ALLAN THE MAN

The 36-year-old Floyd Mayweather Jr. weighed in at 150.5 pounds — just under the mutually decided catch weight of 152 pounds.

Canelo Alvarez (42-0-1) hasn’t weighed 152 or less for a fight since 2011, while Mayweather has fought above 147 just twice — for the Oscar de la Hoya and Miguel Cotto wins.

“We felt we were robbed of a win.” This was the bold statement of Rain or Shine coach Yeng Guiao following his team’s controversial 101-100 loss to Barangay Ginebra San Miguel on Saturday night at the SMART-Araneta Coliseum.

“We’ll file a protest for whatever is worth,” said Guiao. “We will file a protest before 12 noon tomorrow (Sunday).”

The end of the elimination round of the men’s seniors basketball action signals the mounting of one of the most anticipated events of the season – the UAAP Cheerdance Competition. Mostly in the background of games, the pep squads of the eight member schools of the league are set to take to centerstage their cheerdancing prowess come Sunday.

Despite seeing most of the same teams finishing at the top positions, it has become clear that other teams are stepping up their game. 

There's no such thing as a sure-bet in international hoops this summer as teams try to qualify for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

Time and time again, national sides have sprung upsets. It's happened in Asia, Africa, the Americas and on Friday, another major surprise happened in Ljubljana, Slovenia, at EuroBasket 2013.

France bounced back from their 14-point defeat to Lithuania by beating Latvia, 102-91.

Les Bleus punished Latvia for their weak interior defending in the first quarter by opening a 31-15 advantage with Alexis Ajinca pouring in eight of his game-high 25 points.

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.