The Final Score: Leo Austria — San Miguel’s winning, pleading coach
Leo Austria’s monologue in the timeout huddle starts. As in most frenzied environments, like a timeout during a close game, monologues under duress are less about composing beautiful sentences and more...
View ArticleThe Final Score: Finals MVP contenders Calvin Abueva and Arwind Santos clash...
An hour before the start of Game Six of the Philippine Cup finals, a man walked along the courtside seats of the Araneta Coliseum and he carried a boy. The boy, who I’m guessing is around four to five...
View ArticleThe Final Score: Pinoy basketball on the high seas
Welcome to the all-Filipino Mariner Basketball Culinary League. Tonight, the number one seed Lightning faces the fourth seed Rush of Fire in Game One of their best-of-three semifinals.
View ArticleThe Final Score: How Alaska lost the finals, but won one fan's heart
“They don’t give up. It’s a virtue. It’s one of the values you want to teach the young. It’s the perseverance.”
View ArticleThe Final Score: Yet another transcendent moment from Paul Lee
Rain or Shine leads NLEX by three. You’re sitting down with 27 seconds left in the game. In truth, you really want to stand up. But since it’s not a Game Seven, you decide to sit tight just like...
View ArticleThe Final Score: In season's first Manila Clasico, Purefoods celebrates...
Every Manila Clasico should start the way it did last Sunday. With history. With pomp. With nostalgia. With a heartfelt nod to the players from before. With the rousing cheer for the games that leave...
View ArticleThe Final Score: In the land of PBA giants
The next face of the PBA, even if fans can’t agree on a single current face of the PBA, is likely going to be larger than life.
View ArticleThe Final Score: When Danny Seigle and June Mar Fajardo met at the...
It was a moment that twisted the space-time continuum. Okay, I don’t really know what that means. But upon witnessing the sequence, I just know that time stopped, then it shifted to reverse, and then...
View ArticleThe Final Score: How Alaska's madmen prevailed over SMB in Game One
One can imagine June Mar Fajardo, just minutes after Alaska beat San Miguel in Game One of the PBA Philippine Cup finals, sitting in his stall inside the Beermen locker room. Fajardo played for over...
View ArticleThe Final Score: In a 2-2 finals series, SMB is the more dominant team
Which do you focus on in the PBA Philippine Cup finals: San Miguel’s ability to build big leads or Alaska’s knack for erasing big leads? Do you hail the team that routinely dominates or do you praise...
View ArticleCOMMENTARY: Is Bob Arum keeping Pacquiao from fighting Mayweather?
After weeks of rigorous negotiations, it still remains to be seen if Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather can finally agree to fight in what would be the most lucrative bout in boxing history.
View ArticleATTY. SAGUISAG: Why I am not watching the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight
I am not watching the upcoming Pacquiao-Mayweather fight.
View ArticleANALYSIS: Underdog Pacquiao needs his old fire to beat Mayweather
After six years of waiting, the fight that the world has been waiting for is finally here. It feels specially unreal because of the fact that a Filipino is involved in what is being touted as the...
View ArticleANALYSIS: PLDT and Army's ultimate showdown - Keys to victory
There is no better way to end the Shakey’s V-League Open Conference than by a championship series stretched to its limit. On Sunday, the league will crown its newest champion and fans are thrilled in...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: The highest-paying sports teams in the world
According to the Global Salaries Survey by Sportingintelligence, the best-paying sport in the world is football. And the best-paying team is Paris Saint-Germain, the Qatari-owned, Paris-based football...
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