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                    [Title] => Puentevella calls for unity in sports
                    [Summary] => Bacolod City Representative Monico Puentevella appealed to the country’s top sports leaders to get their act together now.


Somehow a united Philippine sports, according to him, could serve as the first step in bringing the country, reeking with politics, back on its feet.

Puentevella made the call before the weekly PSA Forum at the Manila Pavilion, saying, "the spirit of politics can be lessened if we can get our acts together, maski sa sports na lang.

"If unity can start with sports, mas maganda."
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"This is good to know that we have more talents to make the RP team not only for Athens but also for the 2005 SEA Games which our country is hosting," said Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Celso Dayrit yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804774 [AuthorName] => Abac Cordero [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 254498 [Title] => Fil-Am tanker meets Olympic norm [Summary] => With local sports officials hardly knowing it, a Fil-American swimmer named James Bernard Walsh qualified for the Athens Olympics during a recent tournament in Charlotte, North Carolina and, barring any hitches, may raise the number of Philippine representatives to this year’s quadrennial event to 14.

Walsh, a 17-year-old student who competed out of the Tide Water Club in Virginia, met the Olympic B standard of two minutes 04.56 seconds in the men’s 200-meter butterfly when he clocked 2:04.13 in the Charlotte Ultra-Swim Championships last June 10 to 14.
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"The competition is just getting tougher and this is good for our athletes," said RP track and field president Go Teng Kok yesterday as the final preparations for the multi-nation event on June 1 to 4 are being laid out.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804774 [AuthorName] => Abac Cordero [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 250443 [Title] => Eight Fil-Ams to spice up nat’l trackfest [Summary] => When this year’s National Open Track and Field Championships are held May 31 to June 3 at the Rizal Memorial Stadium, there will be eight fresh, promising faces that might just be worth watching.

The Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) yesterday said eight Fil-American athletes are due for the said competition in the hope of discovering potential winners that could serve the country in future international competitions.

They are Gary Gableza, Kassius Tirona, Bryan Bumanlag, Deborah Samson, Rose Supangan, Verna Bansio, Gerlyn Kiamco and Krizia Apelar.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804774 [AuthorName] => Abac Cordero [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 172134 [Title] => Best of the bunch out to end Asiad drought [Summary] => Eduardo Buenavista and Lerma Bulauitan will lead 11 other Filipino tracksters in a very tough mission in Busan, Korea — to end a long medal drought for the Philippines in athletics in the Asian Games set Sept. 29-Oct. 14.

Buenavista is entered in his favorite event -- the 3,000-meter steeplechase and the 5,000 run -- while Bulauitan tries to duplicate, if not surpass, her recent silver medal effort in the Asian Championships in Sri Lanka.
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Lozada needed to make extra push in the homestretch to beat Herrera in an exciting race for his second gold medal following his triumph in the 800-m run in the second day of the multi-nation meet Thursday.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 155300 [Title] => Double treat for athletics aficionados [Summary] => The month of May will be a very busy one for Philippine sports with the staging of two international track and field events – the Milo National Open and the third and final leg of the Asian Grand Prix Series 2002 – at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex.

The Milo-sponsored meet, also known this year as the Gov. Sering Cup International Invitational, will be staged May 1 to 4 with local organizers expecting entries from different countries like Brunei, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Middle East.
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Organizers said the foreign entries are expected to arrive beginning today with the Hong Kong delegation planing in at 4:25 p.m. aboard Cathay Pacific to be followed by the contingents from Sri Lanka, Brunei, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Chinese Taipei, Sabah and Thailand.
[DatePublished] => 2001-05-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 86455 [Title] => Foreign contingents due for National trackfest [Summary] => A total of 806 local and foreign tracksters will see action in the Milo Invitational Track and Field Championships unfolding Thursday at the Rizal Memorial Track and Field Stadium with a crack team from Thailand leading the invited foreign squads to the four-day event.

Organizers said the foreign entries are expected to arrive beginning today with the Hong Kong delegation planing in at 4:25 p.m. aboard Cathay Pacific to be followed by the contingents from Sri Lanka, Brunei, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Chinese Taipei, Sabah and Thailand.
[DatePublished] => 2001-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )
EDUARDO BUENAVISTA AND LERMA BULAUITAN
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                    [ArticleID] => 255840
                    [Title] => Puentevella calls for unity in sports
                    [Summary] => Bacolod City Representative Monico Puentevella appealed to the country’s top sports leaders to get their act together now.


Somehow a united Philippine sports, according to him, could serve as the first step in bringing the country, reeking with politics, back on its feet.

Puentevella made the call before the weekly PSA Forum at the Manila Pavilion, saying, "the spirit of politics can be lessened if we can get our acts together, maski sa sports na lang.

