DALLAS – Manny Pacquiao is now a certified billionaire, based on his earnings on the ring.
Counting his guaranteed purse $12 million for his fight with Joshua Clottey at the Cowboys Stadium, the 31-year-old icon has reached the $53 million mark in his last four fights in the United States.
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DALLAS – Jerry Jones, the Texas billionaire, is hoping that this won’t be the first and last time he’d see Manny Pacquiao fight at the Cowboys Stadium.
In fact, word leaked out a few days ago that the 67-year-old owner of the NFL team and its $1.2 billion stadium had sealed a deal to host the next Pacquiao fight.
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MANILA — The Ateneo Blue Eaglets won back-to-back titles after eking out a 61-56 victory against the De La Salle Zobel (DLSZ) Junior Archers in the 72nd UAAP Juniors basketball on Thursday at the Araneta Coliseum.
Kiefer Ravena sealed the win for Ateneo with two free throws in the last 4.6 seconds. But more than that, it was his savvy playmaking that helped the Eaglets capture their 17th title.
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MANILA – After holding 26 race legs around the country, the 33rd Milo National Marathon is set to culminate its run with the National Finals on Oct. 11 in Manila.
The marathon is offering P75,000 for each top top finishers in the men’s and women’s division. The runners-up will get P50,000 each.
Those who finish in the top 10 of the 21K half marathon, 10K run, 5K fun run and 3K kiddie run races will also b
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MANILA – The Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) Blue Eagles executed its game plan to the letter and came out with a 71-58 victory over the University of the East (UE) Red Warriors for its second consecutive men’s basketball crown in the 72nd University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP).
The Blue Eagles outrebounded, outhustled and outsmarted the Warriors in the deciding game before 18,851 UAAP fan
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MANILA — The Supreme Court (SC) has validated the election of the group of Misamis Oriental Gov. Oscar Moreno and business tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan, as chairman and president, respectively, of the Basketball Association of the Philippines-Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (BAP-SBP).
The high court made the validation by affirming the Court of Appeals (CA) ruling over the BAP-SBP tenure of Moreno and Pangilin
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MANILA — Rey Guevarra, the other half of Letran’s vaunted one-two punch, will not be around for the Knights in the Final Four.
The high-leaping 6’4” Guevarra tore his ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) in Letran’s 64-76 defeat to reigning three-peat titlist San Beda last Friday. The injury abruptly ends his colourful four-year stint with the Muralla-based pontifical school.
“It’s sad losing a player
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MANILA — After failing to make it to the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Finals the easier way, San Sebastian Stags is now doing it the hard way.
Relying on its sweet-shooting skipper and an unlikely source the Stags weathered the hard-fighting Jose Rizal Bombers, 84-78, Wednesday to inch closer to the best-of-three finals in Season 85 of the NCAA at The Arena in San Juan City.
Jimbo Aquino,
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MANILA — The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is counting on Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) and its president Manny V. Pangilinan to help resolve the issue with No. 1 draft pick Japeth Aguilar.
“I think the key to the resolution of this issue with Japeth is SBP,” said PBA chairman and Burger King governor Lito Alvarez. Alvarez said the camp of the 6’10” Aguilar will be meeting with SBP o
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MANILA — The 35th Season of the Philippine Basketball Association will open this coming Sunday as the league unveils several rule changes that aims to make the games more competitive and entertaining.
Among the changes are allowing players to monkey ride (hanging on the rim after a dunk) and the extension of the 3-point line from 20.6 feet to 22 feet, which is the original PBA line.
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