'09 SINULOG HALF-MARATHON ROUTE c

Cebu Provincial Capitol (right), Escario St. (3.5km).
Turn right @ P. Garcia St.
Turn left @ M. Velez St.
Guadalupe Bridge, M. Velez St. (3.8km). Bridge separates the North & South districts of Cebu City.

Turn left @ V. Rama Avenue. (4km). More on Route d

'09 SINULOG HALF-MARATHON ROUTE d

Securities & Exchange Commission bldg. (right), V. Rama Avenue.
V. Rama Avenue - B. Rodriguez St. junction. (5km).
Turning point - 21K @ near small rotunda, V. Rama Avenue. (6.1km).
Going back to V. Rama Avenue.
Turn right @ B. Rodriguez St. (7.1km). More on Route e

'09 SINULOG HALF-MARATHON ROUTE e

Vicente Sotto Memorial Hospital (right), B. Rodriguez St.
Fuente Osmena. Turn right @ Osmena Blvd. (7.8km)
Crown Regency Hotel, tallest bldg. in Cebu, Osmena Blvd.

Pres. Sergio Osmena Residence, a Cebu landmark (right), Osmena Blvd.

Cebu City Sports Center (right), Osmena Blvd. (8.6km). More on Route f

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Turning point 21K @ Osmena Blvd - P. del Rosario junction area. (8.9km)

Cebu Normal University, Osmena Blvd.
Back to Fuente Osmena. Turn right towards Gen. Maxilom Avenue. (10km).

The original Uptown area, Gen. Maxilom Avenue.

Iglesia ni Kristo (left), Gen. Maxilom Avenue. (10.7km). More on Route g

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Turn right @ Imus Road (South Road).
Imus Road
Turning point 21K - Imus Road - Sikatuna St. junction area. (12.4km)

Back to Imus Road. Dept of Education bldg (on your left).

Turn right @ Gen. Maxilom Avenue. (13.3km). More on Route h

'09 SINULOG HALF-MARATHON ROUTE h

Old White Gold bldg. (right), Osmena Blvd.
Turn left @ Serging Osmena Boulevard. (14.1km)
Cokaliong Shipping bldg. (left), Pier area, Serging Osmena Blvd.

Turn left @ Serging Osmena Blvd - Juan Luna Ave SM/Sheraton Hotel junction. (15km)

SM City Cebu (right), Juan Luna Avenue. More on Route i

'09 SINULOG HALF-MARATHON ROUTE i

Carmelite Monastery (left), Juan Luna Avenue.
Juan Luna Ave. - Ayala Access Road/F. Cabahug St. intersection. (16.6km)
Turn right @ Banilad Road. (17.2km)

Holiday Gym & Spa (right), Banilad Road.

Turning point 21K @ near Paradise Village junction, Banilad Road. (18.3km). More on Route j.

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Sugbo, a project of Cebu Province (right), Banilad Road.
Aboitiz & Co. bldg. (left), Banilad Road

Banilad - Salinas flyover, Banilad Road. Take sidestreet on the right.

Turn right @ Banilad Road - Salinas Drive junction.

Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino (left), Salinas Drive.

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Asiatown IT Park main entrance (right), opposite Waterfront Hotel road, Salinas Drive.
Turn right @ Asiatown IT Park road (adjacent to old BBRC compound)

Finish line! Congratulations to the 5K and Half-Marathon (21k) finishers. Navigation by Run to the Max. Distance by Garmin 405.

SMART TO BRING BACK MARDI GRAS RUN

CEBU DAILY NEWS. “Wala pa man ko kaabot anang 21k mardi gras run but I heard a lot about it from the veteran runners, ingon sila bibo gyud daw kaayo to siya nga event and if ever mabalik, it would serve as a gigantic event to look forward to," Carter said...

Read more @ http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/sports/view/20090113-183072/Smart-to-bring-back-Mardi-Gras-run

PARTNERS CUP FOOTBALL TO AIR GAMES LIVE ON THE INTERNET

Sun Star Cebu Newspaper (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/)

Friday Jan. 9, 2009 issue

by Edri K. Aznar, Staff Reporter

Mike Limpag, Sports Editor

THE football event of the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. (Cesafi) Partners Cup will step into a new territory as the semifinal and finals matches will be shown live over the Internet.

“We are negotiating with an IT company for the live Internet streaming,” tournament director Jonathan Maximo told Sun.Star Cebu.

“It will be the first time that a football match in Cebu will be shown live on the Internet,” he added.

