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RP athletes
lauded
for 'getting job done'
CALLING them the lifeblood of local sports, Philippine Sports
Commission (PSC) chairperson Eric Buhain Saturday praised
the athletes who participated in the Vietnam Southeast Asian
(SEA) Games for getting the job done in 2003.
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World-class
karateka
back after 20-year absence
BAGUIO CITY--Julian Chees, a Bontoc Kankaney native from
the Mountain Province, habitually wears patched-up jeans to
town. He is usually good-natured enough to perform difficult
karate katas (series of combat exercise stances) for sports
enthusiasts, despite having downed 10 bottles of beer a few
minutes before his spontaneous exhibitions.
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PSA
awardees boost RP
bid vs Japanese jungolfers
LOCAL jungolf stars Jayvie Agojo, Dottie Ardina, Miguel Tabuena
and AR Ramos, who will be honored by the PSA for their international
exploits in 2003, will banner a star-studded Philippine contingent
in a dual meet with Japan at the Tagaytay Midlands Golf Club
on January 5-6, 2004.
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Filipina
karter
tops Asian Open
LANGKAWI, Malaysia--Michelle Bumgarner of M&M Racing
did the Philippines proud when she emerged the overall champion
in the 2003 Asian Karting Open Championships at the Langkawi
Circuit here. The 15-year-old Bumgarner amassed a total of
90 points in the three-leg series sanctioned by the CIK/FIA
to clinch the premiere Junior International Continental-A
crown.
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Pacquiao
fights dual
champ Marquez next
IT'S green and go for yet another superbattle for the Filipino
king of the world's featherweights.
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RP
5 turns back HK,
rules China cagefest
NANAN, China--A 23-point run from 20 points down.
With this unexpected turnaround, the Philippine team went
on to repulse Hong Kong, 90-86, Friday and capture the sixth
Zheng Chenggong Cup International Invitational basketball
championship at the Nanan Sports Center here.
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Incentives
should be
for all deserving achievers
REPUBLIC Act (RA) 9064, the one and only law which provides
incentives for outstanding Filipino athletes and coaches,
is indeed a step in the right direction, but it does not go
far enough because only those achievements in quadrennial
competitions like the Olympics and Asian Games and biennial
Southeast Asian Games are rewarded.
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Pacquiao,
3 leading RP
boxers rise in WBC ratings
PEOPLE'S featherweight champ Manny Pacquiao and three leading
Cebuano boxers moved up in the latest rankings of the World
Boxing Council (WBC), in effect making them candidates for
world title fights next year.
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Philippine
SEAG campaign
a big success, says Buhain
HANOI--Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairperson Eric
Buhain has emphatically declared a success the Philippine
campaign in the just concluded 22nd Southeast Asian Games
(SEAG) in Vietnam.
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RP
karters seek
Asian junior crown
NATIONAL Open champion Michelle Bumgarner and Asian champion
Matteo Guidecelli led a lean but compact Philippine team that
left for Malaysia recently to see action in the final leg
of the 2003 Asian Karting Open Championships in Langkawi.
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RP bets
seize
5 more golds
HANOI--Athletics came through with three golds without help
from Eduardo Buenavista, and gymnast Neil Faustino and Efren
"Bata" Reyes contributed two more Monday as the
Philippines grimly hung on in the three-way battle for third
overall in the 22nd Southeast Asian Games here.
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| Mayol
wins OPBF crown
FUKUOKA, Japan--In a dazzling display of power boxing, Cebuano
phenom Rodel Mayol dethroned Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation
(OPBF) miniflyweight champion Genki Ohnaka via a first round
knockout at the Tokuyama University Gymnasium here.
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Castañeda,
Mauricio rule
Asian Xtour qualifier
ANSELM Leo Marco Castañeda and Anjou Jellicoe Mauricio
strengthened their claim as the top skateboarders in their
respective events as they easily defeated their rivals Sunday
at the conclusion of the Asian Xtour Manila qualifying competitions
at the Filinvest Corporate City in Alabang, Muntinlupa City.
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Woe
to the Magician's
pool rivals in Vietnam
PITY his opponents in the coming Southeast Asian Games (SEA)
-- they're going to bear the brunt of Efren "Bata"
Reyes' wrath. Reyes suffered a frustrating 12-13 defeat to
fellow former world champion Mika Immonen in their Café
Puro 1st Philippine Open title Saturday night, leaving the
Filipino idol known as "The Magician" hurting inside
and aching for vengeance.
