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                    [Title] => Professionalizing amateurs (Part 2)
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In Saturday’s column, this writer discussed the gray area that amateur boxing finds itself in, and how it seeks a new definition in an age where its old form no longer resonates with a majority of its audience, there are also other cases wherein amateur sports as increasingly being looked at as becoming more professional, as competition increases and athletes find themselves more commercially viable commodities.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1404705 [Title] => Football’s tipping point [Summary] =>

Football in the Philippines has climbed in popularity in the last five years, ever since the ASEAN Football Federation Championship – now known as the AFF Suzuki Cup – was first broadcast live by ABS-CBN.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1005921 [Title] => Orcollo wins duel versus Deuel [Summary] =>

Dennis Orcollo quelled a last-ditch effot by American Corey Deuel to win the  US Open One Pocket Championship, 5-3,  and claim the top prize of $7,500 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas Sunday (Monday in Manila).

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img33/9665/ddfw.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 897476 [Title] => Changing lives thru football and golf [Summary] =>

One of our main advocacies is to see sports as equalizing opportunities for advancement and lifting the economic status of the marginalized and the excluded.

[DatePublished] => 2013-01-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135709 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1653011 [AuthorName] => Philip Ella Juico [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 711798 [Title] => Azkals: We are all Filipinos [Summary] => There is no denying the immense pride that the Philippine Azkals have when they play for flag and country. [DatePublished] => 2011-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 194815 [Title] => An album for change [Summary] => Change, they say, is the only thing constant in this world. If that is so, then how come there is always a call for change around here? Can it be because, while people, particularly Filipinos, do change, the changes they make are usually for the worse? Now, that is truly a dreadful thought. But I guess that as long as there are people willing to make the effort to bring about change, there will always be hope for all of us.
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