ALLAN THE MAN

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez will end months of promotional build-up and weeks of premium cable sniping on Saturday night (Sunday morning PHL time), when they meet in the ring at the MGM Grand for both a pair of 154-pound titles and the enviable position as the sport's top drawing card.

PREDICTION: Mayweather via TKO in the 10th

Most 36-year-old fighters wake up one day and, all of a sudden, feel every bit of 36 years old. Mayweather's uniqueness – at least in part – has been the ability to train as hard as he did as a 20-something and see similar results in the ring as a 30-something. Unless his day of age reckoning arrives this weekend, he's still the faster and more skilled fighter and represents a gigantic leap in class over anything Alvarez has been in with. The longer the fight progresses, the more that'll matter and the more the disparity in landed punches will grow. Ultimately, it'll mean an intervention from referee Kenny Bayless, somewhere past the halfway point of round 10.

Globe Telecom has intensified efforts to address the unscrupulous sale of illegal repeaters or signal boosters which causes network interference that results in mobile phone subscribers to experience dropped calls, garbled lines, and weak signal. 

Recently, the company’s campaign to address signal interference has been expanded to include the operation of high-intensity radio frequency identification (RFID), a wireless non-contact use of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields to transfer data, for the purposes of automatically identifying and tracking tags attached to objects. 

Not only did they win their seventh straight game, the team is already assured of the No. 1 spot in the quarterfinals of the Governors’ Cup.

A highly focused Manny Pacquiao is a dangerous opponent for any fighter, and this is what he needs to be when he goes up against Brandon Rios this November.

According to Filipino trainer Marvin Somodio, Pacquiao has the edge on punching power and quickness against the Mexican-American brawler.

The FIBA World Cup is still a good 11 months away, but this early Gilas Pilipinas coach Chot Reyes is already looking forward to the opportunity of playing tune-up matches against former Olympic champion Argentina, Angola and Dominican Republic.

“Just got word fr our Spanish contact Argentina,Angola, Dom Rep are open to pre World Cup games w us.Will meet in Slovenia to ask Euro tms too,” Reyes said on his Twitter account @coachot on Thursday while on vacation cum scouting trip in Europe with wife Cherry.

The men's basketball action for UAAP Season 76 is down to its final two playdates but the Final Four picture is not yet set as two teams are still fighting for the last twice-to-beat advantage, while two other teams are still knocking on the semis doors.

Far Eastern University (10-4) and De La Salle University (9-4) are jockeying for the second win-once edge as National University (10-4) is the only team guaranteed with the win-once bonus in the Final Four.