July 08, 2026
Wednesday
IT will be Philippine Cultural College against upset-conscious Makati Gospel Church-New Life Christian Academy in the best-of-three finals of the Aspirants Open Division in the first Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball competitions. To be held at the Uno High School Gym in Manila, the title series opener will be played on Wednesday, February 19 […]
THE Final Four cast for the Aspirants Open Division playoffs in the inaugural Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball competitions has been determined. Top seed Saint Jude Catholic School, which is unblemished in eight appearances in the six-week tournament for players aged 13 and under, will clash with fifth-seeded Makati Gospel Church-New Life Christian […]
ATTENTION, scouts for high school teams in the Metro Manila area. Here’s a great opportunity for you to size up the top elementary student athletes aged 13-and-under that are seeing action in the 1st Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) Aspirants basketball competitions at the Uno High School Gym in Manila. The quarterfinal playoffs, featuring […]
MORE and more student-athletes are taking up basketball at a tender age and getting better and better so much so a few may even be potential candidates for future Philippine national youth teams for players aged under under-13 and/or under-15. For the past several months, this Hoopster has been attending games in the 1st Philippine […]
WHILE he may be arguably the greatest National Basketball Association player of all time, the eminent Michael Jordan earned only a pittance – salary-wise – during his 15 NBA seasons with the Chicago Bulls (1984-98, six titles) and Washington Wizards (2001-03). (For the record, though, I have gone against the grain countless times in naming […]
FOR the fourth consecutive season, the Los Angeles Lakers’ injured star Kobe Bryant is the highest-salaried player in the U.S. National Basketball Association. Bryant is making $30,453,805 million during the 2013-14 wars to become only the second player in NBA history to bankroll at least $30 million after Michael Jordan, who did it twice in […]
MONEY matters in the NBA are just as important as winning a championship. Six NBA players are bankrolling at least $20 million in the ongoing 2013-14 season, including one injury-riddled superstar in rarefied $30 million range. The Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant, the No. 1 career scorer in franchise history and the fourth all-time leading […]
“BABY You’re a Rich Man” was one of a hundred and one popular songs by the iconic Fabulous Four from Liverpool, England collectively known as the Beatles. “Money” was another Beatles hit. “That’s all I want,” John (Lennon), Paul (McCartney), George (Harrison) and Ringo (Starr) chorused. And yeah, yeah, yeah. Baby, you’ll be a rich […]
THERE have been seven 100 points-or-more feats by a Filipino basketball player. Luis (Lou) Salvador’s 116 points for the Philippines in the gold-medal game against China during the 1923 Far Eastern Games in Osaka, Japan, Jeron Teng’s 104 for Xavier School against Grace Christian College in a 2011 Metro Manila Tiong Lian Basketball Association high-school […]
FOR the record, there have been seven 100 points-or-more performances by a Filipino basketball player. However, only three found its way to Wikipedia’s “List of basketball players who have scored 100 points in a single game” around the world. Those officially documented were the following: 1. Luis (Lou) Salvador’s 116 points in the Philippines’ gold […]
RUMMAGING through the voluminous basketball clippings that I have collected over the past five decades, it appears there have been seven 100 points-or-more performances by a Filipino player here or abroad and another two by foreign recruits on Philippine soil. The two “imports” with century-mark scoring credentials in the professional Philippines Basketball Association (PBA) league […]