LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Very few remember that he went rogue during People Power 1 – he disobeyed the orders of the Commander-in-Chief and found ways to divert the menacing army tanks from entering EDSA where thousands were already gathered to protest against the dictatorship. When he was...
LANDSCAPE Pandemics like COVID-19 are nothing new. Through the centuries, humankind had gone through a number of episodic plagues and virulent pestilences that only the fittest survived. European archeologists have found evidence that the first pandemic sprang...
PBA, Chooks 3x3, PFL practice sessions delayed anew PFF president Nonong Araneta, Chooks 3x3 commissioner Eric Altamirano and PBA commissioner Willie Marcial (Handout / PBA Images) The planned return of practices in the professional level suffered a setback after the government imposed Modified...
Barring any hitch surrounding the recent change in ownership, United City FC will play its remaining group stage matches in the AFC Cup in Vietnam this September. The Asian Football Confederation made the announcement Thursday with Vietnam set to host Group F in Ho Chi Minh City and Group G in...
LANDSCAPE I know it is none of my damned business to comment on what is going on in the United States of America. I have kept my thoughts to myself and have been careful not to share them with former classmates who have made...
okyo Olympics chief of mission Nonong Araneta (Jonas Terrado) Chief of mission Nonong Araneta is entering the homestretch of his daily online discussions with leaders of about 16 national sports associations that have athletes waiting for the green light to resume full-scale training for qualifying...
Philippines Football League champion Ceres-Negros will now be known as United City FC after a group of investors completed the transfer of ownership on Thursday. MMC Sportz Asia announced the transaction, two weeks after Ceres management announced that it was looking for a new set of owners that...
LANDSCAPE With pent-up rage, angry clusters of young people have defaced, decapitated, smashed to bits, dumped in rivers the imposing monuments and effigies that glorify colonial masters like King Leopold II of Belgium and Cecil Rhodes, diamond merchant and prime minister of the Cape Colony (1890...
LANDSCAPE Have you heard of the plans to put Lapu-Lapu in a cage? I may be imagining things after being under “house arrest” for more than a hundred days, but that is how it looks to me. The proposed Lapu-Lapu memorial which will be inaugurated next year, during the quincentennial is a ...
Financial aid to be used in development programs, says PH football chief Nonong Araneta The Philippine Football Federation is set to receive $1 million (P49.48 million) financial aid from world governing body FIFA to be used in development programs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (MB File Photo) The...
LANDSCAPE In his White House memoir, titled The Room Where It Happened , Mr. John Bolton, former national security adviser of President Donald Trump, tells all, somewhat maliciously. Almost daily, he would go to that room , the Oval Office, to give his boss a briefing about what was...
Return bid in motion for Philippines Football League In this file photo, Ceres-Negros players celebrate after receiving the Philippines Football League championship trophy against Kaya-Iloilo. (Photo from Ceres-Negros) Philippines Football League (PFL) clubs are scheduled to undergo COVID-19...
