Gilas Pilipinas program director Tab Baldwin. (Fiba Images) Collegiate players will likely fill up the void left by their professional counterparts if Gilas Pilipinas gets to compete in the planned second window of the 2021 FIBA Asia Cup Qualifiers next month. There’s still no word on where the...
Veteran guard Renzo Navarro is happy for coaches Jeff Perlas and Topex Robinson (background, left and right, respectively). By REY C. LACHICA Former Batang Gilas star Renzo Navarro expressed great joy for Lyceum coach Topex Robinson the moment he was named interim coach of the Phoenix Super LPG...
Topex Robinson (MB Photo) Now that Topex Robinson is the interim coach of the Phoenix Super LPG Fuel Masters, he needed to relinquish his position as the bench tactician of Lyceum of the Philippines in the NCAA. However, he will stay with the Pirates as Robinson keeps his other position. The former...
Letran’s new recruits Brent Paraiso, Ira Bataller and Rhenz Abando with Letran mentor Bonnie Tan and Sports Director Alfrancis Chua of San Miguel Corporation. (Photo courtesy of Letran Knights) San Beda mentor Boyet Fernandez thinks that defending NCAA champion Letran clearly has the tools to be...
NCAA Management Committee Chairman Fr. Vic Calvo (upper left) said the league is eyeing to strike a 5-year with a new TV partner. (Screenshot from the Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum) With its TV partner now gone, the NCAA is looking for a new partner to cover the games starting Season...
League sources tell Manila Bulletin that NCAA officials have shut down the possibility of recruiting embattled coach Aldin Ayo. (UAAP) It looks like no window of opportunity from the NCAA will be opening for embattled collegiate coach Aldin Ayo after the UAAP had slammed the door shut on him...
Letran ace guard Fran Yu is excited to start training with new teammates Rhenz Abando, Brent Paraiso and Ira Bataller, who transferred from University of Santo Tomas. (MB File Photo) The First Knight can't wait to joust with Letran's latest recruits. Letran ace guard Fran Yu says he is excited to...
In this file photo, Letran's Fran Yu, center, goes for the layup against San Beda's Donald Tankoua, left, as Season MVP Calvin Oftana, right, looks on during Game 1 of the NCAA Season 95 Finals. (MB File Photo) Three major television networks have signified their intentions to become the NCAA’s...
Rhenz Abando, right, is now a Letran Knight after leaving the UST Tigers' lair. (UAAP Image) One of these days, Rhenz Abondo said he would rach out and contact former University of Santo Tomas mentor Aldin Ayo – simply to say thanks after playing one season under the latter’s tutelage. The...
PBA commissioner Willie Marcial (PBA Images) The PBA, Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3x3 and Philippines Football League are open to lend a helping hand to any collegiate teams that will adopt their best practices once the guidelines for the resumption of training are released. Teams in the collegiate...
Abando, Paraiso, Bataller finalize deal with Letran Letran’s new recruits Brent Paraiso, Ira Bataller and Rhenz Abando meet with Letran mentor Bonnie Tan and Sports Director Alfrancis Chua of San Miguel Corporation - which backs the Knights basketball team - Tuesday in Pasig City. (Photo courtesy...
Training for collegiate leagues like the NCAA and the UAAP is on standby as CHED forms a technical working group to craft guidelines before allowing student-athletes to resume practice. (MB File Photo / Jansen Romero) Collegiate athletes like the ones in the NCAA and UAAP would have to wait a...