Archive for November, 2009
Altamirano & Compton Lay The Groundwork For Philippine Basketball
The Philippines’ decades of futility in international basketball competitions may soon be a thing of the past.
For one, veteran professional head coach Eric Altamirano has been at the helm of the RP Nokia-Under 16 men’s squad, which just a few days back finished a respectable fourth place in the FIBA-Asia Under-16 Men’s cage championships in [...]
Does God Really Care?
Posted by Rich in Changed Lives on November 27th, 2009
The troubled times we are experiencing as a nation these days are surely troubling for a lot of people.
The horrible massacre in Maguindanao just a few days ago, the flash floods in recent months brought about by super typhoons have claimed record death toll this year alone.
Just last week, someone commented on my blog on [...]
What Anger Management Can’t Do
Posted by Rich in Changed Lives on November 16th, 2009
Driving in the major thoroughfares of Metro Manila can always be tough for any driver.
Just Sunday night, while my wife and daughter were on our way home from Victory U-Belt, a speeding dark-gray Toyota Inova, without making any signal, suddenly swerved towards the right lane, where the car I was driving was located (this happened [...]
Pacquiao Fully Cements His Claim For Boxing Greatness
Watching Manny Pacquiao chase and pepper Miguel Cotto relentlessly with his punches just amazed me no end as to the power and speed that the Filipino world-class boxer displayed before the world to see.
Even Cotto later, after the fight, admitted that “he didn’t know where the punches (of Pacquiao) were coming”, as he surrendered his [...]
Fearless Forecast on Pacquiao-Cotto Title Clash
Talks are over by the time the sound of the bell at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas is heard all over the world today (Nov. 15, Manila time).
Millions of people all over the world are talking about Manny Pacquiao, whose meteoric rise to success, fame, fortune and boxing supremacy has been legendary.
Against the Puerto [...]