THE organizers of the Pilipinas International Marathon (not to be confused with a defunct event with the same name in Manila) hope to promote Cebu among international runners by organizing a run this Aug. 15.
But I’m afraid they’d only embarrass the city and the local running community.
POOR Roger Federer.
This guy makes the quarterfinals—something 120 others couldn’t in a Grand Slam (plus more counting the qualifiers)—and somebody’s popping the question, “Is it the end of his era?”
To be 28 and at No. 2 in the world and be in his decline?
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CALLS for Fifa to adopt video technology in the game have again been renewed after a string of mistakes by referees in the World Cup in Africa—including two crucial calls in the quarterfinal round.
Fifa president for life Sepp Blatter has diplomatically said the option for a video replay, as well as goal line technology, will be reviewed.
PATRICE Evra and the rest of the French team joined a lot of athletes who will have to pay for their antics for quite some time—the rest of their lives even.
Athletes are mostly required to think quickly on their feet during their games but off court, some, as Evra and Les Bleus have shown, should have spent a little more time thinking before pushing through with their actions.
I WITNESSED history made the other night and it wasn’t even about the World Cup.
It’s not about reigning World Cup champion Italy’s first-round exit, that’s not historic. France already did that in 2002.
It’s about John Isner and Nicolas Mahut.
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JUST as the England vs. Slovenia match was winding down, the telecast cut to the Slovenia coach, who, curiously, wasn’t signaling a play to his players.
Zero-zero his hands say. That was the score of the Algeria vs. US game after 90 minutes. A score that would see Slovenia moving on to the knockout stage.
IRISH fans must be laughing at the misfortune of Les Blues.
Heavily-favored to top a relatively weak group, the former world champion—the real kind, not the American version of a world champion—languishes at third with one point in two matches.
SHOWING a resiliency their team wasn’t known for, a squad of rag-tag players known for being a doormat of football in the region, surprised everybody by playing with all they have when they had nothing to play for.
It was their third of four games in a tournament so often ignored that it was set to lose its major sponsor. But it was a game, and they were playing for the country, and they were tired of people asking not if they’d win, but by how many goals they will lose.
FOR a group in charge of promoting football the PFF, and its local counterpart, are conspicuously absent in the World Cup.
I mean, people I know who don’t normally care about anything football, are watching the World Cup. They’re staying up late, just like the serious fans, watching the games.
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I WATCHED the opening of the World Cup at Sports Exchange Bar and the experience, like the game, was beautiful.
As expected, I saw a slew of familiar faces, some of whom I regularly saw at The Badgers during Germany 2006.
