PBA to choose commissioner

The Philippine Basketball Association, like most everything else in the country, takes a backseat to the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight today, but an hour of reckoning looms less than two weeks from…

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The Fight to gross $400M

Just how big is the projected $400 million revenue that Saturday night’s big fight is expected to generate?

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Pacquiao cake, anyone?

Fans of Manny Pacquiao have a new way of showing how much they love the boxing superstar — by eating him.

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Pride grips Pinoys in US

A sense of pride has gripped the Filipino community here as well as in the entire United States where nearly 2 million of them reside, as Manny Pacquiao takes on…

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Thank you, Pacquiao tells Floyd

It was Manny Pacquiao – and not Floyd Mayweather – who broke the ice and said something during the traditional “stare down,” where both fighters stand eyeball-to-eyeball, following a weigh…

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Pacquiao wins crowd at weigh-in

Boxing has never seen a weigh-in like this. Maybe because people expect never to see a fight like the one that Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will have on…

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Mayweather-Pacquiao: The Fight on today

The fight the world has been waiting for, the fight many thought would never materialize, the fight five years in the making, the fight pitting the world’s best pound-for-pound boxers,…

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Tina Paner, 6 years nang single mom

HINDI pala kasal si Tina Paner sa ama ng kanyang 12-year-old daughter na si Shane. Half-Filipino, half-Spanish ito at nakilala ni Tina sa pamamagitan ng blind date. Isinet-up sila ng…

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Daunting tasks for incoming PBA czar

Even before the PBA board of governors come to a final decision May 14 on who will succeed outgoing commissioner Chito Salud, the immediate tasks of the would-be chosen one…

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Cancer patient seeks Pacquiao

Cris Esguerra left Wednesday from North Carolina where he has been living for more than a decade and arrived in this city not to gamble or be entertained, but to…

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Fil-Am singer nervous, excited

Gail Banawis, the statuesque New Yorker who will sing the national anthem before the start of the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight on Saturday, said she is nervous but excited…

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Pacman has winning formula

Freddie Roach said Thursday he has devised an elaborate strategy that will deliver a decisive victory for Filipino icon Manny Pacquiao in his ‘Fight of the Century’ against Floyd Mayweather.

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Boxing’s future at stake

When Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao enter the ring on Saturday the stakes could not be higher, even for a bout already labeled the “Fight of the Century.”

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Roach, Floyd Sr. provide fireworks

Rival trainers Freddie Roach and Floyd Mayweather Sr. engaged in a verbal tussle on Thursday, providing the fireworks that the main event fighters declined to produce in the runup to…

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Freddie wages own war

Freddie Roach, the trainer who has prepared Manny Pacquiao to step into the ring against Floyd Mayweather for the biggest fight of his life, wages his own constant war against…

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Expect an aggressive Mayweather

Zab Judah, the main sparring partner of Floyd Mayweather Jr., cautions everyone that his benefactor is raring to make heads turn when he faces Manny Pacquiao on Saturday at the…

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