Monthly Archives: November 2006

PBA Astig Dolls: Featuring “Lauren”

Due to insistent visitors’ demand or should I say, due to the search logs (Google, upper right of this site) we are receiving looking for PBA’s “Astig Dolls”, we too made some strides to search some materials ourselves. And guess what, we found one, or two, or more.

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What Will be the Repercussions?

Or will there be any? San Beda dominated the recent NCAA basketball tournament and ended their 28 years of drought for a title. Nigerian student, Sam Ekwe, showed his stamp on the year by acquiring both the Rookie of the year and MVP honors plus an NCAA championship on his first year! Now observers areaaa

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PBA’s Tough Games Index

In a PBA.ph article, TnT coach Derrick Pumaren expressed his optimism in saying a final four appearance via short route is still possible. But his team, on whirlwind roller coaster ride the entire season, will be playing the top four teams (Sta. Lucia, Barangay Ginebra, Red Bull and San Miguel) in its last five games.aaa

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Stern Warning: Take Down NBA Videos at YouTube.com

Sooner or later, this was to happen. The National Basketball Association last week asked YouTube.com to take down all NBA video content because of copyright concerns. “We have submitted requests to YouTube to pull down images that are a violation of our copyright and they have,” NBA spokesman Matt Bourne said. David ‘The Dictator’ Stern,aaa

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Hoops Quick Edits

Over the past few days, we’ve done some tweaks in our site. See below: -One by one, we are removing the ‘beta’ tag on some of the pages. -We put up the blue bar at the top right side bar to pick up some select entries from previous weeks buried on our database.

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PBA Weekly ASTIG Rankings – Week 8: Alaska’s Three Straight Wins Propels Them To Top

Nearing December and the end of eliminations, each loss, each won game should impact if these teams will have a Merry Christmas not. Let’s see who’s been naughty, who’s been nice in giving away Ws. Certainly not Alaska, winning two-of-two games thereby getting in the first place in this week’s edition. Four bottom teams didn’taaa

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Alaska Milk On Track

Alaska followed up their victory over Welcoat Dragons last Friday with a convincing 110-105 win over Talk ‘N Text. Powered by 2002 MVP Willie Miller’s 29 points and crucial efforts by Tony Dela Cruz and Jeffrey Cariaso in the final minutes. For Alaska, could these back-to-back wins be the start of good things to come?aaa

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On Watching Ginebra-Coke Live

The stars have lined up for me to watch a live PBA game. It’s a Friday. My work is light. The game is at Cuneta-Pasay Astrodome (near my place, being at Makati). My legs are stiff. I need to get out. I have P500 to spare.

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Angelica Panganiban Retouched

I have been in some sort of a ball-block and doesn’t have anything to say about hoops, players, coaches and all. PBA, NBA or inter-barangay basketball, I got none. And so, I made this entry. I got NO basketball thoughts but let’s talk Ginebra San Miguel still. How’s this? Let’s talk about the up andaaa

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: DARKO MILICIC

Currently 3-8 this season (as of November 23), Ben Wallace must not be happy with how the Chicago Bulls are playing this season. Leading the team in minutes, his 6ppg and 10rpg’s aren’t enough to produce the big W’s the Bulls thought they could own with his acquisition. Despite having four players in double figuresaaa

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