My favorite sidelight from the big fight in Las Vegas yesterday was Paris Hilton partying with Manny Pacquiao and wife Jinkee after his victory over Shane Mosley. The hotel heiress tweeted last night that she’ll be visiting the couple in the Philippines given how well they got along.

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Can I just share that, while you are reading this, I have spent the last couple of nights in Koronadal, South Cotabato. Koronadal is also known by its other name Marbel. Yes, I spent the last two evenings in the hometown of 1998 PBA Most Valuable Player, Captain Marbel Kenneth Duremdes. Anyway, quick takes on each of the PBA teams in the Philippine Cup so far:

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Philippine basketball has started to develop a small but vibrant community on Twitter, and Fire Quinito rounds up the best messages, in 140 characters or less.

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It was beer and pizza night for me and my buddies this weekend, watching World Cup quarterfinal matches with a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie thrown in for good measure. I was a bit bummed out by Argentina’s loss, because I was endlessly fascinated by Diego Maradona at the sidelines acting all crazy. He actually reminded me of Jawo out there. I kept waiting for him to put his overweight son Dudut Maradona into the game, to the absolute horror of the Argentine fans. Never happened though.

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The recent Fiba-Asia Champions Cup may have been tough for the Smart Gilas national team and its temporary Serbian reinforcement, Milan Vucicevic, but I think we can all agree that the picture above clearly shows that Milan is a winner. My favorite part of the photo? Assistant coach Allan Gregorio looking on in the background.

UPDATE: GilasInsider points out in the comments that the pretty girl in the picture is actually the girlfriend of Rey Guevarra, who is the true winner. Good job man!

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I know I said that updates were going to be light this week because I’m busy with the day job with the elections right around the corner, but I just needed to blog this because it concerns the whole Philippine basketball community. I never thought I’d see the words “Chris Tiu” and “Lihim na romansa” together in a headline, but here’s the big news, from Gerry Ocampo of People’s Journal:

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I wrote a preview of the PBA Finals between Purefoods and Alaska for FHM. Regular readers of this blog, though, might already be familiar with the stuff I wrote there.

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Rafe Bartholomew quickly parlayed his star turn in Quinito Henson’s column into an interview with former PBA courtside reporter (and crush ng bayan) Jannelle So, who now hosts Kababayan LA, a talk show for Filipino-Americans in southern California.

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Seriously:

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Ginebra forward JC Intal has had lots of reason to smile over the past week. First, Lolit Solis reported that his supposed break-up with Rosalinda star Carla Abellana was just a showbiz gimmick to generate publicity for the soap opera.

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