... to let everyone know I haven't been killed by Quinito or Ryan Gregorio or Noli Eala. Not yet anyway.

It's just been an awfully busy time at work; my office is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and we're launching a couple of new websites to highlight the occasion. So there's that, and I have to prepare a speech about the sites too. We also have a conference coming up, and I'm part of that too so, yeah, busy. It's too bad, I had a lot of jokes about how the Barroca thing turned into a very ugly situation. Heh.

Anyway, I apologize for the week's absence, which should continue on to next week. Then, hopefully, I'll get back to blogging like a motherfucker.

Meanwhile, do check out Patay ang Butiki, those guys should tide you over for your sports fix.

Quick thought on the Ateneo-UE final: It's a battle between good and evil. You decide which team is which.

Also: this is cool.

Even the Inquirer couldn’t get a straight answer from FEU team officials and members of the team. Coach Glenn Capacio says he doesn’t know where Mark Barroca is, while JR Cawaling says that the superstar guard is out with the flu. A team staff member said that Barroca was suffering from an unspecified injury, even as athletic director Mark Molina and team manager Anton Montinola are refraining from giving any statements at this moment.

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I am a huge fan of Slate's series of How To Fake Your Way Cocktail Chatter series. I am expressly acknowledging that I am ripping them off in this post. Enjoy.

So your officemates are all talking about the UAAP Final Four over lunch, but you don’t know Jai Reyes from Cristine Reyes? Here’s a handy guide for everyone who wants to be instant college basketball experts.

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My friend Jason from J.walking covers stuff like the recent Ms. Universe pageant with the same intensity that the boys from Patay ang Butiki cover college basketball. He attended Sunday’s cheerdance competition, rooting for the UP Pep Squad, and he gave perhaps the best, most sober analysis of the event on his blog:

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Here’s the “Hitler as a La Salle fan reacting to the Archers missing the Final Four” clip that’s been going around.



It’s alright, but I’m posting just so I could link to the vastly superior “Hitler reacts to JRU’s loss to San Beda” last year. Now that was hilarious.

The Far Eastern University Cheering Squad is this year’s surprise winner of the UAAP Cheerdance Competition. FEU is the host school for the UAAP this year.

The Ateneo de Manila Blue Babble Battalion bagged second place with a Michael Jackson-inspired set. Ateneo hottie Sari Campos won a special award for being, well, a hottie.

The UP Pep Squad, the two-time defending champion, was relegated to third place.

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I’ll just harp on this again because I find it so hilarious. A couple of sportswriters, Musong Castillo of the Inquirer and Arman Carandang of the Daily Tribune, wrote stories whining about their NBA Asian challenge experience, and how they were treated “shabbily” by the organizers, because they were allocated upper box seats instead of courtside. Castillo’s report was brief, because it was the type of report that didn’t really deserve any space, while Carandang’s report was longer because, well, the Tribune rarely has anything worthwhile to publish anyway.

Continue reading "Boo-hoo, Pinoy sportswriters, boo-fucking-hoo"

Former Chicago Bulls guard Michael Jordan (you guys might have heard of him) was apparently a pretty good basketball player, and this morning he was inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Good on him.

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Was I the only person in the country who wasn’t excited about last night’s game between old NBA players and old PBA players? I thought it was the basketball equivalent of watching Air Supply’s upcoming concert at the Araneta Coliseum. Sure, we all love singing Air Supply during drunken videoke sessions, but why would anyone drop a thousand pesos for an upper box ticket? I love watching Dominique Wilkins on NBA TV, but I willing to pay good money to see a pudgy Nique drag his fat ass up and down the floor.

Continue reading "The NBA Asia Challenge and the plight of Pinoy sportswriters"

It’s finally happened: De La Salle University is out of the UAAP final four for the first time since the format was instituted in 1994. Tony Atayde already filed a post-mortem and I’m assuming he’s crying green tears, while TJ Manotoc is already deep into the rumor mills. Are the rumors libelous? Wait, that’s a totally different issue.

Continue reading "Poll of the week: How should La Salle coach Franz Pumaren spend the rest of his September?"