I had a great weekend that started off with Diana and I attending the book launch of the excellent, seminal book on Pinoy hoops, Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin’ in Flip-Flops and the Philippines’ Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball at National Bookstore, Ayala Cebu branch. The author, Rafe Bartholomew, made sure that everyone who attended the [...]
A couple of years ago, a former coworker at the day job– who also moonlighted as assistant sports editor and sports columnist for a Cebu newspaper, The Freeman– introduced a fairly new hybrid sport to me: Chessboxing. At first I thought he was pulling my leg when he mentioned a sport that combined, quite obviously, chess and boxing– [...]
The film Cinderella Man starring Russell Crowe was inspired by the life story of Irish-American heavyweight boxing champion James J. Braddock. If you take a look at Braddock’s record, there’s a big chance you won’t be impressed. Although he won 46 fights with 26 wins coming the short route, he also lost 24 bouts. However, [...]