Pacquiao earns 2 ESPY award nominations
Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao again established his global popularity after being nominated in two major categories for the 2009 Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Awards or ESPY.
Nominees for the annual event organized by famed American cable television network ESPN had already been announced, and Pacquiao is among the prominent athletes in the list of the top personalities in the world of sports.
Pacquiao had been nominated twice – in the “Best Fighter” and “Best Play” categories.
The nomination came in the heels of Pacquiao’s earlier achievements as one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time Magazine and as a member of the richest athletes in the world today according to Forbes magazine.
The Filipino boxing idol’s brutal second round knockout of Briton Ricky Hatton last May 2 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas made it to the “Best Play’ category, where also vying for honor are Washington Capitals’ Alexander Ovechkin’s goal opposite the New York Rangers during Game 5 of the Stanley Cup playoffs, Santonio Holmes’ winning catch in the Super Bowl XLIII and Texas Tech’s Michael Crabtree’s game-winning catch against Texas.
That same sensational win by the 30-year old pride of General Santos over Hatton and five months earlier against the great Oscar De La Hoya earned for him a nod among the finalists in the “Best Fighter’ category.
Challenging Pacquiao for the award are MMA’s Lyoto Machida, whose KO win over erstwhile unbeaten Rashad Evans clinched for him the light-heavyweight title at UFC98, MMA’s Anderson Silva for his wins against Patrick Cote, Thales Leites and James Irwin, and boxer Shane Mosley for his stunning technical KO victory against Mexican Antonio Margarito.
A total of 37 categories are at stake in this year’s ESPY Awards including the “Best Male Athlete’ and “Best International Male Athlete.’
Basketball superstars Kobe Bryant and Lebron James, Jimmie Johnson and 2008 Beijing Olympic hero Michael Phelps are the frontrunners in the “Best Male Athlete’ category, while track demon Usain Bolt, Los Angeles Lakers big man Pau Gasol, Lionel Messi, tennis stalwart Rafael Nadal and football’s Cristiano Ronaldo are the nominees for the international male athlete award.
The awards night is set on July 15 at the NOKIA Theatre in Los Angeles, with actor Samuel Jackson as host.
Winners will be determined by the number of votes a nominee gets thru online voting at ESPN’s website at http://promo.espn.go.com/espn/specialsection/espys2009/#/home/. – GMANews.TV
Pacquiao’s Wapakman starts shooting in July
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Is Marian Rivera threatened by Carla Abellana?
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Abalang-abala si Marian Rivera sa kanyang training para sa nalalapit na paglipad muli ni Darna sa telebisyon. Binisita ng iGMA ang newest Kapuso superhero para kamustahin ang kanyang paghahanda at para kunan na rin ng pahayag about the newest Pinoy-Thalia, si Carla Abellana, na siyang gaganap bilang Rosalinda.
Kitang-kita sa mukha ni Marian ang pagiging seryoso habang inaaral ang wushu at paglipad in preparation for Darna. Hinihingal at pawis na pawis kaming hinarap ni Marian pagkatapos ng isang session ng training niya.
Habang nagpapahinga, kinamusta namin ang Darna at tinanong kung kalian nga ba makikita ng viewers ng telebisyon ang nasabing show.
“Sa August pa ata ito, kasi na-move ang Rosalinda. Kailangan kasing i-launch muna siya eh. Syempre, ‘pag nagsabay kami, parang sapawan naman. So sa kanya na muna [ang attention] bilang bago naman siya eh,” ang paliwanag ni Marian sa amin.
Inamin niya na na-meet niya si Carla Abellana sa isang GMA event pero hindi sila masyadong nakapag-usap. Nang tinanong namin kung anong comment niya sa mga nakakapansin na magkahawig silang dalawa, natawa na lang ang dating gumanap na Pinoy Marimar.
“Nakita ko siya isang beses lang pero hindi pa kami nakakapag-usap, pero kung kahawig ko lang, wala naman sigurong masama dun, ‘di ba? Okay naman,” ang sabi ni Marian.
Tinanong din namin kung threatened ba siya sa good reviews at attention na nakukuha ni Carla ngayon as the newest Pinay Thalia.
“Hindi ah!” mabilis na tugon nito bago pa bumalik ulit sa next session niya ng training.. “Asus naman! Ang konti na nga ng leading ladies dito sa GMA, ‘di ba? Okay na ‘yun. At saka okay lang kung i-compare man kami. Okay lang – wala namang problema sa akin. Wala namang artistang hindi kino-compare sa bago.” - Loretta G. Ramirez, iGMA.TV
Marian, Carla not bothered with resemblance to each other
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Jackson begged for sedative
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Michael Jackson was so distraught over persistent insomnia in recent months that he pleaded for a powerful sedative despite warnings it could be harmful, says a nutritionist who was working with the singer as he prepared his comeback bid.Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse whose specialty includes nutritional counseling, said Tuesday that she repeatedly rejected his demands for the drug, Diprivan, which is given intravenously.
But a frantic phone call she received from Jackson four days before his death made her fear that he somehow obtained Diprivan or another drug to induce sleep, Lee said.
While in Florida on June 21, Lee was contacted by a member of Jackson’s staff.
“He called and was very frantic and said, `Michael needs to see you right away.’ I said, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I could hear Michael in the background …, ‘One side of my body is hot, it’s hot, and one side of my body is cold. It’s very cold,’” Lee said.
“I said, `Tell him he needs to go the hospital. I don’t know what’s going on, but he needs to go to the hospital … right away.”
“At that point, I knew that somebody had given him something that hit the central nervous system,” she said, adding, “He was in trouble Sunday and he was crying out.”
Jackson did not go to the hospital. He died June 25 after suffering cardiac arrest, his family said. Autopsies have been conducted, but an official cause of death is not expected for several weeks. Read full article
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