Aside from the live streaming, updated game statistics of ongoing matches will also be shown on the website, http://www.pabolfc.com/.

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“Statistics will also be available in the website. You’ll just have to refresh the website and the statistics will be updated,” said the former Cebu FA president.

The football contest of the Cesafi/Partners Cup will be an Under-23 division League type tournament and will have five schools—University of San Jose Recoletos,University of the Visayas, University of Southern Philippines Foundation, University of San Carlos and University of Cebu.

Maximo added that graduates from the five schools can still join the team as long as they qualify for the age bracket.

On the other hand, there will still be eight teams for basketball, while volleyball also has the same number of participating squads.

The Partners Cup is a post-season tournament for Cesafi members and has been expanded to include two more events aside from basketball. (EKA)

NOT JUST BASKETBALL

Cebu Daily Newspaper (http://www.inquirer.net/)
Friday January 9, 2009 issue
By Jonas Panerio, Correspondent
Rick Gabuya, Sports Editor

The collegiate sporting calendar in Cebu looks to get off to a spectacular start to the year as the annual Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. (CESAFI)-Partner’s Cup opens on Jan. 24 not just with the usual basketball competition but along with two other premier sports in volleyball and football.

The first two years of the Partner’s Cup has been primarily focused on basketball but with the Cesafi continuing its push to promote and develop the other sports, it has opened its doors to the volleyball and football competitions.

The corporate sponsors have also heeded the call as they were finally unveiled yesterday at the SCOOP Forum where the organizers, Cesafi commissioner Felix Tiukinhoy and University of Cebu basketball consultant Atty. Baldomero Estenzo signed their memorandum of agreement with television partner CCTN, who was represented by its president, Dodong Limchua.

Also present at the proceedings were Partner’s Cup basketball tournament commissioner Ramon “El Presidente” Fernandez, football tournament manager Jonathan Maximo and University of the Visayas head coach Elmer “Boy” Cabahug.

The first ever Partner’s Cup champions, and eight-time Cesafi titlists, UV Green Lancers, will be backed by the Prime Asia Lending, a company of the Metro Gaisano group. Metro Gaisano will also sponsor UV’s football and volleyball teams.

Ave Maria will back University of San Jose-Recoletos (USJ-R) while Aerosol-Tiger will take care of the University of San Carlos (USC). Hotel Fortuna of sports patron Lorenzo Sy will sponsor Southwestern University’s (SWU) basketball and volleyball teams while University of Cebu (UC) will be playing under the banner of Alaska Milk, the former ballclub of the Webmasters’ basketball head coach, Rhoel Gomez.

The Cebu Institute of Technology (CIT) will don the colors of Unilab. CDO, who backed last year’s basketball champions USJ-R, will now banner the University of Southern Philippines Foundation (USPF). USPF will be carrying the Cheesedog brand for basketball, the Funtastyk Young Pork Tocino for volleyball and Karne Norte Chunky for football.

Don Bosco has yet to be assigned a corporate sponsor.

The basketball tournament will be adopting the same format as the Cesafi tournament last year.

CIT, DBC and USPF though, will be allowed to have reinforcements from its alumni.

Games will be played on Saturdays and Sundays. The football tournament, on the other hand, will be an under-23 tournament dedicated to helping find potential players for the RP team, which will compete in the Southeast Asian Games in Laos at the end of this year. Competing schools will be USJ-R, UV, USC, USPF and UC.

The volleyball tournament will be catering to the women’s category with the USPF looking to defend its Cesafi title against USJ-R, SWU, USC, UC, UV, CDU and Velez College.

NEW PSC TACK FOR TALENT SEARCH

PHIL DAILY INQUIRER. The 10 priority sports are aquatics, athletics, taekwondo, boxing, shooting, archery, weightlifting, fencing, judo and wrestling.

“We have to focus on these priority sports to maximize our resources,” said Loretizo, who earlier announced that the PSC has shifted its concentration from elite programs to grassroots development...

Read more @ http://sports.inquirer.net/inquirersports/inquirersports/view/20090108-182079/New-PSC-tack-for-talent-search

2008 CESAFI COLL: 3rd PLACE SHOOT-OUT PHOTO GALLERY #8

USC's 4th penalty shoot attempt...
...with the USPF goalkeeper caught flat footed.

Air pumping, USC style. Score now at 3-3.

20 ATHLETES MAKE UP NEW PATAFA ROSTER

MALAYA. Southeast Asian Games record holders Henry Dagmil and Marestella Torres lead the squad, which also includes Rene Herrera (3,000 meters), Arniel Ferrera (hammer throw), Julius Nierras (400m), Mercedita Manipol (5000-m), Danilo Fresnido (javelin throw), Ernie Candelario (400-m), Rosie Villarito (javelin) and Mary Grace Melgar (400-m hurdles).

