Some sad news came out of Houston yesterday, as always-excellent Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! reported that Yao Ming's career is in jeopardy after breaking his foot in the playoffs.

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The weekend brought exciting news from pound-for-pound champion Manny Pacquiao. After he solved all of our country's intelligence and security problems, and before he goes off to beat the shit out of either Miguel Cotto or Shane Mosley, next on his agenda will shoot a new action-comedy film called Wapakman.

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I know there are a million other Pinoy sports items to blog about -- we'll get to all that in a moment -- but I'm in a fighting mood, so please indulge me. Word out of the Purefoods camp is that Ryan "The Genius" Gregorio is staying on as Purefoods coach, and he has special instructions from Purefoods governor Rene Pardo to find a trade to acquire a draft pick in the upcoming draft. Yes, because a draft would solve the team's problems when it comes to players that don't try hard, a stagnant offense, and a perpetually underprepared defense.

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The 85th edition of the NCAA opened with a bang last Saturday, kicking off the college basketball season. Defending champion San Beda dominated Mapua in the first game, 85-52, while last year's runner-up JRU staved off Letran in the second, 65-62. In the third game that wasn't televised, San Sebastian welcomed their new mentor Ato Agustin with an impressive 76-64 victory over Perpetual Help.

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Figured some of you might be interested, so I'm passing this along. Aling Dionisia, pound-for-pound champion Manny Pacquiao's mom, will be the subject of Jay Taruc's i-Witness episode tonight:

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Just caught the new San Miguel Beer commercial during the halftime of their game against Burger King. The ad had Efren "Bata" Reyes, Derek Ramsay, Michael V., and Manny Pacquiao debating what to order for pulutan. Manny decides to go fancy and order the nice-sounding "roasted highland legumes" from the menu...

UPDATE: Here's the new commercial:

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The man in the picture is Graham Lim, the Secretary-General of the Basketball Association of the Philippines, and the Great Satan of Philippine basketball. He is the man responsible for putting the Philippines back on the road to international basketball perdition.

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The Philippine football program has hit a snag in its build-up after the RP youth football team was barred from competing in Singapore after one of the players tested positive for A(H1N1). Team officials, though, are still holding out hope that they'll be out of the quarantine to be able to play matches against other international sides, so that their trip would not be for nought.

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First off, an apology for the lack of activity around these parts. This is the longest I've gone without updating the blog since it started last April. I'm usually good about these things, but over the past few days, I've been too exhausted/sleepy/drunk to sit down and write a post. Actually, the writing part is easy (especially when drunk), but the research part is hard; silly pictures of Redford White's "Hee-man" takes hours of looking up.

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San Miguel and Rain or Shine drew victories in contrasting fashion in the opener of the PBA Fiesta Conference Semifinals. San Miguel beat Burger King from pillar to post in the first game, 102-87, while Rain or Shine stunned Ginebra in the second game, 101-95.

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