ONCE upon a time, in a basketball era very different from what we know today, there was a team named the APCOR Financiers, or simply, APCOR. When they burst into the scene in the early 80s, the Philippine basketball landscape had had a radical change. The first pro basketball league…
TWO basketball greats and three champion coaches all legendary in their own rights are the latest batch to be feted with a Lifetime Achievement Award in the annual San Miguel Corp.-Philippine Sportswriters Association (SMC-PSA) Awards Night on January 29. Hoop icons Allan Caidic and the late Avelino “Samboy” Lim join basketball’s brilliant…
ANNA DOMINIQUE COSETENG is to the present the Philippine Basketball Association’s (PBA) undisputed original glamour lady. In the early 1980s when the PBA was enjoying tremendous popularity as Asia’s first professional basketball league in 1975, a pretty, classy and elegant and brainy Nikki took over his father’s team in 1981. Her father, Emerson Coseteng, suffered
UNLIKE in past editions, the Filipino-Chinese Veterans Basketball Association (FCVBA) will compete in only one age group this time but remains confident to extend its dominance and make history anew in the ASEAN Veteran Basketball Tournament. Having asserted their authority in all age categories of the annual event in the…
THE Philippine national team that participated in the 1978 FIBA World Championship may have ended the tournament without a win, but no one will ever dispute how hard the players fought for glory in front of their countrymen. Culled from different commercial squads, the team was led by skipper Alex…