July 01, 2026
Wednesday
FOR once, allow me to brag – not about myself but rather about my bouncy-bouncy son Justin Miguel Sembran Liao, who is a rookie varsity basketball player with the Juniors (High School) and 13-and-Under teams of Philadelphia High School. Last Sunday afternoon, bubbly 5-foot-2 JM, a Grade 7 stude at the Talayan Village-based school, came […]
IT happened in 1993 in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) seniors men’s basketball competitions when the University of Growling Tigers waltzed their way to an immaculate record of 14-0 du-ring the elimination round to capture the championship outright under the now-discarded league rule for an unbeaten elimination-round leader. History could repeat itself […]
MOST observers thought Saint Jude Catholic School would give Hope Christian High School stiff competition in what was billed as a preview of the finals of the 18th Metropolitan Amateur Sports Association high school basketball tournament during their encounter last Sunday. The game between unblemished teams was even held at the Judenites’ home floor in […]
TIME was when only the Asian Youth 18-and-Under Basketball Championship and its international counterparts were being staged on a regular basis. At the turn of the century, though, youth basketball was further bolstered with competitions in the various age groups held at the Asian and World levels as well. Moreover, the FIBA has even come […]
AFTER a brief respite in the breezy countryside, it’s back to the high school basketball salt mines for this battle-scarred Hoopster. My current odyssey takes me to the 18th renewal of the Metropolitan Amateur Sports Association (MASA) high school basketball competitions. Six Chinese-Filipino schools make up this year’s six-week tournament. These are Saint Jude Catholic School, […]
WITH All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day fast approaching, this is the best time for us mortals to pay homage to our departed loved ones as well as reflect on our own lives. Have we been good or bad to the rest of mankind? What legacy do we want others to remember us by? […]
THE six-year title reign of Angelicum College in the Girls High School Division of the 9th Quezon City Athletic Association (QCAA) basketball competitions is over. Saint Bridget’s School, which returned to the league after a seven-absence, saved its best for last in upsetting erstwhile unblemished Angelicum College, 84-82, in the Girls High School finals before […]
AN annual ritual it has been for this battled-scarred Hoopster to personally witness the basketball finals of the Quezon City Athletic Association (QCAA) league. Now on its ninth edition, the QCAA cage finals in the five different divisions will be held on Saturday, October 17, at the Saint Claire School gym along West Avenue, Q.C. […]
YOU have to doff your hat off to Allen Ricardo, the founder of Got Skills Basketball whose ambitious year-long program is the envy of many a basketball tournament organizer. Ricardo, also an assistant coach in various age groups at De La Salle Greenhills, has put together several age group competitions since April in line with […]
IN beating the Philippines, 78-67, in the finals of the 28th FIBA Asia Men’s Basketball Championship in Changsha, Hunan province in the People’s Republic of China, the perennial continental power became the ninth country to punch an automatic ticket to the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 5-21 next year. The previous […]
THE “real” games in the 28th FIBA Asia Men’s Basketball Championship in Changsa, Hunan province in the People’s Republic of China begin with the single-elimination stages to be held in three consecutive days beginning with today’s quarterfinal round. Matchups in the Elite Eight of the 16-team biennial competitions are as follows: defending titlist Iran vs. […]