July 07, 2026
Tuesday
NATIONALLY-ranked Florida will clash with upset-conscious Connecticut and unpredictable Wisconsin will take on red-hot Kentucky on April 5 (Apr. 6 Manila time) in the Final Four (national semifinals) of the 2013 U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men’s basketball tournament at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Two days later (Apr. 8 MT), […]
FOUR Ateneo de Manila University products own five championship rings during their five-year varsity tenure with the Blue Eagles in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) men’s basketball competitions from 2008 to 2012. They are Nico Salva, Justin Chua, Tonino Gonzaga and Chris Sumalinog. No other player has won five titles exclusively in […]
WITH “March Madness” comes the U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I men’s basketball tournament with a single-loss knockout format. The race for the national crown among the top 68 schools in America got underway last March 19 (Manila time) with the First Four play-in games among the eight lower-rated schools that were looking to […]
ONE of the most bizarre moments in National Basketball Association history happened on March 23, 1979 when the Philadelphia 76ers played host to the New Jersey (now Brooklyn) Nets at the old Spectrum in a game that was being replayed under protest by the Nets. Take note, Ripley: Four players appeared in the boxscore of […]
WHILE the Philippine Basketball Association has yet to produce a father and two-son combination in its 39-year existence, the U.S. National Basketball Association has already accomplished the rate feat – and more. Richard Francis Dennis (Rick) Barry III, a Hall of Famer who started his incandescent 14-year professional career in the NBA (1965-67) then moved […]
IT has not happened yet – the first player in the 39-year history of the Philippine Basketball Association to have sent two sons to Asia’s first professional league. That will come in a few years’ time (maybe in 2017?) when incoming junior Jeron Alvin Teng from the reigning University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) […]
BROTHER acts in major commercial leagues in Philippine basketball history are special but no longer a rarity. It’s the father-and-son combinations in local ball that are rare. That’s because some sons were not as good as their elders in their craft and thereby did not make it to the top grades (after their academic years). […]
THE legendary coaching exploits of the Panalay King live on. In 2012, the genial Van Halen Parmis, a Ricky Rubio-lookalike who is better known as the Panalay King in the minor-league Visayas and Mindanao basketball circles, romped away with 32 titles in various pocket four-team tournaments. Count them with your pair of hands and feet […]
HERE are some more game-winning streaks in Philippine college basketball history. In 1994, the San Sebastian College-Recoletos Golden Stags became the second team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s basketball annals to complete a season with a perfect record at 10-0 and gain an automatic championship as the first- and second-round pennant winners. The […]
STREAKY streaks – Mind-boggling this subject matter is. In case you have not noticed, the current local college sports scene has produced several winning streaks by school teams that have stretched through multiple seasons. As a result, multiple championships also have been won by these “streaking” teams in their respective sports. Consider the following: + […]
UNLIKE planting rice, counting numbers is so much fun. My fascination over statistics has not waned since my academic years. And at an early age, I quickly learned that a 36-24-36 gets more oohs and aahs than a 10-10-10 (a triple-double in basketball). Until now, the mathematical hormones in my aging body rev up every […]