June 30, 2026
Tuesday
THE University of North Carolina and University of Villanova University will clash today (Manila time) in the 78th U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s basketball championship at the NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. During the national semifinals last Sunday (MT), the UNC Tar Heels eliminated upset-conscious Syracuse, 83-66, while the Wildcats ousted Oklahoma, 95-51, […]
DUKE University, the 2015 titlist, is gone, having lost to West Regional top seed University of Oregon, 82-68, in a Sweet 16 game. The Oregon Ducks, who subsequently dropped an 80-68 decision to second-seeded Oklahoma, 80-68, in their Elite Eight encounter, has bowed out of contention along with two other regional one-seeds Kansas, the nationally […]
IT can’t be true, but it’s really true. To have players appearing on both sides of a basketball game boxscore seemingly is not possible until you find out what happened in a unique National Basketball Association game nearly four decades ago. In one of the most bizarre moments in NBA history on March 23, 1979, […]
FROM 68 participating schools, the 2016 U.S. National Collegiate Athletic association (NCAA) men’s basketball tournament that is better known to hoops fans as “March Madness” is down to the Sweet 16. The reigning NCAA titlist Duke University Blue Devils (25-10), the No. 4 seeds in the West Regional who are seeking their sixth NCAA championship, […]
LAST Sunday, while attending Mass (fifth Sunday of Lent) at the Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City, my attention was caught by a young girl seated three rows in front of me. No, she wasn’t Bea Alonzo or Anne Curtis or Pokwang. It was something that was printed at the back of the young girl’s […]
MY 13-year-old son, Justin Miguel S. Liao, is about to complete the first year of his high-school studies at Philadelphia High School. Here below is the “open’’ letter I sent to him recently. Son, Friday March 4, 2016 marks the first anniversary of your love affair with the sport of basketball. It was the first […]
THE team was one defeat away from dethronement. Yet it breathed long enough that it came roaring back to snatch two victories, including the winner-take-all Game Three of a thrilling best-of-three titular series, to emerge as the champion for a second year in a row. Snatching victories from the jaws of defeat – this was […]
YOUTH was served in the 3rd Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball competitions as Makati Gospel Church-New Life Christian Academy romped away with the 13-and-under Aspirants Division for a second consecutive season behind Ike Jordan Lim, one of the most prominent blue-chip players out of junior high school. Lim powered the young New Lifers […]
DESERVEDLY so, the teams with the four highest winning percentages after the elimination round make up the Final Four cast in the eight-team Juniors (High School) Division playoffs of the 3rd Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball conclave. The semifinal matches feature unblemished No. 1 seed Philippine Cultural College (8-0) vs. No. 4 seed […]
HERE comes the “real” season – the playoffs where all the marbles are at stake – in the 3rd Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) boys’ basketball competitions at the Uno High School gym in Tondo, Manila. Host Philippine Cultural College is the top seed in the Juniors Division (High School) entering the quarterfinal playoffs […]
YESTERDAY when I was young was one of the happiest moments in my life. Care-free my life was as a youngster (up until I came out of high school in 1972). Life was a breeze, not because I was a spoiled brat, but rather because my parents from the middle class got me all the […]