Former Games and Amusements Board (GAB) Chairman Dominador “Domeng” Cepeda passed away on Saturday, May 1. He was 86. GAB, now led by Chairman Baham Mitra, paid tribute to Cepeda in a social media post, thanking all his efforts as the government agency’s top official from 1994 to July 2001...
PBA commissioner Willie Marcial said the league is keeping a vigilant approach in trying to curb game-fixing allegations similar to the one that rocked the Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup recently. Marcial bared in the virtual Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum that took place Tuesday, April 27,...
The Gilas Pilipinas 3x3 team was given the green light to start preparing for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament as early as next week at the Inspire Sports Academy in Calamba, Laguna. The PBA Board of Governors gave its go-signal to lend San Miguel Beer’s CJ Perez and Mo Tautuaa and rookies...
Chooks to Go president Ronald Mascarinas (Photo from Chooks to Go) The title sponsor of the Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup questioned the decision of the Games and Amusements Board to suspend next month’s Mindanao leg following game-fixing allegations that marred last week’s game between Siquijor...
GAB Chairman Baham Mitra The Games and Amusements Board suspended next month’s Mindanao leg of the embattled Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup in relation to game-fixing allegations that marred the controversial game between ARQ Builders-Lapu-Lapu City and the Siquijor Mystics. GAB chairman Baham Mitra...
VisMin Cup officials talk with coaches from Lapu-Lapu City and Siquijor after their game was postponed during halftime last Wednesday. (Photo from Chooks to Go Pilipinas) Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) president Al Panlilio said Sunday they would take the initiatives to study and form a...
VisMin Cup officials talk with coaches from Lapu-Lapu City and Siquijor after their game was postponed during halftime. (Photo from Chooks to Go Pilipinas) The Games and Amusements Board is set to investigate the controversial VisMin Super Cup match between ARQ Builders-Lapu-Lapu City and Siquijor...
The Philippine International Literary Festival happens this month and onward Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa describes literature as “the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” Simply put, it’s the best kind of distraction. If so, then literature could easily be considered an “essential...
Games and Amusements Board (GAB) Chairman Baham Mitra made an appeal to professional athletes and their leagues to continue to set an example in practicing the minimum health protocols as the country continues to fight the spread of COVID-19. Mitra’s call came after he himself recovered from the...
The Alaska Aces hold their batch training before the PBA bubble last year. (Photo from PBA) Even the training of professional athletes in Metro Manila and nearby provinces are halted this week due to the Enhanced Community Quarantine brought by the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the country....
Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) Administrator Benjamin Madrigal assured that the farmers’ representatives that will join the reconstituted PCA Board will be selected solely by farmers without the influence of the government. In a phone interview with Business Bulletin, Madrigal assured...
Nearly three weeks since the Coco Levy Act or Republic Act (RA) 11524 was passed, the reconstituted board of the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) has met for the first time to discuss the important things that need to be addressed prior to the actual release of the P100-billion coco levy fund....
