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Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra is not having a good week at all

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on November 30, 2010 at 11:37 | Comments (9)
Erik Spoelstra, LeBron James

Filipino-American coach Erik Spoelstra of the Miami Heat has the distinction of being the only Asian-American head coach in any American major league sport, but that might cease to be the case if his team continues to struggle.


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Tags: Basketball, LeBron James, National Basketball Association, Smart Gilas Pilipinas National Basketball Team, Video

RIP Leslie Nielsen

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on November 30, 2010 at 07:52 | Comments (5)
My buddies and I were just talking about Leslie Nielsen a couple of weeks ago, at the cinema where we were watching the Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito fight. The Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders had just come out in their pekpek shorts to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and I told my friends that the girls’ version was my second-favorite rendition of the song, next only to Lt. Frank Drebin’s classic performance at the game between the California Angels and the Seattle Mariners.


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Tags: Antonio Margarito, Basketball, Boxing, Manny Pacquiao, National Basketball Association, Video

LeBron’s Rise

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on November 26, 2010 at 18:08 | Comments (3)
By now, you’ve probably noticed the site all wrapped up in LeBron. It’s part of Nike Philippines’ new marketing campaign behind the LeBron 8. If you’re not the type who trolls around NBA-related websites, here’s the full version of the excellent LeBron ad:


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Ang Sugarol: Odds, betting lines, handicaps

Posted by Ronald Po on November 26, 2010 at 16:37 | Comments (5)
Editor’s note: Ang Sugarol is Fire Quinito’s special series on sports gambling. In our first installment, former UP professor and sports betting professional Ronald Po takes us through the basics of gambling odds, betting lines, and handicaps.

What’s better than cheering for your favorite team? How about cheering for them and getting some money as well? Traditionally, betting in local basketball involved head-to-head wagers as well the “ending” numbers game, which involves predicting the last digits of the final score of the basketball game.

The past few years, underground bookies have emerged to collect bets on NBA, UAAP and PBA games. More recently, legal online sports books have started operating in the country, allowing one to bet on a smorgasbord of sports competitions.


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Tags: Ang Sugarol: The Sports Betting Series, Antonio Margarito, Barangay Ginebra Gin Kings, Kobe Bryant, Manny Pacquiao, National Basketball Association, Philippine Basketball Association, San Miguel Beermen, Talk N Text Tropang Texters

Manny Pacquiao and the greatest fighters of all time

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on November 25, 2010 at 06:44 | Comments (25)
Quinito Henson had an interesting series of articles last week about Manny Pacquiao’s claim as the greatest fighter ever, and by “interesting,” I mean “incredibly stupid,” even by Quinito’s usual standards. He prefaced the two-part column by saying that he would compare the achievements of four of the greatest boxers of all-time against those of Manny Pacquiao, and promised at the end of the first installment that he would try to make a “logical conclusion” as to which boxer deserves to be called the greatest.


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Tags: Antonio Margarito, Boxing, Joshua Clottey, Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto, Quinito Henson, Ronnie Nathanielsz

Harry Potter and the next Asian Games gold medal-winning sport for the Philippines

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on November 19, 2010 at 16:54 | Comments (9)
Quidditch brooms

My favorite thing about the ongoing 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou is the sheer number of events. There are 42 sports, and quite a few of them are curious, to say the least.


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The secret of Team Philippines’ success in the Guangzhou Asian Games

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on November 19, 2010 at 14:58 | Comments (3)
Here’s the list of sports in which we’ve won a medal in the ongoing 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China: Billiards (gold + silver), Bowling (gold + bronze), Dancesports (2 bronzes), and Wushu (bronze).

You know what all these sports have in common?


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Happy birthday Cap!

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on November 17, 2010 at 17:58 | Comments (8)
Alvin Patrimonio

Growing up as a Purefoods fan, it was always such a thrill that I shared the same birthday as the best player on my favorite basketball team.

[ Photo by Markku Seguerra ]
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Tags: Alvin Patrimonio, B-MEG Derby Ace Llamados / Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants, Basketball, Philippine Basketball Association

Why we couldn’t watch Smart Gilas (and other Filipino athletes) in the Asian Games

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on November 17, 2010 at 15:27 | Comments (16)
If you were to believe Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) executive director Noli Eala’s tweets, the reason here’s no local television coverage of the ongoing 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games is because the government simply doesn’t care enough about Philippine sports. If the government actually bothered, Eala implies, then there would be no reason for everyone not to be able to watch our beloved Smart Gilas and the rest of our country’s athletes competing in the Asiad.


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Tags: 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, Basketball, Boxing, Noli Eala, Philippine Olympic Committee, Philippine sports media, Smart Gilas Pilipinas National Basketball Team

Boxing mop-up: Manny Pacquiao cuts Antonio Margarito down to size

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on November 15, 2010 at 09:11 | Comment (1)
Fire Quinito rounds up all the must-read links from the Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito fight so you could have more time pondering if PNoy made the right choice breaking up with Shalani and dating Liz Uy.

Manny Pacquiao - Antonio Margarito

Scott Christ, Bad Left Hook: "We're witnessing something truly special. The NBA can keep LeBron James. Manny Pacquiao is at this point the most amazing athlete in all of sports. I stand by that statement."


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