Teodoro C. Benigno
14 articles · The Philippine Star
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Pacquiao and Tyson
We promised to publish Manny Pacquiao?s letter of apology. Here it is: Ginoong Teddy Benigno, Magandang araw po. Nais ko pong muling humingi sa inyo ng paumanhin sa pangyayari noong isang Lunes.…
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Pacquiao apologizes
To his credit, Manny Pacquiao called up mid-morning Wednesday to apologize, really and truly eat humble pie, admit there was no excuse for what he had committed ? stand this writer up…
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Pacquiao unraveled
Well, it was as we suspected. From Hermie Rivera, we learn that Manny Pacquiao did not appear for a scheduled appointment with this columnist Saturday morning because he gambled the night away…
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Pacquiao: bad manners
Far be it for this columnist to stick a little blade into the side of a Filipino treated far and wide as a national icon. His name is Manny Pacquiao and he…
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Pacquiao: Post-mortem
Why they call prizefighting "the sweet science" has me discombobulated, I suppose I will never know. It is a science, that?s for sure, but hardly ever sweet. The right half of Manny…
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Pacquiao upset
We Filipinos built up Manny Pacquiao too much that when he lost by decision to Mexico?s Erik Morales, we were all startled and stunned, unable to understand how our super-ringster could lose…
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More about Pacquiao
No Filipino fist-fighter I know has been written about more often and more prodigally than Manny Pacquiao. Day in and day out we have news about him from Las Vegas and New…
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Pacquiao getting deadlier
It?s time for another piece on Manny Pacquiao, the only Filipino today with a glad hand, a bountiful vision of the future, and a probable place in boxing?s international Hall of Fame.…
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Pacquiao flattens Thai: On road to greatness?
He was a curious piece of goods, this Thai fist-tosser called Fahsan 3-K Battery. He had never been knocked out. His record claims he has beaten no less than 22 Filipinos, most…
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Here’s The Score: Pacquiao fights again
Not since Gabriel (Flash) Elorde, the Bago bootblack from Cebu turned world junior lightweight champion, electrified the nation with his pugilistic virtuosity just a few decades go has another Filipino fist-tosser filled…
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Pacquiao: How really good?
Just days ago, I saw a replay of the Manny-Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez world title fight and I began to rethink my assessment of Pacquiao as possibly the greatest Filipino fist-fighter ever. He…
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Pacquiao in seven; GMA by eight
A Filipino fistfighter could just make it to the Pugilistic Pantheon this Saturday by standing alone after a bruising brawl atop a hot LasVegas ring within seven rounds. This is no idle…
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Outstanding newsmakers 2003
Pacquiao TKOs Barrera. If there was a Filipino who really put the Philippines on the world map, it is Manny Pacquiao. Good but not yet really great, a battling bruiser but not…
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Manny Pacquiao: The greatest
What makes a great fist-fighter greater? What makes him the greatest? In the case of Manny Pacquiao, it?s so many things put together like Pablo Picasso?s Guernica drawn by the fists of…