June 25, 2026
Thursday
“GAANO man kahaba ang prosesyon sa simbahan rin ang tuloy.” What most prognosticators had declared prior to the start of the 71st renewal of the National Basketball Association in late October has finally come to fruition. Yes, it will be the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers against the unblemished Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals […]
NO one team in National Basketball Association playoff history has reached the championship round with an unblemished record of 12 consecutive victories, let alone both qualifiers to the Finals. The Golden State Warriors, the 2015 NBA titlists, have an opportunity to enter the Finals at 12-0 if they defeat the injury-riddled San Antonio Spurs today, […]
THE 2017 National Basketball Association playoffs are down to the Final Four or the conference finals – Cleveland vs. Boston in the East and Golden State vs. San Antonio in the West. Unblemished in the postseason at 8-0 with a pair of four-game sweeps in the first two rounds of the four-tier postseason, the defending […]
SIXTY-TWO …… and counting. Help me if you can for when I turn 64, I hope to break bread with Beatle Paul McCartney. As I enter my 62nd year of earthly existence today, allow me to take you to memory lane with some of the most unforgettable moments in my life. The long and winding […]
THE Boston Celtics and Washington Wizards slug it out today (Manila time) in Game Five of their Eastern Conference semifinal series in the National Basketball Association playoffs at the TD Garden. The physical best-of-seven series is deadlocked at 2-2 with each of the four games going to the home team. Game 6 will be held […]
ARE the defending National Basketball Association Cleveland Cavaliers and the 2015 titlist Golden State Warriors headed for an unprecedented third consecutive Finals matchup? No two teams in NBA history have ever faced each other in three consecutive championship series. Not even the perennial powerhouses Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers crossed path three years in […]
THE reigning National Basketball Association champion Cleveland Cavaliers and the 2015 titlist Golden State Warriors, the two teams that clashed in the Finals in each of the last two years, remain unblemished in the current playoffs. Cleveland owns a five-game winning streak (eight consecutive postseason victories overall since whipping Golden State in seven dramatic games […]
SOMETIMES you don’t need to be an outstanding player to win a championship in team sports. You don’t have to be very talented so long as you have a star athlete or two for a teammate. You only need to be lucky and be in the right place at the right time. Vagabond frontliner Cris […]
TODAY (Manila time) marks the final playdate of the National Basketball Association’s 1,230-game regular season. It’s one exciting finale for various seeding positions entering the real season that is the 2017 playoffs have yet to be determined. A total of 14 games are scheduled to be played on the last day of the regular wars […]
RECENTLY-RETIRED National Basketball Association and Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant said that point guards Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder and James Harden of the Houston Rockets should share the league’s Most Valuable Player award this season. With the declaration, Bryant was probably just being polite and his belief may be politically correct […]
TRADITIONALLY, April 9 has been a “red-colored” national holiday in the Philippines as we Filipinos commemorate the fall of Bataan to the invading Japanese military forces during the four-year World War II hostilities. During my younger days, the holiday was called “Bataan Day.” Now, it’s called “Araw ng Kagitingan.” In sports, April 9 also is […]