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                    [ArticleID] => 1537696
                    [Title] => In a year of odd moves, FIFA and Al Capone become neighbors
                    [Summary] => 

All across Europe and the Americas — as they plot legal strategy, await extradition hearings and consider the billable hours run up by their lawyers — FIFA officials can take comfort in this: They are serving the cause of art.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-30 03:22:37 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1326540 [AuthorName] => Fred Lief [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/sports/20150902/PS-Fifa3.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1495103 [Title] => FIFA scandal becomes exhibit at Mob Museum in Las Vegas [Summary] =>

The same museum that chronicles Sin City's mob beginnings led by underworld criminals like Bugsy Siegel is hoping to score with an exhibit exploring FIFA's wide-ranging corruption scandal.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-01 20:48:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/sports/20150902/PS-Fifa1.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1339774 [Title] => Notes from a casual World Cup fan [Summary] =>

I don’t mind the fair-weather fandom since it brings people closer together and fosters a sense of pride.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133515 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Supreme [SectionUrl] => supreme [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1322691 [Title] => Youth teams vie for World Cup experience in Kia Champ into the Arena [Summary] =>

Did you know that the world’s biggest single-event sporting competition is actually a quadrennial football tourney joined by 32 teams from 208 member associations from the world over?

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Motoring [SectionUrl] => motoring [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/business/motoring/20140514/kia-champ-to-the-arena-12.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1318532 [Title] => Sama-Sama beach soccer up in Boracay [Summary] =>

A total of 16 teams, led by the highly touted Futkaleros United of Tondo, will see action in a beach soccer tournament in the paradise island of Boracay on May 8-11, an event aimed to provide equal opportunities and develop the younger generation through “The Beautiful Game.”

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 937752 [Title] => Never alone [Summary] =>

Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Daily Bread [SectionUrl] => daily-bread [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 808675 [Title] => A Filipino drummer at 'The Greatest Show on Earth' [Summary] =>

It’s not only a handful of athletes who will be representing the Philippines at the London Olympics 2012 in July, which the British government and media are understandably hyping up as “the Greatest Show on Earth.”

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135208 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1288831 [AuthorName] => Ed Maranan [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 649608 [Title] => Kickin' it with the college footballers [Summary] =>

Football gets a lot of guff for being called “The Beautiful Game.

[DatePublished] => 2011-01-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488627 [AuthorName] => Margarita Buenaventura, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/795/ystar6thumbm.jpg ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 561175 [Title] => Love Never Dies: More fan fiction than sequel [Summary] =>

How does a composer top his own best show? He doesn’t, but he at least tries not to be too far off the mark. Andrew Lloyd Webber has yet to write a show that would equal the success he has had with The Phantom of the Opera, now the longest running show on Broadway.

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413042 [AuthorName] => Jonathan Chua [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 555031 [Title] => LeBron and MJ: true colors [Summary] =>

LeBron James and Michael Jordan seem to be inextricably linked, particularly whenever the latter is mentioned in the news.

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )
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