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InterAKTV WHAT THIS GAME MEANS: For Barangay Ginebra San Miguel, it’s as simple as DO! or DIE! They’ve been dominated by a team that clearly is better than them and they haven’t shown any inkling of being able to find counters against Alaska’s D. Macklin and Caguioa have looked like [...] Read more »
Ito na ‘to. This is it. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the PBA Finals! It’s Alaska vs. Ginebra: The Best Team Since Game Zero vs. The Team That Fate Kissed. I’m already salivating just by mentioning “Alaska vs. Ginebra”. That sounds as sexy as “Mudwrestling: Trish Stratus vs. Stacy Keibler”, [...] Read more »
Well what do you know? Much like in poker, Aces trump all others. Young coach? No problem. Fiery players? Asset, not liability. Arch-rival? Defeated. Finally. With last night’s win, the Alaska Aces move into the PBA Commissioner’s Cup Finals, their first appearance in a championship series without Tim Cone. And [...] Read more »
What happens when you cut the Commissioner’s Cup Semis into two parts, when you deprive Ginebra, San Mig Coffee, Alaska, and Talk ‘N Text fans an abundant source of joy and elation? You get 23,108. 23,108 rabid fans were crammed like sardines in the SMART-Araneta Coliseum despite the rain and [...] Read more »
WHAT THIS GAME MEANS: Before we start, can I just point out how hilarious Alvin Patrimonio’s face is on the photo above? Come on. That’s a meme waiting to happen. Seriously. Look again. Laughtrip. Okay, enough. Let’s start over. WHAT THIS GAME MEANS: The proverbial monkey is finally off of [...] Read more »
Monkey off back. Series evened. Alaska is back. Completely. Fully. No more Tim Cone asterisk. Now they’ve proven to everyone they can beat anyone, and finally have the boxscore to prove it. On a massive stage, against Cone’s Undertaker-Wrestlemania-like 9-0 record against them, the Aces showed us all who they [...] Read more »
He did it again. I don’t know how. I don’t know if he knows how. But somehow, some way, Tim Cone did it again. He beat Alaska. Once more, he stands taller than his former team, albeit slightly, after the escape act they pulled to open their 5-game semifinals series with a [...] Read more »
WHAT THIS GAME MEANS: Nothing for Global Port Batang Pier. I actually spent exactly four minutes and two seconds (the length of Taylor Swift’s new music video, “22″) on thinking what this game can mean for Gary D. and Co. I ended up wasting that amount of time because really, [...] Read more »
ROBI: Wassup Boobie?! We back bruh! BOOBIE: Yessir! Talk about an exciting alcoholic, flirtatious weekend spoiled by another TNT win. ROBI: “Spoiled” in the sense that we don’t want a yawn-inducing, boring Finals. At first I really thought that RoS should slow it down like Alaska, just to disrupt TNT’s [...] Read more »
The Best Player of the Philippine Cup. Who should have the title? The Blur? The Spiderman? I wouldn’t be surprised if either of those Kapampangans take home the trophy. I mean, Jayson Castro has blitzed his way into the paint, through every defender, all the way to a 3-0 lead in the [...] Read more »