July 03, 2026
Friday
APRIL 9, yesterday, traditionally has been a “red-colored” national holiday as we Filipinos commemorate the fall of Bataan to the invading Japanese forces during the World War II hostilities. In sports, April 9 also is a special date to local basketball fans. The first game (or playdate) in the hallowed history of Asia’s first professional […]
TODAY (April 7, Manila time) is D-Day (Decision Day) in the 2015 U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men’s basketball tournament as the upset-conscious University of Wisconsin Badgers (36-3) take on the University of Duke Blue Devils (34-4) in the championship game at the 71,000-seat Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Wisconsin is […]
IN an era where one-and-done (only one year in college then onto the pros) is the norm, basically influenced by the current collective bargaining agreement struck by the U.S. National Basketball Association and its players union which states that a player must be at least 19 years old and one year out of high school […]
“MARCH Madness,” as the U.S National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s basketball tournament is all about, is in full swing. From an original 68-school cast, including eight lower-rated teams in the First Four games in the play-in first round, the race to the national championship is down to the Sweet Sixteen to be played from […]
DESPITE accepting a paycut of nearly $7 million, the Los Angeles Lakers’ battle-scarred, injury-plagued superstar Kobe Bryant remains the highest-salaried player in the U.S. National Basketball Association during the 2014-15 season. The third all-time leading scorer in NBA regular-season history, the 6-foot-7, 36-year-old Bryant’s 19th pro season came to an abrupt halt following surgery to […]
THIS is all about the shoe biz in the U.S. National Basketball Association. If the shoes fit, why not wear them and get paid handsomely for wearing them. Some of the players earn more off the court with lucrative endorsement deals than what their NBA teams pay for their services. According to a report by […]
I HAVE come to witness personally “sporty” people who continue to play competitive basketball at the ripe age of 60 or even older. In fact, I have played with – and against – them in various places such as the Philippine Military Institute gym in Manila on Sunday mornings, some of whom nearing age 70 […]
WHAT’S going on, the late Grammy Award-winning Marvin Gaye would probably be wondering from his grave? There’s just one death too many in the National Basketball Association family in recent days. In a span of 11 days between February 18 and March 11, there have been four deaths by former NBA players, including three who, […]
THERE were mixed recollections of what happened in the frantic moments after Wilt Chamberlain scored his 100th point on March 2, 1962 while leading the Philadelphia (now Golden State) Warriors to a 169-147 victory over the New York Knickerbockers in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Chamberlain and Harvey Pollack, the official scorer who was the Warriors’ public relations […]
TWO things come to mind when the month of March rolls around – the “March Madness” of the U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s basketball tournament and the 100-point game of the late Wilt Chamberlain in the U.S. National Basketball Association (NBA). It was 53 years ago on March 2 that Chamberlain registered the […]
AND so it has come to pass that the 2nd Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) season is over. While basketball, featuring four divisions (Developmental for boys age 11 and under, Aspirants for boys age 13 and under, Juniors for boys’ high school and Ladies for girls’ high school) was the centerpiece, PCYAA Season 2 […]