The 2018 Atlantic Hurricane season apparently has not yet run out of “Greatest Hits” to release, in a negative, calamitous way. August 31 through early September saw the Carolinas and its environs be hammered by Hurricane Florence from Cape Verde, causing storm surges that flooded areas along the coast and major river systems in North…
The granting of Filipino citizenship to foreigners in the Philippines is an involved and rather lengthy process. In special cases this naturalization can be awarded to non-Filipinos resident in the country who have performed some great service or other for the Philippines. This was the case for a recent naturalization with a sports official and…
Indonesia is no stranger to the perils of the double-whammy natural disaster that is a coastal or undersea earthquake followed by a tsunami. One can never forget a tragedy like the 2004 quake in the Indian Ocean that sent murderous and destructive waves of seawater against all coastal areas unlucky enough to be in its…
While Gilas Pilipinas is still in the fighting at the Asia qualifiers to gain a spot on the FIBA Basketball World Cup in China this coming 2019, despite all trials and tribulations from past games, another local contingent is also close to completing its participation at another FIBA basketball tournament in this corner of the…
Eldrick Tont Woods, better known to the world as legendary golfer Tiger Woods, is without a doubt a standard of excellence in his chosen sport and one of the most legendary athletes of the present era. A prodigious talent nurtured while in school and on amateur contests helped him stage a phenomenal entry into the…
The past weekend could be succinctly described as the “Time of the Two Super-Storms”. In both the Pacific and Atlantic, eastern-facing coastal areas were hammered respectively by Super-Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong in the Philippines) and Hurricane Florence. While Mangkhut raised hell and high water on the western Pacific and the uppermost regions of Southeast Asia, Florence…
The Asia Qualifiers for the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup is now well into its second round, with the survivors of the first round now more determined than ever to prevail against the competition in order to reach the main event itself in China. That goes double for Gilas Pilipinas, the Philippines National Men’s Basketball…