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More
golds but no big RP
finish seen in SEA Games
IT'S gold or bust.
This is the battle cry of about 100 athletes tasked to deliver
the medals that will count for the 445-strong Philippine contingent
in its bid to finish better than fifth overall in the 22nd
Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Vietnam from December 6-12.
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Fearless
forecast: 10-12
wins from athletics
THE MOST prolific gold-medal machine of the Philippine contingent
in the last Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) will be even more
productive this time.
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Loveless
night
for RP billiards
IMAGINE a ship captain getting seasick on a clear, cloudless
day.
Suddenly, it was no longer easy saying nice words for Efren
"Bata" Reyes.
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Pacquiao
gets
hero's welcome
BOXING champion Manny Pacquiao was given a hero's welcome
on Monday as he was feted with a motorcade that took him to
the cities of Manila and Makati.
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Chessers,
wushu artists
eye 6 SEA Games golds
FOUR gold medals from wushu, two golds from chess.
This is the least the Philippine delegation can expect from
the two disciplines in the coming 22nd Southeast Asian (SEA)
Games in Vietnam.
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RP
basketball team slots
for Gonzales, Salangsang
CITING the need for more outside shooters and stronger rebounding,
the national coaching staff headed by Aric del Rosario Thursday
night inserted Joseph Allan Salangsang and Wesley Gonzales
into the Philippine team for the Vietnam Southeast Asian (SEA)
Games next month.
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Pacquiao
hammers
Barrera in lion's den
SAN ANTONIO, Texas--He followed the perfect game plan at
the most perfect time.
Filipino ring idol Manny Pacquiao put on a superb performance
Sunday, showing the world how to use power in boxing as he
stopped Mexican featherweight great Marco Antonio Barrera
in the 11th round of their 12-round non-title bout at the
Alamodome here.
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PSC
waits for additional
P90-M SEA Games budget
A TOTAL of five million pesos will be transmitted by the
Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) on Monday to the organizers
of the Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) in Vietnam as down payment
for the hotel accommodations of the 658-strong Philippine
delegation.
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Delasin
takes one-stroke
lead at Mobile tourney
MOBILE, Alabama--Filipino-American Dorothy Delasin learned
the best way to handle pressure is with birdies.
After snapping at her caddie, Delasin grabbed a one-stroke
lead Saturday at the Mobile LPGA Tournament of Champions,
carding a 4-under-par 68 at a suddenly receptive Magnolia
Course.
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| Wonder
of the world
THE RINGSIDE broadcasters tried but failed to find an apt
name for Manny Pacquiao as the fiery Filipino hero proceeded
to demolish world boxing great Marco Antonio Barrera in San
Antonio, Texas on Sunday.
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Wushu
bets win 2
golds in world tilt
MACAU, China--Asian Games veteran Arvin Ting and newcomer
Rene Catalan rewarded the Philippines with two gold medals
in the just-concluded 7th world wushu championships here.
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| Pacquiao
feeling like Rocky
SACRAMENTO, California--He is not jumping up and down stairs
and beating up meat in freezers. But Filipino Manny Pacquiao
must be relishing a bit of the Rocky syndrome for his November
15 fight with two-time World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior
featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera.
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RP
skier best
Asian finisher
ACE Filipino jet ski rider Paul del Rosario of Petron-Networx
Jetsports achieved another milestone as he emerged the top
Asian finisher in the World Jet Ski Finals at Lake Havasu,
Arizona.
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3 Filipino
GMs
among leaders
FILIPINO grandmasters Eugene Torre, Joey Antonio and Bong
Villamayor notched their third straight wins in the 15 de
Open van Leuven individual international chess championship
Sunday at the 'Zaal Ons Huis' hall in Leuven, Belgium.
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Reyes,
2 other RP bets
gain semis in Japan tilt
EFREN "Bata" Reyes and Canada-based Filipino Alex
Pagulayan arranged a semifinal duel Sunday in the World Pool
Association 9-ball championship in Saitama, Japan.
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Tañamor
bags gold
in Afro-Asian Games
HYDERABAD, India--Harry Tañamor's all-out attack in
the last round handed him the lightflyweight crown in boxing,
capping the Philippines' fine showing in the 1st Afro-Asian
Games here.
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Bustamante,
Reyes
join Japan 9-ball event
FILIPINO billiards aces Francisco "Django" Bustamante
and Efren "Bata" Reyes left for Japan Sunday to
see action in the Tokyo 9-Ball tournament starting Tuesday.
