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Pacific Rims now out on paperback

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on May 20, 2011 at 21:48 | Comments (2)
Got a text message earlier this afternoon from Pacific Rims author and occasional Fire Quinito contributor Rafe Bartholomew. He’s been back in town for a few weeks now, and he has some great news to announce about his book:

Great news! The paperback of Pacific Rim will be released tomorrow. This is two weeks before the U.S. release, and I would be honored if you could join me at the book launch. It’s tomorrow, Saturday, May 21 6:30 PM at National Bookstore Bestsellers, 4th Floor Robinsons Galleria. Hope to see you there!

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to swing by tomorrow because I’m in Caramoan for the weekend. But show Rafe your love and head on over to Galleria tomorrow. He’s got all the details in his blog, and he made it clear he’s willing to sign chests – male or female.
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Tags: Basketball, Philippine sports media, Rafe Bartholomew

Rogue Magazine’s sports issue out now

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on April 6, 2011 at 13:32 | Comments (9)
And I wrote a couple of pieces in it too! Again, this gives you an excuse to buy the magazine with the hot chick on the cover, by saying you’re only buying it for the sports articles.

Rogue Magazine cover


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Tags: Azkals, the Philippine national men's football team, Football, Philippine sports media, Rafe Bartholomew

Dorkapalooza Report: Rafe Bartholomew on advanced stats and its future in the PBA

Posted by Rafe Bartholomew on March 16, 2011 at 14:07 | Comments (9)
Editor's note: This post was written by Rafe Bartholomew, author of Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball.

One of my close friends studies at MIT's Sloan School of Business, and when he emailed me a few months ago to ask if I'd be interested in attending Sloan's Sports Analytics Conference, I jumped at the opportunity. Bill Simmons coined the name Dorkapalooza to describe the Sloan Conference, and I thought of the event as the time of year when the apostles of Moneyball in all major sports gathered to spread the gospel of quantitative analysis.

As my love for Willie Miller might suggest, I'm more of a basketball aesthete than a results-minded stats guy. I can forgive the missed free throws, two-for-thirteen games, and the fact that nearly every PBA fan accuses him of selling games as long as Willie converts one of his patented quick spins on the left wing to set up a bank shot.


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An Alaska dinner

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on March 11, 2011 at 13:39 | Comments (6)
I found myself last night having dinner in a table of very tall people. It was Jojo Lastimosa’s birthday, and he invited me to his house where he hosted dinner with a few friends, mostly current and former Alaska players along with fellow assistant Joel Banal.

Coach J was hilarious, holding court and regaling us with all kinds of anecdotes, which he only agreed to tell on the condition that I won’t write about it on the blog. I couldn’t even mention people we were making fun of last night.


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Dorkapalooza!

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on March 8, 2011 at 17:21 | Comments (2)
The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an annual event that brings together top sports executives, coaches, media personalities, journalists, and bloggers. The 4th 5th edition of the conference, which popular sportswriter Bill Simmons has dubbed Dorkapalooza, happened this past weekend, and Pacific Rims author (and friend of the blog) Rafe Bartholomew was there to represent:

Rafe at Dorkapalooza


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Tags: Azkals, the Philippine national men's football team, Basketball, National Basketball Association, Philippine sports media, Rafe Bartholomew, Willie Miller

Busting myths in the Azkals bandwagon

Posted by Paolylo on February 17, 2011 at 15:39 | Comments (41)
Editor’s note: Paolylo is a lifelong football fan and a frustrated player. In this guest post, he busts the common myths and misconceptions surrounding the Philippine national football program as the Azkals bandwagon has grown larger with the team’s recent success.

While channel surfing one December night and seeing the score “PHI 1 VIE 0” after 60 minutes on Star Sports, I honestly thought that was a broadcasting error. Having seen the replay days prior of the Azkals’ 1-1 draw against Singapore in the AFF Suzuki Cup – itself a monumental upset – I thought there was no way our team would pull off another result against Vietnam, a team that would normally dominate us.


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Azkals beat Mongolia's Blue Wolves, 2-0, in first leg of AFC Challenge Cup playoff

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on February 10, 2011 at 15:04 | Comments (8)
By now everyone knows about the Philippine national men’s football team’s big 2-0 win last night in the first leg of its home-and-away AFC Challenge Cup playoff versus Mongolia. The Azkals totally outclassed their opponents last night, completely controlling the match from start to finish.


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Free Darko does the Crispa Redmanizers

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on December 20, 2010 at 18:32 | Comment (1)
Crispa Redmanizers

Rafe Bartholomew is finally back to writing about basketball (maybe because Glee is on hiatus) with a post on Free Darko about the legendary Crispa Redmanizers. If you’ve been reading his blog, you might remember his story about finding an album full of Crispa pictures at a tiangge in Tiendesitas. For the new post, he consulted with the eminent message board historian of the PBA, Jay P. Mercado, to give context to the photos.

While we’re at it, you might want to check out Rey Joble’s piece on GMANews.TV a few weeks back about the Redmanizers’ 1980 All-Filipino conference run, when they almost ended the conference undefeated. They dropped one game, to rival Toyota, en route to winning the championship.
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Philippines versus Burma

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on December 7, 2010 at 20:00 | Comments (2)
I traveled to Thailand a couple of times this year along with my colleagues from the day job to conduct training seminars for expatriate Burmese journalists working for Mizzima News. It was an eye-opening experience, to say the least, and even though the training schedule was packed, there was time to shoot the breeze a little with the Burmese journos. In fact, I was even able to ask them about how they felt about the last Rambo film, which was set in Burma and filmed in Thailand. Apparently, the pirated DVD of the movie was a huge hit among the Burmese, and the guys I talked to were even proud to share that they knew fellow Burmese exiles who scored gigs as extras in the Stallone film.


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Tags: Azkals, the Philippine national men's football team, Basketball, Danding Cojuangco, Football, Philippine Basketball Association, Rafe Bartholomew

Monday bullets, starring Kiefer vs. Baser, Manny Pacquiao, Ryan Gregorio, and Caloy Garcia

Posted by Jaemark Tordecilla on October 25, 2010 at 19:00 | Comments (7)
As you’re reading this, I’m probably somewhere in Central Mindanao working on a documentary project with The War Correspondent Ed Lingao for the day job. Which is awesome, except for the part where I’m going to miss the opening of the NBA season. But worry not, I’ve loaded up some posts which are scheduled to be published over the course of the week though, so you’ll have something to read despite me being away. On to the bullets:


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