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When Hype meets Reality: The UP Fighting Maroons are for real
By Karlo Lovenia “Success is when reality catches up to our imagination.” – Simon Sinek The Season 81 UP Fighting Maroons changed everything for the Diliman program. From dreaming of just winning one game, they made the leap to aiming for the richest of prizes: a UAAP championship. They were serious about attaining this dream.…
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There’s nowhere to go but UP with Carl Tamayo
By Pio Garcia Super rookies have come and gone for the UP Fighting Maroons. They’ve had their fair share of diamond in the roughs that failed to pan out, erstwhile five-star recruits that failed to live up to expectations, and those that faded into relative obscurity after one round of elimination games. With their looming…
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UAAP Season 84 MVP Race: Separating the Good from the Great
By Gio Gloria What makes an MVP? Is it the numbers they produce? The stats that point to their value to the team? Their mere presence? The MVP conversation is not so difficult as it is nuanced, more so for UAAP Season 84. Great performances have been coming from all corners, veterans and first-year players…
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#UPWithdraw: Can Unity Minus #2 beat the Ateneo Blue Eagles?
During the weekend, Isko Moreno, Norberto Gonzales, and Ping Lacson had a press conference that dominated discourse on Social Media. The agenda of their press con was simple: show that they would unite in not withdrawing their candidacies for president, and instead, asking the #2 candidate according to the surveys, Leni Robredo, to withdraw instead.…
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CJ Cansino dropped a Pipe Bomb. We must have his attention now.
Do I have your attention now? If we were under normal circumstances, we’d already be done talking about CJ Cansino, the UST Growling Tigers, and the UAAP in general. News flows quickly. All it takes is a commitment from a star player to slow down a news cycle in sports. CJ Cansino is going to…
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It’s SJ Time
With 7:01 remaining in the 4th quarter, SJ Belangel converted on a pull-up jumper off pick and roll action. It was his first points of the contest, which shouldn’t be too noteworthy, right? Except, when you consider the context SJ’s in right now, it suddenly becomes something for fans of the Ateneo Blue Eagles. The defending…
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Residency no more!
Finally, the bill filed to curb residency rules in athletics associations has been passed. It is now law and all that needs to be done is to publish it in the Official Gazette and two newspapers. Student-athletes of the Philippines, rejoice! Your days of having to endure residency are over. Or are they? Republic Act…