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Federer storms into third round
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MELBOURNE: Top seed Roger Federer claimed his 16th consecutive match
win at the Australian Open with a carefree straight sets win over
French veteran Fabrice Santoro on Thursday.
The Swiss supremo countered the wiles of the
35-year-old Santoro, playing in a record 62nd Grand Slam, to cruise
into the third round, 6-1, 6-2, 6-0 in one hour and 22 minutes.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Dion to sing for Olympics
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BEIJING: Canadian Celine Dion, who popularized the Titanic theme
song “My Heart Will Go On,” will perform a song for the Beijing
Olympics in a concert in April and submit an entry for the Games’
theme song, organizers said.
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Deputy PM worried about
Australia’s image after fight
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MELBOURNE: Moves including banning full strength beer are being
considered to prevent further unruly scenes at the Australian Open
after a senior minister said Thursday the country’s image was at
stake.
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Barrios new PBA commissioner
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THE Philippine Board of Governors unanimously
elected Renauld “Sonny” Barrios as commissioner in a meeting
Thursday at the PBA office in Quezon City.
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SCOOP forum
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FILIPINO Olympic qualifiers Harry Tañamor in boxing and Tsomlee Go
and Antoinette Rivero in tae kwon do are the featured personalities
in Friday’s SCOOP weekly session at the Kamayan Restaurant-Padre
Faura.
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Wushu out in Olympics
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DENGFENG, China: Not far from a Shaolin monastery, the cradle of
Chinese martial arts, a wall poster exhorts people to “cherish the
culture of kung fu, strengthen the Olympic spirit.”
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BOXER
SHORTS
By Ed C. Tolentino
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Better never than
late
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Roy Jones Jr. versus Felix Trinidad.
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