Rico Santotome, Jr.
Sports: Petron, Rain or Shine Draw First Blood In Governor’s Cup
In last Sunday’s opening twinbill of the Philippine Basketball Association’s
season-ending tournament, the Governor’s Cup, fancied Petron and Rain or Shine
bested their respective foes over at the Ynares Center in Antipolo City for a
share of the early leadership of the Third Conference.
Sports: Denver’s JaVale McGee up for naturalization
The Philippines may have current Denver Nuggets slotman JaVale McGee as the
next naturalized player for our Philippine basketball team after Marcus Douthit
as well as in joining the likes of erstwhile naturalized cage stars in the
persons of Chip Engelland, Dennis Still and Jeff Moore of Northern Cement
basketball fame.
A former Washington Wizards center who was dealt to the Nuggets during the 2011-12 National Basketball Association regular season, McGee played for Denver against the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of postseason play where the Nuggets lost in seven games last week.
Sports: Two LAs Are Better than One, Much More None in the Second Round
Your Sideline Spectator is writing this piece while attending the Journalism
Seminar, Online and Public Journalism for information officers in Western
Visayas here at the Iloilo Grand Hotel’s Casa Real (May 16-18) sponsored by the
Philippine Information Agency-6 and with my daughters Ria Patricia and Rica
Paola in tow for a later getaway to my hometown of Passi City.
Sports: PBA All - Stars Conquer Laoag City
Notwithstanding the absence of a number of Talk ‘N Text participants for the
2012 Philippine Basketball Association All-Star Weekend in Ilocos Norte during
the weekend, the show went on as planned over at the Ilocos Norte Centennial
Arena in Laoag City to the delight of basketball fans from Marcos country.
Barely a week after losing the PBA Commissioner’s Cup diadem to eventual winner B-Meg, TNT players like Jimmy Alapag, Kelly Williams, Ranidel de Ocampo and Japeth Aguilar including original Veterans side mentor and Tropang Texters bench tactician Chot Reyes were sorely missed due to a variety of reasons.
Sports: Goodbye Bulls!
For the second straight season, we will not be seeing the Chicago Bulls
advance past the Eastern Conference level of the National Basketball Association
playoffs after Andre Iguodala and the Philadelphia 76ers ambushed them right in
the very opening round of the 2011-12 edition of post-season play.
Sports: The early birds in the NBA Playoffs second round
San Antonio and Oklahoma City swept their respective first round assignments
in the National Basketball Association playoffs to gain headway in their quest
for a possible conference finals showdown in the Western Conference while
Chicago is in danger of an early ouster versus Philadelphia.
Sports: PBA ‘Hunger Games’: It’s B-Meg!
Game 7 was the only outing in the best-of-seven series for the Commissioner’s
Cup diadem between B-Meg and Talk ‘N Text that went into overtime during last
Sunday’s pulsating decider at the Big Dome eventually won by the Llamados in a
heart-stopping 90-84 triumph to the dismay of TNT fans.
I was at the Manokan Country for the usual ‘pahiyang’ after attending the 6:30 pm Sunday mass at San Sebastian Cathedral and your Sideline Spectator opted to watch the Second Conference’ final game at my favorite Nena’s Beth chicken restaurant hoping for a Talk ‘N Text victory once again.
Sports: Take Your Own Pick: Mayweather Jr or Cotto?
Floyd Mayweather Jr will always be remembered by the boxing world as the same
professional boxer who threw a 1-2 sucker punch combo to an unsuspecting Victor
Ortiz in last year’s controversial World Boxing Council welterweight title fight
in Las Vegas that won for him the said champion’s belt.
Sports: Liking the Lakers’ Playoff Chances
Without suspended wingman Metta World Peace aka Ron Artest, the Los Angeles
Lakers raced to an early 2-0 series lead versus the Denver Nuggets in their
first round battle for a Western Conference semifinal berth in the 2011-12
National Basketball Association playoff wars after the many-time NBA champions
scored another triumph yesterday.
Sports: We Have a Ball Game, No Doubt!
Now that the championship series between Talk ‘N Text and B-Meg has been
reduced to a mere best-of-three affair following TNT’s easy 100-85 triumph in
last Sunday’s Game 4, the 2011-12 Commissioner’s Cup Finals will certainly go
down in Philippine Basketball Association history as one of the closest ever
fought title showdown in recent years.
In Game 4, Talk ‘N Text won with plenty to spare against the defense-minded
Llamados via a huge 15-point triumph in that ejection-marred contest that saw
B-Meg’s Joe Devance and TNT rookie John Raymundo getting thrown out of the game
for some late-game altercation.
