Category Archives: Liga Pilipinas

Pacquiao named ESPN STAR Sports’ Champion of Champions

World’s best pound – for – pound boxer Manny Pacquiao ended 2008 with a bang as he was named ESPN STAR Sports’ Champion of Champions yesterday after topping a month-long online poll that decided the sports personality of the year who made the biggest impact in the world of sport. Fans across Asia made Pacquiaoaaa

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Chris Speaks: Breaking the Pros

Hi guys, welcome to another edition of Chris Speaks and today we’ll talk about Breaking the Pros. What exactly is this entry all about? You’ll soon find out. For many years now, we’ve seen great prospects from the UAAP and the NCAA, dominating the collegiate ranks and turning the whole Philippine basketball world crazy withaaa

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Ball Hog: Inside Rosell Ellis – Alaska, NBL Woes, Kaboom Fires Away…

A Former Rainier Beach Star Was Exiled to the Wacky World of Filipino Basketball Inside story about Rosell Ellis and Alaska’s 2007 championship run. Now I did not know this… a lot of F-Bombs were thrown out inside Alaska dugout en route to the championships. Warning, the article is ultra long.

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Liga Pilipinas Launch News Links

Philippines’ Brand New Basketball League The community-based league aims to harness talents of basketball players from the countryside. Sixteen teams from different regions will be pitted against each other in two conferences each season. The sixteen teams will be divided to represent the North and South divisions. The North division would be composed of Ilocosaaa

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Ball Hog: Sports Trivias, Kareem Blogs, Embarrassment Level 99, Francism Record, Viva La Liga and more…

1. Philippine Sports Trivias Philippine Weather Makes Basketball Popular. Basketball is considered the number one spectators’ event in the country simply because it is usually held under a roof (at the Araneta Coliseum for example). Baseball and football could not gain popularity because Filipino spectators are not willing to seat under the scorching sun oraaa

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Liga Filipina, Liga Pilipinas, eaLa Liga Pilipinas

And so after the storm, it looks like Layman Noli Eala is back on track. He is said to be the “Guiding Force” behind a soon to be launched league, Liga Filipina. A SBP sanctioned regional league. AKA, MBA all-over again. Whoa, from being disbarred to now the “guiding force” of a new national league,aaa

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