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Manny Machado continues to drive Padres’ success
SAN DIEGO — In a suite at the Delano hotel in Las Vegas during the 2018 Winter Meetings, the Padres front office was growing frustrated. They didn’t like the price tags on some of free agency’s middling third basemen. The trade market was churning slower than usual, too.
Late one night — or early one morning, it’s all a bit hazy — general manager A.J. Preller phoned assistant GM Josh Stein with an idea so painfully obvious.
“Let’s just sign Machado,” Preller famously said.
And, really, that’s when this began. All of this.
On Friday night, the Padres host the Dodgers in Game 3 of the NLDS, the first playoff game before fans in San Diego in 16 years. It’s worth wondering: Is any of this possible without Manny Machado?
In what’s been a turbulent season for the Padres, Machado has been the stabilizing force. He posted what is undeniably one of the best seasons in Padres history — leading the National League with 7.4 fWAR while hitting .298/.366/.531 with his usual Gold-Glove-caliber defense. The last Padre with a higher WAR — Ken Caminiti in 1996 — was the last Padre to win MVP.
Machado’s teammates insist those numbers tell only half the story. When Machado sustained a gruesome ankle injury in late June, the team wondered whether he might be out for months. He returned in 10 days. Machado played hurt, and his numbers took a hit — his .694 OPS in July was easily his lowest of any month. But with Fernando Tatis Jr. on the IL and Trade Deadline reinforcements not yet on the way, the Padres needed every bit of Machado’s contributions.
Then, in early August, the Padres welcomed Juan Soto, Josh Hader, Josh Bell and Brandon Drury at the Deadline. It can be hard to shake up a clubhouse midseason, but Soto said he always felt welcome.
“Manny is the most important thing, because he’s kind of the captain of the team,” Soto said. “So if the captain makes you feel comfortable, that’s a huge thing. He was just telling me how things work in there and how we’ve got to be. I think I was agreeing with mostly everything that was going on in there, and I felt good with it.”
The Padres don’t bestow the title of “Captain,” but make no mistake — it’s Machado.
“He’s our leader,” said Game 3 starter Blake Snell. “He’s the guy that everyone looks at.”
Said manager Bob Melvin: “He’s very much the guy, so to speak, in the clubhouse. … It’s tough enough being the guy on the field and having to perform. It’s even more difficult to be the guy in the clubhouse. And he does it like he does on the field — there’s an easiness to it.”
In the offseason of 2018-19, they paid a premium for it. Those weren’t the same Padres back then. They’d just completed their eighth consecutive losing season. They’d spent money to extend Wil Myers and sign Eric Hosmer, but they’d never — in their entire history — signed a player like Machado.
In the months following that Winter Meetings revelation, the Padres put the wheels in motion. Ownership signed off on the pursuit of Machado, and in mid-February, he signed a 10-year, $300 million deal, the richest free-agent contract in American sports history at the time.
Then the manager of the A’s, Melvin sat up and took note.
“I remember the years and the dollars and I went, ‘Wow,'” Melvin recalled. “But that’s what you pay for. When you look at long-term contracts like that, you’re not really sure how they’re going to play out. But what he’s done here — what he continues to do and what he’s done this year, this deep into his contract — this is one of the better contracts out there.
“At the time you’re going, ‘Wow, how can anybody really perform to that level?’ But he certainly has.”
Four years into that contract, this feels like Machado’s team. And, suddenly, this feels like Machado’s moment. The Padres entered the NLDS as underdogs against the team with the most wins in baseball. If ever they needed an MVP-caliber Machado, it was now.
“We know that they’re the division champs,” Machado said. “They own the best record in baseball. They’ve played very well against us all year. But at the end of the day we’re going to compete. We’re going to leave it on the field.”
When San Diego lost Game 1, David Ortiz proclaimed the Dodgers to be the Padres’ “daddy” on national TV. Then, a night later, Machado opened the scoring with a laser home run in the first inning off Clayton Kershaw. He watched the ball settle in the left-field seats, then glared into the Padres’ dugout. The message was clear: He had this. They had this.
