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HOOPSTER: More Wishes for Philippine Sports in Year 2012, Part 3
By Henry Liao for philippinebasketball.ph (01/07/2012)
Here’s the third and final installment of our 10-item wish
list for Philippine sports in Year 2012.
3. Concentrate on the Three Bees – Boxing, Bowling and Billiards
We Filipinos take sports like a duck takes to water. Any
Pinoy sports fan worth his salt nonetheless knows that we can no longer
excel in international basketball. Within the Southeast Asian community,
our country may be unbeatable, at least for now. But as far as the Asian
competitions – let alone at the World level – are concerned, the Philippines
has lagged so far behind from its dominating position between the 1920s
and early 1970s. >>
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HOOPSTER: More Wishes for Philippine Sports
By Henry Liao for philippinebasketball.ph (01/06/2012)
Here’s the second installment of our 10 Wishes for Philippine
Sports in Year 2012.
6. Move over Kiefer and Bobby Ray, here comes Jeron
After Kiefer Ravena (Ateneo de Manila University) and Bobby
Ray Parks (National University), there’s the next blue-chip, can’t-miss
prospect for local college ball in Jeron Teng, a teammate of the two 2011
UAAP rookie sensations in several Youth international stints in the past.
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2011-2012
PBA Philippine Cup Semifinals: Outlast
By Joseph W. Buduan for philippinebasketball.ph (01/05/2012)
Like
all the best matches in modern basketball, the 2011-2012 PBA Philippine
Cup comes down to the Final 4, the top four teams who will duke it out
to determine who will dispute the premier conference championship of the
season. Petron Blaze, Talk N Text, Powerade and Rain Or Shine are the
last four teams standing, and two of them will battle it out for the right
to be crowned the best team in the land. >>
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HOOPSTER: How time flies!
By Henry Liao for philippinebasketball.ph (12/29/2011)
January 5 marks the greatest scoring game by a high school
player in Philippine basketball history!
On January 5, 2011, Xavier School's Jeron Teng scored a
mind-boggling 104 points in Xavier School's 164-74 shellacking of Grace
Christian College in a Metro Manila Tiong Lian Basketball Association
(MMTLBA) game at the Jacinto Tiu Court inside the Xavier School campus.
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HOOPSTER: My 10-item Wish List for Philippine Sports in Year 2012
By Henry Liao for philippinebasketball.ph (12/28/2011)
Most fortune tellers believe that the Year
of the Dragon (it officially starts on January 23, which has been declared
a special non-working holiday by the national government for the first
time ever) will bring luck to most people.
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