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After all has been said and done, there are only three headlines that top it all. Three topics that will be remembered as the biggest stories of the year. The first thing that comes to mind when you think of basketball in the year of 2012. They were about three [...] Read more »
Champion. It is not just a word. It is not just eight letters that were scrambled together. It is more than that. Being a champion is a culmination of hard work and dedication, sweat and tears, luck and prayers. The status of being a champ in the PBA was fought [...] Read more »
My dad always told me that there are two things that you can always count on. One is change. The other is that if when you get air for your tires, you tell the dude “30 boss.” Getting tires didn’t make any top headlines, but there were a lot of [...] Read more »
This year had a lot of international basketball that was definitely worthy of Top Headlines of 2012 status. Games that had players put their team jerseys away and concentrate about the flag that they raise. We had the Summer Olympics, the Jones Cup, and the Stankovic Cup all being played [...] Read more »
College basketball had a great year. It was a year of players and teams cementing that they are the best in the game. There was a school that won their fifth straight title. Another school that repeated another three-peat campaign. And two players showed that they were men amongst boys. [...] Read more »
WHAT DOES THIS GAME MEAN 3-2. Whoever wins this game will have the twice-to-beat advantage in the series. And the way that these two teams have been battling, that will be huge. Who would’ve thought that this series would be this intense? Honestly, we here at SLAM didn’t think that [...] Read more »
Christmas might be done, but that doesn’t mean that it is too late for a video that celebrates the twelve days of Christmas in the form of dunks. I, for one, can never remember the exact words of the classic carol, but I think that this might make me remember [...] Read more »
The year 2012 was a great year for basketball. It was a year that we saw a man’s hand light on fire. It was a year that a King was finally given his crown. It was a year that had Eagles and Lions continue their reign. Those are just three [...] Read more »
WHAT THE GAME MEANS Life or death. The hopes and dreams of the San Mig Coffee franchise to recapture their Philippine Cup crown is on the line. Rain or Shine know that they cannot waste any time in this series. They need to finish this series off as soon as [...] Read more »
WHAT THE GAME MEANS: For a newly-put-together, momentum-driven Alaska Aces squad, this may as well be now or never. The last thing you want to give the two-time defending Philippine Cup champs is a chance to break a game, much less a series, wide open. When they’re confident, Alaska is [...] Read more »