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Dec
26
2009

The Ultimate Rejection Became The Ultimate Acceptance

Have you ever been rejected before? By your family members? Friend? Your crush or person you’re pursuing? By your dream company?

Watching the NBA Stories this afternoon at Basketball TV, the program featured unknown players who were fighting for the 10th, 11th and 12th spot in the NBA team roster after figuring in a tough Summer [...]

Dec
7
2009

From Johnson-Bird to Bryant-James, A New Rivalry In The Making?

It’s been 30 years since Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, then wide-eyed rookies with immense potential, took the National Basketball Association to a new brand of basketball.
Johnson, a proven winner from high school to college, where his Michigan Lancers ended what could have been a perfect season for Bird and his Indiana Sycamores in the [...]

Dec
7
2009

Road Tests For The Lakers

The road to a second straight NBA championship seemed easy for the Los Angeles Lakers during their first 19 games of the 2010-2011 season.
Currently owning a hot streak of nine straight wins, following their 108-88 demolition of the road-weary Phoenix Suns, the Lakers appear every bit of a champion.
Ron Artest has been fitting well in [...]

Nov
29
2009

Altamirano & Compton Lay The Groundwork For Philippine Basketball

The Philippines’ decades of futility in international basketball competitions may soon be a thing of the past.
For one, veteran professional head coach Eric Altamirano has been at the helm of the RP Nokia-Under 16 men’s squad, which just a few days back finished a respectable fourth place in the FIBA-Asia Under-16 Men’s cage championships in [...]

Nov
15
2009

Pacquiao Fully Cements His Claim For Boxing Greatness

Watching Manny Pacquiao chase and pepper Miguel Cotto relentlessly with his punches just amazed me no end as to the power and speed that the Filipino world-class boxer displayed before the world to see.
Even Cotto later, after the fight, admitted that “he didn’t know where the punches (of Pacquiao) were coming”, as he surrendered his [...]