July 05, 2026
Sunday
THERE have been seven 100 points-or-more performances by a homegrown athlete in Philippine basketball history. Strangely, only three found its way to Wikipedia’s “List of basketball players who have scored 100 points in a single game” around the world. The three 100-point feats that have officially been documented by Wikipedia are the following: 1. Luis […]
MUCH journalistic ink has been spent on The Big Difference” or “The Great Difference” Carlos (Caloy) Loyzaga through the glory years of Philippine basketball in the 1950s and 1960s and even until today, a lot of sportswriters have taken time to write his immortal cage exploits that propelled the country to the top of the […]
A LOCAL college bet from the Sugbu Nation topped an international basketball event recently. Newly-crowned Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc. (CESAFI) champion Southwestern University slipped past local arch rival University of San Carlos, 68-66, to capture the 10th Asian University Basketball Championship (AUBC) title at the Cebu City Sports Institute. Cameroonian import Landry Sanjo topscored […]
WITH All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day this Saturday and Sunday, let’s take time off to pay homage to our departed loved ones. Life is so fleeting. Just as we are all transients in this earthly world, no one can really say or foretell how long our lives will be. Not even the most […]
THE 69th renewal of the National Basketball Association unwraps tomorrow with a three-game bill. The tripleheader features Orlando at New Orleans, Dallas at San Antonio, and Houston at the LA Lakers. All three Texas teams will be in action on opening night. The San Antonio Spurs, who defeated LeBron James and the then- back-to-back NBA […]
SIXTY years ago on October 31, history was made in the National Basketball Association (NBA) when the first ever African-American saw action in the league. His name: Earl Francis Lloyd of the Washington Capitols. A 6-foot-6 product of West Virginia State College, Lloyd took the floor against the Rochester (New) Royals (the predecessors of the […]
POP icon Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight) remembers when rock was young, he and Suzie had so much fun. At least that’s what the 67-year-old John said in his 1972 hit song “Crocodile Rock.” I, too, remember when I was young. My friends and I had so much fun playing basketball. In […]
THE Season 77 men’s seniors basketball tournament of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) came to a grand conclusion last night with the decisive Finals Game Three between National University and Far Eastern University. The Bulldogs won in Game Three, 75-59, to halt the league’s longest title drought. NU last captured a championship […]
HERE we go again. Numbers, numbers, numbers. It’s said that Game Two of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Season 77 men’s basketball finals last October 1 set an all-time attendance record at the tradition-steeped Araneta Coliseum when 24,896 people witnessed National University’s 62-47 spanking of Far Eastern University that forced a deciding […]
FOR the wackiest reasons, I am rooting for National University to beat Far Eastern University in the deciding Game Three of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Season 77 men’s seniors basketball tournament to be held on Wednesday, October 15, at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Cubao, Quezon City. I am rooting for […]
BELIEVE it or not, we are slowly getting to the top, Philippine basketball is. Whatever its critics say, the current national cage program is still the best road to recovery in the international roundball scene despite the Asian Games debacle in Incheon, South Korea. No, national team coach Vincent (Chot) Reyes is not the reason […]