July 06, 2026
Monday
IT’S on to Mainland China for naturalized Filipino basketball player and National Basketball Association (NBA) veteran Andray Maurice Blatche after an impressive stint with Gilas Team Pilipinas in the recently-concluded 17th FIBA World Cup. Born in Syracuse, New York, the 6-foot-11 power forward will suit up for the Xinjiang Guanghui Flying Tigers in the upcoming […]
FOR the first time in 36 years, our beloved Philippines will take part in the 17th FIBA Basketball World Cup (formerly known as the FIBA World Basketball Championship) to be held in six major cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Bilbao, Seville and Las Palmas) in Spain from August 30 to September 14. In Group B action, […]
FROM the 1950s to the 1980s, when only amateur players were permitted to suit up in FIBA-sanctioned world competitions, the United States was represented by players from the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) – and not the star athletes from the topnotch National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) schools in the country – during the World Basketball […]
WHILE it pales in comparison to the Summer Olympics in terms of prestige, spectacularity and popularity, the FIBA Basketball World Cup (formerly known as the FIBA World Basketball Championship until the upcoming 17th edition) will always remain as the second-best attraction in the international basketball scene. At least that’s the way the United States has […]
DURING my heyday as a Baby Boomer, only athletes of amateur status were allowed to see action in the Summer or Winter Olympics and the various international sporting events. That includes events sanctioned by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the world’s basketball-governing association. The United States, of course, was virtually unchallenged in men’s or women’s […]
THREE teams that supposedly were in a rebuilding mode – Ateneo de Manila University, National University and Far Eastern University – are actually dominating Season 77 of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) men’s basketball competitions. Ateneo completed its first-round schedule with a league-leading 6-1 record, having lost just to National University (64-60) […]
SINCE 2000, Ateneo de Manila University is pacing all eight schools in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) men’s basketball competitions insofar as win-loss records and championships are concerned. Entering Season 70, the Blue Eagles owned a league-best 148-46 record during the elimination round for a .763 winning clip. The team has not […]
WHILE they do not tell the whole story, statistics generally don’t lie. Only human errors do. Hereunder are the current season averages of prominent players suiting up in the 2014 University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) basketball competitions. The computations I have made were derived from game statistics generously provided by my good pal […]
SINCE the mid-2000s, foreign student-athletes have flocked to play in premier Metro Manila college basketball leagues in the Metro Manila, including the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Even Cebu has followed Imperial Manila’s lead as elite schools belonging to the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. (CESAFI) […]
JULY is in full bloom and so have the premier collegiate basketball circuits in Metro Manila such as the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) and University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). The NCAA opened its Season 90 last June 28. Host school is Jose Rizal University. There are 10 member schools in the oldest […]
LIKE any avid sports fan, my sight had been set on the 20th FIFA World Cup, international football’s biggest quadrennial spectacle, for the past four weeks with early morning wake-ups to catch the games on cable television. The big story regarding Akron, Ohio-born LeBron James’ ditching the Miami Heat, who reached the NBA Finals in […]