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Go
named to int'l
athletics council
HYDERABAD, India--Philippine Amateur Track and Field Association
president Go Teng Kok became a member of the Afro-Asian Joint
Council for athletics here Saturday.
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Mixed
results
for RP chessers
HALKIDIKI, Greece--The Philippines continued its roller coaster
campaign in the 2003 World Youth Chess Championships, winning
some and losing some in the all-important ninth and 10th rounds
at the Athos Palace and Pallini Hotels here.
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Cebu
eyed as ideal
site for sports tourism
CEBU's tourism industry is expected to get a boost if plans
of making the province the site of international water sports
competition push through.
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Antonio
rules Thailand
chess tilt by full point
GRANDMASTER Rogelio Antonio Jr. drew his ninth and final
round match with International Master Alexey Romanov of Russia
Sunday to rule the 3rd Bangkok International Open in Pattaya,
Thailand.
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Pacquiao
could win
with a fastbreak
BECAUSE there's only one way: Upward!
It's not a normal move Manny Pacquiao is doing.
He's gate-crashing the featherweight class when he has not
yet outgrown the 122-lb division that he rules.
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Palaro
host offers venue
for 2005 SEA Games
TUBOD, Lanao del Norte--With all indications pointing to
a successful staging of the 2003 Palarong Pambansa, Lanao
del Norte provincial governor Imelda Quibranza-Dimaporo Sunday
said her province would press its bid to serve as one of the
satellite venues of the 2005 Southeast Asian Games (SEAG).
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De Ramos
knots third
win in World Youth tilt
FILIPINO Julius Joseph de Ramos continued his winning ways
in the third round of the ongoing 2003 World Youth Chess Championships
in Halkidiki, Greece.
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SEA
Games body OKs
447 RP bets to Vietnam
NO more than 447 athletes.
This was the final roster that the Southeast Asian (SEA)
Games technical commission approved Wednesday following the
inclusion of the 35-man athletics team that is expected to
lead the country's gold medal chase in the Vietnam SEAG this
December.
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| Tribute
to a maestro
BABY Dalupan took tender steps. He strained in the darkened
auditorium to hold his bearing before a short flight of stairs
leading up to the stage. The greatest basketball coach in
this country was about to do something unfamiliar to him.
He must speak before the microphone to respond to the rich
accolade heaped upon him by adoring fans.
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| One
last dream
THE GOOD thing about Luisito Espinosa is he hasn't stopped
training for his world title fight against champion Cassius
Baloyi of Giyana, South Africa, on December 29 in Manila.
The last bit of encouraging news I got was, even on Sundays,
the former two-time world champion won't rest for even a minute
or two.
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Lim
mum on DFA
passport cancellation
BASKETBALL Association of the Philippines (BAP) secretary
general Graham Lim Thursday said he can't comment on the reported
cancellation of his passport as he has yet to receive a notice
from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).
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Congress
should file bill
for non-Olympic sports
THE RECENT victory of CJ Suarez in the 2003 AMF Bowling World
Cup in Honduras where more than 80 countries competed for
honors showed once again that the Filipino is second to no
one in tenpin bowling -- a sport that requires natural talent,
fierce determination and strong personal discipline to succeed.
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BAP
names lineup
to SEA Games
BARRING any major problem, a 12-man lineup bannered by top
collegiate and amateur players will carry the country's colors
as it defends its Southeast Asian Games title this December
in Vietnam.
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| RP
cue artists enter semis
FILIPINOS Jose "Amang" Parica and Santos Sambajon
hurdled their respective matches Saturday to advance to the
semifinals of the 2003 Fury World Summit of Pool 9-ball tournament
at the Amsterdam Billiards in Manhattan, New York.
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Why
are sports
officials like that?
I AGREE with the parents of this year's World Series Junior
League champions from Paglaum Village National High School
in Bacolod City in asking what the Bacolod City Little League
did with the one-million-peso reward money given to the team
by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for winning the world
championship last August.
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A season
of betrayal:
THE EXPO Filipino at Clark in Pampanga province, monument
to Centennial corruption, was not built as a racetrack.
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POC
official reacts
on presidency issue
PHILIPPINE Olympic Committee (POC) spokesperson Gus Villanueva
Saturday said he has no right to make any comment on the prospects
of possible aspirants to the POC presidency which is up for
grabs next year.
