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The 25th Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) is scheduled to be held in Vientiane, Laos, in December 9 to 18, 2009. It is the first time of Laos to ever held a Southeast Asian Games. Participating SEAG countries are Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam. This current SEAG theme is “Generosity Amity Healthy Lifestyle.”
The ceremony of the game will be held at New Laos National Stadium. It is expected that the action inside the SEAG will be aired lived on 14 television channels in 6 …
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The team Philippines, former 10-ball world champion Efren “Bata” Reyes and the reigning 10-ball’s women world champion Rubilyn Amit successfully grab the championship title of the first 10-ball World Mixed Double 2009 last December 3 at the Novu City, Libis, Quezon City. The final score of was 9-7 in favor of the Philippines and beating the Korean team.
Reyes and Amit beat the team of Charlie Williams and Eun Ji Park, 9-7, to win the said title and $6,000 in cash prize. The Filipinos got a break in the 15th frame …
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Wesley So, the youngest Filipino chess player who previously leads the Aeroflot 2009 Junior category and Corus 2009 Category C, moved to round 4 of World Chess Cup 2009 held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia after eliminating one known chess grandmaster GM Gata Khamsky (ELO 2695) from USA on the 3rd round of the chess tournament. The World Chess Cup 2009 is scheduled to held from 20th of November to 15th of December, 2009. With So’s win with the known GM of the tournament including GM Vassily Ivanchuk (ELO 2739) from Ukraine …
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The Filipino legend Efren “Bata” Reyes will lead Filipino cue artists who will participate to the 34th Annual US Open 9-Ball Championship in Chesapeake Conference Center in Chesapeake, Virginia from Oct. 18 to 24. Reyes who just won the Galveston World Classic One Pocket title last Sunday in Texas will be with the popular cue masters of the Philippines, Ronnie Alcano (Galveston World Classic 8-Ball champion) and Warren Kiamco (Galveston 10-Ball runner-up), Francis “Django” Bustamante, Alex Pagulayan, Dennis Orcollo and Jose “Amang” Parica.
Roberto Gomez will also vie for the US …
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Sunday’s final round marked the end of a two-year qualifying period for 10 automatic berths in the biennial team matches between US and Non-European squads. The Americans lead the rivalry 5-1-1 and have never lost on home soil.
The brightest star for the global group figures to be Yang, who became the first Asian major champion by out dueling his playing partner, world number one Tiger Woods, over the final nine holes at Hazeltine for a three-shot triumph. Yang said “It’s going to be a big foundation for me to continue …
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The 91st PGA Championship 20009 will start its long play this week at t Hazeltine National Golf Club. Tiger Woods who is the leader to this kind of golf tournament and a real “big hitter” is expected to show some real good stuff again. The following are the schedules of the said elite golf tourney and live coverage:
Thursday’s first round
TNT, 1-7 p.m. E.T.
Friday’s second round
TNT, 1-7 p.m. E.T.
Saturday’s third round
TNT, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. E.T.
CBS, 1 p.m.-6 p.m. E.T.
Sunday’s final round
TNT, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. E.T.
CBS, 1 p.m.-6 p.m. E.T.
This last major …
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The retired seven time world champion Michael Schumacher is back in the Formula One race. He will be expected on the European grand prix in Valencia on August 23. His retirement is postponed for a while to replace the injured Felipe Massa who is currently released from the intensive care unit due to the recent accident in the qualifying which he had several head injuries he acquired. This move of the F1 champ Schumacher is to help his team until Felipe Massa came back.
Schumacher’s return means a dream …
