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.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Sunday Short Stuff


Hey, if you're a fan of UFC Girl Arianny Celeste (above), she has a calendar out.

If you're wondering why Ruud Van Nistelrooy isn't playing at the Bernabeu, know that he joined Hamburg in the Bundesliga the other month. He wanted to more first team chances for him to be re-considered for the Dutch team that will play in the World Cup. He previously quit because of differences with manager Marco Van Basten. If you're a fan of Ruud's then they are selling knock-off jerseys of his Real Madrid and Manchester United days at the tiangge in Greenhills.


Three Visayan teams have joined the 7th Shakey’s V-League to make it a 10-team field. The tournament begins on April 11 at the Arena in San Juan.

The format will feature two brackets composed of five teams each that will play a single round robin. The top four teams advance to the quarters in a single round robin. Teams will again be grouped into two and play a single round with the top two teams in each group clashing in a pair of crossover semis. The top two teams play a best-of-three series.

The three Visayan teams are the University of San Jose-Recoletos, Southwestern University from Cebu, and the University of St. La Salle-Bacolod. SWU, which won last year’s CESAFI women’s volleyball tournament, will be seeded as a Metro Manila team, taking the spot vacated by University of the Philippines that decided to take a leave of absence to further shore up its roster in time for the second conference in July.

The other teams taking part in the tournament include University of Santo Tomas, which swept last year’s twin titles for a league-best five championships, Ateneo, Adamson, FEU, San Sebastian, Lyceum, and the College of St. Benilde.

Games are set on Sundays,Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 2 p.m. Games will be shown on a delayed basis the following playdate on NBN 4 although matches can be viewed live on webcast at www.v-league.ph.

Here's a tragic story about a hoopster who never went anywhere.

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