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Professionalizing amateurs (Part 2)

By Bill Velasco | February 2, 2015 - 12:00am

In Saturday’s column, this writer discussed the gray area that amateur boxing finds itself in, and how it seeks a new definition in an age where its old form no longer resonates with a majority of its audience,...

Sports

Football’s tipping point

By Bill Velasco | December 20, 2014 - 12:00am

Football in the Philippines has climbed in popularity in the last five years, ever since the ASEAN Football Federation Championship – now known as the AFF Suzuki Cup – was first broadcast live by AB...

Sports

Orcollo wins duel versus Deuel

July 24, 2013 - 12:00am

Dennis Orcollo quelled a last-ditch effot by American Corey Deuel to win the  US Open One Pocket Championship, 5-3, ...

Sports

Changing lives thru football and golf

By Philip Ella Juico | January 16, 2013 - 12:00am

One of our main advocacies is to see sports as equalizing opportunities for advancement and lifting the economic status of the marginalized and the excluded.

Sports

Azkals: We are all Filipinos

By Bill Velasco | August 1, 2011 - 12:00am

There is no denying the immense pride that the Philippine Azkals have when they play for flag and country.

Sports

An album for change

By Baby A. Gil | February 10, 2003 - 12:00am

Change, they say, is the only thing constant in this world. If that is so, then how come there is always a call for change around here? Can it be because, while people, particularly Filipinos, do change, the changes...

Entertainment