Manny Pacquaio is currently leading in Sarangani for the congressional race over Roy Chiongbian.
Pacquiao’s monitoring team said the "Pambansang Kamao" won by landslide over Chiongbian, a descendant of the political clan that established the province. The official results, however, will not be available until Tuesday when the Sarangani Provincial Canvassing Board resumes its tally.

Pacquiao arrived 7:45 am to vote in his precinct.
“I didn’t sleep yet but it’s okay. It’s judgement day,” said a beaming Pacquiao.
“I’m very confident to win the election. I always thank God for everything he gave to …

A fight between Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito is being negotiated.
“I think the chances are very, very good, very, very good,” said Arum during a recent press conference in Los Angeles, announcing Margarito’s May 8 bout with WBC light-middleweight champ Roberto Garcia.

The fight with Pacquiao will depend Margarito’s fight with Garcia. Pacquiao and Margarito fight might happen sometime in September to November.
“I think that would be an interesting fight based on how he (Margarito) does in this fight and obviously if he fought Manny Pacquiao it would be in …

Kobe Bryant, LA Laker’s  star player has not played their basketball games since February 15 because of his sprained left ankle. Inspite of his absence in the game, their team still won all three games.
The decision of coming back to the game is still up to Bryant. This is according to their coach Phil Jackson.
"When he’s ready to play, we’ll encourage him to play," Jackson said.

According to Jackson, Bryant practised a day before the game but the next day felt that he cannot play for the mean time although he …

Roger Federer, the world’s top-ranked tennis player, will take part in an exhibition event in Australia on Sunday together with the other top stars like Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick, Kim Clijsters and Samantha Stosur. They venue will be at Melbourne Park in the state of Victoria’s capital city.
Federer organized this charity event to raise funds for the Haiti earthquake victims.
"The entry fee is a minimum donation of $10. This should be fun and it’s for a great cause," the Swiss said on his official Web site.
"I think it’s …

Manny Pacquiao’s trainor Freddie Roach said that the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Ghanaian Joshua Clottey on March 13 will not have a catchweight.
“It will be at 147.  There’s no catchweight,” Roach told FightHype.com. A catchweight describes a weight limit for a fight that does not fall in traditional limits for weight divisions.

“He’ll come into this fight like 144-145 and he’ll go into the ring at 148 or 149 at most and that’s his best fighting weight,” Roach said.

Roach said that Pacquiao is more happy to fight after eating instead …

Pacquiao vs. Mayweather might not push thru for the meantime because Manny’s camp refused the request of Mayweather regarding dope testing . Instead Manny Pacman will fight with Joshua Clottey in March.
Clottey was able to beat Zab Judah of the United States for the IBF Welterweight title in August 2008 and lost last Jube to Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico.
"This is a better fight," Bob Arum of Top Rank, Pacquiao’s promoter, told Reuters in a telephone interview. "(Clottey’s) a real strong, aggressive and hard punching African from Ghana and he …

Rubilen “Bingkay” Amit ranked number 10 in the world’s best cue artist according to the latest World Pool Billiard Association rankings. Bingkay is one of the top players of Mr. Aristeo Puyat, a sportsman-businessman, of Puyat Sports. She tied with Fu Xiaofang of China on the 10th place.
“Masayang-masaya po ako kasi nagbunga na ang lahat ng sakripisyo at paghihirap ko po,” said the former Makati call center employee, who gave up her work to focus on billiard.
“Salamat po sa family ko, kay Sir Putch (Puyat) at coach Boyet (Asonto), hindi …

There are issues to be settled before the fight can push thru. Pacquiao wants his drug testing to be done 30 days before his fight with Mayweather because according to Manny this procedure makes him weak. Pacquiao is not so happy with the news that he has been hearing about what Mayweather’s camp are saying.
“They claimed that I threatened to walk away from the largest fight in history. That’s their first lie! Last week, I told Floyd Jr. to shut his big, pretty mouth and that we should fight so …

Congratulations to the FEU Cheering Squad for winning in the 2009-UAAO Cheerdance Competition on Sunday at the Araneta Coliseum. Their prizes include a trophy and P225,000.
First runner-up is the Ateneo Blue Babble Batallion. Their prize include a trophy and 140,000. Second runner-up is the UP Pep Squad with a prize of P90,000.
Sari Campos of Ateneo was given the "Samsung Stunner" award for being the face of the cheerleading competition.
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WBO junior flyweight champion Ivan “Iron Boy” Calderon won over Rodel “Batang Manaue” Mayol in their rematch on Saturday (Sunday in Manila). It was a close fight.
The Mayol-Calderon clash, which was held at the Coliseo Jose Miguel Agrelot, was stopped after the seventh round as “once again a clash of heads prematurely ended the bout.”

Although Calderon won over Mayol he has this to say:
“I want people to understand that Mayol is a much different fighter that Hugo Cazares,” said Calderon as quoted by Bates.
“He is very intelligent with …