LOS ANGELES — Mark the date Jan. 21, 2006, on your calendar. Start booking flights and reserving hotel rooms in Las Vegas for Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales are going to lock horns again.

ALL IS said to be ready for the inaugural A1 Grand Prix World Cup of Motorsports race at Brands Hatch in Great Britain this month. We’ve been closely following the birth of this exciting series. The concept of a one-make race in top open wheel competition is quite intriguing. This form of racing should put a stop to many controversies over who really is the best driver in many motorsports championships like Formula One or even in World Rallye Championship series.

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (Reuters) — Red Bull have bought Minardi as a junior Formula One team to bring on rookie drivers, company founder Dietrich Mateschitz said on Saturday.

HE MAY have been challenging himself but Dado Peña was vivid with his prediction: A Filipino driver will score a breakthrough win before the 2005 Asian Formula Three series ends in November.

TOP BOWLERS from around the globe will cross paths in the 2005 World 10-pin Masters to be aired by ABC 5 starting on tomorrow at 4:30 p.m.

LOS ANGELES — In a stunning display of lightning-quick reflexes and devastating power, Brian Viloria, who traces his roots to the Philippines, crowned himself as the new World Boxing Council (WBC) light flyweight king with a vicious first round stoppage of Eric Ortiz of Mexico.

ATENEO RODE on the heroics of LA Tenorio late in the game as the Eagles turned back the Far Eastern University Tamaraws, 69-66, a win that threw the contest for two twice-to-beat advantages into a wild, open race in the UAAP men’s basketball tournament yesterday at the Araneta Coliseum.

LOS ANGELES — Boom!

ILOILO CITY — Last year’s runners-up Eric Panique and Marigen Campos finally emerged from the huge shadows of their more popular rivals by winning their respective divisions in the Iloilo leg of the 29th National Milo Marathon at the Freedom Grandstand here.

AS FAR as the Philippine SEA Games Organizing Committee (Philsoc) is concerned, all events in the biennial meet now have official venues.