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| Tuñacao
snares WBC title
MALCOLM "Eagle Eye" Tuñacao knocked out
Indonesian Ringo Jaguar to claim the vacant World Boxing Council
(WBC) International superflyweight title before an elated
crowd at the Ynares Center in Antipolo City Friday night.
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Syria
dooms RP five
to 15th in ABC tourney
HARBIN, China -- Another game, another loss for the Philippines-Cebuana
Lhuillier team.
This time, the Filipino cagers suffered a 95-77 defeat to
Syria at the end of their second round campaign in the 22nd
Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC) championship at the Heilongjian
gymnasium here Sunday.
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| Why
China is tops
THOSE who continue to wonder why China won the most number
of gold medals in the just-concluded 15th Asian Athletics
Association Championship, wonder no more. The feat is actually
no big deal. It's been written in the stars.
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BAP
seeks 6 pros
for ABC-bound RP 5
IN A LAST-DITCH effort to field a competitive team, the Basketball
Association of the Philippines (BAP) has asked the Philippine
Basketball Association (PBA) to lend some of its players to
reinforce the national team competing in the 22nd Asian Basketball
Confederation (ABC) Championship in Harbin, China from September
23 to October 1.
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Bronze
for Filipina bet as
Chinese rush for more golds
LERMA Bulauitan-Gabito's last jump turned out to be her best
as the Philippines barged into the medal column of the 15th
Asian Athletics Association championships being dominated
by world power China Sunday at the track and field stadium
of the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in Malate District, Manila.
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Rosales-Que
sputters,
misses World Cup berth
GERALD Rosales and Angelo Que of the Philippines lost their
bid for a World Cup trip after another sputtering round pulled
them down to seventh place at the close of the Nations Cup
Sunday won in breakaway fashion by Myanmar, at the Laguna
National Golf and Country Club in Singapore.
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| RP swimmers
reign supreme
After nearly two decades, the Philippines reclaimed its No.
1 status in the Southeast Asian Age Group swimming championships
Saturday by winning the overall crown at the San Pablo City
Swimming Center here.
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Reyes
leads US
Open 9-ball cast
EFREN "Bata" Reyes and Francisco "Django"
Bustamante head a strong Philippine contingent to the 28th
Annual US Open 9-ball championship from September 15 to 21
at the Chesapeake Conference Center, Chesapeake in Virginia,
USA.
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Pacquiao
sees 'defining
fight of his career'
NO need to ask Manny Pacquiao how he regards his next fight
in the United States against pound-for-pound great Marco Antonio
Barrera.
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4th
in Vietnam still
difficult, says Dayrit
EVEN a fourth-place finish would be difficult.
That bleak assessment came from no less than Philippine Olympic
Committee president Celso Dayrit, who said the Philippines
will have to contend with Malaysia for fourth place in the
coming Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam.
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Macapagal
lauds Asian
track organizers
THE 15TH Asian Athletics Association championships is not
all about competition. It is also about sportsmanship, camaraderie
and goodwill.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo stressed this Friday as
she lauded the Philippine Amateur Track and Field Association
(PATAFA) for spearheading the hosting of the event slated
Sept. 20-23 at the refurbished Rizal track and field stadium.
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| Sputtering
finish for RP golfers
SOMEBODY other than Jerome Delariarte and Juvic Pagunsan
stepped forward for a Philippine team looking for a hero yesterday
as they lost their individual bids in the Asia-Pacific amateur
golf team championship in Queensland, Australia.
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Intramuros
hosts RP
int'l darts tournament
THE PHILIPPINE Department of Tourism and the Darts Council
of the Philippines (DCP) join hands in organizing the Philippine
International Darts Championship to be held from August 29
to 31 at Clamshell II in Intramuros, Manila.
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Reyes
wins Las
Vegas 9-ball title
EFREN "Bata" Reyes of the Philippines showed his
old deadly form to beat Neils Feijen of the Netherlands, 10-7,
and rule the 2nd Annual Gabriel's Las Vegas 9-Ball Open Friday
night at the Riviera Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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RP
cagers capture
3rd Seaba crown
KUALA LUMPUR--Bereft of collegiate stars, the Philippines-Cebuana
Lhuillier squad still got the job done impressively by crushing
longtime rival Malaysia, 96-81, Thursday night to win its
third consecutive Southeast Asian Basketball championship
here.
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Bacolod
softbelles
World Series champs
BACOLOD CITY--The Philippines scored a breakthrough victory
in the world youth softball championship Saturday in Kirkland,
Washington, with one of three Negros Occidental girl teams
that luckily made it to the US.
