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                    [Title] => Throwback time for Cebu Gems
                    [Summary] => In a unique way, the pioneering members of the Cebu Gems refreshed their golden moments while playing for the Cebuana Lhuillier-backed squad in the now-defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association over two decades ago.
                    [DatePublished] => 2020-07-30 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1804803
                    [AuthorName] => Emmanuel B. Villaruel
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                    [Title] => Thanks for the memories (Part 2)
                    [Summary] => “Wouldn’t you like to work in an organization in which you have the absolute confidence, the absolute knowledge that other people that you may or may not know who work in the same organization as you would be willing to sacrifice themselves so that you may survive?” - Simon Sinek
                    [DatePublished] => 2020-07-20 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135979
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                    [AuthorID] => 1804781
                    [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco
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                    [Title] => Public safety first (Part 2)
                    [Summary] => “The average person touches their face two to three thousand times a day. Five to six times every waking minute.” – Dr. Erin Mears, “Contagion
                    [DatePublished] => 2020-02-15 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco
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                    [Title] => On Pirates’ honor
                    [Summary] => The old Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA) Pasig-Rizal Pirates set a high standard for basketball professionalism in the city. 
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                    [Title] => Hontiveros balak nang magretiro sa pagtatapos ng PBA season
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May dalawa pang komperensya si Dondon Honti­veros para makakuha ng PBA title bago tuluyang mag­retiro.

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Since the 1980s, being half Filipino, half foreign has become a premium in Philippine sports.

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Former Ginebra backup big man Peter Aguilar believes his son Japeth is in good hands as the Gin Kings begin their new chapter as a team under new coach Tim Cone.

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2015 will mark this writer’s 50th birthday. It will also be my 30th year as a journalist.

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 Barring anymore hitch, Andray Blatche is set to become Gilas Pilipinas' second naturalized center next month. 

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The debate over whether athletes should be role models or not has been an unending one, with a handful being vocal about their sports aptitude being more than enough to define them.

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