THE BIGGEST story for the Philippines in 2003 came out in the sports page.
Manny Pacquiao’s sensational stoppage of the feared Marco Antonio Barrera, reportedly the finest featherweight boxer on Earth, was indeed front page stuff.
Pacquiao gallantly showed everybody that Barrera’s greatness was all a wild rumor.
In fact, Pacquiao’s incredible feat that rendered boxing experts all over the world dumbfounded is a frontrunner not only as No. 1 sports story but as top news in RP for 2003.
