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DELAYED BLOGCAST: Last Monday I had a very long lunch with two friends, MC of the Business Mirror and blogosphere’s Mr. Clean Slate, Mo, who also writes for Manila Standard Today.
Time with Mo is time to update about sports. He breathes sporting fire in the city. Not that he is the only one I know. [...]

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The verdict is out: the court has upheld as valid and constitutional the city ordinance banning aerial spraying in plantations. In a decision dated September 22, Judge Renato Fuentes of Regional Trial Court Branch-17 junked the petition of the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA) questioning the constitutionality of the ordinance, the [...]

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Today I broke free from a personal myth that I could no longer play basketball. I still can despite gaining weight and this strange feeling of distrust that I couldn’t even last a minute in the court.
We played ball early afternoon, after a hearty lunch of seafoods and grill today in a friend’s place along [...]

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According to this report by Rico Biliran, the proposed sports complex is not yet off the hook. We are probably the only big city with no modern sports complex. But at least there’s hope. (Fingers crossed)

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 June) – The City government of Davao is looking for a
new site where the proposed multi-million Davao [...]

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DON CARLOS, Bukidnon – Hail to one of Bukidnon’s new young heroes!
Carina Dayondon, 28, one of the three Filipino women who made history to climb Mt. Everest is from this agriculture-rich town in southern Bukidnon.
Dayondon joined two others, Noelle Wenceslao, 27 and Janet Belarmino, 28, both from Luzon in setting a record as the first [...]

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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 Apr) – “We should stop blaming and start
working on what can be improved,” the president of a mountaineers’
federation said amidst a plan by environment and tourism officials to
ban a climbers’ group from Mt. Apo.
Rey Sumagaysay, president of the 26-group Mountaineers Federation in
Southern Mindanao (MFSM), said zeroing in on the Mindanao Alliance
Mountaineering Club [...]

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I found this story interesting. I’m just hoping this one is purely sports, you know what I mean what with the election campaign fever.
All factors held constant, I admire the organizers for putting up sports activities like this to inspire the young!
DAVAO CITY (April 19/Courtesy of MindaNews) - Over 2, 000 youth delegates from this [...]

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What happens to the tripartite meeting?

Shouldn’t the parties to the issue address these things in the meeting with sense of urgency? I’ve heard the meeting won’t be held in Jeddah anymore but in Manila.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 April) – The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has issued an urgent appeal to the Philippine government [...]

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Congratulation Manny!
(Photo grabbed from www.inquirer.net)
MindaNews Advisory: (GENERAL SANTOS CITY) –The hometown crowd here roared injubilation as homegrown Filipino boxing icon Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao todayfloored Mexican challenger Jorge Solis in the eight round of their 12-roundWorld Boxing Council International Super Featherweight championship fight inthe United States.

The streets essentially turned empty of vehicles as residents watched [...]

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People around Mindanao and the rest of the country would be glued to television again for the anticipated Pacquiao-Solis fight Saturday night (Sunday morning in Davao) at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
It’s the same venue where Pacquiao defeated Marco Antonio Barrera in an 11th round technical knockout on November 15, 2003.
From [...]

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DAVAO CITY - Sports through friendship games in the BIMP- East ASEAN Growth
Area is opening links for easier economic cooperation in the region, Leon
Montemayor, BIMP EAGA Sports Council chair said.
Montemayor said that with limited resources, the sports councils from the
four-nation sub-regional economic grouping, pursues friendship games to help
build confidence among young people, bridge cultural differences, [...]

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DAVAO CITY (March 30/MindaNews) - The 1st International Brunei-Indonesia- Malaysia- Philippines- East Asean Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) Marathon fires off April 1 with at least twelve foreign and 6 local top runners vying for honors in the 10-kilometer run18 to 23 years old runners. Lawyer Inday Sara Duterte, daughter of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, will fire [...]

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