Embarassing Moments In Sports (Part Deux)

When I say more to come... I mean it!


























Hope that made your day...

Public Service: Blighted Reviewed By Antonio C. Abaya

‘Blighted’ is the title of a first novel by someone who I never suspected was a budding novelist, feisty lawyer and former Solicitor General Frank Chavez. It was launched yesterday at the former Nielsen Tower building on Makati Avenue, before Makati’s glitterati crowd, among whom may count the living inspiration of some of the villains in his novel.

‘Blighted’ is a searing social commentary on the state of the nation as it lurches from one moral crisis to another, tragically without any resolution, and set amid the events of the last 30 years, up to and including the death of former President Cory Aquino in August 2009.

The villains are recognizable enough, including a fat and powerful Godfather-figure named Jabba, though the events are fiction. And the three protagonists are meant to represent a cross section of Filipino society in the 21st century: Pabs, a spoiled brat from a fictive South Greenwich gated subdivision; Leandro, a middle-class intellectual polit-sci student at UP Diliman; and Rico, a hard-hat construction worker employed by Pabs’ father’s company, trying to make ends meet.

The three are thrown together in a police jail after they were rounded up following a rowdy street demonstration. They become good friends and meet several times after they are released from jail. This is the story of that three-cornered relationship, and through it, the story of Filipino society in metastatic decay—the title of one of its chapters—asit spirals in a moral vacuum.

Not being a literary person, I am not competent to comment on the novel’s literary merits: characterization, dramatic tension, dialog, atmospherics, narrative style.

I can only mention that it has a Rizalian resonance of Elias and Ibarra discussing the ills of contemporary society, but the setting is not 1887, but the still cancer-ridden Philippines of 2009.

The denouement comes in a murder in which the three are implicated, justly or unjustly. And the trial that follows reveals the endemic corruption that underlies the Philippine justice system and all its warts. As a trial lawyer, Chavez knows the ins and outs, the maneuvers and the backroom deals, that are the hallmarks of the system, from the local police to the Supreme Court.

The three protagonists and their lawyers navigate through this legal minefield, and here Chavez’ novel acquires the patina of a John Grisham legal thriller. The ending seems foreordained by the story of mega-corruption that Chavez weaves.

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7th Player To Dunk A Basketball

She's Brittney Griner of Baylor... Oh man! She has the hops...

She's the only 7th player to dunk a basketball in Women's college hoops...



that's a feat... and that's some feet!

Longest Keyboard In The World

Do you think you can play NBA 2k10 with this ..




yeah sure...

Embarassing Moments In Sports

No need to say more... Just see the photos...






more to come...

Air Up There!

Almost all of us are awed by amazing dunks... well here's one that will surely shock you!



How about it Big Dwight! Could you do that?!

World's Dirtiest Soccer Player Is A Woman!

I too couldn't believe it... Just look at this...



You wouldn't want to mess with her!

The Philippine's Best Anomaly!

Kudos to Manny Pacquiao our "Pambansang Kamao" for winning his 7th title in 7 different weight classes. He's called an anomaly because he has risen to the top jumping from different weight class but still retaining his vaunted speed and power. But I'll say yes he is an anomaly... but he's the Philippine's Best Anomaly!











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Let's Talk About Boxing

As a tribute to the fight of the year this coming November 14, 2009. I'm gonna talk about the sport that they call the Sweet Science - Boxing... so here goes good luck to me!

He's an ambidextrous fighter. He can get knocked out with either hand.

He was a crossword puzzle boxer. He entered the ring vertical and left horizontal.

I quit because I had a problem with my hands. The refs kept stepping on them.

Ex-boxer: "I'm in great shape. Every artery in my body is hard."

Manager: "How would you like to fight for the crown?" Boxer: "Great. I think I can take the queen in about three rounds."

When I was a fighter I kept my head. I lost my teeth, but I kept my head.

I know that there will never be women's boxing. A woman wouldn't think of putting on gloves without a purse and shoes to match.

Boxer, after battering opponent unmercifully: "There'll be no rematch for that chump. My hands couldn't stand the punishment."

He boxed as Kid Candle. One blow and he was out.

The boxer had written on his tombstone: "You can stop counting. I'm not getting up."

"My dad is a boxer." "What is your mother?" "Extremely cautious!"

His trainer told him to stay down till eight. He looked up from the canvas and said, "What time is it now?"

He only learned to count up to ten. He thought that after ten came, "You're out!"

He boxed under the name of Kid Cousteau because he took so many dives.

The boxer was so far behind in points he had to knock out his opponent just to get a draw.

He's the only boxer in the history of the sport to be knocked out while shadow boxing.

A fighter was taking a terrific beating. When the bell rang, he staggered to his corner. His manager said, "Let him hit you with his left for awhile. Your face is crooked."

"Just think of it," said the boastful boxer to the manager. "Tonight I'll be fighting on TV before millions of people." "Yes," replied the manager, "and they'll all know the results of the fight at least ten seconds before you do."

Hope you learn a lot ... Good luck to our boy Manny Pacquiao, hope he wins in 4 rounds!