The Blue Eagles: At the cusp of making history
By Francis LimNot even Hollywood would have come up with a better storyline.
Not even Hollywood would have come up with a better storyline.
For collegiate basketball fans, the 75th UAAP Season is upon us.
For many basketball fans, the buyout by Dutch dairy giant Royal Friesland Campina (RFC) of a controlling stake in Alaska Milk was a grave concern (especially because the team’s head coach Tim Cone had quit his post shortly before that).
Yet another historic season came to a close last October 1, as the Ateneo Blue Eagles raised the UAAP Men’s Seniors Basketball Championship Trophy for the fourth consecutive year after sweeping the tough FEU Tamaraws in two games. Season 74 was, arguably, one of the most exciting the league has ever seen. Fresh talents dominated [...]
Being the patron of the recent NBA All-Stars vs PBA Smart Gilas basketball showdown in Manila, businessman and sports enthusiast Manuel V. Pangilinan, a.k.a “MVP,” got to bring home the ball used during the much-raved about games, which he, in turn, gave to one lucky nephew. Aside from the ball, there was another much-coveted souvenir [...]
Alas, the season for college hoops is again upon us. The University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) basketball tournament, the second oldest organized basketball tournament in the country dating back to the prewar period (and second only to the NCAA), has arguably become the most anticipated sports event in the country (perhaps along with [...]
Andrew Tan, the new Filipino taipan, at least according to international business magazine Forbes’ listing of the world’s billionaires, is the “X” factor in the ongoing tussle between two groups in Manila Southwoods Golf Club. As everybody in the stock market knows, particularly those who made a killing by riding on the rise of Andrew [...]
INFLUENTIAL businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan left for the United States on Friday amid increasing expectation that the big boss of PLDT, Meralco, Metro Pacific Investments, Maynilad Water, TV5 and Philex—who is also a sports enthusiast—may acquire a basketball franchise in the NBA. Potentially the first Filipino and first Asian to acquire an American professional basketball [...]
