Thursday, November 17, 2011

17 NOV 2011, THU: Sports & Ent't

Sports


Texters, who else?

Journal Online - 
EVEN without four key men and two players still not in game shape, Talk 'N Text's firepower remains scorching as ever. Japeth Aguilar sparked a decisive blast in the second quarter, and the defending champions broke lose from a close contest to win ...

Southeast Asian Games: Day six yields only one gold for PH

Inquirer.net - 
MANILA, Philippines—After Tuesday's rush of golds, the Philippines copped only one gold medal in day six of the 26 th Southeast Asian games courtesy of rowing.

Cage golden double bid down to 2 wins

Inquirer.net - 
KELAPA GADING, Jakarta—It's two to go for the national cagers in their bid to pull off an unprecedented golden basketball double in the 26th Southeast Asian Games.

PINOY PRIDE X TICKETS OUT TODAY

PhilBoxing.com - 
The tenth edition of the PINOY PRIDE series is expected to be another sell out as this once again highlights the rivalry between the Philippines and Mexico in boxing as both countries will be represented by fighters with similar styles in Rey “Boom ...

Presidents Cup: Adjusting to a big stage with Tiger Woods

Washington Post - 
MELBOURNE, Australia - David Toms is part of a trivia question that he doesn't know about, if he even cares. Toms and Tiger Woods played a fourballs match at the Presidents Cup four years ago at Royal Montreal, and had no trouble beating Nick O'Hern ...

Sinag routs Cambodia, 127 to 68

Manila Standard Today - 
JAKARTA—Kiefer Ravena unloaded 17 points and led six other Filipino cagers in double figures as Pilipinas Sinag ran roughshod over Cambodia, 127-68, in its debut game in the 26th Southeast Asian Games basketball tournament on Monday at the ...

TEAMS FROM CEBU CROWNED CHAMPIONS OF RECENT BATANG PINOY VISAYAS BOXING TOURNAMENT

PhilBoxing.com - 
Team Talisay City, coached by father-and-son tandem of Gideon and Rashid Bacus was crowned the over-all boxing champions of 2011 Batang Pinoy Visayas leg with 2 golds, courtesy of Marco Pomar (minimumweight), Kit Ceron Garces (mosquitoweight) and ...

Cricket: India moves toward series win over West Indies

New Zealand Herald - 
Indian cricketer Pragyan Ojha, right, celebrates with teammates Gautam Gambhir, middle, and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Photo / AP India moved toward a series-clinching victory overnight with West Indies trailing by 283 runs and only seven wickets ...

Brillantes vows to purge Comelec of 'small syndicates'

Inquirer.net - 
Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Wednesday declared that he would be running after “syndicates” within the organization purportedly involved in the selling of election returns and certificates of canvass during elections.

Tears, tears, tears

Journal Online - 
Palembang—The Philippine contingent settled for one gold medal in a forgettable day yesterday and looked doomed to a sixth place finish in the 26th Southeast Asian Games.

John Paul Gomez cops blindfold chess silver

Inquirer.net - 
PALEMBANG, Indonesia—Grandmaster John Paul Gomez bested his last two opponents to clinch the silver medal in the blindfold chess competition at the Swarna Dwipa Hotel here.

Lehnert gets back at Chinese rival

Inquirer.net - 
MANILA, Philippines—Katharina Lehnert hacked out a three-set victory against her tormentor last week to make up for the stinging defeats of three local bets Wednesday in the first round of the ICTSI-ITF Women's Circuit Week 2 at ...

Eric Panique 2nd in marathon; GTK Army nails just 2 wins

Inquirer.net - 
PALEMBANG, Indonesia—Filipino tracksters took off flying, but ended up bruised and humbled in the 26th Southeast Asian Games here.

Guus Hiddink expected to be used as an occasional consultant by Chelsea owner ...

Telegraph.co.uk - 
Guus Hiddink is expected to be used as an occasional advisor to Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich after losing his job on Tuesday as the manager of Turkey.


Entertainment


Justin Bieber paternity suit dropped

SFGate.com (blog) - 
The woman who accused teenage singer Justin Bieber of fathering her baby has dropped her paternity lawsuit. Single mother Mariah Yeater quietly withdrew her request for a paternity test and child support last week.

This Week's Cover: The 'Breaking Dawn' stars talk blood, sex, and that vampire ...

Entertainment Weekly - 
by EW staff Twihards have long been anticipating seeing Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) honeymoon on Isle Esme and consummate their marriage amid flying feathers.

