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An eight-year-old Filipina athlete is making waves in basketball scene in the US. Ella Patrice Fajardo is one of the top players not only in Transfiguration Academy Tigers, but also in the New Jersey Lady Titans in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU).

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 Two days before his team's Los Angeles (LA) Purple Ghosts game against Diego Prep in the "Supremacy Showcase" at the Staples Center, ballislife.com made him a mixtape video  that got the Philippine social media buzzing on Sunday. 

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UCLA coach Steve Alford has compared LA Cathedral High School star Kobe Paras to Minnesota Timberwolves rookie shooting guard Zach LaVine.

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NBA star forward Kevin Durant said the other day he’s found a new home in Oklahoma City where he plays for the Thunder but it doesn’t mean turning his back on where he came from. On his newly launched Nike signature shoe KD VI, he made it a point to acknowledge his roots by inscribing “Seat Pleasant’s Finest” at the tip of the shoe and “Big Chucky” in memory of his late Amateur Athletic Union coach Charles Craig at the heel.

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It was a sentimental homecoming for Oklahoma City star forward Kevin Durant who launched his sixth Nike signature shoe, the “transformative” KD VI, by introducing his Seat Pleasant, Maryland, hometown to 78 media specialists from 10 countries, including the Philippines, the other day.

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PBA legend Ricardo Brown will receive a PBA jacket symbolic of his recognition as one of the league’s 25 greatest players and a trophy affirming his 2009 induction into the Hall of Fame during a brief tribute at halftime of the B-Meg-Barangay Ginebra semifinal game in the Governors Cup at the Smart Araneta Coliseum tonight.

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So much has been said about the ideal situation of government not intervening in sports.

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Vicki Manalo Draves would’ve been a shoo-in as an inductee at the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame enshrinement rites in the Manila Hotel recently if she only competed for the Philippines, not the US, at the 1948 London Olympics where the half-Filipina, half-English star became the first female to win two diving events in the same Olympics and the first Asian-American to hit paydirt in the Summer Games.

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But there’s an interesting theory going around basketball circles that King James isn’t 19 but a few years older. The storyline is his stepfather Eddie Jackson, who’s known as a con artist, tinkered with James’ birth certificate to create the hype of a man-child superstar.

My buddy T. J. Manotoc says his father Tommy—a former Philippine Basketball Association grand slam coach–subscribes to the theory.
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I reached that conclusion after a 30-minute interview the other day with Jackson in his 15th floor corner office at the league headquarters in the Olympic Tower building off Fifth Avenue beside St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
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[DatePublished] => 2015-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/sports/20150324/Ella-Patrice-Fajardo-11.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1390176 [Title] => Kobe Paras highlights make it to US leading hoops video website [Summary] =>

 Two days before his team's Los Angeles (LA) Purple Ghosts game against Diego Prep in the "Supremacy Showcase" at the Staples Center, ballislife.com made him a mixtape video  that got the Philippine social media buzzing on Sunday. 

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UCLA coach Steve Alford has compared LA Cathedral High School star Kobe Paras to Minnesota Timberwolves rookie shooting guard Zach LaVine.

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NBA star forward Kevin Durant said the other day he’s found a new home in Oklahoma City where he plays for the Thunder but it doesn’t mean turning his back on where he came from. On his newly launched Nike signature shoe KD VI, he made it a point to acknowledge his roots by inscribing “Seat Pleasant’s Finest” at the tip of the shoe and “Big Chucky” in memory of his late Amateur Athletic Union coach Charles Craig at the heel.

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It was a sentimental homecoming for Oklahoma City star forward Kevin Durant who launched his sixth Nike signature shoe, the “transformative” KD VI, by introducing his Seat Pleasant, Maryland, hometown to 78 media specialists from 10 countries, including the Philippines, the other day.

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PBA legend Ricardo Brown will receive a PBA jacket symbolic of his recognition as one of the league’s 25 greatest players and a trophy affirming his 2009 induction into the Hall of Fame during a brief tribute at halftime of the B-Meg-Barangay Ginebra semifinal game in the Governors Cup at the Smart Araneta Coliseum tonight.

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So much has been said about the ideal situation of government not intervening in sports.

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Vicki Manalo Draves would’ve been a shoo-in as an inductee at the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame enshrinement rites in the Manila Hotel recently if she only competed for the Philippines, not the US, at the 1948 London Olympics where the half-Filipina, half-English star became the first female to win two diving events in the same Olympics and the first Asian-American to hit paydirt in the Summer Games.

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But there’s an interesting theory going around basketball circles that King James isn’t 19 but a few years older. The storyline is his stepfather Eddie Jackson, who’s known as a con artist, tinkered with James’ birth certificate to create the hype of a man-child superstar.

My buddy T. J. Manotoc says his father Tommy—a former Philippine Basketball Association grand slam coach–subscribes to the theory.
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I reached that conclusion after a 30-minute interview the other day with Jackson in his 15th floor corner office at the league headquarters in the Olympic Tower building off Fifth Avenue beside St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
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