Paalam beat the reigning Olympic flyweight in the last match, so that's a big boost for him and assured us for a bronze medal already.

But he will be facing another local here, so this will be tougher that his last fight in my opinion. Let's see what the odds are, the match is tomorrow 1:30 our local time so enough time for sportsbet to give us the odds in this match.

The Lakers still have THT, they also added Kendrick Nunn (from Miami) and also Kent Bazemore (from GSW), so I think the Lakers still have some good bench players. Although Caruso really blossomed in the Lakers uniform, but it's business to he choose a more lucrative contracts with the Bulls.

Lebron + Carmelo, that will be an awesome tandem in the wing.

I agree, Australia will be a tough battle for the US, I think they are also one of the favourites to win in this  Olympics. They are lead by Patty Mills, so this will be an interesting battle. They've so far covered the spread, they are -8.5 against Argentina and we all know by now what the score is. So for basketball fans, this is a must see games, USA vs Australia.

Yeah, the S2F model points a similarity to a 2013 that's why its prediction is still $100k.

And the last quarter of the year was a really strong push, just like what we have seen in previous bull runs or even last year. The last bottom though is $28k, or least around the line, there's also one thread saying that we should get to $14k first before we expect a massive bull run before the end of the month, but so far we didn't reach that yet.

We do have another medal in boxing, it's a secured bronze for Carlo Paalam as he upsets the Rio Gold medalist. He now moves to the quarter-finals, so if he won then he will fight for the gold. So now the Philippines has surpassed its expectations, with 1 gold for Diaz and then Nesthy assured of a silver already but will fight today for the Gold. And then in the men's division, Marcial/Paalam already sure of bronze and if they won their respective bouts, gold or silver next.

Risk aversion is the term, I mean men prefer to take big risk as compare to women, maybe that's how we are build on made, our genetic make up is different from the women.

But it doesn't mean that there are a few percentage of women not willing to gamble. There's a lot of them, maybe it's the reward ratio, or the rush that gave to them similar to men.

You forgot one thing, Carmelo wanted to have a ring too and Lebron will be giving that option if Lakers are going to absorb him. So it's a win-win situation for Carmelo, not sure if he is willing to have a pay cut just to join Lebron. But it will be the best thing to do for him, he is lucky that Portland gave him the time and money to play last season because as we all know, he no longer as good as he used to be.

Here are the current odds, yes our very won Neshty is the favourite:



This time its different though, Nesthy has improved a lot, although head to head Sena is ahead, but Nesthy has beaten her in 2019 Amateur International Boxing Association championships.

And remember that Petecio is full of confidence and is motivated to bring a second gold for our country. But she has to be very careful and his her ring intelligence as Sena is a local hero as well. I do hope that the judges will be fair in scoring.

So Nesthy by 3-2 decision.

Yeah, from 2.50 to 2.47 now, down to 3 weeks and I'm sure that the odds are going to be trim down to somewhat in the low 2.x or higher 1.x.

Obviously, money are already pouring on Manny's side now as we get closer to the fight.

Spence 1.48, just putting it down so that we may know if there is going to be some changes as well. And for sure, boxing fans are excited about this fight, and then maybe we can talk about Manny's chance on politics about the fight.

Lol, I do hope that they don't jinx Petecio, she will be gunning for our second golds in this Olympics. Let's pray that she can win because she will be facing a local fighter.


We are already assured of a 3 medal haul. Another boxer has another bronze already and be going up for another potential semi-final in his next fight. Eumir Marcial knock out his opponent in first round with still 49 seconds left.

And if another of our boxer won his next fight, another sure bronze for us courtesy of Carlo Paalam.

Yes, as the saying goes, "don't fix what ain't broken". So for sure Bucks won't change a thing in their line-up or trade players, unless they are becoming a liable to the them. What they need to do is to really improved in small things like their free throws and three point percentage next season. They still have Giannis + Middleton + Holiday that can still compete high level basketball next season. And then some role players coming off the bench like Portis. For sure this line-up will defend their championship at any cost, they have proven that they can beat the top teams in the East like the Nets (although not healthy, but you can't take away anything from the Bucks). Rick Carlisle though is back as Pacers head-coach.

