Spurs have a system that works
By Sev SarmentaIt’s Clear that the San Antonio Spurs are gearing up for one last hurrah before 37-year-old Tim Duncan hangs up his basketball shoes.
It’s Clear that the San Antonio Spurs are gearing up for one last hurrah before 37-year-old Tim Duncan hangs up his basketball shoes.
Manny Pacquiao didn’t have to throw even a single punch.
Just before he made the all-important decision to coach the Alaska Aces, Luigi Trillo found himself at a vital crossroads in his basketball career.
BARANGAY Ginebra has remained the pro league’s fabulous people’s team because its hordes of fanatics and devotees have always kept their faith until the end.
PEOPLE from all walks of life—security guards, taxi drivers, teachers at election precincts, tricycle drivers and men who seem to hang around all day in their basketball jerseys beside sari-sari stores—all want to know what’s wrong with Barangay Ginebra, their team that’s struggling in the PBA Commissioner’s Cup finals.
ALL WEEK long following the May 13 polls, I spent my time gathering the names of athletes past and present and people connected to sports one way or the other who ran for a post in the just concluded elections.
I TEXTED Manny Pacquiao’s top aide about the bills his boss sponsored and shepherded into law during the 15th Congress.
IN democratic societies, citizens are encouraged to write to their leaders to voice their sentiments or positions on issues.
BECAUSE Cebuana Lhuillier joined as title sponsor of the ongoing PBA Commissioner’s Cup Finals, league fans are speculating if the Cebu-based company owned by businessman-sportsman Jean Henri Lhuillier is ready to move up to the next level.
CONGRESSMAN Manny Pacquiao scored a knockout over an absent opponent in the last elections. If it were in boxing, that should’ve been properly ruled a no-contest.
THE MOST intriguing question out in Ongpin (Chinatown) last Friday did not involve Mayor Alfredo Lim and how the tough-talking city executive could survive the screaming challenge of former President Joseph Estrada in yesterday’s midterm polls.
THE RECLUSIVE national arts matriarch, last seen in public during the 2004 funeral of National Artist Nick Joaquin, did a Greta Garbo and made a brief appearance.
WHOEVER said that the Shanghai Sharks were here in Manila to spread goodwill and play a couple of friendly games with local teams, didn’t know what he was talking about.
