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The UP Fighting Maroons Men’s Volleyball Team is still winless, one game day into the second round.
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The UP Fighting Maroons Men’s Volleyball Team is still winless, one game day into the second round.
IN the many years I’ve covered sports, watching fan behavior has been like my side hustle. I am fascinated by what they do, what they say, how they say it. I’ve studied them almost as fervently as I have the main actors in the game.
THE volleyball season is on! And the unique sound and vibe of this sport that was—would you believe—a popular sport in the Philippines since the early 1900s has taken over the playing arenas effective February.
THE hottest sound in collegiate basketball these days is the seeming endless flurry of bird wings flying the coop as prized birds find new or more familiar nesting places within the college hoop universe.
ONCE upon a time, in a basketball era very different from what we know today, there was a team named the APCOR Financiers, or simply, APCOR.
IN international relations, balance of power means “the posture and policy of a nation or group of nations protecting itself against another nation or group of nations by matching its power against the power of the other side.”
THE first time National Basketball Association (NBA) star Dwight Howard came to Manila was for NBA Madness in 2005.
WELCOME the Year of the Wooden Dragon! According to both eastern and western astrologers, this will be a positive, action-filled, adventurous year.
AT a festive event for the University of the Philippines (UP) Fighting Maroons at the official home of the UP President, Angelo “Jijil” Jimenez, on December 18, Samboy Lim’s wife, Lelen Berberabe, newly installed Dean of the UP College of Law, shared some concerning news with our group.
THE San Beda Red Lions-Mapua Cardinals basketball finals of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) officially put a close to the collegiate basketball season last Sunday.
NO matter what the outcome of Game 3 of the Finals of Season 86 of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) on Wednesday night, we know for sure it was a genuine blockbuster, a megahit.
THE University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Season 86 basketball season is now nearing its “most exciting part” as the Final Four of the men’s and women’s basketball tournament is in full swing after all.
THINGS are heating up in Season 86 of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) as the Final Four phase of the basketball tournament looms and teams jockey for position to get the choice spots in the ladder.
BACK in August 2020, right smack into the high point of the pandemic, the University of the Philippines (UP) community got a shot in the arm with awesome news regarding their basketball program.
SECOND round Round of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). It’s a whole new ball game.
JUST two weeks into the new season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), the league is already living up to its reputation of being interesting, intriguing and unpredictable.
THE collegiate season is off to a hot start. The National Collegiate Athletic Association of the Philippines (NCAA) opened last weekend in a burst of hoopla and color, starting business with a gem of a game between defending champions Colegio de San Juan de Letran and Jose Rizal University.
SUDDENLY the global event and colorful spectacle that is FIBA World Cup 2023 is over. And yet the sounds and sights of it stay alive, being played and replayed in memory and sometimes in dreams—so complete was its takeover of life and reality the past three weeks.
THE last time the FIBA world championship came to Manila, world basketball was a whole lot different.
THE first thing that gets you are the colors. Blazing sunset hues of coral, orange, brave peach and yellow with accents of sea green, deep blue and friendly purple.
ONLY 22 days to go before the Fédération Internationale de Basketball (FIBA) World Cup tips off in Manila at the Philippine Arena in Bulacan on August 25.
MY work team these days in my day job is chock full of boys. Sometimes I feel like I’m Snow White surrounded by full-sized, taller-than-me “dwarves.”
IT’S been called the soap opera for men, a great must-watch that totally engages spectators and draws them into the action. Never mind that the whole thing is a scripted act with timed blows, falls, deadly kicks and punches.
IT’S still some time before the next collegiate sports season tips off in September. But collegiate basketball hostilities are already very intense in two ongoing pre-season basketball tournaments that are keeping the fans ablaze with excitement.
NOW that the Denver Nuggets have struck gold by winning their first ever National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals, they leave behind their Gang of 12, now reduced to just 11 members, of NBA teams who have never won an NBA Finals.
THE Golden State Warriors have dominated the National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals over the last five years with consecutive Finals appearances that have made them as memorable in the modern era as Bill Russell’s Boston Celtics was in the 60s.
THE basketball gods are fickle. But they do know how to put on a good show.
BOSTON and Los Angeles fans were already looking forward to a National Basketball Association (NBA) Classico Finals. A good ol’ Celtics-Lakers series that would not just bring back the hoopla and nostalgia of this rabid and classic rivalry, but would also decide which team gets more Larry O’Brien trophies in its trophy room.
WITH the Milwaukee Bucks already out of the running in the ongoing National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs, the supposedly clear path to the Finals has forked out in many different directions, thanks to the unexpected turnout of things and teams fighting for survival.
REMEMBER that grand Toyota basketball team reunion that happened last February? It came to be because the stars aligned in January when Toyota luminaries Mon Fernandez, Francis Arnaiz, Ricky Relosa, Rino Salazar and longtime import Andrew Fields had a serendipitous meeting in the US of A.
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