After going 2-for-5 with a homer, a double and some brilliant glovework in the Padres’ Game 2 victory, Machado texted Ortiz, who noted on air that San Diego’s third baseman had fired back with two simple words: “Now what?”
Before he reached free agency four years ago, Machado had spent the 2018 postseason with the Dodgers. His experience was decidedly different. He batted just .227 and drew headlines more for controversy than his play on the field.
That feels like ancient history now. If Machado was a volatile presence that October, he feels precisely the opposite in 2022 — a stabilizing presence for a team hellbent on shocking the baseball world.
“You just evolve,” Machado said of learning from his past playoff experiences. “That’s just the human nature of things. You learn from the mistakes, you learn from the good and learn from the bad. It’s all about evolving.”
Big Ten Media Days 2022: Ohio State’s bold expectations, Manny Diaz’s transition at Penn State among takeaways
The second day at Big Ten Media Days was for the heavyweights, as three of the projected top four finishers in the East Division took the stage along with Big Ten West favorite Wisconsin. With Wednesday marking one month until the league’s season begins — a trio of teams will be in action for Week 0 — the sense of urgency was real as the conference seeks to produce its first national title winner since Ohio State in 2014.
The Buckeyes were among the programs under the spotlight Wednesday, and fifth-year coach Ryan Day addressed his program’s expectations head on, noting that Ohio State’s aspirations are, as always, to “beat the team up north, win the Big Ten Championship, win the National Championship.”
“Those are our goals,” he said, “and those things didn’t happen last year.”
To return to Big Ten supremacy, the Buckeyes will likely have to beat that team up north, but they face more obstacles than just Michigan. Among the challengers will be Penn State, Michigan State and the Badgers, each of which were represented on Day 2 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
As the conference turns the page from talking season to the beginning of actual football, here are the takeaways from part two of Big Ten Media Days:
Ohio State’s scars
Day said he thinks his players are “a little scarred … a little calloused” after an 11-2 season that featured a Rose Bowl victory but no Big Ten East title and no College Football Playoff appearance. One of the program’s biggest moves this offseason to remedy the shortcomings of 2021 was bringing in defensive coordinator Jim Knowles from Oklahoma State to help improve a Buckeyes’ unit that ranked tied for 59th nationally last season in total defense.
If there was any doubt over the expectations for Knowles’ unit in 2022, Day cleared that up.
“New scheme, new coaches, all of those things are new,” Day said. “I think going up against them in the spring and seeing what’s happened this summer and now into the preseason, it’s been exciting to watch. There’s just an aggressiveness about them. But in terms of expectations, yeah, we expect a top-10 defense. That’s what we want. When we’ve played our best football, it’s because we played really good defense, and we’ve been balanced and played complementary football. We want to obviously stop the run to begin with and then go from there, but we expect a top ten defense.”
Manny Diaz’s fit at Penn State
The Buckeyes aren’t the only Big Ten East power with a new defensive coordinator after Penn State coach James Franklin tabbed Manny Diaz to replace Brent Pry, who took the Virginia Tech head coaching job. The Nittany Lions finished tied for sixth nationally in scoring defense last season, allowing just 17.3 points per game, leaving Diaz with some big shoes to fill after a three-year run as Miami’s coach.
“He’s done it at a high level at a bunch of different places, but then also has been a head coach,” Franklin said on the Big Ten Network. “There’s value in those experiences from a leadership standpoint, from a big picture perspective.”
Franklin said he called Diaz the day after he was fired at Miami and wasn’t sure whether he’d be interested in talking about the Penn State gig so soon — but he was, perhaps due in part to a preexisting relationship between the two.
“He’s a guy that we also spent time with in the offseason with my previous defensive coordinators talking,” Franklin said. “That’s what we do in the offseason, you talk to other coaches that come from a similar philosophy and tree. That helped as well because when you go out and hire somebody who has a completely different philosophy, there’s going to be growing pains with that. He’s hit the ground running.”
