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.

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Statement of Sen Pia S. Cayetano on the newest UAAP residency controversy

Statement of Sen Pia S. Cayetano on the newest UAAP residency controversy
18 August 2015

The UAAP Board has once more displayed its arrogance and immaturity by invoking its unjust two-year residency rule against a high school student-athlete who has transferred to a different school in college. This is the very same UAAP rule that an RTC court struck down two years ago in favor of swimmer Mikee Bartolome. In the case of basketball player Hubert Cani, he has even served ONE YEAR of RESIDENCE already and was hoping to play this season.

It is irrelevant that the Student-Athletes Protection Bill has not been signed by the President YET. The UAAP must respect a student-athlete's right to study and play for the school of his choice. The UAAP is not a commercial but an amateur league. The UAAP Board should stop treating student-athletes like commodities.

Posted by Rick Olivares

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 19, 2015 at 12:17 AM

    So what is Sen. Pia going to do about it?....she should call a Senate hearing on this issue.

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  2. UnknownAugust 19, 2015 at 4:35 AM

    The UAAP board and its university owners - for the umpteenth time - displaying their small minds, hypocrisy, and absence of concern for the welfare of the country's youth !

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