THE PHILIPPINES beat Aoshen of China, 80-65, at the Cox Pavilion of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas campus Saturday night (yesterday morning, Manila).
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UNIVERSITY OF the Philippines (UP) streaked to its third straight win yesterday by downing a hapless National University squad, 81-59, in the 68th season of the UAAP men’s basketball championship at the Blue Eagle Gym.
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Tiger Woods reached into the prickly gorse twice to retrieve his ball and take a penalty. He hung his head when a flop shot sailed from one end of the 16th green to the other. He dropped to his knees and flipped his putter like a baton.
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HAMMOND PLAINS, Canada (AFP) — While the world’s best male golfers visit her homeland for a major championship, Scotland’s Janice Moodie is making her bid for an impressive wire-to-wire title run at the Canadian Women’s Open.
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SAN DIEGO — Tonton Asistio failed in his bid to win the title in the centerpiece event but his performance was nonetheless impressive.
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THERE WILL only be one winless team as the two weakest schools face off in the 81st NCAA today at the Cuneta Astrodome.
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BOBBY PACQUIAO is expected to earn a huge payoff underneath the lightweight rematch between Diego Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo on Oct. 8 at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas.
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Philip Alvendia of A3 Motorsports-Malayan Automaster National Touring Team proved he’s still a force to reckon with in the motorsports scene by finishing a strong second in the recent third leg of the 2005 Petron National Touring Car Championship at the Batangas Racing Circuit.
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FOR NEWLY-INSTALLED PBA chairman Eleazar "Ely’ Capacio, there should not be a conflict of interest between his job in San Miguel Corp. and his new position as the top honcho of the country’s pro-league.
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LIPA CITY — Cresenciano Sabal effortlessly claimed his second straight title even as Ellen Tolentino savored her first victory yesterday in the 29th National MILO Marathon regional elimination leg here at the Lipa City Hall.
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ALEX ANGELES scored a season-high 23 points and Jerome Paterno added 21 and 12 rebounds as the veteran duo led San Beda to a 71-44 rout of Jose Rizal University yesterday in the 81st NCAA at the Cuneta Astrodome.
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PHILIPPINE TEAM got off to a slow start and paid dearly for that as the Filipinos absorbed a 71-80 beating to Passing Lane in a bruising encounter at Cox Pavilion on the UNLV campus in Las Vegas Sunday.
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MIKA SANTOS of Ateneo set a new Philippine record in winning the pole vault gold medal in the Hongkong Inter-city Athletics Challenge staged last July 10.
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PRESIDENTIAL DAUGHTER Luli Arroyo is going to meet with athletes and officials who will take part in the 23rd South East Asian Games as the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) tries to bridge the gap between the athletes and Malacañang.
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THE PHILIPPINE Sports Commission will evict the Basketball Association of the Philippines from one of the of the two offices it is occupying at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum after a local court rejected the temporary restraining order (TRO) sought by the BAP against the PSC.
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HONG KONG — FedEx crushed SEABA champion Malaysia, 84-57, to finish third in the 14th Eastcolight Super Kung Sheung Cup International Invitational Championships Sunday at the Hong Kong Coliseum.
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BLOOD MAY be thicker than water but for La Salle coach Franz Pumaren, relations will have to take a back seat in this case as he filed a protest contesting the victory of University of the East whose Red Warriors are coached by his younger brother, Dindo.
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THE DEFENDING champions —Far Eastern University in the men and De La Salle in the women— lived up to their billing but the ladies of Santo Tomas U could not avoid the upset ax at the start of UAAP Season 68 volleyball action Sunday at the University of the Philippines gym in Diliman.
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MINGLANILLA, Cebu — Defending champion Tribu Sugbu crushed Spring Cooking Oil-backed Laguna, 82-66, Sunday to tie idle Ozamiz Cotta for the Southern Conference lead in the 2005 Panasonic-NBC national basketball championship at the Sports Center here.
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SUBIC FREEPORT — Veteran Paul del Rosario and BJ Ang of Networx Jetsports made spectacular comebacks in the watersports scene as they ruled their respective classes in the 2005 Petron Blaze-JSAP Jet Ski Invitational Race Sunday at the Waterfront Beach of the Subic Bay Free Zone here.
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