Posts Tagged Mark Barroca

Smart-Gilas, Kobe & Mark

Posted by Rich in Sports on July 13th, 2011

After two years of playing together, Smart-Gilas Pilipinas’ true grit will be tested when the Filipino basketball players travel to Wuhan, China in their quest to put the country back in the global basketball map this September 15-25.

The tournament in Wuhan, China is nothing more than the FIBA-Asia championships — where the toughest national teams [...]

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FEU’s Talent Not Enough

Posted by Rich in Sports on October 2nd, 2010

Talent is not enough. I’ve heard that a lot of times, and I’ve seen super-talented teams run roughshod over opponents during the elimination round, only to succumb to the mentality that talent can bring them to the top–which in reality isn’t true at all.
Since the start of the 2010 UAAP men’s basketball season last July, [...]

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A Philippine Basketball Renaissance?

Posted by Rich in Sports on October 6th, 2009

The way Smart-Gilas (the National youth developmental team) routed the Powerade Philippine Team (represented by the PBA’s best players) last night (98-69), showed how way behind the professional cagers are as far as international play is concerned.
Though the PBA boasts of being a professional league, and having in their backyard the “cream of the crop” [...]

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Poetic Justice For Mark Barroca?

Posted by Rich in Changed Lives, Sports on September 24th, 2009

I got two tickets from Pipo Noundou, Far Eastern University’s rookie forward so I was able to watch, along with KC Fitero, the UAAP sudden death match between the FEU Tamaraws and the UE Red Warriors this afernoon at the Araneta Coliseum.
I wasn’t surprised by the energy displayed by both teams at the start of [...]

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Take Your Pick: Ateneo or FEU?

Posted by Rich in Sports on September 12th, 2009

A lot has been said about De La Salle’s failure to make it to the Final Four e in the ongoing UAAP basketball wars.

Well, La Salle just can’t qualify in the tight Final Four playoffs all the time. And that has been a bitter pill to swallow for the entire Green Archers community considering that [...]

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