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Manny to comply with Nevada order on urine test
LAS VEGAS – The head of the Nevada boxing commission ordered Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. to submit to urine tests Monday as a way of trying to break the impasse that has threatened to derail their proposed March 13 megafight. Pacquiao a...
Floyd camp rejects Arum final offer
MANILA, Philippines – Hopes of salvaging the megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. are slim after American promoter Bob Arum’s”final counter offer” was quickly turned down by Mayweather’s chief adviser, Leonard Eller...
Pacman, Top Rank to sue GBP, Mayweathers
SARANGANI , Philippines – Saying that his character and person has been questioned, maligned, damaged and tarnished by baseless and false accusations, pound-for-pound boxing king Manny Pacquiao and promoter Top Rank Inc. announced yesterday t...
Pacman-Mayweather bout off – Arum: Drug test row unresolved
MANILA, Philippines – The Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. showdown, billed as the fight the world wants to see, will remain a dream. Top rank promoter Bob Arum yesterday said the fight, set on March 13 at MGM Grand, is off following the two...
Roach: Mayweather’s just scared
MANILA, Philippines — Hall-of-Fame boxing trainer Freddie Roach said Floyd Mayweather Jr. is merely looking for a way out of the planned fight with Manny Pacquiao by dictating the type of drug testing to be used. “Well the sanctioning bodies ...
RP medalists to get cash rewards from PSC
The 38 gold medal winners in the 25th Laos Southeast Asian Games are expected to receive cash rewards for all their hard work in the two-week long biennial meet in Vientiane. The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) will prepare the financial incentive...
Final push not enough, RP finishes 5th in Laos
Cecil Mamiit capped the Philippines’ campaign in the 25th Laos Southeast Asian Games with the men’s tennis singles gold Friday. The seasoned, 33-year old netter romped off with a 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 win over Treat Huey in an all-Filipino final, providi...
Five golds fail to boost RP campaign
VIENTIANE – As gold became rarer and rarer with each passing day, the Philippines got the consolation from the golden efforts of athletics, wrestling, judo and archery as it remained at sixth place heading into the last three days of the 25th South...
Team RP surges to six-gold haul
VIENTIANE – The Philippine ladies golf team snatched a stirring two-gold sweep, a Filipino made his presence felt in muay thai, a runner retained his title and the billiards team finally came to life halfway through the 25th Southeast Asian Games y...
Molina snares 2nd gold; RP slips to sixth
VIENTIANE – The Filipinos’ drive got some lift from golden feats in taekwondo, karatedo and swimming – on Miguel Molina’s second gold – but this hardly gave the Philippines the boost it needed for a third-place finish as Thailand, Singapore...
Team Philippines scores 3 golds in SEAG Day 2
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines scored 3 gold medals in Day 2 of the 2009 Southeast Asian Games in Vientiane, Laos. Team Philippine also got 4 silver and 1 bronze medals in the second day of the competitions. Filipino jins, led by 2007 S...
Eagles, Tams in all-UAAP PCCL final
MANILA – The Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) Blue Eagles and Far Eastern University (FEU) Tamaraws arranged an all-UAAP Finals showdown in the 2009 Philippine Collegiate Champions League (PCCL). The Blue Eagles bucked a slow start to subdue NCAA...
RP bets Seek 15 golds in SEA Games
MANILA, Philippines – The 253-strong Philippine athletic contingent, still reeling from unresolved domestic problems, hopes to give fellow Filipinos back home a Christmas gift of about 15 gold medals, less than 10% of the 379 gold medals at sta...
Pacquiao OKs March 13 fight vs Mayweather
MANILA – Seven-division boxing champ Manny Pacquiao has agreed to fight former pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. on March 13 next year. "Abangan nila yung fight namin ni Mayweather. May kaunting inaayos na lang at sa tingin ko maganda ...
Reyes, Amit pocket crown in epic duel
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines’ Efren “Bata” Reyes and Rubilen Amit broke out of a seven-all deadlock and turned back Team Korea’s Charlie Williams and Park Eun Ji, 9-7, in a thrilling showdown in the 2009 World Mixed Doubles Cl...