And now, the proponents of "hash rate follows price" theory will be much elated to see this report.

And yes since May the hash rate has been dropping, and it's good that somehow it has bounce to the region wherein it is becoming healthy again. I'm not really sure though where the Chinese miners are relocating, maybe just around the region wherein electricity is still cheap and there are profits to be made with the rising price of BTC lately.

Another quick update for the Philippines, Nesthy Petecio won her match against Testa of Italy with a score of 4-1.

She is now assured of a Silver medal already. But for sure he is gunning for the second gold medal for the Philippines. However, she will be facing a home town fighter Sena Irie. Will be a tough task for her and hopefully the judges will not be bias.

^^ Yeah, but it's going to be a slow grind after breaking $40k. Breaching it and sustaining this price level is two different things. So we need to see how long can we sustain it without going back and retesting $38k-$39k.

So far the price seems to hold and the bulls are not going to give back the control of the market to the bears. But as I have said, the growth might slow down a bit and only if we have enough momentum to push it above $40k to $43k remains to be seen.

Yeah, in my entire life of watching PBA I haven't seen a team scoring 48 points in a game. If I'm not mistaken though, the lowest is 47 points.

What contributes to that low scoring? horrendous shooting, lack of aggressiveness, and they seems to be just going into the motion of the game and doesn't want to contest the game anymore when the Aces was stretching the lead.

There's nothing wrong with investing not just on bitcoin but on any other assets, but the problem is:

(1) they think that bitcoin is a get rich quick scheme
(2) bitcoin will go on parabolic rise
(3) they don't invest what they can afford to lose

Obviously, it's not late to invest as long as you can manage your financial in the right way and just invest the extra money into bitcoin and look for it in the long term, at least a year or two to see the potential profit that you are going to make.

Well as you have said it is the latest fad in crypto world, so there's no surprised that one of the biggest companies out there like Coca-Cola is getting into NFT and it is with a good cause.

I'm sure there are huge collectors of Coca-Cola memorabilia and could be individuals who are willing to shell out huge money to add the NFT artwork to their collections. Thus resulting into a huge fund raising for Special Olympics International.

Maybe there will be certain groups of countries that will make bitcoin as super sovereign currency. Perhaps they will form and bond together to push bitcoin globally. But for sure it will be opposed by top countries, Dollar, Yuan will still be the standard to be used by global trades. They will argue against it as we all know that bitcoin is volatile and unstable and we only have limited supply. Bitcoin can grow tremendously, no doubt about it, but pushing to be a super sovereign currency? I highly doubt it for now.

But it will just a few millions off, Pacman is already famous in the Philippines, he doesn't need a signature victory against Spence to put him as the next President. And obviously, if he goes against the administration, it will be his downfall. I'm sure majority of the Filipinos will agree that Pacman has a slim chance of winning the election. He did attack the sitting President as far as corruption goes, and Duterte doesn't like it. Philippine politics is very different, dirty at the most. He can't just go to the opposition and then be declared as started bearer. Opposition has already have their slate as early as this. And he has been ousted as the ruling party' because of his attack on Duterte. Best case for him is to create a new party.

As @Natalim has pointed out, politics and boxing are two different things. His popularity will only go that far, winning as senator, but as President, I doubt that he can win it.

Ok so it's good news for the Philippines again, Nesthy Petecio won her match against Yeni Marcela Arias Castaneda of Colombia. Meaning she is going to the next round, the quarterfinals and will assure her of a bronze medal already.

And if by chance she won against Irma Testa of Italy, she will be fighting for the gold medal.

So the Philippines will already have a 2 medal haul in this Olympics, another accomplished for the country. The last time the country won multi medal is 89 years ago.

1 Gold 1 Bronze for the PH, very proud of this "girls".