A youthful experience to remember
By Alexandra Jessica EspongaIt was October last year then when the Energen Team Pilipinas joined the Fédération Internationale de Basketball Under-16 tournament and stepped into the limelight.
It was October last year then when the Energen Team Pilipinas joined the Fédération Internationale de Basketball Under-16 tournament and stepped into the limelight.
If it wasn’t for the NBA lockout, this tweet from Miami Heat star LeBron James to me—yes, to me-—which caused quite a stir in Twitterverse’s basketball corner wouldn’t have happened. Lebron James—seemingly bored while waiting for the Liverpool-Manchester United match—was taking questions from his fans on Twitter last Saturday. And again, if it wasn’t for [...]
The search for heroes and villains in the looming B-Meg-Alaska battle snaked through airport roads and crawled past religious processions before finally landing within arms length of an iconic basketball coach Saturday evening. “For sure, there’ll be a lot of sympathy for Fred [Uytengsu, Alaska owner],” said the coach, who has enough insight into the [...]
Talk ‘N Text could not have picked a better way to dust off the patchwork job it had done on its derailed war machine, right in its first game since Petron ripped the hinges off the Texters’ Grand Slam bid.
With Ateneo’s slew of stars led by Greg Slaughter and Kiefer Ravena, if there was one player overlooked and under-appreciated perhaps it would be Nico Salva.
At the tailend of another gruelling season of the UAAP men’s basketball tournament, two of the toughest teams remain – one eager to extend its reign for a fourth straight year, the other seeking redemption from last year’s meltdown. They meet again for the second straight year, but just how different are the two teams now?
Does anyone know what happened between Josh Vanlandingham and a fan at the Araneta Coliseum Friday night?
First off, an admission. We did mess up big time when we penciled University of the Philippines as a Final Four squad in Season 73. Not only did we flub that call, we flubbed it big time. The Maroons failed to win a single game, crashing to the cellar amid the debris of alumni intrigues [...]
Big Beau Belga raining treys? That’s what happened in Rain or Shine’s recent victory over Air21. Belga, the wide-bodied center of the Painters, went 3-for-3 from downtown in a match that might earn him a new nickname. Beauwitzki. Even when adjusting sizes relative to the average size of the league, about the only thing Belga [...]
