Bleachers Brew

It’s time to play that famous game of Family Feud and feud is right. So let’s ask our friend Richard Dawson to lend us a hand here with the ...

Sepp Blatter, FIFA’s President likes to talk about the healing power of football. Joga bonito, as it is nicknamed. The beautiful game. But w...

The worm has turned for Kobe Bryant. Far removed from his boy wonder days, he has become a perplexing basketball enigma. Now that’s an oxymo...

Who influenced my choice of kicks? Michael Jordan is not responsible for my wearing Nikes. At least initially. Neither was it Chris Mullin w...

“Dynasty, man. Dynasty.” I remember those words like it was yesterday. It was during an NBA Action feature on the then-young guns of the Los...

Every year, at least 20,000 pairs of running shoes are sold locally. Industry types estimate that tallies up to Php 80,000,000 in gross sale...

Pro basketball’s biggest party is something I really look forward to every year. When I was a kid, I’d associate the All-Star Weekend more w...

In hindsight, maybe it wasn’t such a wise move after all After Devin Hester ran 92 yards for a touchdown to open Super Bowl XLI, I thought t...

My introduction to American Football and the NFL was interestingly enough through the pages of Hugh Hefner’s Plaboy magazine. It was that (I...

Outside One of my earliest recollections of Charles Barkley was when he was in Philadelphia and they were playing Portland at the Spectrum. ...

Home Before the ASEAN Football Cup Finals, I was shocked to hear most of my friends and colleagues say that our National Team was going to g...

I. Homeward Bound After seven months of living in airport terminals and a fire station, footballer Ayi Nii Aryee was finally cleared to leav...

As a kid, I was weaned on a steady diet of Bruce Lee movies in Binondo. That and the Marvel Superheroes. So imagine my surprise when my dad ...

"A horse. A horse. My kingdom for a horse, " cried out Richard the Lion Heart after his nights were besieged by Moors. The one thi...

Sports are a metaphor for life as one has oft heard. But many times, the lines are blurred when the unscrupulous and the greedy take over. H...

It is incredible how the hopes and dreams of many lie in a spheroid that measures 28 inches in diameter and weighs 14-16 ounces. The ball is...

Remember Tom Hanks’ character of Viktor Navorski in the Terminal? It was about an Eastern European traveler who was stuck in the terminal of...

There’s a line that former WWE General Manager Eric Bischoff swears by: “Controversy creates cash.” That may be very well true. It sure jump...