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Boxing: Free watch live via telecast between Pacquiao-Clottey fight
MANILA,
March 13 (PNA)--Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim on Friday announced that
just like what has he done in the past, the city’s various sports
complexes will open their gates to give the poor residents who cannot
afford to buy expensive tickets the chance to watch live via telecast
the much-awaited fight between Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and
Joshua Clottey of Ghana on Sunday
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Billiards: Reyes elevated to national playing-coach
MANILA,
March 13 (PNA) -- Former World 9-Ball pool champion Efren “Bata” Reyes
has been elevated to the national playing-coach status starting with the
coming Asian Games in November in Guangzhou, China.
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Basketball:MBL starts on April 8 at Lyceum Gym
MANILA,
March 13 (PNA)--The Millennium Basketball League (MBL), one of the
country’s longest-running commercial leagues, will open its 2010 season
with another major tournament on April 8 at the Lyceum gym in
Intramuros, Manila.
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Tennis: Patrombon in Q'finals of ITF Juniors
MANILA, March 12 (PNA)-- Jeson Patrombon
on Thursday pulled off another big upset over world no. 30 and third
seed Dominic Thiem of Austria to barge into the quarter-finals of the
Grade One International Tennis Federation juniors in Nonthaburi,
Thailand.
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Chess: "Battle of GMs" backed by Phoenix Petroleum
MANILA, March 12 (PNA) -- Phoenix
Petroleum, Inc. has agreed to sponsor the coming “Battle of GMs” chess
championship for the second straight year.
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RP's best cue masters to compete in US World Pool Masters
MANILA,
March 12 (PNA) -- Just like his compatriots, Marlon Manalo said he is
ready and confident for the forthcoming 2010 PartyPoker.net World Pool
Masters slated on May 12 to 16 at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las
Vegas, Nevada.
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Palace confident Pacquiao will win vs Clottey -- Olivar
MANILA,
March 12 (PNA) — Malacanang wishes pound-for- pound boxing champion
Manny Pacquiao the best in his coming fight with Ghanaian challenger
Joshua Clottey on Sunday at the Cowboys' Stadium in Arlington, Texas,
USA.
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Boxing: RP's Moralde falls in Asian Youth Boxing C'ship
TEHRAN,
Iran, March 11 (PNA) -- Engelbert Moralde, the last Filipino fighter
standing in the 19th Asian Youth Boxing Championship, bowed out quietly
Tuesday night, putting to an end the PLDT-Team Philippines’ gold medal
hopes at Tehran’s Shahid Shiroudi Complex in the Iranian capital.
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Chess: So, Torre guests at EdPam Angeles Cup
MANILA, March 11 (PNA) -- The Philippines'
top chess players Super Grandmaster Wesley So and Asia’s first
Grandmaster Eugene Torre will be the guests of honor in the first Atty.
Edgardo “EdPam” Pamintuan Chess Cup on April 3 at the Marquee Mall in
Angeles City, Pampanga.
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Tennis: Patrombon advances to round 16 of ITF
MANILA, March 11 (PNA) -- Filipino tennis
ace Jeson Patrombon on Wednesday upset 16th-seed American Campbell
Johnson to join compatriot Francis Casey Alcantara in the round 16 of
the Grade 1 International Tennis Federation (ITF) Juniors in Nonthaburi,
Thailand.
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