LAS VEGAS – Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez revisit a rivalry that has seethed with controversies spanning seven years and 24 rounds, both wanting a decisive end to what has become a personal war that spawned boxing’s latest trilogy.

Pacquiao puts his WBO welterweight crown and his reputation as the world’s pound-for-pound king on the line when he faces Marquez before an expected sell-out crowd atthe MGM Grand Saturday evening (Sunday noon in Manila).

There’s going to be one guy on Saturday night who will try to steal the thunder from the main event fighters. Tim Bradley, the current world super-lightweight champion, is making an appearance in the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez rubber match at the MGM Grand.

Bradley is yearning for recognition the way other high-profile fighters have and a smashing victory against Cuban Joel Casamayor is a major stepping stone in his quest for stardom.

Manny Pacquiao acts as though it's personal, then claims it's not. Just another night in the ring, another notch on his belt and another $25 million or so to take back to thePhilippines with him.

It's not that easy for Juan Manuel Marquez. He remains convinced he won both of his previous two fights with Pacquiao, and he will enter the ring Saturday night as eager for redemption as he is to claim the biggest payday of his long boxing career.

Streaking Rain or Shine tries to stretch its win run to six and firm up its hold of the lead as it collides with Petron Blaze today in the PBA Philippine Cup at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum.

The Elasto Painters trounced the Barako Energy, 93-81, last Friday for their fifth win in a row and seventh overall in eight games as they wrested the solo lead from Talk n Text, which totes a 6-1 card.

Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao is preparing for his fight in the political arena in 2013 and 2022.

Top Rank Promoter Bob Arum bared Pacquiao’s alleged political plan during an interview with Piers Morgan on CNN, a day before the Filipino boxing champion’s bout with Mexico’s Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas. “By the year 2013, he’ll be a governor of Sarangani province, hopefully,” said Arum.

“Para sa patuloy na naninira sa Husband ko, Hindi niyo kami mapaghihiwalay! Ako pa din Ang Legal na Asawa, At ang Nag iisang Asawa! Sa­lamat po,” tweet kahapon ni Mrs. Jinkee Pacquiao na kasalukuyan nang nasa Las Vegas.

Mukhang hindi naman niya poser ang nag-a-update dahil may photos ang mga tweets ni Ms. Jinkee at nag-announce siya na : “Good Evening This is My New Twitter Account. Please Follow.”

LAS VEGAS—With all the lessons he has learned  in the art of fighting counterpunchers and all those days of training hard and studying his opponent’s films,  Manny Pacquiao is ready to explode.

“I’m so excited already,” Pacquiao said. “Let’s get it on.” And this three days before the fight. With the promise of a vastly improved performance and a definitive end to one of the more compelling debates in boxing, the world’s acknowledged pound-for-pound king is going all out against Juan Manuel Marquez on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) at the MGM Grand here.

Manny Pacquiao announced during the final press conference this is going to be his last fight with Juan Manuel Marquez. Well, it’s either he’s so sure of a victory or he must have totally forgotten about the rematch clause stated under the fight contract. It must be the former.

“This is going to be our last fight,” Pacquiao said as his way of teasing fight fans to come and see Saturday’s fight at the MGM Grand.

Talk ‘N Talk center Ali Peek, in the hospital recuperating after being shot by a lone gunman last Monday, is in high spirits but is not yet out of the woods and faces a decision that may affect whether he will play again.

Doctors have given him and his family two options, one of them will be to leave the bullet lodged in his nape to sit where it is and guaranteed him that his life will be fairly normal. But he is unlikely to play again.

After the Los Angeles Galaxy confirmed that it would be playing the Philippine national men’s football team in Manila on December 3, fans eagerly awaited for the announcement for the tickets.

Most Pinoy football fanatics were already counting how many days they would have to go hungry to save up and see the Major League Soccer squad in action against the Azkals.

The Turkish husband of Ramona Bautista, who, along with her brother, Ramon Joseph "RJ" Bautista, is suspected of having masterminded the murder of their eldest sibling, has defended Ramona, after she fled to Istanbul. 

“Nothing will come out of this incident. Everything is merely made up of allegations. No one can touch us,” Engin Tuna Bülbüloglu, the Turkish husband of Ramona, said, as quoted by Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News from another Turkish paper, the daily Vatan.

May nangyaring kaunting kaguluhan sa kick-off party ng USTV Awards ngayong gabi, November 10. Ang USTV Awards ay ang taunang parangal ng mga estudyante ng University of Sto. Tomas para sa pinakamahuhusay sa larangan ng telebisyon.

Sa kick-off party ay nagdala ng kanilang mga artista ang tatlong major networks ng bansa—ABS-CBN, TV5, at GMA-7—upang maghatid ng kasiyahan sa mga estudyante at guro ng pinakamatandang unibersidad sa Pilipinas.

The first two fights between Manny “PacMan” Pacquiao and Juan Manuel “Dinamita” Marquez were close, but their November 12 showdown will not go beyond six rounds, according to Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach. “I don’t think that it will last six rounds,” Roach told RingTV’s Lem Satterfield.

Roach said he has never seen Pacquiao so focused in training than in his current preparations for the HBO pay-per-view defense of his World Boxing Organization welterweight vs Marquez to be held at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.

Army troops dispatched in an “all-out justice” drive for 19 soldiers slaughtered last week on Wednesday seized an encampment of at least 100 outlaws led by former Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) commander Waning Abdusalam in Payao, Zamboanga Sibugay province.

“As of this time, the main camp of the enemy has been occupied by our troops,” Army chief Lieutenant General Arturo Ortiz said in a text message to reporters shortly before 5 p.m.

For the second straight game, Barangay Ginebra found itself on the brink of defeat. And for the second straight game, the Gin Kings managed to escape with a thrilling victory.

Picking up from where it left off four nights ago, Ginebra pulled off another exciting come-from-behind victory, this time a 94-90 win against a young but game Shopinas.com in the main game of the 2011-12 PBA Philippine Cup Wednesday at the SMART-Araneta Coliseum.

Pilipinas-Energen scored an 82-69 victory over Iraq Wednesday night in the 2nd FIBA Asia Under-16 Championship at the Khanh Hoa Sports Center in Nha Trang, Vietnam.

Tomas Gabriel Ramos scored 15 points to lead Team Pilipinas' balanced scoring as the Olsen Racela-coached squad arranged a semifinals date with Asian rival South Korea on Thursday.

San Beda did it again. San Beda reprised last season’s dominance over San Sebastian as it copped the 87th NCAA men’s basketball championship via a sweep anew Wednesday at the SMART-Araneta Coliseum.

The Red Lions outlasted the Stags, 57-55, in game two of the best-of-three finals with Fil-Australian David Semerad leading the way.

Combined government forces have breached the fortified defenses of a group led by Waning Abdusalam in Payao, Zamboanga Sibugay and are now pushing the militants toward the coastline where naval assets have been deployed.

The continuous fighting has displaced more than 10,000 people in the towns of Payao, Alicia and Talusan, according to provincial disaster officials.

If Floyd Mayweather Jr. really wants to fight, all he has to do is dial Manny Pacquiao’s number. Koncz said Mayweather needs to show intent first before negotiations can begin.

“If Floyd Mayweather wants to fight Manny, then his people, including Al Haymon, know how to reach out to me. They know how to reach out to [Top Rank Inc. CEO ] Bob Arum, and we can sit down and make the fight,” said Koncz in Ringtv.