RIP Cory Aquino 1933-2009
Former President Corazon ‘Cory’ Cojuangco Aquino has passed away Saturday morning after battling colon cancer for more than a year. She was 76. Details of the former president’s wake will be announced later, the family said.
Once a reluctant housewife, Aquino was known as an icon of Philippine democracy after the EDSA ‘People Power’ revolution removed the Marcos dictatorship and restored democracy in the Southeast Asian archipelago in 1986.
Her son Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III confirmed that she died of cardio respiratory arrest at exactly 3:18 a.m. Saturday at the Makati Medical Center.
LeBron James Gets Dunked on Video.
Jordan Crawford, a sophomore from Xavier, got credit for the dunk over LeBron James at his own skills academy at the King’s camp but Nike immediately has confiscated any evidence of the slam and that may be how LeBron James likes it. According to CBS Sports, LeBron James made sure no one else would see it, when he allegedly got an official from Nike to take the video.
But Censoring the LeBron James got dunked on video is a relatively small matter. However, even the reports that James had the video taken away before it got to video sharing sites such as YouTube reflects even worse on him than the actual dunk would be.
Twilight Sequel: New Moon Movie
After a successful Box-Office hit of the highly anticipated vampire romance Twilight Movie, Twilight Saga: New Moon is on it’s final touches for the launching of the movie this year which debuts in theaters on November 20, 2009. This is the second installment of the Twilight Saga based on the book by Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight literary trilogy
This is it! Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto is on. Bob Arum, CEO of Top Rank, announced Monday night that the mega-fight between boxing’s No. 1 Pound-for-Pound King and the reigning Boxing Writers Association of America’s (BWAA) Fighter of the Year Manny “PacMan” Pacquiao and the pride of Puerto Rico and 3-time world champion Miguel Cotto is official.
Pacquiao vs Cotto boxing fight will be on November 14, 2009 at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. The fight, set at 145-pound limit, will be shown live on HBO pay-per-view. It is scheduled for 12 rounds. Tickets for Cotto-Pacquiao will go on sale in August. Watch out for it.
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A Filipino was one of the people who made Pixar’s latest movie “Up” a blockbuster hit.
Ricky Nierva was placed in charge of the movie’s entire visual look. “Up” is a box office hit already earning $250 million in the US. “Up” builds on Pixar’s reputation for making the world’s best animated features.
Nierva said Pixar stays on top because the company stresses the importance of ideas.
“They create an environment here that everybody can pitch their ideas…whether he be somebody that’s not even from the art department that has an idea. Staying open, staying positive, that’s the culture,” said Nierva.
Nierva is a native of San Diego. A young animator who, in 1997, was invited to join Pixar and his first work was for “Monster’s Inc.”
Watch Darchinyan vs Agbeko Live stream online.
IBF bantamweight champion Joseph Agbeko will defend his title against Vic Darchinyan today July 11, 2009 Saturday LIVE on SHOWTIME 9 pm ET/PT at BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise, Florida. It’s a match up between the raging bull and the King Kong. It will be a super match between two great power punchers. Darchinyan, who proved his dominance in the 115 pound division with dominating victories over Christian Mijares and Jorge Arce on SHOWTIME, had a lot to say about Saturday’s fight and his boxing future. Saturday’s world title fight will be Darchinyan’s first scrap at 118 pounds.
All 22 UFC 100 fighters will step on the scales for the UFC 100 weigh-ins tonight at 7PM ET/4pm PT Friday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Watch the weigh-ins here, just continue reading below.
Featured match-ups: Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir, who both hold heavyweight titles, will unify their belts in the UFC 100 main event in a highly anticipated rematch, while welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre and challenger Thiago Alves meet in the co-headliner and TUF 9 coaches Michael Bisping and Dan Henderson square off in a featured bout.
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UPDATE: Watch UFC 102 Live Couture vs Nogueira on August 29th
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UPDATE 1: UFC 100 Weigh-In Results [Video/Photos]
UFC 100 Lesnar vs Mir fight event is scheduled on July 11, 2009 Saturday 7pm/PT and 10pm/ET (Sunday in Manila) at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, Nevada and will also be live on Pay-Per-View (PPV).
