SINCE it started in 1997, the Aboitiz Cup has not only become the biggest football tournament in Cebu, I think it has become Cebu football as well.

Without it, Cebu football is dead.

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DO YOU remember how Efren Reyes changed the world of pool when he won the World Pool Championships in 1999?

Do you remember how proud you were to be Pinoy?
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ROEL Velasco, Edito Villamor and Luisito Espinosa were the reasons I became a boxing fan.

The first live boxing match I saw was the semifinal loss of Roel to a Cuban in the Barcelona Olympics, while the first Pinoy pro boxer I followed in the papers was Edito. I remember looking forward to my graduation from high school because it was the day news of his title fight against Ricardo Lopez would come out in the national papers.

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IT’S very easy, just do the don’ts. But then again, you can kiss your Cesafi campaign goodbye.

(What? Were you worried that I’d be encouraging delinquent athletes?)

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OVER the years in covering the sports scene, I realized there are some schools you can readily assume to be successful in sports and some that just don’t do sports.

It’s a pity really, since students can get a diploma through an athletic scholarship and considering the values a student-athlete gets from being a player, sports should be one of the priorities of a school.

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This is a comment on my column, “It’s time to kick Martinez out of the PFF”

Thanks,
Mike
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BOG should stop saving kissing Martinez’s ass

Its not just Martinez who should be ousted. The spotlight should be likewise focused on some of the members of the PFF Board of Governors who to this day continue to protect Martinez ravenous greed in the gross misuse of PFF funds and looting the PFF Treasury.
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THE expensive sunglasses got my attention first.

I thought it was pretty weird for a guy with an obviously outdated sense of fashion—so obvious even a guy like me could notice—to be wearing such glasses, in a rundown non-aircon bus bound for Davao City.

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THERE’s a brewing war between PFF president Mari Martinez and the Cebu Football Association and I hope it will result to Martinez getting sacked and being held accountable for the funds the organized used while he is office.

Martinez sent a scathing letter last Aug. 3 to CFA president Richard Montayre, calling the Cebuano an arrogant, stubborn man who has poor comprehension of the English language.

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I AM nominating Chester Cokaliong to be the next president of the Philippine Football Federation.

Yep, Cokaliong the basketball guy as RP football’s next head.

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EVER since the new mayor took over Cebu City Hall, I’ve gotten to like reading
headlines about him—whether negative or positive.

“Mike gags heads” comes to mind.

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