Whenever I take the MRT home from work, I usually end up thinking of topics for this blog. Tonight, my mind was on the ongoing NCAA tournament, because the bracket I filled up a couple of weeks ago was doing surprisingly, ridiculously well; I had picked three of the Final Four teams correctly, and I probably would’ve gotten it perfect if Kansas hadn’t lost to Northern fucking Iowa. As it is, my pick to win it all, West Virginia, is still alive and just may go all the way.

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Last week, a basketball fan named Dave Jones from Australia left a comment on a previous post providing an update on the state of his country’s National Basketball League. A couple of days later, Dave left another comment talking about the Smart Gilas stint in Australia, which has been reported as a success for the group.

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Gabe Freeman and Arwind Santos will be teaming up for San Miguel this year

Listed below are ten statements about the PBA Fiesta Conference, which kicks off this Sunday, March 21. In the comments, leave a post on whether you think each statement is true or false, and a short explanation why this is so.

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I got this email from Coach Eric Altamirano last Monday, and I figured that readers of this blog would be interested to hear updates from him on the preparations of the youth program for the upcoming Fiba-Asia U-18 championships in September.

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It was an interesting night, to say the least. After all, it’s not every day that one gets to hang out and shoot the breeze with the head coach of one’s favorite sports teams. I took advantage of the situation by conducting a no-holds-barred interview with my coaching idol and favorite, Ryan ‘The Genius’ Gregorio of Purefoods. I think it was different from his usual TV interviews, where he gives cliché answers:

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Last Friday, Bloomberg reported that Kirin was looking into the possibility of raising its stake in San Miguel Brewery. The Japanese beer giant already owns 48% of the company, with San Miguel Corporation owning 51%.

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Sometimes, I forget that this blog isn’t even a year old, and already so many weird things have happened. Perhaps the biggest highlight came last Wednesday night, when Coach Ryan Gregorio, mere minutes after leading his Purefoods squad to a sweep over Alaska in the Philippine Cup finals, took a moment to record a message to this blog, courtesy of the always-awesome Patricia Hizon.

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The buzz is that after winning the Philippine Cup championship, Purefoods will be changing its name to promote the company’s B-Meg line of animal feeds. An NBN Sports report said that the new name will be the ‘Derby Ace Llamados’ after B-Meg’s gamefowl feeds brand. I don’t mind the Derby Ace name, but do they really have to pander so shamefully to the lo-diyes crowd with the Llamados nickname? Why not the Derby Ace Slashers, which is way cooler?

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I got another interesting email this afternoon from Alaska team owner Wilfred Steven Uytengsu:

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Purefoods coach Ryan Gregorio probably believes in it enough to mention that his team was playing on the 3rd day of the 3rd month of the year, and 33 was coincidentally the number of Eugene Tejada, the former Purefoods forward who was paralyzed in a freak accident during a game four years ago. The players had dedicated the rest of the conference to their fallen comrade, and they won the Philippine Cup championship that year too.

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