Also endorsed to make up the RP squad are Arnold Villarube (decathlon), Joebert Delicano (triple jump), Midel Dique (800-m), Julius Sermona (10,000-m), Eduardo Buenavista (marathon), Jho-an Banayag (marathon), Rodrigo Tanuan Jr. (400-m), Junrey Bano (400-m), Eliezer Sunang (shot put) and Fil-American Deborah Ann Samson (pole vault).

Read more @ http://www.malaya.com.ph/jan07/spor5.htm

LIMPAG: BASKETBALL-BOXING'S NEW GROUNDS

SUN STAR CEBU. FR. VIC. When Fr. Vic Uy was named as one of commissioners of the Philippine Sports Commission, I thought Cebu sports was going to hit it big. So far, Fr. Vic is hitting all the right notes and most of what he said he wanted to accomplish this year are commendable.

Last year, Fr. Vic also started a Children’s Community Games, patterned after the International Children’s Games and I think, that’s going to be an annual event.

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Read more @ http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/limpag-basketball-boxing%E2%80%99s-new-grounds-sort

PSC NAMES 10 PRIORITY DISCIPLINES

TAEKWONDO and boxing, along with eight other disciplines, were named yesterday as priority sports by the Philippine Sports Commission and will receive the windfall of the agency’s financial support this year.

Also included in the list, which PSC Commissioner Eric Loretizo classified as "Tier 1," are archery, athletics, aquatics (swimming and diving), fencing, judo, shooting, weightlifting and wrestling...

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Read more @ http://www.malaya.com.ph/jan06/spor6.htm

PAGES: MIZUNO-ASIA MILES SINULOG HALF-MARATHON ‘09

SUN STAR CEBU. The Sinulog Half-Marathon will be sizable and crowded. Picture a thousand pair of running shoes pounding our cemented roads. In different colors and running with different strides, they’ll be parading the roadway.

Two categories are offered to all runners: a 5K race that’s perfect for “fresh” runners (read: new to the sport) like my sports editor, the newly-married Mike Limpag. The 5,000-meter run will commence at the I.T. Park, turn right to Salinas Drive, make a left-turn upon reaching JY Square, head down to UP Lahug then make a U-turn back to the I.T. Park...

Read more @ http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/pages-mizuno-asia-miles-sinulog-half-marathon-%E2%80%9809

RP KICKS OFF SEA GAMES PREPARATIONS

THE MANILA TIMES. The PSC chief also urged all national sports associations (NSAs) to start their buildup as early as possible to ensure that the athletes are well equipped and prepared before competing in the biennial meet.

“We will focus on the Olympic sports but we are not rejecting those who have no chance of bringing medals. If they think they can win medals, they can participate and if they win, we pay their whole expenses.”...

Read more @ http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2009/jan/05/yehey/sports/20090105spo2.html

SINULOG HALF-MARATHON TAKES OFF JAN 17

THE FREEMAN. CEBU – “It’s a go! Runners need not bother themselves with speculations but must continue to train because it’s definitely a go,” Taborada told The FREEMAN during a telephone conversation yesterday.

Taborada, president of the Cebu Executive Runners Club (CERC) is referring to the second staging of the Sinulog 21K half-marathon on January 17, 2009 the day before the Sinulog grand parade...

Read more @ http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?ArticleId=429018&publicationSubCategoryId=110

FIRST RUN OF THE YEAR

RUNNERS WORLD. I'm one of the lucky few (and we are few, as a slice of the population) who is in on this wonderful, little secret: Running makes you feel good. It's good for you, in so many ways. And I'm doing it. I've been doing it so long, in fact, I've managed somehow to forget how incredible it is, that on any given day I can decide to go out and run, then do it. And come back feeling clearer, brighter, stronger, more relaxed...

Read more @ http://rwdaily.runnersworld.com/

2008 CESAFI COLL: 3rd PLACE SHOOT-OUT PHOTO GALLERY #7

USC's Wang Escudero attempts to block USP's 3rd penalty shoot...
... in vain. The ball (right) zoomed into the goal.
Happy Valetine Ragasajo celebrating his goal! USPF now leads the shoot-out at 2-3.

3rd PLACE: SHOOT-OUT PHOTO GALLERY #6

USC missed its 3rd penalty attempt. Score still stands at 2-2.