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Today is not that day
The Philippine men’s national under-23 football team drew its first game in the AFF U-23 Championship in Phnom Penh, Cambodia...
Players’ attitude, motivation boost underdog Philippine team
Three days before they take on Timor Leste to open their campaign in the 2022 AFF U-23 Youth Championship in...
All things must pass
It is a title of a song, and album, too, All Things Must Pass, by former Beatle George Harrison after...
Chin up, Malditas!
We have seen this scenario in so many movies before. A team of underdogs fighting the biggest, more famous and...
Mitigating, aggravating circumstances
I could have titled this “the mediation that never was”, and sports fans would have known exactly what I am...
More than a historic WC spot
The Philippine Women’s National Football Team, which I will probably call the Malditas for as long as possible, is on...
Azkals eye ‘friendlies,’ camp in Europe; good luck Malditas!
With the whole country practically experiencing a surge of new COVID cases in the past few weeks and the subsequent...
Making the most out of a phone call
Last December 28, Marco Casambre, a left back for local football club and Copa Paulino Alcantara champ Kaya FC Iloilo,...
The making of a book
Last year, I shared that the highlight of an otherwise bad year for me was finally finishing the book “Basketball,...
The substitute subsistence
It wasn’t too long ago when load management was all the rage in the NBA. I could’ve said fad or...
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.