Posts Tagged basketball
Mavs Can Take 2 of 3 At Home
The Dallas Mavericks won by the skin of their teeth in Game 2, thanks to Dirk Nowitzki’s left-handed stretched lay up over the Miami Heat defense.
With the Finals series now tied at one apiece, it is interesting to see how the Heat would make their adjustment especially since the next three games will shift to [...]
2011 Edition NU Bulldogs Barking Loud
It seemed only yesterday when my brothers and I were watching then PBA import Bobby Parks and idolizing local talents like Allan Caidic, Vergel Meneses, Bong Ravena and a host of others strut their stuff in the country’s oldest professional cage league.
Parks, a 6′3″ resident import of the now disbanded Shell franchise, was a seven-time [...]
NBA Take 2: Still A Tough Race In The East
While the Miami Heat will be getting the lion share of media attention due to the presence of Lebron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, there are notable squads in the East which could give the Florida-based squad serious challenges come the 2011 NBA season.
The Orlando Magic are expected to figure in the upper echelon [...]
Next Generation Mentors
Posted by Rich in Changed Lives, Discipleship, Sports on August 3rd, 2010
In a span of three weeks, I felt like a lot of us have turned back “Father Time” when we engaged the Lorenzo Ruiz Academy Crusaders varsity high school team in two friendly basketball games already at the LRA campus gymnasium in Ongpin, Binondo, Manila.
The idea of a friendly game started when LRA’s head coach [...]
What Butler And NU Share In Common
Watching the replay of the Duke-Butler 2010 NCAA Men’s basketball championship match made me remember one historic moment in our country’s local collegiate basketball league.
Well, Butler was just a small school with a also a small basketball program compared to its Finals rival Duke, Michigan State, Kentucky or North Carolina.
But the Butler Bulldogs didn’t allow [...]