Bleachers Brew

On the 11th month of the year, the Philippines leapfrogged 11 slots from a #195 ranking in the footballing world to #184. The three consecut...

Go figure. 18, 276 people in the Thomas & Mack Center. The second biggest in the arena’s history. Ringside seats cost $500 per ticket fo...

The Resurrection They’ve scored an astounding 252 goals in 75 matches. That’s an average of 3.36 goals per game. Not bad at all. Their wome...

The King is gone. He isn’t too far removed from this generation who will remember the 90’s with the fondness of tales by the fireside, by th...

Were you one of those who stayed up till 10:30pm (while hiding from your disapproving parents) to watch pro wrestling on IBC-13? Were you on...

For the longest time, US college basketball was way more popular than the NBA. It took the entrance of the star forward from the Indiana Sta...

I used to have great memories of October. In grade school, there was the Feast of the Guardian Angels and that meant there was a carnival on...

When it comes to the development of other sports in the country, many point their fingers towards too much emphasis on basketball. Why not f...

In the early hours after December 25, 2005, a fire swept the squatter colony underneath the Katipunan flyover area that bridges Escopa in Qu...

To paraphrase Sterling Silliphant’s famous opening line from The Naked City , the police television series that paved the way for many of t...

The UAAP Basketball season is winding down to its exciting finish and conspicuously absent is De La Salle University, a perennial Final Four...

About a month before the 2004 Summer Olympics, in one of the most surprising and stirring runs by any team in football, an unfancied Greek t...

He looked beaten and tired. What began as a season of hope ended as his beloved Maroons took its eighth beating in 10 games (with two more g...

Pacman Country by rick olivares Manny Pacquiao owns the Philippines. Okay, he doesn’t but he certainly has the country in the palm of his ha...

Why do you watch the NFL? Is it because of those spectacular touchdown catches? Is it because of the fourth quarter drives that result in Ha...

To paraphrase the Bard from Stratford-upon-Avon, “all the world is a stage and we are merely players…” And so the stage is set for basketbal...