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                    [Title] => PBL finds a backer in RFM
                    [Summary] => The Philippine Basketball League (PBL) is the first major beneficiary of RFM’s thrust to tap the youth sector.


The giant conglomerate came to terms with officials of the 20-year old league to sponsor its season-opening tournament, well aware of the PBL’s potential to discover and develop young talents.

Dubbed the Sunkist-PBL Unity Cup, the three-month long meet kicks off this coming Sunday with a lavish opening rites at the San Juan gym highlighting the league’s celebration of its two decade of existence.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 197704 [Title] => Horseracing posts P6.7-B sales [Summary] => Philippine Racing Commission (Philracom) chairman Jaime Dilag announced yesterday that the country’s horseracing industry earned a phenomenal P6.79 billion gross sales in the year 2002.

The figure represents a total of P878 million in additional sales as compared from the previous year, according to Dilag, who hopes the amount will further increase this season with the staging of more exciting races and the coming transfer of the Manila Jockey Club’s operations from Manila to Carmona, Cavite next month.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 194829 [Title] => Dayrit main guest at PSA Forum [Summary] => Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Celso Dayrit joins National Basketball Association (NBA) officiating guru Darrell Garretson and Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) technical chief Perry Martinez as guests in tomorrow’s PSA Forum at the Holiday Inn.

Dayrit is expected to talk about the country’s stint in this year’s Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam as well as its hosting of the biennial meet two years from now.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 193321 [Title] => ABAP shifts focus to Go for Gold [Summary] => Citing the lack of local competitions, the Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines (ABAP) shifts back its focus on the grassroots level.

And what better way to attain it than to revive the association’s good, old formula — the highly-popular Go-for-Gold.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 187189 [Title] => PCSO, NBN head guests in PSA forum [Summary] => The final session of the PSA Forum for the year features a heavy guest list headed by Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) chairperson Livia ‘Honeygirl’ de Leon.

Joining the PCSO official in the 10:30 a.m. session at the Holiday Inn Manila are NBN-4 general manager Jose Isabelo, commissioner Mike Barredo of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC), former Philippine Basketball League (PBL) commissioner Charlie Favis and basketball coach John Moran of the famed Las Vegas Hoops.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 180992 [Title] => Smooth staging of Minda Games seen [Summary] => Despite the uncertain peace and order situation down South, the man behind the Mindanao Friendship Games assured that there won’t be any hitches during the staging of the five-day meet that begins Sunday.

The event, after all, doesn’t only concern about competitions but peace and unity as well.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 176305 [Title] => Pacquiao, FedEx forum guests [Summary] => The coming title fight of International Boxing Federation (IBF) super bantamweight champion Manny Pacquiao and next year’s edition of the FedEx Express Tour are the featured topics in a two-part session of the PSA Forum tomorrow at the Holiday Inn.

Bert Lina, Airfreight 2100 chair, along with FedEx president Lito Alvarez and Mar Mendoza, executive director of FedEx tour; will discuss about the bigger and better cycling tour FedEx plans to put up next year following the success of the Express Tour of Calabarzon which the giant delivery service sponsored last June.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 175576 [Title] => Busan Games true test for RP keglers [Summary] => Officials of the Philippine bowling team believe the country can become a power in Asia once again.

It may be hard but it can be done. And the coming Asian Games could be the first real test.

"During the 70s and 80s, the Philippines was No. 1 in Asian bowling. I think we can be on top again especially with the young team we had right now," said Philippine Bowling Congress (PBC) secretary-general Danny Santos in the PSA Forum at the Holiday Inn Hotel yesterday, where he guested together with national coach Purvis Granger.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 173497 [Title] => RP boxers, cage coaches guests in PSA Sports Forum [Summary] => The Philippine boxing team, led by Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines (ABAP) president Manny Lopez, assesses its coming campaign in the Busan Asian Games in tomorrow’s session of the PSA Forum at the Holiday Inn.

Lopez will be accompanied by his coaching staff composed of George Caliwan, Boy Velasco and Pat Gaspi in the weekly public sports program where they will be joined by NBN-4 chairman Mia Concio and organizers of the ongoing Army-Utilco International Invitational Football Cup tournament.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 168533 [Title] => RP pins Busan hopes on 3 Bs [Summary] => Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chair Eric Buhain and RP delegation Chef de Mission Tom Carrasco are one in saying that prospects are bright as far as the country’s coming campaign in the Busan Asian Games is concerned.

So vocal the two officials are, they readily defied the odds by predicting that the Filipinos are capable of delivering four golds – or more – in the quadrennial meet set Sept. 29-Oct. 14.
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )
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