The Beermen Wins Against Air21 to Face Kings in best-of-3 series

January 5, 2009 · Posted in Philippine Sports · Comment 

San Miguel Beer subordinated the Air21 Express practically on all fronts, pulling off a comfortable 105-86 victory to gain entry into the KFC PBA Philippine Cup quarterfinals at the Araneta Coliseum Sunday night.

Picking up from where they left off in their game against the Coca-Cola Tigers last Dec. 28, the Beermen made it 3-0 over the Express in their head-on duels in the conference.

It’s Sta. Lucia versus Rain or Shine in the opener and San Miguel against Ginebra for the main game at the start of the best-of-three quarterfinals showdowns Wednesday in the same venue.
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La Salle-Ateneo encounters again for Collegiate Championship crown

December 6, 2008 · Posted in Philippine Sports · Comment 

The top two squads in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) could very well be the best teams in the country right now.

La Salle followed rival Ateneo in the 2008 Philippine Collegiate Championship finals after whooping a 62-61 comeback win over reigning National Collegiate Athletic Association champion San Beda in their semifinal match on Saturday at the arena in San Juan City.
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Manny’s wife will not be around at ringside during the Dream Match

November 29, 2008 · Posted in Philippine News · Comment 

Jinkee Pacquiao will not be at the MGM Grand Hotel ringside when her husband fights Oscar de la Hoya on December 7 (December 6, US time).

Pacquiao is eight months pregnant with her fourth child with the Filipino world champion, making it delicate for her to watch a bout expected to be tenser than any of her husband’s previous fights.
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Salvacion Saves Ginebra against Coca-Cola

November 27, 2008 · Posted in Philippine Sports · Comment 

Ginebra’s guard Sunday Salvacion lit up the scoreboard in the fourth quarter to help his team beat Coca-Cola, 84-77, in Thursday’s game in the KFC PBA Philippine Cup at the Olivarez College Sports Center.

Salvacion’s outside sniping, four straight for 12 points, in the final canto helped keep the Tigers at bay and secure the Kings’ third straight win.

Coke rallied from 21 points down in the first half and threatened at 56-55, on a Ronjay Enrile three-pointer with 10:35 left in the game clock.
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Boom-Boom Lost Via Unanimous Decision!

November 22, 2008 · Posted in Philippine Sports · Comment 

LAS VEGAS–Mexican Heriberto Ruiz took a unanimous decision win over Rey ‘Boom Boom’ Bautista seconds ago in their 8-round bout here at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Ruiz knocked down Bautista in the third with a left hook, and Bautista was deducted a point in the seventh due to low blows, earning for the Mexican a 77-73, 78-72, 80-70 win. Bautista falls to 26-2 while Ruiz who improves his record to 40-7-2.
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Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)

November 22, 2008 · Posted in Philippine Sports · Comment 

The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a professional basketball league in the Philippines which founded in 1975. It is known as the first and the oldest professional basketball league in Asia. PBA is currently applying the rules of FIBA and National Basketball Association. The league is recently headed by Commissioner Sonny Barrios.

From 1975-2003, a season was usually composed of three conferences. From the 1993 season, the conferences were named All Filipino, Commissioner’s Cup, and Governors Cup, usually ending in a best-of-7 Finals series match wherein the winner takes the Conference Cup. If the same team wins all of the conferences, the team is said to be the “Grand Slam” champion. A draft was held on January.
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Oscar Wants a Knockout and Roach Promises One

November 19, 2008 · Posted in Philippine Sports · Comment 

During a conference call happened yesterday, Oscar De La Hoya talked about the need to win by knockout, claiming it would be a disaster if he didn’t. In light of those comments, Freddie Roach today had some things to say to his former student.

“Tell Oscar not to worry, the fight will end in a knockout,” Roach said through ace publicist Fred Sternburg yesterday from the Wild Card Boxing Club, the hotbed of Southern California fisticuffs.
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Pacquiao a Relentless Dynamo

November 16, 2008 · Posted in Philippine Sports · Comment 

According to famous journalist Nick Giongco, Oscar De La Hoya just can’t seem to get over the can’t-pull-the-trigger remark made by former trainer Freddie Roach.

“If he (Roach) thinks he knows me, he’s got another thing coming. Say that I am over the hill, come Dec. 6th, we’ll see what happens,” De La Hoya said in a segment of the HBO special feature on the De La Hoya-Manny Pacquiao welterweight war at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
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Nonito Donaire Jr. Gets Angry for Disrespecting his Family

November 14, 2008 · Posted in Philippine Sports · Comment 

IBF/IBO flyweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire gets angry to his critics for intruding into his personal life and “disrespecting” his family. The champ is visibly upset over a series of accusations that his wife, the former Rachel Marcial, a Taekwondo star, had created a rift between him and his father/trainer Nonito Donaire Sr and that she was disliked both by his promoter Top Rank and his manager Cameron Dunkin.
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Team Cebu nails third in the Philippine Olympic Festival-bound Team

November 3, 2008 · Posted in Philippine Sports · Comment 

The Philippine Olympic Festival bound Team Cebu City Football finished third in the Pintaflores Football Festival in San Carlos City. A third-place finish may be a respectable achievement, but coach Mario Ceniza says they still have a lot of work to do if they are to compete with the traditional powerhouse Iloilo in the POF later this year in Cagayan de Oro City. Not all members of POf-Tcc joined the San Carlos City event, while Iloilo sent its full squad and eventually defeated the Host Team, 4-1 to rule the event.
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