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Bustamante,
Reyes, Pagulayan
versus 'Rest of the World'
FLAMBOYANT Francisco "Django" Bustamante has proven
beyond doubt that he is sharper, better and more capable than
the toughest players and most dynamic shooters on the international
pro billiards tour.
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Pool
champ Hohmann
has Filipino relatives
DID you know that Thorsten Hohmann, Germany's newly crowned
world pool champion, has Philippine connections?
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Miñoza
takes
home P1.56M
MISSING in the golf radar for quite sometime now, Frankie
Miñoza popped up Sunday with his first Top 10 finish
in the Japanese Tour in almost two years as he tied for ninth
in the Sun Chlorella Classic at the Sapporo Bay Golf Club
in Hokkaido, Japan.
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PBA
threatens stiff fine
on 5 Fil-foreign players
A STIFF fine of 500,000 pesos will be imposed on Philippine
Basketball Association (PBA) teams fielding the five Fil-foreign
players being recommended for deportation by the Senate once
a case is filed against them for faking their Filipino citizenship.
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RP
Team to play
in ABC tourney
RP-CEBUANA Lhuillier is definitely seeing action in the Asian
Basketball Confederation (ABC) men's championship slated Sept.
23 to Oct. 1 in Hailongjan City, Guangdong province, China.
This was the assurance given by RP-Cebuana assistant team
manager Danny Francisco Saturday during the Scoop sa Kamayan
at Kamayan West.
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Filipino
chess master
nears Cannes crown
FILIPINO International Master Joseph Sanchez lured GM Igor
Miladinovic into familiar territory to extract an eighth round
victory Sunday and close in on the XV Cannes Open International
Chess Championship in Cannes, France.
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Fil-Ams,
Euro-Fil booters
to bolster RP team roster
THE PHILIPPINE Olympic Committee has given the Philippine
Football Federation until the end of this month to bring in
the "international footballers" who will reinforce
the RP football squad to the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in
Vietnam in December.
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Pacquiao crackling left
stops Lucero in third
LOS ANGELES, California--Actor Sylvester Stallone, who cheered
and goaded Filipino Manny Pacquiao from the front row, knew
right from the first round that the challenger would come down
crashing.
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Unpatriotic
act?
I FELT utterly flat after reading the report that the University
Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) and the National
Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the country's premier
amateur leagues, did not lend their best players to the Southeast
Asian Games (SEA)-bound Philippine team that is playing in the
PBA Asian Invitationals. Where is patriotism here? The Asian
Invitationals would have been a good training opportunity for
these top collegiate players, but the refusal of the UAAP and
the NCAA deprived them of that golden chance.
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Fil-Canadian
Pagulayan loses
in World Pool Championship
FILIPINO Alex Pagulayan bowed to German Thorsten Hohmann in
the finals of the 2003 World Pool Championship in Cardiff, Wales,
GMA-7's "Unang Balita" reported Monday.
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Pacquiao
suffers
from 'overdose'
LOS ANGELES, California--He's been diagnosed to be in peak form,
but handlers of Manny Pacquiao may have no choice but to scratch
fight tapes of the challenger from the champ's training menu.
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Reyes,
Bustamante enjoy
high World Pool rankings
HALL-OF-FAMER Efren "Bata" Reyes and last year's runner-up
Francisco "Django" Bustamante head the Filipino brigade
once again in the World 9-Ball Pool Championship in Cardiff,
Wales.
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RP
softbelles, Taiwanese
in key World Cup match
THE WELL-RESTED Philippine team eliminated Mexico with a convincing
7-1 win Sunday to advance to the International Bracket Championship
against Chinese Taipei in the Second International Softball
Federation (ISF) Junior Girls (16-and-under) World Cup in Plant
City, Florida.
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POC-PSC
unity
boosts RP fight
THERE could be no greater boost to the country's campaign in
the forthcoming Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) than the newfound
unity between the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) and the
Philippine Sports Commission (PSC), a top sports official said
Thursday.
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PSC
scraps 3 meets
to boost SEAG fund
FORCED to relax its stiff criteria for the Vietnam Southeast
Asian Games (SEAG), the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) took
another step backward by scrapping three grassroots competitions
this year to save money for the SEAG campaign.
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Dableo
discovers
power of computer
RONALD Dableo used to believe that playing games is the best
way to improve his chess skills.
