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It's the BEST Center basketball clinic sponsored by Milo. Clinic Dates: May 11-16, 2015 Venue: Sacred Heart School-Ateneo de Cebu Mango Avenue Campus Gym. Fees:  > Levels 1-4: P3,500.00 (9 years old & above) > Preparatory Level: P4,000.00 (5-8 years old) Classes are either 8am-12noon or 1-5pm daily. The coaches will split up the group into two half-day sessions according to level and age. For reservations, send us a PM or place a comment here with this format: Name: School: Birthday: Level:

SAC Recognizes Cebu's Best They’re the best of Cebu Sports and we, the Cebu sportswriters, have been following their careers all these years. They’ve carried the colors of Cebu Sports with great pride and the sportswriters have seen them in action, have written about them and have shared all their ups and downs with them.  And so at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, the Sportswriters Association of Cebu will do one more thing: recognize the best of the best from the year 2014 in a formal awarding/recognition ceremony at the Ayala Center Cebu Activity Area. For the 33rd time, the SAC and San Miguel Brewery Inc. get together again to cite the biggest performers of last year in what is called the SAC-SMB Awards Cebu Sports Awards. The Ayala Center Cebu also partners with us in this annual venture along with International Pharmaceuticals Inc. It isn’t too often when we get together with athletes in a recognition ceremony like this. We usually see them all the time at sports events and press ...

Donnie & Donaire’s D-Day For a 30th edition, Pinoy Pride made another trip to Manila, this time going back to the historical Araneta Coliseum for “D-Day,” featuring WBO light flyweight world champion Donnie “Ahas” Neites and former four-division world champion Nonito “Filipino Flash” Donaire. I’ve always been puzzled with Manila boxing fans due to their lack of interest in watching Pinoy boxing live unless the main event featured someone named Manny Pacquiao. When we asked ALA Promotions big boss Michael Aldeguer about it, he gamely said that winning the following of Manila fans is a work in progress, but they’re being patient and are also confident that they’ll draw the big crowds pretty soon.  Fast forward to last Saturday; for the first time for a Manila boxing event, I was impressed with the turnout of boxing fans who trooped to the Big Dome to watch Pinoy Pride 30. It was easily the biggest crowd that had watched a Pinoy Pride event in Manila by far and the biggest cr...