Aidan O’Connell poised for spotlight
Diaz’s first challenge at Penn State will be containing one of the league’s top quarterbacks, as the Nittany Lions take on Purdue and a budding star quarterback in Aidan O’Connell to begin the 2022 season in a Thursday night showdown on Sept. 1. O’Connell made the All-Big Ten West preseason team after throwing for 3,712 yards and 28 touchdowns last season.
Now, the sixth-year senior and former walk-on enters 2022 as the unquestioned starter for the Boilermakers after guiding Purdue to a 9-4 record and Music City Bowl win last season.
“Aidan has done a great job,” said Purdue coach Jeff Brohm. “It’s unfortunate his head coach didn’t start him at the beginning of the year, but we were able to figure that out. He’s really earned his spot from Day 1. He continues to work hard every single day. He’s become a great leader.”
Week 0 advantage for Illinois
Aside from the obvious Week 0 headliner between Nebraska and Northwestern in Ireland, the only other Big Ten team in action on Aug. 27 is Illinois, which hosts Wyoming in a tune-up game before playing at Indiana the following Friday. The game was originally scheduled for Week 3, but was eligible for the Week 0 slot since Wyoming is playing at Hawaii this season.
Teams that make the trip to Hawaii are allowed to start the season earlier as a means of incentivizing the trip to such a far-flung locale. In this case, that rule happened to benefit the Illini even though they aren’t the ones playing Hawaii, and Illinois coach Bret Bielema credited athletic director Josh Whitman with helping facilitate the change.
“You see a huge amount of improvement from players who have never played the game from Week 1 to Week 2,” Bielema said. “So that’s kind of why I was lobbying .. I thought if we could play one game at home, get our feet underneath us and play one game at home and get our feet underneath us in Week 0 that was a huge benefit.”
Kenneth Walker’s lasting impact
A season after Wake Forest transfer Kenneth Walker emerged as a breakout college football star with 1,636 yards rushing and 18 touchdowns, Michigan State is looking to another transfer to help in the run game. The Spartans are bringing in 2020 Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year Jarek Broussard from Colorado to position Michigan State again as one of the biggest potential benefactors from the portal.
With former four-star running back Jalen Berger also transferring in after averaging 4.6 yards per carry on 84 attempts in two seasons at Wisconsin, it’s clear that Walker’s progression with the Spartans into a second round NFL Draft pick is resonating with running backs looking for new homes.
“We just tell a story,” Michigan State coach Mel Tucker said. “I’m not sure how many people knew about him nationally. He saw an opportunity to come to Michigan State and get better. His goal was to play in the National Football League and play against great competition.”
Rutgers in limbo
One of the pressing topics for Rutgers in advance of the 2022 season is the status of linebacker Drew Singleton, who is awaiting a ruling on a petition that would allow him to play one more season. Singleton declared for the NFL Draft and hired an agen,t but then opted to participate in the Scarlet Knights’ bowl game after they received a late berth to the Gator Bowl.
Ultimately, he went unsigned as a free agent, perhaps due in part to an ankle injury sustained in the bowl loss vs. Wake Forest. Had he not declared for the draft, Singleton would be eligible for a sixth season because of the extra year of eligibility provided by COVID-19. As preseason camp approaches, however, the Scarlet Knights are still awaiting word on the status of a player who helped stabilize their defense with 54 tackles last season.
“We’re hopeful that cooler minds prevail,” said Rutgers coach Greg Schiano. “We have an appeal in. I’m hopeful he will be able to come back. He wants to seek his graduate degree. I believe that — he does so many great things. He’s a kid from inner city Newark who’s overcome a lot. The guy is trying to do the right thing. I hope that we’re able to do the right thing and get him back, but we’re waiting to hear.”
Wisconsin gets new offensive look
With Jim Leonhard as defensive coordinator and Bobby Engram as its first-year offensive coordinator, Wisconsin now has former NFL veterans calling the shots on both side of the ball. Engram comes to the Badgers after eight years on the Baltimore Ravens’ staff and is tasked with rejuvenating a Wisconsin unit ranked 120th nationally last season in passing offense.
