WALKING out in a sports event is a big mistake, except maybe when teams are trying to prevent an escalation of violence.
Only sore losers, those who want to win at all costs, or people with the mentality of a toddler walk out.
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Heard the one about the Premier League footballer who chose to spend his summer holiday in a muddy field on an island off England’s south coast? No, well it’s a story that might provide some comfort for fans of West Ham United.
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MANNY Pacquiao has jumped ship from GMA back to ABS-CBN, less than two years after going ober da bakod the other way.
As expected, the network war got lively again.
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“John Dykes is the lead presenter of the Barclays Premier League, and host of ESPN’s Football Focus, Football Up Close, and First Edition. For more of John Dykes’ columns please visit www.espnstar.com”
Even as the UEFA Champions League quarter-final draw is made in Switzerland Friday, post-mortem inquests are still being carried out in Italy and Madrid into their Euro-representatives’ exit at the hands of English clubs. This week also brought a reminder of another once-great European football power which these days can only dream of representation in the Champions League’s later stages.
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By Steve Mcmahon
“Steve McMahon, former Liverpool midfielder and England International, is a resident football pundit on ESPN’s Football Focus and Football Forecast. Catch his predictions on www.espnstar.com”
European nights are special and there is nowhere like it other than Liverpool’s Anfield.
I was lucky enough to be on Merseyside to witness their game against Real Madrid.
You can go all over the world to watch football but there’s something about Anfield on a European night that makes it extra special.
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MY MIND took an impromptu vacation the past few days and a heavier than usual workload meant I couldn’t think of a topic for today’s column issue.
However, a check for reactions from previous posts in my blog saved me from a non-appearance today. Here’s from someone who identified himself as Visayanian (minimee@hotmail.com) and guest100 (guest100@yahoo.com). I’m just including excerpts and have edited some parts.
SHARAPOVA should be today’s topic, but I’ll start off with reactions to the punch in Cesafi football and a new Team Cebu City
Here’s a reaction to the punch from “Ronaldo,” a regular visitor in my blog even before I got this space: “The punching incident happened between the fullback and the striker at the UV side of the field. There were other UV players nearby. The ongoing play was at the center of the field on the UC side and not on the sideline….It’s difficult to believe the claim of the linesman that he did not see anything. But then, many referees and linesmen are biased for this particular team. Everyone in Cebu football knows that…”
BY ALL accounts, it was a punch that would make Freddie Roach proud—the taller and older guy connecting to the face of the smaller and younger foe.
But it wasn’t boxing. It was the University of the Visayas football team captain against a UC striker in Cesafi football.
WITH all the attention and luck Joavan Fernandez is getting, I think, it is about time Talisay City’s First Son considers taking up sports. Besides, getting plastered in the back pages of a paper is better than hitting the front pages everyday.
It would also do his city proud, and should he engage in sports, it won’t only be his dad who would be paying and praying for his endeavors. The whole city will.
ONE of the first national organizations I got to know as a kid was Pamet. You know, the one that endorses the “soap with a conscience.” I never really knew what Pamet really does, but since then, whenever I hear “med-tech,” I always see this guy-or-girl-in-a-lab-coat holding a soap.
When I first got into sports, national sports associations (NSAs) were unheard of, unlike Pamet.
But now that I’ve got a chance to learn about NSAs, I long for Pamet’s girl in the lab coat and the conscience too.