'Titanic 3D': James Cameron introduces trailer for his '97 epic [video]

Los Angeles Times - 
In an era when film trailers debut before many eyeballs on cellphone screens, how do you market a movie whose story is well known and whose chief selling point is the big screen, 3-D experience?

Listen: Michael Jackson mash-up of 'Dancing Machine/Blame It On the Boogie"

HitFix (blog) - 
Michael Jackson's “The Immortal World Tour” opened Oct. 2 in Montreal. The show, produced in collaboration between Cirque du Soleil and Jackson's estate, features ambitious reinventions of some of the ...

Recommended: Was Ryan Gosling robbed of 'Sexiest' title?

msnbc.com - 
From breaking news to news you can't use, but enjoy anyway, we offer up the latest developments on the hot stories of the day in TV, movies, music and celebrities.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei pays bond to appeal tax demand

BBC News - 
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has handed over a $1.3m (£820000) bond to the government in order to begin an appeal against a massive tax bill.

Brad Pitt Says He And Angelina Jolie Don't Know If They're Finished Having Kids

Huffington Post - 
On-screen, Brad Pitt is no stranger to fighting. He's played an assassin, a Nazi killer -- and then there was that club. But in real life, the dad of six says the only thing that he "gets hot about... ready to fight about," is how much he worries about ...

Kim Kardashian not speaking to Brittny Gastineau

New York Post - 
Socialite Brittny Gastineau may have caught the bouquet at Kim Kardashian's wedding to Kris Humphries in August. But ever since Kardashian filed for divorce, the reality TV star has not spoken to her longtime best friend.

Michael Jackson's Death Bed Pulled From Auction

E! Online - 
AP Photo/Dan Steinberg Fans of Michael Jackson can rest easy: The bed in which the singer died is no long up for sale. The controversial auction item was yanked after the Jackson estate asked the auction house to pull it, a spokesperson for Julien's ...

110.3-carat yellow diamond auctioned for over $10.9M

abc7.com - 
In this Nov. 9, 2011 photo a model displays a 110.03 carats Sun-Drop Diamond described as fancy vivid yellow, the highest color grading, by gemstone experts, at a Sotheby's preview show in Geneva, Switzerland.

Walcha shines at Bondi

Walcha News - 
The award recipients for the 2011 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi exhibition were announced last Friday at the opening party held at the Swiss Grand, Bondi Beach; and Walcha had a disproportionate presence on the podium.

Electric blue lobster

The Sun - 
The striking shellfish was snapped up by fishmonger Rex Goldsmith at a London market and handed to the Natural History Museum. Experts there believe the European creature, traditionally a much darker shade of blue, was born the unusual colour because ...

Sablefish and Arctic char from Canada, lamb and wine from Sardinia

Inquirer.net - 
My first instinct when attending another country's food festival is to zero in on the unfamiliar. For the Canada Food Festival, it was beaver tail.

Photos: five wild cat species documented in Sumatran forest imperiled by logging

Mongabay.com - 
A single forest corridor in Sumatra has yielded camera trap photos of five wild cats species, including the Critically Endangered Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae).

Environment concern in beauty pageant

Manila Bulletin - 
MANILA, Philippines - Tarlac will host anew an affair for environmental awareness as the provincial government will sponsor the evening gown event and photo session of the Miss Earth beauty pageant on November 23-25 at the historic ...

26 Miles presented by Kitchen Dog Theater review

TheaterJones Performing Arts News in North Texas - 
by Quiara Alegria Hudes Quiara Alegría Hudes' play 26 Miles is, like most road trip stories, more about the personal and spiritual journey than it is about an odometer reading or site visits.

On first-name terms

Indian Express - 
Who do you want to be on the Internet? Salman Rushdie wants to be himself - the name by which he is known in the land of kahanis and sought by readers looking for Saleem and Shalimar; the name against which the most famous fatwa of the literary world ...

Bolshoi Loses Top Dance Duo

The Moscow Times - 
Two of the Bolshoi Theater's top dancers, Natalya Osipova and Ivan Vasilyev, shocked the ballet world this week by announcing that they were quitting the country's top ballet theater for St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Theater.

Wikicollecting Top 10 Most Expensive Items of John Lennon Mermorabilia

News-antique.com (press release) - 
In 2005, the white suite that Lennon wore on the cover of Abbey Road sold for $118000 at a Braswell Galleries auction in Connecticut.

Terence Conran - The Way We Live Now at Design Museum

London SE1 - 
Chairs, crockery and cutlery from two of SE1's best-known restaurants are among the exhibits at the Design Museum's fascinating celebration of the 80th birthday of Sir Terence Conran.

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