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Atrocious
putting
derails J-Ro's bid
PORTLAND, Oregon--When the putting statistics of the 58th US
Women's Open came out before she teed off for the third round
on Saturday (Sunday Manila time), Jenny Rosales of the Philippines
was just utterly stunned -- she was No. 1 with a 25-putt per
round average.
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Posadas
wins in Oman
Filipino golf tournament
OMANTEL'S Boy Posadas emerged as the winner in the Open Golf
Tournament at Majan Golf Club Sohar in Oman.
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RP
team to SEA Games
may exceed 500 athletes
THE PHILIPPINE contingent to the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games
could swell past the 500 mark with many national sports associations
still to endorse their respective bets to the biennial sportsfest
Vietnam will host this December.
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Boxing
champ Pacquiao
trashes Cagayan de Oro bar
HELL hath no fury than a drunken and snubbed Manny Pacquiao.
A bar singer unleashed the beast in the International Boxing
Federation (IBF) superbantamweight champion when she refused
to go out with him in General Santos City early Friday morning.
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Asian
trackfest gets going
LERMA Bulauitan-Gabito and Maristella Torres get another chance
to break the domination that Kazakhstan's Yelena Kochsheyeva
has in the women's long jump in the final leg of the Asian Grand
Prix on Monday at the Rizal Memorial track oval in Manila's
Malate district.
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POC-PSC
rift hurting sports
THE RIFT between the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) and
the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) over the use of catch
phrases and trademarks related to the Southeast Asian (SEA)
Games in Vietnam this December only shows that sports in this
country is indeed in a sorry state because sports officials
are always locked in conflict.
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Jenny
Rosales' designer
headed for the big time
FASHION designer Lora Roberto has picked up something big while
doing a clothing delivery.
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Heart,
guts in PBA
game of the year
THEY played the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) game
of the year way, way ahead of schedule.
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Row
over Vietnam SEA
Games criteria looms
THE PHILIPPINE Sports Commission and the Philippine Olympic
Committee are on a collision course over the criteria for selecting
athletes to the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Vietnam on Dec.
5-13.
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Fil-Am
boxer invited
to Macapagal-Bush dinner
A US-BASED boxer of Filipino parentage has been invited by US
President George W. Bush to join President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
during the state dinner in honor of the Philippine leader on
Tuesday.
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Filipino
kids' exclusion
from Special Olympics hit
THE CHAIR of the House committee on youth and sports on Saturday
vowed to initiate a congressional move to protest Ireland's
decision to disallow 21 mentally challenged Filipino children
from competing in the Special Olympics slated in the country
next month.
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300
now assured
of SEA Games slots
A TOTAL of 300 athletes have already passed the requirement
for joining the national delegation to the Vietnam Southeast
Asian Games, Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Celso
Dayrit announced Saturday.
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Bustamante
loses
in US billiards final
FRANCISCO "Django" Bustamante blew a 15,000-dollar
(about 780,000 pesos) payoff when he dropped a close 7-6 decision
to Ralf "The Kaiser" Souquet of Germany in their Billiards
Congress of America (BCA) 9-Ball Championship final at the Riviera
Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas late Saturday.
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It's
go for Philippines
in Vietnam SEA Games
THE PHILIPPINES is definitely competing in the 22nd Southeast
Asian (SEA) Games in Vietnam this December.
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State
stuff
NOW that the Senate hearings on Fil-Ams playing in the PBA are
over, we can sit back, relax and enjoy the basketball games
in all their splendor and thrill. Look, whether we like it or
not, it's mostly the Fil-Ams who have been lording it in the
ongoing conference.
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Asian
sports still
reeling from SARS
THE SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) scourge continues
to wreak havoc on Asian sports, this time affecting the World
Junior Basketball Championships for men set July 10-20 in Malaysia.
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'The
Magician': Why
there's a Hall of Fame
HE'S so unique and original his rivals are willing to pay their
way in to see him play. Efren "Bata" Reyes, dubbed
"The Magician," continues to dazzle on the billiards
table, where he once slept as a lean, hungry kid.
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Manila,
Bacolod eye better
finish in World Series
TEAM Manila and Bacolod City get the chance to improve on their
third place finishes in the last World Series after keeping
their respective titles in the just-concluded 2003 Little League
Philippine Series.
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Late-bloomer
emerges
as Asian Games beater
ONLY one Philippine mark fell, but the four-day Milo national
open trackfest ended on a bright note Sunday after Mary Grace
Melgar was tagged an Asian Games beater following her two-gold
medal feat on the final day.
