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                    [Title] => Requiem for a fight guru
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In boxing circles, Hermie Rivera will always be known as the fast-talking, loquacious and witty quip artist who made world champions out of Luisito Espinosa and Morris East.

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Pumanaw na ang long time GAB (Games Amusement Board licensed) boxing matchmaker na si Tony Chaves sanhi ng atake sa puso noong Linggo sa edad na 79.

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Long-time Games and Amusements Board (GAB)-licensed boxing matchmaker Tony Chaves passed away from heart failure Sunday.

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The other day, we were watching kids, some as young as four or five years, being coached in the fundamentals of golf at the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club. All the kids were exposed to the searing summer heat but did not mind it all as they were obviously having fun under the guidance of their teaching pro, the statuesque Heidi Chua, daughter of our De La Salle buddy, Victor, and niece of Vic’s younger brother, Val.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135709 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1653011 [AuthorName] => Philip Ella Juico [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 884007 [Title] => Sugar Ray stays in neutral corner [Summary] =>

Whenever he finds time, Sugar Ray Leonard would be at ringside for a big fight when many years ago he was the one in there, drawing the crowds and winning most of the time.

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Christine Rivera Cesano, daughter of boxing expert, broadcaster and Manila Standard Today columnist Hermie Rivera, died last week of cardiac arrest while in a business trip in New York City.

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Nagpapawis si Manny Pacquiao ng anim na sparring rounds sa Baguio CIty kahapon bago bumaba ng Maynila para sa ilang ak­tibidad, kasama na rito ang posibleng pakikipagpulong kay Pangulong Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III sa Lunes.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804774 [AuthorName] => Abac Cordero [SectionName] => PSN Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 619273 [Title] => Pacman in Manila to meet Noynoy [Summary] =>

Manny Pacquiao sparred six rounds in Baguio CIty yesterday then headed straight to Manila for some very important commitments, including a planned meeting with President Aquino tomorrow.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097461 [AuthorName] => Olmin Leyba [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 46237 [Title] => Pacman sees no problem meeting 130 lb weight [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-02-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 322579 [Title] => Objectivity and flag waving during a fight [Summary] => It somehow seems irrelevant to be concerned with sports and Brian Viloria’s successful defense of his World Boxing Council (WBC) light flyweight title over Mexican challenger Jose Antonio Aguirre at the Theater of Performing Arts at the Aladdin Hotel-Casino Sunday (in Manila) when thousands of Filipinos in Southern Leyte have still to be accounted for after Friday morning’s mudslide.

As of this writing, a little more than a 100 people have been rescued alive buried under the mud with thousands, most of them children, unaccounted for and feared dead.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135709 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1753468 [AuthorName] => SPORTS FOR ALL By Philip Ella Juico [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )
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