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It’s a hot and humid Thursday afternoon in March. The unstoppable rise in temperature is utterly discomforting. That is why I’m at Titan Barbershop in Katipunan — to somehow free up more surface area around my nape and crown so I can maximize whatever cooling effect the summer breeze will [...] 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 »
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 »
Would you look at that? After all of the talk and signed contracts and denying reports, Jerie Pingoy is practicing with the Ateneo Blue Eagles as early as now. The two-time UAAP Juniors MVP has been linked to joining the five-time defending champs, but it has been merely hearsay. Now, [...] Read more »
When I was in high school, I attended a nationwide basketball camp. Alex Compton was one of the coaches at that camp. I entered feeling like I had what it took to play in the pros. Needless to say, after Compton posted me up for a good twenty minutes then [...] Read more »
Ateneans quickly felt the huge void left by Norman Black once they saw Mr. 100% throw his arms to the sky and holler wildly at the refs; the PBA refs. And even a day after the Blue Eagles copped their fifth straight, Katipunan Kids were already throwing this question around [...] Read more »
First, it was FEU. Then, it was Ateneo. Then, back to FEU. Now, unsure. Jerie Pingoy of the UAAP Juniors Champion, the FEU Baby Tamaraws, is a straight up baller. The top recruit in this year’s bunch. But where will he go? The reports on where this kid is going [...] Read more »
I find it awful that I’ve struggled mightily for the past week — just staring blank at a blinking inactive cursor — trying to decipher what I truly feel about my Blue Eagles copping five straight. See, when your school wins five consecutive UAAP Men’s Basketball championships, there should be [...] Read more »
This week’s edition of The Week in Basketball is highlighted by events that will go down in basketball history. One team that has ruled their league for half of a decade. One player that exploded for arguably the best single-game individual performance in recent collegiate basketball. One player that will [...] Read more »
It is time for the best of the best. The 10 players that stand out above the rest in the college world. The ones that lift their teams to all new heights and are looked at as the future of the PBA. Seems easy enough, right? Shouldn’t it be the [...] Read more »