A tall order for Vice President Jejomar Binay? This Monday (May 6), the 5’0″ Binay will come face-to-face with Yao Ming, the 7’6″ retired Chinese basketball superstar who will pay him a courtesy call at the Coconut Palace.
Gary Garcia has been working as a seafarer for almost 10 years—and has been a registered absentee voter for just as long. In fact, it’s as long as the existence of Republic Act No. 9189 or the Overseas Absentee Voting Law, which provides for a system for Filipino citizens working or residing outside the Philippines to vote in a national election.
In the locker room after another rough outing—this time against the Colorado Rockies–San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum had just finished talking to the media.
Nonito Donaire, also known as the Filipino Flash, said he did his best. He lost his WBO super bantamweight title to Guillermo Rigondeaux in a decision on April 14. “I thought that he wasn’t better than me,” he told Inquirer.net. “I did my best. I thought I should have done something different but I didn’t.”
At least 10 Filipinos and Filipino-Americans who ran the Boston Marathon on Tuesday are all accounted for, according to one of the participating Filipinos.
Recently, in the Oprah Winfrey Show, Lance Armstrong, the incredible seven time winner of the Tour de France cycling tournament, the most grueling competition in the sports world – shocked millions by confessing publicly that he used an array of Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) in winning all seven events. Previously, he had repeatedly denied doping allegations.
The University of San Francisco (USF) has announced that the 9th Annual Hilltop Cup Boxing Tournament will take place in USF’s War Memorial Gymnasium on Friday, Sept. 14.
There wasn’t enough money for plane fares, so they had to take the cheapest flights – even though it meant a nine-hour stopover in Japan, another eleven in Hawaii.
The Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco (SF PCG) has finally succeeded in winning the championship in the recently concluded 4th Annual Young Diplomats Club Bowling Tournament held on July 19 at the Presidio Bowling Center.
A Malacañang Palace aide on Saturday congratulated the Miami Heat’s Filipino-American coach Erik Spoelstra after his team won the NBA championship over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
“Sometimes scorers of fights are incompetent. Sometimes they are more than incompetent, they are corrupt…..The bottom line is if you are an honest man…Pacquiao won that fight….It’s an injustice to the sport, it’s an injustice to the fighters and an injustice to the fan base,” commented well respected ESPN boxing commentator Teddy Atlas.
“Pacquiao lost?” my son asked, a look of disbelief on his face. Now, my panganay is not really boxing fan. His reaction was based not so much on disappointment, but surprise.