It’s his first stint in college football since he coached receivers for two seasons at Pittsburgh under current Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst. But Engram, who played 14 seasons in the NFL, has some Big Ten roots as a Penn State alum and former star for the Nittany Lions.
“I’m really excited about Bobby Engram having a chance to be with us and for me to get back and coach with him,” Chryst said. “Had a chance to coach a couple of years with Bobby, and just a tremendous amount of respect. I think one thing that I always feel is important when you add a coach is you kind of think about your players. That’s where I’m most excited, for our players to be around Bobby. I think that it’s as much the chance for — the timing was right for really both of us, but for Bobby to come. I think that with Bobby we’re a better team.”
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Manny Machado left leg injury
DENVER — San Diego Padres third baseman Manny Machado left Sunday’s game at Coors Field against the Rockies in the top of the first inning with a left ankle sprain. X-rays on the ankle were negative.
Machado hit a dribbler in front of home plate that was fielded by Colorado starter Antonio Senzatela, who threw him out at first. Running out the play, Machado stepped on first base with his left foot, which then slid across the bag. He turned his ankle as his foot landed on the dirt, then grabbed it in pain after stumbling to the ground.
Machado was attended to and then walked off with help, appearing unable to put much weight on his left leg. He was replaced by Sergio Alcántara at third in the bottom of the first.
Machado entered Sunday with MVP-like numbers, hitting .329 with 12 home runs, 46 RBIs and seven stolen bases in 65 games.
Miami fires Manny Diaz with Oregon coach Mario Cristobal expected to fill Hurricanes’ vacancy
Miami has fired coach Manny Diaz, the school announced on Monday, setting off the first domino of a potentially blockbuster coaching carousel at The U.
Diaz’s firing opens the door for the Hurricanes to hire Oregon coach Mario Cristobal, a former Hurricanes offensive tackle and graduate of Miami, who has led the Ducks to three consecutive Pac-12 Championship Games. The program has reportedly targeted Cristobal and Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich to lead the program into the future.
“We are grateful to Coach Diaz for his many contributions to our campus community and to his native South Florida, and for the strong leadership and exemplary character he exhibited during his tenure at the University,” Miami president Julio Frenk said in a statement. “We wish him and his family the very best as they move forward.”
Miami hired Diaz to replace Mark Richt, who retired from as Hurricanes coach after the 2018 season. Diaz, the defensive coordinator on Richt’s staff and a native son of the city, was hired to build on the success; however, Miami went just 21-15 in three seasons, including a 7-5 campaign in 2021 marred with injuries.
After dropping to No. 1 Alabama in the opener, the Hurricanes fell against Michigan State, Virginia and North Carolina before suffering a bad loss to Florida State that might have sealed Diaz’s fate. Miami accepted a bid to face Washington State in the Sun Bowl, a relative disappointment after entering the season ranked in the top 15.
Diaz’s long nightmare is over
Rumors of Miami targeting Cristobal started in the middle of last week while Diaz was still out recruiting and preparing for a bowl game. It was one of the more publicly embarrassing coaching searches of the offseason as Diaz had to very publicly wait for Miami to make a decision while still trying to figure out whether he should still work.
Miami is going through a critical time for the future of the program. If the Hurricanes can land both Radakovich and Cristobal, the display will have been worth it. But still, the way Miami went about handling Diaz throughout this whole process is a masterclass in what not to do. It made Diaz coming back to Coral Gables completely untenable.
What’s next for Diaz
All of a sudden, Diaz becomes perhaps the best defensive coordinator on the market. He earned the head coaching job thanks to his outstanding work rebuilding the Hurricanes’ defense, bringing the unit to No. 9 in yards per play and No. 12 in scoring defense to become a Broyles Award finalist in his first season. The unit only got better over his coordinating tenure.
If Diaz wants to stay in the ACC, there’s a fancy defensive coordinator opening down the road at Clemson after Brent Venables left to take the Oklahoma head coaching job. With 25 coaching changes in college football — and counting — there are a number of other coordinator jobs up for grabs. With Virginia connected to other candidates following the abrupt departure of Bronco Mendenhall, it’s unlikely that Diaz would immediately get another head coaching job — but the carousel hasn’t come to a stop quite yet.
