This year’s event organiser Vangie Leones has sent an email/circular advising all interested teams that the date has been tentatively set for Sunday morning, November 6 at AMF Bowling Centre in Castle Hill. The venue is located at the corner of Salisbury Road and Hudson Avenue. According to Vangie — “the event was not held […]

The Ateneo Alumni Ten-Pin Bowlers snatched the 2011 Trophy from DLSU Alumni during a sizzling tournament held on Saturday, August 20 at the AMF Bowling Centre in Castle Hill, NSW. The tournament was hotly contested by twelve bowlers each from the two schools, vying for honors in the Doubles Event, Singles Event, and School Event […]

Castle Hill, NSW. August 20, 2011. It’s a trophy that has been very elusive from the Ateneo Alumni Bowlers of Australia. Today, Alumni players of Ateneo grabbed the much-coveted title from the Green Archers who have kept it for the past 10 years. It was in 2001 when the Annual Ten-Pin Bowling Tournament between Ateneo […]

Filipino import Jack ”The Assassin” Asis took just 1min 16sec to capture the Australian light-welterweight boxing title in Townsville, Queensland, on the weekend. Asis, a natural featherweight, fought two divisions above his weight in a bid to challenge reigning light-welterweight champion Josh King, who had been undefeated before the fight. Imagine the surprise when the […]

Only 23 years old, Filipino Australian golfer Jason Day finished 2nd in the 2011 US Open Season. He ended the tournament with 8 shots behind Rory McIlroy who scored 16 under. Jason’s score of 8-under 276 would have been enough to win 26 of the past 30 US Opens. He is ranked number 9 in […]

PRAIRIEWOOD, NSW. The University of the Philippines Alumni Association of Australia – New South Wales Chapter (UPAAA-NSW) held its Fourth Oblation Cup Golf Tournament on the 25th of April to raise funds for the education of two new scholars (in the Philippines).

That’s it. Pacman has swallowed all the pills in his path and vanquished all the ghosts in the game. The inevitable has happened. There’s nobody left to fight, except Mayweather, if he ever grows the cojones to get in the ring with Manny. There’s only one thing left for Manny to do – Dancing with […]

Many Filipinos in the Blacktown area of New South Wales will again be swarming all over the Diamond Auditorium of Blacktown Workers Club to watch the pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao fight Shane Mosley on May 7 this year. As in the past, the fight will be broadcast live on the club’s large television screen but […]

November 14, 2010. From my seat at the overcrowded Diamond Auditorium of Blacktown Workers Club where I viewed a live telecast of the Pacquiao-Margarito fight, I determined that the Filipino “National Fist” is not an ordinary athlete. He proved this when he defeated a much larger opponent in the person of Antonio Margarito. He dominated […]

It was reported by Yuko Narushima in Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) that four Filipino boxers “live in slave-like conditions in a garage.” The immigration department, together with the NSW Combat Sports Authority is now conducting an investigation against the family that brought the boxers from Cebu, an island south of Manila in the Philippines. The […]

AUSTRALIAN Federal Police (AFP) raided the Bohol Boxing Stable in Sydney’s southwest on Thursday, October 21, following a Sydney Morning Herald website report on Wednesday, October 20, that a family in NSW was now under investigation for allegedly recruiting Filipino boxers to fight in Australia and ”keeping the men in slave-like conditions in a Sydney […]