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Chunkees live up to giant task
WHEN DEFENDING champion Purefoods Chunkee arranged a quarterfinals showdown against Talk ’N Text, Coach Ryan Gregorio knew his team was facing a tall order against a team feared for its tall frontline.
A SHAME
That’s how ex-manager describes Pacquiao’s coming fight with Korean
PBA OKs RP team formation
THE PHILIPPINE Basketball Association Board of Governors yesterday approved a shorter second conference to pave the way for the formation of the national team for possible international competition.
PSA to enshrine GM Torre
THE MAN considered the pillar of Philippine chess spanning four decades, deservingly receives his own place into the Hall of Fame of the Philippine Sportswriters Association.
RP booters have a long way to go
BANGKOK — It’s a scary thought but the Philippine team may soon be heading to regaining its ugly tag as the region’s whipping boy.
Ateneo batters shock UP
ATENEO SHOCKED defending champion University of the Philippines, 9-3, to grab the solo lead in the UAAP baseball tournament at the Rizal Memorial stadium Sunday.
Dimakiling, So in contention
PHU QUOC, Vietnam — Tenth seed IM Oliver Dimakiling kept the Filipinos’ hopes alive, posting a hard-earned win over seventh seed GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son of Vietnam to join compatriot Wesley So at second after the sixth round of the Asian Zone 3.3 chess championships here Sunday.
Williams is scribes’ pick as PBA player of week
STA. LUCIA Realty knew Kelly Williams was good enough to be made the top pick in the 2006 rookie draft. But not this good.
40 athletes eyed for elite training
THE PHILIPPINE Sports Commission announced yesterday that it will hold tryouts for at least 40 athletes from 14 sport disciplines to determine who among them will undergo an intensive training program in the country’s bid to win a gold in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Blu Girls join Taiwan qualifying
THE PHILIPPINE women’s softball team is now in the final stages of its massive build-up for the Asia-Oceania Olympic Qualifying Tournament which starts Feb. 1 in Tainan, Taiwan.
Solon tops NCA derby
REP. IGGY Arroyo won the championship and the runner-up place in the recently concluded National Cockers’ Association (NCA) World Championship Derby at the Pasay City cockpit.
World Slasher derby on today
THE 2007 World Slasher Invitational 8-Cock Derby unfolds at the Araneta Coliseum today.
Otis, Sista eye playoff berths today
THE RACE for two outright semis berths in the 2007 PBL Silver Cup shifts to a higher gear as Toyota Otis and Sista-St. Benilde also shoot for playoff slots against separate rivals today at the Emilio Aguinaldo College gym in Manila.
The young and the ridiculous
In an interview in the TV-radio program "In the Zone," hosted by Jude Torquato, Robbie Puno and Patricia Hizon, Atty. Boni Alentajan of the Basketball Association of the Philippines said his organization no longer recognizes the communiqué signed by the 3-man panel composed of representatives of the BAP (Sen. Joey Lina), PB (Bernie Atienza) and Manny Pangilinan for the unification of Philippine basketball because the deadline for the implementation of the accord has already lapsed.
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