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Another
Bata Reyes
in the making
THE EMERGENCE of hitherto unheralded Ronnie Alcano in the international
billiards scene as 2002 US Rookie of the Year is a sign that
aside from recently named Hall of Famer Efren "Bata"
Reyes, the country is not lacking in new faces in a sport where
the Filipinos are second to none.
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SARS
scare keeps Philippines
off Vietnam SEA Games meet
THE SARS scare forced the Philippine Olympic Committee to absent
itself Friday from a vital meeting of the Southeast Asian Games
Federation in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Thousands
bike for clean air
EVERYTIME Dinna Louise Dayao goes out biking, she knows she
exposes herself to polluted air and reckless drivers. But she
bikes all the same, she said, to "affirm that cycling is
efficient, environmentally sensible and a healthy means of transport."
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Pacquiao
gets
new title rival
MANNY Pacquiao's world superbantamweight championship bout against
Venezuelan Antonio Cermeno is off. The Filipino has to stake
his title against another Venezuelan, Jose Luis Valbuena, instead.
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Trackster
Buenavista
girds for Vietnam SEAG
EDUARDO Buenavista was born before his elder brother Carlito
could even learn how to walk.
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Sports
groups
warned on SARS
PHILIPPINE Sports Commission (PSC) Eric Buhain said Friday he
will recommend to the national sports associations that they
postpone their participation in countries that have cases of
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
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Pacquiao
to defend IBF title
at Ninoy Aquino stadium
MANNY Pacquiao's fourth title defense would be held at the Ninoy
Aquino Stadium with ticket prices reaching as much as 10,000
pesos.
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RP
cagers seek
Olympic return
THE OLYMPICS. This is the target of the Basketball Association
of the Philippines (BAP) as it forms a young, competitive team
for this year's Southeast Asia Basketball Association (Seaba)
and Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC) men's championship,
according to BAP executive director Christian Tan.
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Pacquiao
gets P10-M offer
to fight US challenger
WORLD boxing champion Manny Pacquiao on Saturday said he is
willing to fight American challenger Tim Austin in Manila following
a fight offer that would earn him 10 million pesos.
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New
evidence found
vs 7 Fil-foreign cagers
LEGISLATORS on Thursday unearthed new pieces of evidence against
seven Filipino-foreign cagers believed to have falsified their
citizenship documents in order to play in the Philippine Basketball
Association.
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RP
5 aspirants down to 22
PHILIPPINE men's team head coach Aric del Rosario still has
22 players to choose from, but already he is satisfied with
what he's got.
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Antonio
to spearhead
Philippine zonal bets
GRANDMASTER (GM) Joey Antonio will spearhead the Philippine
bid in the Asian Zonals set in Ho Chi Minh City starting April
27.
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PSC
gets P20 million
more for 2003 budget
THE BICAMERAL budget committee has agreed to give an additional
20 million pesos to the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC),
but still leaving the agency about 10 million pesos short of
what it has been getting the past three years.
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Track
chief Go endorsed
to IAAF exec council
PHILIPPINE Amateur Track and Field Association president Go
Teng Kok has been chosen one of the five Asian athletics leaders
to be endorsed for seats in the 26-member International Amateur
Athletics Federation (IAAF) executive council.
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P2B
for 2005 SEA Games
assured, says Puentevella
BACOLOD Representative Monico Puentevella, a member of the Philippine
Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee, Wednesday said the
Department of Finance has assured him the country can afford
two billion pesos to host the 2005 SEA Games.
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RP-Australia
swimming
program exchange on tap
HOPING to harness the Filipinos' swimming prowess, the Philippine
Sports Commission (PSC) has started dealing with its Australian
counterpart regarding a possible exchange of training technology.
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PBL
marks 20th year
"THE BEGINNINGS" will be the main theme on the first
of the three-day launching extravaganza marking the 20th year
of the Philippine Basketball League (PBL) on March 18 at the
Atrium of the SM MegaMall Bldg. A.
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Tuñacao
RP's 2nd
world boxing champ
CEBUANO Noel Tuñacao became the country's second world
boxing champion Saturday after stopping previously unbeaten
Atrinset Matta of Indonesia in the 11th round to win the vacant
International Boxing Organization (IBO) mini-flyweight title
in Bali, Indonesia.
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Pacquiao-Kazakh
clash
expected to draw big crowd
A MAMMOTH crowd is expected when International Boxing Federation
(IBF) super bantam champion Manny Pacquiao squares off with
Kazakhtan's Serikzhan Yeshmangbetov in a non-title bout at the
Luneta Park on March 15.
