http://football.cebunetwork.com The beautiful game in the beautiful island Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:46:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WHEN Nonito Donaire Jr. retires, he can sure pick up another profession as a writer—a good one. Junior recently launched his own site, www.filipinoflash.com, and wrote a touching entry about his father and namesake in his blog for Fathers’ Day. For updates from around the country, follow Sun.Star on Twitter I wanted to ... http://football.cebunetwork.com/fair-play-donaire-shows-his-way-with-words/2009/07/ FOR 45 minutes, the United States threatened to turn the football world upside down. The Americans, who are rarely taken seriously in the international scene, had five-time World Cup champion Brazil in trouble. They were up 2-0 in the Confederations Cup finals. A nifty touch off a cross had the US up, 1-0, ... http://football.cebunetwork.com/fair-play-a-tale-of-three-losers/2009/07/ IT’S a familiar story but with a slightly different twist. Weak team, lucky to be in the semis, faces the No. 1 team who hasn’t tasted defeat in quite awhile—35 matches in almost three years. At Nos. 1 and 14, only 13 spots separate the US from Spain in the world rankings, ... http://football.cebunetwork.com/fair-play-familiar-stories/2009/06/ YOU don’t really associate men with wax. Especially burly men who join the Universal Reality Combat Championships. But that was the case in last Saturday’s main event. Mark Ediva got too much wax. Way too much. Perhaps he thought it was a “You are sissy” event, not URCC. What, in heaven’s name, is wax ... http://football.cebunetwork.com/fair-play-the-wax-men/2009/06/ I KNOW it’s bad to gloat but I can’t help it. The Los Angeles Lakers won in five games. Just like I said they would. LA in five, I said at the start of the NBA finals. Win in five they did. And my man Kobe Bryant won the Most Valuable ... http://football.cebunetwork.com/fair-play-you-are-sissy/2009/06/ BASED on all the noise they are generating, it seems everybody wants to avoid Cha-Cha. But if Dancesport Team Cebu City (DTCC) will have its way, it wants everybody to dance to that tune—cops, politicians, and every Juan included. Even every one who is against the Cha-Cha. But, unfortunately for the congressmen and ... http://football.cebunetwork.com/fair-play-forget-the-rallies-lets-do-the-cha-cha/2009/06/ MY friend Harry has quite a dilemma. Like millions of Pinoys, he loves basketball and follows the NBA religiously. The problem is, like the rest of other fans who follow sports in another timezone, he’s at work when all he wants to do is chug that beer while cheering hoarse for the ... http://football.cebunetwork.com/fair-play-a-fans-dilemma-and-the-partners-cup/2009/06/ WE ALL know some football fans, sometimes, are an embarrassment to the sport. Beating up a kid for wearing the other team’s jersey? Done that. Throwing a coin at the linesman for a wrong call? Ditto. Charging a ref for a non-call on a penalty? That too. It’s too bad that a stupid dude ... http://football.cebunetwork.com/fair-play-when-stupid-football-heads-attack/2009/06/ IN HIS first ever playoffs appearance for the Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant was a dud. The guy named after a famous beef his parents saw on a restaurant menu, Kobe was as cold as stored meat. While the Lakers were trailing the Jazz in the first round of the 1997 playoffs, ... http://football.cebunetwork.com/fair-play-kobe-bryants-redemption/2009/06/ There are a couple of coming tournaments. The ECCP festival this weekend at CIS and the USP cup on June 20 and 21. Have fun! http://football.cebunetwork.com/coming-tournaments/2009/06/