Immonen beats Corteza to win World Ten Ball Championship
MANILA – The Philippines almost had another champion on Monday but “The Ice Man” of Finland dashed the Filipinos hopes as he defeated Lee Van Corteza in the World Ten Ball Championship finals held at the World Trade Center in Pasay City. Mi...
Corteza, Lining, Kiamco march to the Last 8 of World Ten Ball
It’s now down to the last three for the Philippines in the second World Ten Ball Championship at the World Trade Center. Lee Van Corteza, Antonio Lining and Warren Kiamco stretched their respective winning runs to five in Sunday’s round-of-16 and...
So scores shocker vs Chess Cup champ
MANILA — Filipino chess prodigy Wesley So scored another shocking upset, this time against “chess heavyweight” and defending champion Gata Kamsky of the US, in the ongoing 2009 World Chess Cup at the Khanty-Mansiysk Festival of Arts in Russ...
Alcano tows Pinoys into Final 64
MANILA, Philippines – Ronnie Alcano led the march of Filipino players into the Final 64 yesterday and said the real battle is just about to begin in the World 10-Ball Championship at the World Trade Center in Pasay City. “Simula pa lang (It...
Early fight odds favor Mayweather
MANILA, Philippines – The betting lines are open for Floyd Mayweather Jr. versus Manny Pacquiao even before negotiations for the richest fight in history. Bob Arum of Top Rank, representing Pacquiao, and Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy, who has...
Realtors outlast Boosters in overtime
MANILA, Philippines – Sta. Lucia got into the groove in overtime after struggling with a miserable shooting in regulation as the Realtors repulsed the Barako Bull Energy Boosters, 80-77, last night in the KFC PBA Philippine Cup at the Araneta C...
Arum ready to negotiate Pacquiao-Mayweather bout
A fight too big not to happen. Bob Arum of Pacquiao promoter Top Rank said Thursday he’s ready to negotiate a showdown between the top pound-for-pound fighters in the world, even suggesting potential locations and acknowledging that his Filipin...
‘Boxing needs Pacquiao to fight Mayweather’
MANILA — It’s no surprise that everybody’s clamoring for a “fight for the ages” between Filipino boxing hero Manny Pacquiao and former pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. Coupled by the lack of marketable names in the heavier div...
World Ten Ball qualifiers attracts 128 players
Some of the notable players who failed to secure automatic spots in the second World Ten Ball Championship will have a chance to get a berth in the “Big Dance" when the qualifying round begins Thursday at the Star Center in Quezon City. The W...
Floyd Jr. surfaces, says he’s ready for Manny
MANILA, Philippines – Floyd Mayweather Jr. last night said he is ready to make the big-money fight with newly crowned WBO welterweight world champion Manny Pacquiao happen. “If he wants to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. all he has to do is step ...
Pacquiao’s riches to grow after historic win: analysts
MANILA – Philippine boxing hero Manny Pacquiao stands to earn tens of millions of dollars in endorsements as firms at home and abroad rush to link themselves with the charismatic champion, observers say. The nation celebrated on Sunday when Pac...
Floyd Mayweather v Manny Pacquiao is new dream fight on the cards
Manny Pacquiao had barely won his latest world title, at a seventh different weight, in Las Vegas in the early hours of this morning when the boxing world turned its attention to the next challenge facing the Filipino many were prepared to call the &...
Pacman’s magnificent seventh
LAS VEGAS – On a cold Saturday evening, Manny Pacquiao put on the hottest performance of his life, winning an unprecedented seventh world title in different weight classes, and this time making sure that he’ll be remembered forever as the greates...
Jerry Izenberg: In taking down a bigger opponent, Manny Pacquiao morphs from Mighty Mouse into Godzilla
LAS VEGAS — So what did Manny Pacquiao achieve on Saturday night beyond winning his seventh title in seven different weight classes to catapult himself to a place where no fighter had ever gone? He brought boxing back into the newspapers, back o...
Roach: Pacquiao should control fight early on
LAS VEGAS – How Manny Pacquiao gets to control his fight against Miguel Cotto early on would have a big say on the outcome of the title bout. “We have to set the pace of the fight, especially for the first round," trainer Freddie Roach poin...
