Posts Tagged UAAP

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 [...]

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FEU’s Talent Not Enough

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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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 [...]

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Ateneo And Its Second Back-to-Back UAAP Title

University of the East’s UAAP title futility has to wait another year or probably longer.
For Ateneo, the sea of blue and white are now celebrating inside the Big Dome after winning its second back-to-back UAAP championships at the expense of UE this afternoon, 71-58.
With Far Eastern University out of the picture after being booted out [...]

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Poetic Justice For Mark Barroca?

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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