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                    [Title] => Collegiate billiards league set to debut in November
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Long after the likes of Efren “Bata” Reyes and Francisco “Django” Bustamante brought the game of billiards out of smoke-filled halls and into mainstream acceptance, a billiards league featuring leading schools and universities is set to debut in November, intended to breed new cue stars.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 378859 [Title] => Pacquiao, Morales square off over bottles of beer [Summary] => After three vicious fights in the ring, it would have been quite hard to imagine Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales sharing one table, enjoying a "few rounds" of beer.

But past midnight of Saturday shortly after the Mexican boxer arrived from the US, it did happen on the classy 25th floor lounge of the Diamond Hotel along Roxas Blvd.

Morales is in the country for a short vacation reportedly promised him and his wife by a Filipino friend, who lives next door the Mexican couple who keeps a house in California.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804774 [AuthorName] => Abac Cordero [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 369896 [Title] => Pacquiao fights on pirated DVD a bestseller [Summary] => BESTSELLER. The Ear heard that pirated DVD copies of the past two fights between Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales have been flying off the shelves since last week. A Pacquiao fan said that he bought this DVD to compare the different fights of the two boxers with the fight that went down yesterday. "Kung mo tan-aw ka sa niaging mga away nila, ma klaro gyud nimo nga si Pacquiao nagkalig-on samtang si Morales nagkahuyang."
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1769982 [AuthorName] => The Ear [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 369435 [Title] => Bob Arum brings house down with STAR story [Summary] => LAS VEGAS — Before a jampacked press conference, Bob Arum, the legendary boxing promoter, made special mention of a recent Philippine STAR article where a Filipino bishop said it’s not a sin to place bets for the coming fight.

"This morning, as I was browsing the Internet, I came across an article that came out at Philippine STAR," said Arum over the microphone as he prepared to formally introduce Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales to the press.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 368163 [Title] => Bob Arum sees complete sellout [Summary] => LOS ANGELES — Bob Arum, the legendary boxing promoter, knows what blockbuster fights are made of. The coming fight between Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales, he said, will be no different from the rest.

"I think this is going to be the best of the three fights because Erik’s conditioning for this fight has been tremendous, and Manny’s in the best shape that he’s been," he said Thursday.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 365539 [Title] => Morales, Pacquiao to hype up bout among LA fans [Summary] => To drum up their forthcoming showdown dubbed as "The Grand Finale," Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales have agreed to go the extra mile.

According to Ricardo Jimenez, the Mexican publicist of Top Rank Promotions, the two fighters who will square off on Nov. 18 in Las Vegas will have to do some additional legwork.

Jimenez said they plan to parade Pacquiao and Morales in Mexican and Filipino communities in Los Angeles a week before the scheduled fight at the Thomas and Mack Center.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804774 [AuthorName] => Abac Cordero [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 365286 [Title] => Pacquiao still eight pounds over the weight limit [Summary] => As of this writing, the weight difference separating Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales is only three pounds.

The Filipino ring icon scaled in at 138.75 pounds during the 30-day prefight weigh-in officialy supervised by a World Boxing Council (WBC) representative yesterday at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, California.

Morales came in at 142 pounds during his public weigh-in last Friday in Mexico City.

"He was on the scale wearing a shirt and his shoes - his real weight is about 136," said Pacquiao's celebrated trainer Freddie Roach in a report by fightnews.com. [DatePublished] => 2006-10-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Sports [SectionUrl] => cebu-sports [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 340319 [Title] => Erik-Manny rubber back in November [Summary] => It’s back to November for Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales.

Upon the request of the Filipino fighter who is scheduled to face Oscar Larios on July 2, Pacquiao’s third and deciding match against Morales has been moved to Nov. 18.

The fight, which will serve as a fitting closure to the classic matchup between the two great super-featherweights, was first set for Nov. 4 then was moved to Oct. 7.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804774 [AuthorName] => Abac Cordero [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 321450 [Title] => This time, it’s Pacquiao in announcer’s booth [Summary] => Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales may find themselves on the opposite corners again when Brian Viloria and Jose Antonio Aguirre slug it out for the World Boxing Council (WBC) light flyweight crown on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Filipino ring icon, who gave Morales a terrible beating somewhere in Vegas last month, will give the blow-by-blow account of Viloria’s first title-defense to Filipino viewers with veteran boxing commentator and The STAR sports columnist Quinito Henson.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 317847 [Title] => Chavit puts in bet, says Pinoy champ sure winner [Summary] => LAS VEGAS–Luis "Chavit" Singson, the swanky former governor of Ilocos Sur, has issued a fearless forecast for Saturday’s bout between Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales.

"It’s going to be Manny Pacquiao by knockout," said the former government official who’s also a regular visitor in this place known as the gambling capital of the world.

"I have this very strong feeling that Manny will win this fight. He looks more relaxed, happier and more energetic," Singson told The STAR in a short interview.
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