San Beda Red Lions overpowered Mapua Cardinals in the opening game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Basketball Championship. Making a bold statement that they intend to extend their championship run, now three, to four. The Lions clashed with the Cardinals at 2 P.M. after United States Ambassador Kristie Kenney graced the Association’s inaugurals as a guest speaker. Scoring 85 points against the Cardinals’ 52. Riego Gamalinda and Sudan Daniel [ Read More ]
Archive for June, 2009
“You need to help student athletes help you win championships.” – Galwin Fabian Every school wants to win. Every school wants to have a trophy. Every school wants fame. Yet only few schools understand that, in order to, they need to put the right pieces together; they need jocks that can deliver, they need the effective programs to help them, and they need an elite-level head coach on the team. [ Read More ]
Let’s skip college sports for a while and talk about pool. Specifically Women’s pool player Shanelle Loraine. Born: March 25 Hometown: Guam, USA Current residence: Orlando, Florida Height: 5’1” Hair Color: Brown Eye color: Light brown Shanelle Loraine, a Fil-American Pool Player from Orlando is gaining some popularity not only in the pool world but in the world wide web, too. Loraine played in the Women’s World 10-Ball Championship held [ Read More ]
The two universities have developed an intense rivalry over the past few decades in different competitions. Most famous of which, is their battle inside the basketball court. A rivalry that began during their early years in the NCAA and was carried over to the UAAP. Now, the fierce rivalry between Ateneo de Manila University and De la Salle University has spilled over into A(H1N1) arena. Sort of. According to the [ Read More ]
Country/Territory City Country/Territory Sub Continent Region Continent // Visits Pages/Visit Avg. Time on Site % New Visits Bounce Rate 1. Vietnam 7 1.00 00:00:00 100.00% 100.00% 2. United States 199 1.27 00:00:38 90.95% 82.91% 3. United Kingdom 12 1.50 00:00:44 91.67% 66.67% 4. United Arab Emirates 10 2.30 00:03:13 80.00% 80.00% 5. Turkey 3 1.00 00:00:00 100.00% 100.00% 6. Thailand 11 1.45 00:00:11 90.91% 81.82% 7. Taiwan 1 1.00 [ Read More ]
With the indefinite absence of Philippine Christian University, NCAA is down to seven (7) member schools. To pump up the competition, the oldest athletic association in the Philippines added three (3) guest teams for the league’s 85th season – Arellano University, Angeles University Foundation and Emilio Aguinaldo College. We will see these three guest teams field in players to compete in six (6) mandatory sports – athletics, basketball, cheer leading, [ Read More ]
The Mapua table tennis team held an open try-out last Sunday, May 24 at 9:00 A.M. beside the school’s canteen. This is my fifth and last time to hold such event as the captain of the team. It’s tiring but it’s equally fun. I expected around thirty (30) to fifty (50) participants as it was the usual number during the past years, this time though, we had a mere ten [ Read More ]


