June 26, 2026
Friday
I WAS neither tall nor muscular enough to be involved in varsity basketball as a teener at Xavier School. In short (no pun intended), I was simply not good enough to wear the school colors during my high school days. Notwithstanding the fact, my passion for basketball never wavered a bit. I chose the next […]
THE plot thickens in the Boys’ Juniors (High School) Division of the 4th Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball competitions held at the Uno High School gym. Going into the lone contest (host Grace Christian College vs. Saint Jude Catholic School) today, January 24 (7 p.m.), there is a four-way logjam atop the standings […]
SEASON 4 of the Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) league goes full blast today, January 12, with the resumption of the basketball competitions at the Uno High School gym. Action in the Boys’ Juniors (High School) Division commences on that day with Saint Peter the Apostle School taking on last year’s runner-up Philippine Cultural […]
FOR more than a decade, covering local high school basketball activities have been my cup of tea. I salute the roundballers in their teens that play for the name of the school on their uniforms without any financial benefits (allowances) and other perks such as a scholarship, a free pair of shoes or even “unli” […]
THERE’S so much talk about triple-double performances by a player in the NBA this season. Since 1990-91, the NBA has averaged around 35 triple-double games per season. However, this year’s list has already reached the 40 mark even as the league has only completed 45 percent of the 1,230-game schedule. For the uninitiated, a triple-double […]
SIX years ago on January 5, Jeron Alvin Teng, who last month snared his second University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) championship (2013 and 2016) and Finals Most Valuable Player award with the De La Salle University Green Archers to cap his remarkable five-year collegiate tenure, carved his niche in Philippine basketball history when […]
I MAY not have much material wealth to give away but the gift of love that I have inherited from the Lord Almighty is what I am sharing with friends and foes that I have crossed paths with in my six decades of earthly existence. From A to Z, Merry CHRISTmas to all! * * […]
THERE was a time in the 1960s 1970s and even 1980s when 10-year-old to 12-year-old school-based athletes taking part in official basketball competitions were designated by organizers to play in the derisively-sounding Mosquito Division, if not the so-called Mini Division. Moreover, their games served only as “appetizers” to the major high school cage tournaments. Nowadays, […]
THE year 2016 is about to come to a close. And great has the year been for this dinosaur-aging Hoopster so far. More than the journalistic work that I have churned out in the practice of my profession as a sportswriter/columnist for the last 35 years, the unadulterated joy comes in knowing that the family […]
BACK-to-back Metropolitan Amateur Sports Association (MASA) championships and a pristine 9-0 record for the season. This was the mission accomplished by the Hope Christian High School basketball team recently. Former National Youth Team member Kris Harvey Pagsanjan saved the best for last, netting a team-high 19 points, seven rebounds and three steals as the Warriors […]
TO the initiated, “flopping” has become a famous basketball term since the late 1980s. What exactly is flopping or a flop? “Flopping” in basketball is described as a physical act by a player that is intended to fool the referees to call a foul, whether charging or not, against a defender even if no physical […]