Boxing
With his boxing career closer to the end than the beginning, Manny Pacquiao is cherishing each appearance in the ring.
The elephant in the room is shrinking. He is news only when others boo him at sporting events or the next story about his legal issues hits the Internet or he tweets a picture of a winning sports gaming ticket for amounts that many people don’t earn in a year.
Boxers Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 knockouts) and Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 knockouts) make their official arrival Tuesday at the MGM Grand, where they will fight for Pacquiao’s WBO welterweight title Saturday night in the main event of a pay-per-view card.
If Manny Pacquiao has said it once, he has said it a million times, or so it seems — he wants to make the people happy. And for the 500,000 inhabitants of Sarangani Province in the Philippines, nothing says happiness like a new hospital. Or jobs.
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