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Miami targets Oregon coach Mario Cristobal, Clemson AD with Manny Diaz still employed, per reports
The University of Miami is planning to pursue Oregon coach Mario Cristobal as its next head coach, according to multiple reports, despite still having a sitting head coach and no athletic director. Barry Jackson reports Miami is expected to ‘make a run’ at Cristobal while the Oregonian‘s John Canzano notes that Miami brass hopes to speak to Cristobal after the Pac-12 Championship Game on Friday.
To cement its pitch, Canzano reports that Miami is targeting Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich. However, CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd reports that no decision had been made. Radakovich started his athletic administration career by getting an M.B.A. from Miami, but is best known for transforming Clemson into a national power after taking the job in 2012.
Oregon isn’t going down without a fight, however. Canzano reports the university has put together a monster contract extension, described as “Brian Kelly and Lincoln Riley dollars.” While Riley’s contract at USC is not public, Kelly’s deal at LSU will pay him more than $100 million over 10 years if he lasts through the contract. An announcement on Cristobal’s decision is expected by Tuesday.
Cristobal was born in Miami, played for the Hurricanes and was previously head coach of FIU, which is located in Miami. Cristobal, the first Cuban American coach in FBS football, is as intimately associated with one city as any coach in college football. However, even if his alma mater opts to move on from current coach Manny Diaz in the coming days, it could have a hard time luring Cristobal from his perch atop the Pac-12.
In four seasons as the coach of the Ducks, Cristobal has a 35-12 record, including two consecutive Pac-12 championships. He can earn a third straight on Friday in against No 17 Utah, which would make him the first coach since Chip Kelly in 2011 to reach the mark. In defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux, the Ducks likely have their third straight top-10 NFL Draft pick.
Miami, conversely, is in disarray following the resignation of athletic director Blake James after eight years. After leading the Hurricanes to an 8-3 record and No. 22 postseason ranking, Diaz was shaky in 2021. Miami started the year No. 14, but finished just 7-5 after a wave of injuries. Offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee just left to become the head coach at SMU.
Diaz, notably, is equally as tied to the city of Miami as Cristobal. The fellow Cuban American was also born in Miami and is the son of a former Miami mayor of the same name. However, landing Cristobal and Radakovich would be a transformational set of hires at Miami, and would show commitment to athletics that the university has not shown since the glory days.
“I want to make clear that the Board of Trustees and I, as president, recognize the essential part of our brand and reputation derived from athletics,” Miami president Julio Frenk wrote in an open letter in September. “We are fully committed to building championship-caliber teams at the U.”
The university has not won a team championship of any sort since winning the football and baseball national championships in 2001. Miami football has not won the ACC since entering the league in 2004. Since the ACC brought back the conference championship game in 2005, the Hurricanes are tied for last in ACC Coastal titles with Virginia, North Carolina and Duke.
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Atlanta Braves sign catcher Manny Pina to two-year, $8 million deal
ATLANTA — The World Series champion Atlanta Braves added depth at catcher by signing Manny Pina to a two-year, $8 million contract Monday.
He will make $3.5 million next season and $4.5 million in 2023. The contract also includes a $4 million club option for 2024 with no buyout.
The 34-year-old Pina hit a career-best 13 home runs in 75 games with Milwaukee this past season, his sixth with the Brewers.
He joins starting Braves catcher Travis d’Arnaud, who agreed to a two-year, $16 million extension during the season that includes an $8 million club option for 2024.
D’Arnaud and Pina give the Braves a couple of veteran catchers to hold down the position while top prospect Shea Langeliers gets additional seasoning in the minors.
The Braves also have another young catcher, 23-year-old William Contreras, who got a chance to start in 2021 after d’Arnaud was injured but failed to hold down the job.
Contreras struggled defensively while batting .215 with eight homers and 23 RBIs in 52 games with Atlanta.
