leaves for US to tackle tax woes
By Abac Cordero
Manny Pacquiao will soon leave for the US ? not to train for his next fight but to tie up some loose ends with the IRS. The Filipino slugger who recently lost…
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Roach: ‘Pacquiao will beat Morales in rematch’
By Ant Evans
We're only three months into 2005 but - unless Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie get it on in a WWE style 'bra and panties match' - the Fight of the Year will…
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Pacquiao wants kids to be lawyers
By Richard Dy
FILIPINO RING icon Manny Pacquiao received so many inspiring calls after he lost to Mexican Erik Morales, but the one that ?knocked? him out came from his own son, Emmanuel Jr. While…
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OPBF kingpin Mayol departs for Japan
Reigning Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation minimum-weight kingpin Rodel Mayol departs for Japan today as he girds for the third defense of his crown against Japanese prospect Takayuki Korogi on April 4…