SWS survey finds billiards a mass sport.(Sports)

From: Manila Bulletin | Date: October 29, 2005 | Copyright information

BILLIARDS IS a truly mass sport in the Philippines, with at least 4.5 million regular players and an assured TV audience of at least 4 million, based on the Social Weather Station (SWS) survey for the Third Quarter of 2005.

These figures result from multiplying the national population of 50.4 million adults by the nationwide SWS survey findings of 9% who played billiards within the last 30 days and 8% saying they always watch it on TV.

Full totals of billiard...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

Survey: 4.5-M Filipinos play billiards
Filipino Reporter ; Filipino Reporter 11-10-2005 Billiards is a truly mass sport in the Philippines, with at least 4.5 million regular players and an assured TV audience of at least 4 million, based on the Social Weather Survey (SWS) for the third quarter of 2005. These figures result from multiplying the national
Hot pot who conquered world
The Northern Echo ; POTTERING about the World Billiards Championship, an event desperately diminished, last Friday's column recalled Willie Smith, the Darlington linotype operator who twice became world champion in the 1920s. Willie's remembered elsewhere, too. He features, frame by frame, in the vast new Dictionary
Arroyo widens lead, SWS survey says.
Manila Bulletin ; Byline: FERDIE J. MAGLALANG President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, standard bearer of the Koalisyon ng Katapatan at Karanasan para sa Kinabukasan (K4), moderately widened her lead over her closest rival, opposition presidential bet Fernando Poe Jr., in a recent Social Weather Station (SWS) survey
Terminator Jason falling in ranks but vows 'I'll be back' PRINCE OF SNOOKER CIRCUIT TELLS OF HARD GRIND.(Features)
Sunday Mirror (London, England) ; THEY call Jason Prince The Terminator at his local snooker club, though it has nothing to do with any likeness to Hollywood hardman Arnold Schwarzenegger. Rather, it is a nickname earned after he forced three former champions into retirement as he battled to establish himself in the professional
Post Script.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England) ; British scientists have played billiards with individual atoms in what could mark a leap forward in molecular engineering. A team from Oxford University used the ultrafine tip of a scanning tunnelling electron microscope as a cue to shoot single atoms of bromine around a super-smooth copper table.
Poe, Roco in dead heat
Filipino Reporter ; Filipino Reporter 12-26-2002 Actor Fernando Poe Jr. and former Sen. Raul Roco are running neck and neck in the most recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) on the first choice for president by registered voters, with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo running third. The same survey, taken
Spotlight
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ; Spotlight Sunday, July 21, 2002 In conservative Ireland, it seems, fans like their sports stars to keep their clothes on. The entire Gaelic football team for Roscommon, a rural county in the Irish midlands, has been disbanded in punishment for a drunken post-game celebration when many of them
How they lived.(In The Country)(Brief Article)
Town & Country ; Nowadays, as one more part of a marketing blitz, best-selling writers are puffily profiled at home. But J. D. McClatchy, himself a poet and critic, was interested in finding out how America's literary titans of the past really lived. In AMERICAN WRITERS AT HOME (Library of America/Vendome; $50),
Nepali prince drunk and high during palace massacre: probe
Chicago Sun-Times ; KATMANDU, Nepal The crown prince, drunk on scotch and high on hashish, told his girlfriend by phone he was going to sleep before he gunned down his parents and seven other people at a dinner party, investigators into Nepal's royal massacre reported Thursday. Trying to explain the bloodshed to a
The closing end game.(Opinion & Editorial)
Manila Bulletin ; Byline: Rene F Espina ITS only two weeks to May 10, election day. And the leading candidates for President, i.e., GMA and FPJ, are almost in a dead heat, with the President enjoying a very slight lead of a point, considering that the margin of error is at least 2 percent. The SWS survey attributed