The signing of Pina is a mere side note to the Braves’ main focus of the offseason: keeping star first baseman Freddie Freeman.
Freeman has made it clear he wants to remain in Atlanta, but the two sides failed to agree on a new long-term deal during the season. He filed for free agency after the Braves’ surprising run to their first championship since 1995, along with postseason stars Eddie Rosario and Jorge Soler.
Another potential free agent is Adam Duvall, who turned down a mutual option for $7 million in 2022. Duvall is eligible for arbitration unless the Braves decide not to tender him a contract, which would make him a free agent for the second straight offseason.
Pina agreed to donate 1% of his earnings in each year of his contract to the Atlanta Braves Foundation.
Atlanta Braves sign catcher Manny Pina to two-year, $8 million deal
ATLANTA — The World Series champion Atlanta Braves added depth at catcher by signing Manny Pina to a two-year, $8 million contract Monday.
He will make $3.5 million next season and $4.5 million in 2023. The contract also includes a $4 million club option for 2024 with no buyout.
The 34-year-old Pina hit a career-best 13 home runs in 75 games with Milwaukee this past season, his sixth with the Brewers.
He joins starting Braves catcher Travis d’Arnaud, who agreed to a two-year, $16 million extension during the season that includes an $8 million club option for 2024.
D’Arnaud and Pina give the Braves a couple of veteran catchers to hold down the position while top prospect Shea Langeliers gets additional seasoning in the minors.
The Braves also have another young catcher, 23-year-old William Contreras, who got a chance to start in 2021 after d’Arnaud was injured but failed to hold down the job.
Contreras struggled defensively while batting .215 with eight homers and 23 RBIs in 52 games with Atlanta.
The signing of Pina is a mere side note to the Braves’ main focus of the offseason: keeping star first baseman Freddie Freeman.
Freeman has made it clear he wants to remain in Atlanta, but the two sides failed to agree on a new long-term deal during the season. He filed for free agency after the Braves’ surprising run to their first championship since 1995, along with postseason stars Eddie Rosario and Jorge Soler.
Another potential free agent is Adam Duvall, who turned down a mutual option for $7 million in 2022. Duvall is eligible for arbitration unless the Braves decide not to tender him a contract, which would make him a free agent for the second straight offseason.
Pina agreed to donate 1% of his earnings in each year of his contract to the Atlanta Braves Foundation.
Manny Pacquiao announces retirement | Fox News
Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao is officially hanging up his gloves.
The eight-division world champion and Philippines senator on Wednesday announced his retirement from the ring,
“As I hang up my boxing gloves, I would like to thank the whole world, especially the Filipino people for supporting Manny Pacquiao. Goodbye boxing,” the 42-year old said in a 14-minute video posted on his Facebook page. “It is difficult for me to accept that my time as a boxer is over. Today I am announcing my retirement.”
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Senator Manny Pacquiao raises his hands during a national convention of his PDP-Laban party in Quezon city, Philippines on Sunday Sept. 19, 2021. (Manny Pacquiao MediaComms via AP)
Pacquiao finished his 26-year, 72-fight career with 62 wins, eight losses and two draws. Of those 62 wins, 39 were by knockout and 23 by decision. He won 12 world titles.
His retirement from boxing followed a disheartening defeat to Yordenis Ugas in Paradise, Nevada on Aug. 21. The younger Cuban boxer, who defected to the United States in 2010, beat Pacquiao by unanimous decision, retaining his WBA welterweight title. It was Pacquiao’s first fight in more than two years.
“Thank you for changing my life, when my family was desperate, you gave us hope, you gave me the chance to fight my way out of poverty,” Pacquiao said in the video. “Because of you, I was able to inspire people all over the world. Because of you, I have been given the courage to change more lives. I will never forget what I have done and accomplished in my life that I can’t imagine. I just heard the final bell. The boxing is over. “
Pacquaio had hinted at retirement recently. It also had been expected because he is setting his sights on a bigger political battlefield. Earlier this month, he accepted his political party’s nomination and declared that he will run for Philippines president in the May 2022 elections.