"If unity can start with sports, mas maganda."
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 254638 [Title] => Fil-Am tanker boosts RP hopes in Athens [Summary] => A Filipino-American swimmer qualifying for the Athens Olympics then baring his plans to compete for the Philippines is certainly a welcome development as far as the country’s participation in the quadrennial event this August is concerned.

"This is good to know that we have more talents to make the RP team not only for Athens but also for the 2005 SEA Games which our country is hosting," said Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Celso Dayrit yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804774 [AuthorName] => Abac Cordero [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 254498 [Title] => Fil-Am tanker meets Olympic norm [Summary] => With local sports officials hardly knowing it, a Fil-American swimmer named James Bernard Walsh qualified for the Athens Olympics during a recent tournament in Charlotte, North Carolina and, barring any hitches, may raise the number of Philippine representatives to this year’s quadrennial event to 14.

Walsh, a 17-year-old student who competed out of the Tide Water Club in Virginia, met the Olympic B standard of two minutes 04.56 seconds in the men’s 200-meter butterfly when he clocked 2:04.13 in the Charlotte Ultra-Swim Championships last June 10 to 14.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804774 [AuthorName] => Abac Cordero [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 251084 [Title] => Tough foreign field in RP Open to benefit locals [Summary] => Win or lose, Filipino athletes who will see action in the forthcoming Milo National Open track and field championships are expected to learn and benefit from the tough competition their foreign counterparts are to offer.

"The competition is just getting tougher and this is good for our athletes," said RP track and field president Go Teng Kok yesterday as the final preparations for the multi-nation event on June 1 to 4 are being laid out.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804774 [AuthorName] => Abac Cordero [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 250443 [Title] => Eight Fil-Ams to spice up nat’l trackfest [Summary] => When this year’s National Open Track and Field Championships are held May 31 to June 3 at the Rizal Memorial Stadium, there will be eight fresh, promising faces that might just be worth watching.

The Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) yesterday said eight Fil-American athletes are due for the said competition in the hope of discovering potential winners that could serve the country in future international competitions.

They are Gary Gableza, Kassius Tirona, Bryan Bumanlag, Deborah Samson, Rose Supangan, Verna Bansio, Gerlyn Kiamco and Krizia Apelar.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804774 [AuthorName] => Abac Cordero [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 172134 [Title] => Best of the bunch out to end Asiad drought [Summary] => Eduardo Buenavista and Lerma Bulauitan will lead 11 other Filipino tracksters in a very tough mission in Busan, Korea — to end a long medal drought for the Philippines in athletics in the Asian Games set Sept. 29-Oct. 14.

Buenavista is entered in his favorite event -- the 3,000-meter steeplechase and the 5,000 run -- while Bulauitan tries to duplicate, if not surpass, her recent silver medal effort in the Asian Championships in Sri Lanka.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 159685 [Title] => Lozada upends Herrera, nails 1,500-m plum [Summary] => John Lozada overcame a tough challenge of Philippine Navy’s Rene Herrera in the 1,500-m run, completing a twin victory that made him among the best performers in the 2002 Milo National Open-Sering Cup Track and Field Championships which concluded yesterday at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex.

Lozada needed to make extra push in the homestretch to beat Herrera in an exciting race for his second gold medal following his triumph in the 800-m run in the second day of the multi-nation meet Thursday.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 155300 [Title] => Double treat for athletics aficionados [Summary] => The month of May will be a very busy one for Philippine sports with the staging of two international track and field events – the Milo National Open and the third and final leg of the Asian Grand Prix Series 2002 – at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex.

The Milo-sponsored meet, also known this year as the Gov. Sering Cup International Invitational, will be staged May 1 to 4 with local organizers expecting entries from different countries like Brunei, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Middle East.
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 107823 [Title] => Foreign contingents due for National trackfest [Summary] => A total of 806 local and foreign tracksters will see action in the Milo Invitational Track and Field Championships unfolding Thursday at the Rizal Memorial Track and Field Stadium with a crack team from Thailand leading the invited foreign squads to the four-day event.

Organizers said the foreign entries are expected to arrive beginning today with the Hong Kong delegation planing in at 4:25 p.m. aboard Cathay Pacific to be followed by the contingents from Sri Lanka, Brunei, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Chinese Taipei, Sabah and Thailand.
[DatePublished] => 2001-05-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 86455 [Title] => Foreign contingents due for National trackfest [Summary] => A total of 806 local and foreign tracksters will see action in the Milo Invitational Track and Field Championships unfolding Thursday at the Rizal Memorial Track and Field Stadium with a crack team from Thailand leading the invited foreign squads to the four-day event.

Organizers said the foreign entries are expected to arrive beginning today with the Hong Kong delegation planing in at 4:25 p.m. aboard Cathay Pacific to be followed by the contingents from Sri Lanka, Brunei, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Chinese Taipei, Sabah and Thailand.
[DatePublished] => 2001-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )
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