July 04, 2026
Saturday
YOU can’t keep an outstanding basketball player down for a long time. This was the case with King Judenite Renzel Symon Yongco, who atoned for his so-so performance in the opener of the best-of-three Juniors Division finals by churning out 31 points, including four triples, and collecting six steals and five rebounds in Saint Jude […]
A THIRD overtime game between Uno High School and Makati Gospel Church-New Life Christian Academy in the Juniors Division of the 2nd Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball tournament was not in the cards. The defending champion Uneans survived a second-quarter meltdown behind the endgame heroics of Kenric Aldrich Kok and Kyle Christian Tan […]
HIGH school male athletes do not have a monopoly of the action in the ongoing 2nd Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball competitions. Even the bubbly boy basketeers from Grade 6 or Grade 7, whose ages are from 13 and below, are making waves in the Aspirants Division of the six-week festivities. Just like […]
YOUTH basketball has grown by leaps and bounds through the last few decades. The young athletes play an important role in the development of a country’s grassroots-based basketball program. In the hotbed of basketball in America and in the European landscape (where the sport is a close second to soccer), they have started them early. […]
WITH the games of the 2nd Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association basketball competitions in full swing, expect a lot of scouts to troop to the Uno High School in Tondo, Manila to look for potential recruits for college ball. A number of prominent stars are completing their high school varsity eligibility next month and are […]
FOR the past decade, local high school basketball activities have been my cup of tea. I doff my hat off to the basketball athletes in their teens that play for the name of the school on their uniforms without any financial remunerations (or allowances) and other perks such as a free pair of shoes (unless […]
SPORTS-WISE, I had three “loves” as a youngster – basketball, soccer and boxing. The game of basketball was – and still is – my first love. Then again, I was a bit lean and small to play hoops as a kid. And so I took in a second sport – soccer (local football). I played […]
SOME triple-double performances in U.S. National Basketball Association (NBA) history carry more significance than the others. On December 3, 2013, two rookies from opposing teams recorded a triple-double for the first time in the same game. That marked the first and only time in NBA annals that has happened. Philadelphia’s Michael Carter-Williams logged 27 points, […]
TWICE, in his two tours of duty with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the U.S. National Basketball Association took away from LeBron James what initially was a triple-double performance, no thanks to “clerical” errors (in rebounds and assists) that subsequently were discovered by the league’s stats crew. On February 4, 2009, in his last term as a […]
DESPITE their advanced age, future Hall of Famer Kobe Bean Bryant of the sad-sack Los Angeles Lakers and Timothy Theodore Duncan of the reigning titlist San Antonio Spurs remain a triple-double threat in the U.S. National Basketball Association (NBA) this season. Through games of January 6, Bryant owns a pair of triple-doubles while Duncan has […]
A TRIPLE-DOUBLE performance by an athlete during a basketball game is something special that it easily attracts a lot of attention from hoops fans. For the uninitiated, a triple-double is accomplished when a hoopster collects at least a 10 in three different statistical categories. It can be in points, rebounds, assists, steals or blocked shots.A […]