July 05, 2026
Sunday
FOR the seventh year in a row, five games are slated to be played in the U.S. National Basketball Association (NBA) on Christmas Day. The festive quintuple bill starts at high noon (or December 26, 1:00 a.m., Manila time) with an Eastern Conference duel between the Washington Wizards and New York Knickerbockers at the Madison […]
THE NBA has its own K. K. K. by way of the top three career scorers in the pro league’s 69-year regular-season history – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone and now, Kobe Bryant. Abdul-Jabbar, who started his distinguished NBA tenure in 1969-70 under his Catholic name Ferdinand Lewis (Lew) Alcindor, is the all-time leading scorer in […]
AMIABLE Van Halen Parmis, known to prominent hoops personalities in the Visayas and Mindanao landscape as the “Panalay King” for having won numerous basketball championships in various tournaments and leagues outside of Imperial Manila through the years, steered the barnstorming Natumolan Eagles to a “four-peat” recently. In the fourth Mayor Paulino Yap Emano’s Cup held […]
AFTER Saint Jude Catholic School romped away with the title in the Developmental Division (for players age 11 and under) of the 2nd Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball competitions last week, here come the other three divisional championships at stake starting in January 2015. The Boys High School (Juniors Division) tournament, which will […]
COOL dude Jaezen Shandy Ngo clustered five points in the last two minutes to hand top seed Saint Jude Catholic School the lead for good en route to a nerve-wracking 29-27 victory over second seed Philippine Cultural College Saturday afternoon (December 6) in the championship game of the Developmental Division (for players aged 11 and […]
THE winningest head coach in Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) history, Earl Timothy (Tim) Cone, utilized the scheme with the Alaska franchise and won 13 titles in two decades’ service from the 1990s to the 2010s. Great success probably “bored” the American-born Cone so much so he sought new challenges. In 2011, he moved over to […]
GUEST team Chiang Kai Shek College completed a perfect 9-0 season with a hard-earned 57-55 victory over host Saint Jude Catholic School Saturday afternoon at the Philippine Cultural College Gym to annex the high school basketball title in the 17th Metropolitan Amateur Sports Association (MASA) competitions. Saint Jude Catholic School, which upset 2013 titlist Hope […]
IT will be guest team Chiang Kai Shek College against host Saint Jude Catholic School in the one-game finals of the 17th Metropolitan Amateur Sports Association (MASA) high school basketball tournament. D-Day (Decision Day) will be on Saturday, November 29, at the Philippine Cultural College Gym in Tondo, Manila. Just before the championship game (10:30 […]
SLIM and none are the chances of anyone to duplicate, let alone surpass, “The Triggerman” Allan Caidic’s 79-point feat in the PBA 23 years ago. With the relatively low-scoring games nowadays in Asia’s first professional league, it is extremely unlikely that another prolific marksman currently seeing action in the PBA is capable of shattering Caidic’s […]
SACRED Heart Academy of Novaliches was a huge winner in the 8th Quezon City Athletic Association (QCAA) basketball competitions, romping away with two of the five divisional championships at stake during the tournament’s final playdate last Sunday November 16 at the Saint Claire School Gym. The Bruins first topped the 13 years-and-under Boys Elementary Division […]
FOUR 100-point performances by a homegrown athlete in Philippine basketball history surprisingly have yet to be authenticated or documented by Wikipedia in its worldwide “List of basketball players who have scored 100 points in a single game.” Significantly, three of those performances were registered in a high-profile collegiate league in Cebu City. Moreover, two of […]