BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Just when you think they learned their lesson

The DLSU women's volleyball team will forfeit all their games AFTER JANUARY 15 where Jackie Alarca played. It was discovered that she FILED FOR a Leave of Absence status from that point onwards. So that's four games beginning with NU that have been overturned.

Honestly, you'd think that after their previous brouhaha they'd be more stringent and careful. And how can coach Ramil and the manager not know? How can Jackie's teammates not know? Bro. Bernie Oca says that it was a mere oversight but sayang kasi they have a good team and they're fun to watch.

Two years wasted. Damn.

So I guess Ateneo's in the final four since there will no longer be any play-off. If anyone's going to spin this into some gloating story then screw you. No one is happy about it. Spoke about this with some coaches and players from Ateneo and other UAAP schools and no one is thrilled. It's a damned tragedy that's what it is.

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