We can hardly wait for Sept. 23 to come. On this day, our dear friend, the legendary singer-actor Eddie Mesa, dubbed the “Elvis Presley of the Philippines,” and husband of actress Rosemarie Gil, will make a formal concert after 28 years! This will be held at the Meralco theater. His...
By Ding Marcelo Ben Mbala returned to action Wednesday, and the whole Green Archers community breathed a little better. After missing La Salle’s first two games, Mbala played his first game against Adamson University in the UAAP basketball tournament, and he did not disappoint. He arrived less than 48 hours...
By Ding Marcelo It’s time the PBA reviewed its system for trading players. Not only does the current system not meet the objective it was designed for, it actually, in some cases, insults basketball fans outright by passing off a farcical trade as the genuine article. It happened again recently—with...
By Ding Marcelo Tisha Abundo is not looking for a job. (Well, so what if she is?) What she is really after are job openings for women like her — women skilled at what they do, possessing vast experience as well as people skills, and high-functioning even in tight situations....
By Ding Marcelo The US Open tennis championship concluded yesterday with Rafael Nadal hoisting the trophy, notching major tournament win No. 16, and moving just three shy of Roger Federer’s record 19 major championships. On the women’s side, Sloane Stephens captured the women’s title, notching her first major championship win,...
By Ding Marcelo For many months, Regan de Guzman was tormented by her golf game in the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour where she competes. She was inconsistent in a game where consistency is good. She couldn’t put together enough good rounds to make something happen. Then last week, something...
By Ding Marcelo The next face of Philippine sports will not be a tall, hunky basketball player or a tall, sexy volleyball star. That honor is likely to go to Trenten Anthony Beram, a Fil-American who lit up the Southeast Asian Games as a rookie member of the national team....
By Ding Marcelo First, our heartiest congratulations to the 24 athletes who won gold in the Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur, hurrays to the 33 who captured silver, and cheers to the 64 who brought home the bronze. And for the 378 other athletes in the delegation who did...
By Ding Marcelo Despite their best heroic efforts, Filipino athletes, except for a very few, will come home from the Southeast Asian Games in Malaysia beaten and humiliated. Coming home with them are sports officials, also quite embarrassed, or at least they should be. But Jose “Peping” Cojuangco Jr., president...
By Ding Marcelo For sure, Manny Pacquiao will be an interested watcher when Floyd Mayweather Jr. battles Conor McGregor on Sunday in what is one of the most-awaited encounters in boxing history. Pacquiao fought Mayweather two years ago, and their bout broke all records in pay-per-view buys, guaranteed prizes, and...
by Ding Marcelo Rio Olympic marathoner Mary Joy Tabal was probably ready to spend the next few weeks at home—alone, sad, and, probably, angry. The country’s top marathoner had been in the center of a long, festering controversy with her mother association, the Philippine Track and Field Association, which left...
