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.

Friday, September 12, 2008

UAAP OFFICIALS CRY ‘GAME FIXING!’

(This appears in the Friday, September 12, 2008 edition of the Business Mirror.)

UAAP OFFICIALS CRY ‘GAME FIXING!’
by rick olivares

The University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) will seek congressional help to curb suspected rigging of men’s basketball games in the ongoing Season 71, Business Mirror learned.

Two members of the UAAP board, who asked not to be named, told Business Mirror that season president Sergio S. Cao, chancellor of general host University of the Philippines, will formally write to congress about the league’s desire to eliminate the alleged game-fixing activities that involves players and even game officials.

Business Mirror found out that the recent slay try on Far Eastern University cager Marnel Baracael and rumors that other players are in collusion with gambling syndicates have forced league members to protect not only their players and students but also the league's integrity.

Posted by Rick Olivares

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