May 02, 2024
Thursday
To the sports fans who have in a stay-at-home mode for a month or so with no thrills to share due to the suspension of sporting competitions across the global due to the COVID-19 pandemic, here’s another “Blast from the Past” item that might interest you. It’s said that records are made to be broken. […]
Check the sports sections of the various publications on the Internet and they are all about throwbacks or blasts from the past. I am no different from their sports writers/columnists. Aside from forecasting a potential resumption of “real” sports competitions around the world – the National Basketball Association has come up with a virtual 2k […]
How time flies. Four years ago on April 13 (2016), Kobe Bean Bryant scored 60 points in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 101-96 victory over the Utah Jazz at the Staples Center in the farewell game of his distinguished 20-year NBA career with the purple-and-gold franchise, all with the Southern California-based Lakers. In 42:09 minutes, the […]
The National Basketball Association suspended play on March 12 with at least a 30-day stoppage in mind. That hiatus is not going to be lifted at any time soon and NBA commissioner Adam Silver is not likely to make a decision before the first of May. There were talks that the league might restart in […]
With the Philippine Basketball Association’s 45th season in limbo due to global COVID-19 pandemic, and with no assurance when the health issue can be put to rest, Asia’s first professional cage league perhaps may want to consider a two-conference format – instead of the traditional three – for the 2020-21 campaign. If so, this won’t […]
“Real” action in the National Basketball Association has been on a standstill since March 12 following the suspension of the games due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. So has the other sporting events around the globe been postponed or canceled. The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), the female counterpart of the NBA, recently announced the […]
He owns decent college-level skills but flashy Fil-American guard Remy Martin, who is bypassing his final year of NCAA eligibility, will be left untouched in the 2020 NBA draft that is slated for June 25 but is likely to be postponed to a later date because of the uncertainty in league activities due to the […]
The coronavirus that is officially called COVID-19 is winning its battle against the world with no vaccine to curb the contagion. And even the sports world has been greatly affected by the global pandemic as most sports competitions here and abroad have been suspended, if not cancelled. Locally, the Philippine Basketball Association opened its 46th […]
This is my AI (Allen Iverson) Cheat Code Politics? You mean politics? We are talking about politics at this time of the global COVID-19 pandemic that has no end in sight without a vaccine? There’s one who says he does not want to talk about politics at this time and then starts ranting against elected […]
RIP Coach Januario “Aric” Del Rosario, who gifted the University of Santo Tomas with several UAAP titles (1993-96 four-peat) during the 1990s. The legendary coach, among the best in local college basketball history (in the same class as Virgilio “Baby” Baby Dalupan at the University of the East) succumbed to cardiac arrest late last night […]
IT’S only right that the Tokyo Olympics were postponed to next year amid the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has infected more than 150 countries and cost the lives of nearly 20,000. Why it took the International Olympic Committee (IOC) so long (March 24) to come up with this decision remains a mystery. Before that, […]