BOXER-SENATOR MANNY PACQUIAO TO RUN FOR PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT
He has accused the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, his formal ally, of making corruption worse in the Philippines. He promised to fight poverty and warned corrupt politicians they will soon end in jail.
Pacquiao’s rags-to-riches life story and legendary career — he is the only fighter in history to win titles in eight different weight classes — has brought honor to his Southeast Asian nation, where he is known by his monikers Pacman, People’s Champ, and National Fist.
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He left his impoverished home in the southern Philippines as a teenager and stowed away on a ship bound for Manila. He made his professional boxing debut as a junior flyweight in 1995, at the age of 16, fighting his way out of abject poverty to become one of the world’s highest-paid athletes.
Boxer Manny Pacquiao Joins Filipino Presidential Race
MANILA — The former boxing champion Manny Pacquiao has shuffled his way into the presidential race in the Philippines.
Mr. Pacquiao, the country’s best-known athlete, already holds a seat in the Senate but faces tough opposition as a presidential candidate. He was formerly the president of the PDP-Laban, the ruling party in the Philippines, before being ousted by a faction loyal to President Rodrigo Duterte, whose government Mr. Pacquiao has accused of corruption.
“To government officials who continue to rob government coffers, you will soon find others in jail,” Mr. Pacquiao warned on Sunday when he announced his candidacy. “Your time is up.”
The constitution bars Mr. Duterte from seeking a second six-year term in the May election. He has instead said he would run for vice president, in what some analysts have described as an attempt to avoid prosecution from the International Criminal Court. The I.C.C. last week announced an investigation into Mr. Duterte’s antidrug campaign, which critics have said was marred by extrajudicial killings.
Christopher Lawrence Go, a senator and Mr. Duterte’s longtime aide, was considered a party favorite for the presidential nomination, but he has yet to announce his candidacy. The president and the vice president are elected separately in the Philippines. If both men were to win, analysts said, Mr. Go could step aside for Mr. Duterte or let him rule the country by proxy, allowing him to escape prosecution.
Sara Duterte, the president’s daughter and the mayor of Davao City, said she would not seek the presidency if her father continued with his plans to run for vice president.
All candidate must submit their final filings in October.
Mr. Pacquiao, 42, signaled a break with Mr. Duterte earlier this year when he accused the government’s health department of corruption tied to the coronavirus pandemic and the purchasing of face masks and other protective equipment. The senator, who as a boxer won world titles in a record eight weight classes, was once an ally of Mr. Duterte, but recently became more critical of the president.
“We are ready to rise to the challenge of leadership,” Mr. Pacquiao said on Sunday when he accepted the nomination from his faction of the party.
“It is now time for the oppressed to win,” he said. “It is now time for the country to rise up from poverty.”
Aries Arugay, a political science professor at the University of the Philippines, said that he was not surprised by Mr. Pacquiao’s announcement but that the boxer may be in over his head. While Mr. Pacquiao is internationally recognized, “he is not ready” to be president, Mr. Arugay said, adding that Mr. Pacquiao had not passed any major legislation.
“His performance at the Senate was underwhelming,” he said. “However, that has not prevented people and politicians in the past from winning public office.”
Mr. Pacquiao has also been a vocal supporter of Mr. Duterte’s bloody antidrug campaign.
The Commission on Elections will have to settle the matter of the separate factions of the PDP-Laban before the final candidacies are filed in October. If Mr. Duterte’s faction emerges with a clear mandate, Mr. Pacquiao will likely step aside or run as an independent, chipping away at Mr. Duterte’s chances of regaining public office, Mr. Arugay said.
Melvin Matibag, the general secretary of PDP-Laban and the leader of the pro-Duterte wing of the party, said Mr. Pacquiao was acting against the party’s wishes by announcing his candidacy.
The meeting on Sunday during which Mr. Pacquiao announced his candidacy was “not sanctioned nor called by the party’s chairman, President Duterte,” Mr. Matibag said Monday on national radio.