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Palawan
ready for Palarong Pambansa
IF the situation warrants it, Puerto Princesa City is ready
to host the 2003 Palarong Pambansa.
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RP
cage team roster known
after series vs US selection
THE US selection versus Philippine National team games from
Feb. 22-March 1 have been billed a goodwill exhibition series,
but for the 26 remaining Filipino dribblers it will all be serious
play.
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Subic
to host annual
game fishing event
THE ANNUAL Philippine Game Fishing Foundation/Subic Bay Yacht
Club Interclub Sportfishing tournament is set for Feb. 22-23
and is supported by SBYC Commodore Vic Vic Villavicencio, who
is continuing a tradition he started in 1985.
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RP
climber sparkles in X Games
FILIPINA Joanne Songalia gave the small Philippine team something
to cheer on when she emerged best-placed athlete from Southeast
Asia during the recent Asian X Games V at the KLCC Park in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Athletics
chief tapped
to run for IAAF post
PHILIPPINE Amateur Track and Field Association president Go
Teng Kok was tapped to run for council member of the International
Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) during its convention held
over the weekend in Bangkok, Thailand.
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PBA
Commissioner's office
seeks P200-M budget in 2003
THE PHILIPPINE Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner's Office
is pushing to get an annual budget higher than what it had last
season, a move that will start the ball rolling for the projected
league relaunch this year.
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Lady
golfer's new dream
HEIDI Chua has made a confession. She is all set for a career
in golf. Professional golf, that is. She said her decision was
not the "spur of the moment" type. She broke the news
to me moments after she won her third Southern Ladies Open in
four years at the Cebu Country Club on Friday.
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Albay
ready for nat'l tilt
AN ESTIMATED 700 athletes and sports officials, excluding guests,
are expected to converge in Albay for the holding of the 57th
national intercollegiate and secondary basketball championships
from Feb. 24-March 2. This is the country's premiere cage event
for students.
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One-legged
runner,
coach HK-bound
ONE-LEGGED triathlete Rudy Fernandez and his coach, veteran
internationalist and race director Raffy Uytiepo, will see action
in the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, which fires off
on Feb. 16 in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
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PSC
reiterates support
for Asian athletics meet
PHILIPPINE Sports Commission (PSC) chair Eric Buhain on Saturday
reiterated his support to the hosting of the Asian athletics
championships slated here in September.
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Sorsogon
hosts
int'l hobie meet
DONSOL, Sorsogon--For the very first time, the Bicol Region
will host an international sailing competition featuring local
and international competitors who will be sailing in 40 boats
of different sizes starting from here Monday to Cebu City.
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Basketball
league
plans to go regional
WITH its newfound success, the Philippine Basketball League
(PBL) plans to go regional -- a concept that had gone into the
doldrums after the demise of the Metropolitan Basketball Association.
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Filipino
official elected VP
of Olympic Council of Asia
KUWAIT -- Philippine Olympic Committee president Celso L. Dayrit
gained a major sports achievement here Saturday when he was
elected vice president of the Olympic Council of Asia.
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RP
ends Asian X Games
campaign on sorry note
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--Lissa Lesaca placed a fighting seventh
in the Main X women's Sports Climbing-Speed finals and Erwin
Gozum also made it past the eliminations in the men's speed
category but two Filipino in-line skaters failed to make the
grade in the preliminaries as the Philippines ended its campaign
in the ESPN Asian X Games V on a sad note Sunday at the Kuala
Lumpur City Center.
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A man
called Django
IT'S in his eyes, steely and unwavering, the look of a hunter
after prey. Francisco "Django" Bustamante stalks the
pool table, the green rectangle his hunting ground, weapon of
choice firmly in hand, ready to strike. It's in his movements
around the table: careful but never tentative, pausing now and
then to take a puff from a cigarette. If he's across the table
from you, then you have a case of good news and bad news. The
good: You are facing off against one of the best ever to hold
a cue stick. The bad: You're going down next.
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RP
aerobics team
kicks ass in Dallas
THE TROUBLE with aerobics is that it looks too easy and too
much fun to be considered a major sport, much less the stuff
of serious competition. But at the recent 6th American Aerobic
Association International Grand Finals held in Dallas, Texas,
five of the Philippine's finest aerobics athletes proved that
they have what it takes to be world-class in this demanding
sport.
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