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NO elimination round sweeps – not in the NCAA (San Sebastian finally lost after a 15-game winning streak, and not (yet?) to San Beda, but to Letran.), and not in the UAAP (What a bummer, for Ateneo to lose its last elimination round game, to …

A FEW weeks of both NCAA 87 and UAAP 74 basketball have gone by, and there are so many points of discussion. There are things that are clear as day (Ateneo’s dominance), and some not so clear (Is San Beda as dominant?). Surprises? Perhaps a …

EVERY learning institution, whether school, college or university, is supposedly endowed with academic freedom, which, when roughly explained, entitles them to decide, subject to reasonable regulation, on what to teach (subject matter), how to teach it (method), who can teach it (faculty members) and who …

BASKETBALL is a tall man’s game Basketball coaches say, “You can’t teach height”. More often than not, the taller man is picked first, whether on the playground or in the draft. Logic dictates that the nearer one is to the basket, the easier it …

AT THE start of each UAAP Men’s Basketball season, hopes are high for all teams. Even the perennial bottom-of-the-standing teams envision the season as a new chance to crack the Final Four. Especially for the coaches, anything can happen and, with the right amount of …

The name may seem very unfamiliar to many, because the UAAP career of Eduardo “Eddie” Viaplana was almost as quiet as he is in real life, except when he was on one of his three-point shooting sprees, which oftentimes broke the game wide open for …

First of two parts

In 2004, I, together with our current columnists Mike Abasolo and Sid Ventura, as well as our former columnist Kim Lesaca, was a writer for the now-defunct website www.uaapgames.com. One of my thrusts then was to make the current UAAP fans more …

In local college basketball, games are composed of four quarters of ten minutes each. While what happens during the first 35 or so minutes is generally entertaining and exciting, what matters most is the last few minutes, or even seconds, when the outcome of a …