Manny Pacquiao should give up one of his Boxing Championship Title Belt by July 28, 2008 as ordered by WBC Board of Governors. Most likely People’s Champ Pacquiao will give up his Super Featherweight crown and keep is newly won WBC lightweight title.

Games for July 16, 2008:
(Astrodome)
10 a.m. — SSC-R vs Letran (jrs)
12 a.m. — UPHSD vs JRU (jrs)
2 p.m. — SSC-R vs Letran (srs)
4 p.m. — UPHSD vs JRU (srs)
 

The University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) announced the opening of the 2008-2009 season 71 for July 5, 2008. The 2008 UAAP games will be held at the Araneta Coliseum with defending champion de la Salle University and 14-0 sweeper University of the East trying to battle it out for the lead.

Live video coverage by Studio 23 will start at 12 noon today.

If you don’t have cable TV at home, you might want to watch and see the boxing fight between Manny Pacquiao and David Diaz in the big screens. Ayala Malls and Ayala Cinemas are showing live movie coverages of the fight.

Genre: Action
Rating: PG 13
Cast: Manny Pacquiao, David Diaz

It will be a “Lethal Combination” in Las Vegas as Super featherweight champion and boxing superstar MANNY PACQUIAO Steps up in weight and squares off against lightweight champion DAVID DIAZ.

Here are the cinema/theater venues and time slots available: Ayala Center Cebu, Alabang Town Center, Glorietta 4, Greenbelt 3, Trinoma. You can buy tickets online at SureSeats.com

Chicago Bulls made Derrick Rose the top overall pick while Michael Beasley got by Miami Heats. Some NBA commentators said Bulls should have picked Michael Beasley instead. NBA fans will find out in the coming NBA 2008 - 2009 season if  chicago bulls picking Rose will help them to be back on the NBA playoffs.

Top ten NBA Draft Picks

1. CHI — Derrick Rose
2. MIA — Michael Beasley
3. MIN — O.J. Mayo
4. SEA — Russell Westbrook
5. MEM — Kevin Love
6. NYK — Danilo Gallinari
7. LAC — Eric Gordon
8. MIL — Joe Alexander
9. CHA — D.J. Augustin
10. NJN — Brook Lopez

The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) has resheduled the canceled basketball games last Sunday at the Araneta Coliseum due to typhoon Frank. The new date is on July 6.

The matches will be between Red Bull and Sta. Lucia Realty and Barangay Ginebra and Alaska Milk.

The 2008 Summer Olympics, which will begin on August 8, will captivate audiences worldwide: Where no other sporting event captures the spirit of sportsmanship and athleticism quite like this sports gathering. But the Olympics can be a source of frustration for remote watchers: wherein, not all events are aired which craves watchers. But NBC Universal hopes to transform Olympics viewing experience via an ambitious Web strategy that includes more than 2200 hours of live streaming video (with the option of viewing up to four streams at once) and interactive data to help you move smoothly between text such as athletes’ biographies and vid¬eo of their performance. This creates a very big opportunities for all fanatics of the upcoming Summer Olympics.

People’s Champ Manny Pacquiao is all set to fight David Diaz this coming June 28 (June 29, Philippine time) at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Pacquiao, who will be fighting his first lightweight division, claims he is much stronger now that he need not go on a diet while training. The boxing champ also says he has more energy now since he could eat a bit more.

Kapuso stars gathered at the Ricky Reyes’ Golden Sunset Resort in Calatagan, Batangas for the Kapusolympics, in celebration of GMA Kapuso’s 58th anniversary.

The Blue Team won, with no less than actor-athlete Richard Gomez as team captain. Some accidents happened — Wendell Ramos had his shoulder dislocated after a game, and Jan Manual obtained second-degree burn. Still, these setbacks did not dampen the kapuso fun spirit.

The opening ceremonies of the 84th season of the National Collegiate Athletic Association will be held on June 28, 2008 at the Araneta Coliseum. With the theme “To The Fore at 84”, the first game will be a match up between defending champion San Beda College and Mapua Institute of Technology.  Other teams participating in the opening matches include are Letran College, Jose Rizal University, San Sebastian College, Perpetual Help Dalta System, College of Saint Benilde and Philippine Christian University. MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando, an alumnus of Mapua will be the guest of honor at the opening rites.