Football

Christmas bonus a temporary orgasm

“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
--Ernest Hemingway

Carmen’s love for a pa she never met

“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.” – Pope John XXIII

NEW YORK CITY – Carmen’s search for her biological father began when she was eight years old.

“That was the age when my life started to become hell,” Carmen, who turned 65 last October 27, hissed.

Carmen was eight when her mother, Diosdada, married Arnulfo in Jamindan, Capiz.

A nation in big trouble

EVER heard of the apocryphal story of how a frog reacts when dumped into a pot of boiling water vs dumped in a pot of simmering water that is slowly brought to a boil?

This story is often told to demonstrate how change that slowly creeps around us (the simmering water brought to a boil) could catch us unawares and end up turning us into cooked frogs.

Obiena ready; Marestella to retire soon

Jakarta—For Ernest John Obiena, the seven-month rehabilitation period and the intense training that came after, all come down to this — the Asian Games.

Obiena, fully healed from a torn ACL injury he sustained prior to the 2017 Southeast Asian Games, will be hoping to duplicate or surpass his 5.6 meters in the pole vault competitions of the Asian Games here today (Wednesday). 

What is so special with those arrested lawyers?

“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”
--Lao Tzu

NEW YORK CITY -- From the Iloilo Provincial Capitol where the trial courts were located before the construction of the Iloilo Hall of Justice on Bonifacio Drive, City Proper sometime in August 1990, a human rights lawyer from San Joaquin, Iloilo requested me to escort him to his office located in the YMCA building on Iznart St. which is five minutes away by walk.

Gilas strives to do better vs Boomers in 3rd window

By Michael Angelo S. Murillo

ITS second game against Australia in the FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers does not come until after its match against Chinese Taipei on Friday but Gilas Pilipinas has its sights on the Boomers, vowing to give the latter a better showing when they next meet.