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[Title] => WATCH: UAAP Primer: UP Maroons whipping boys no more?
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University of the Philippines
How do we start from this? You have a sophomore as your leading returning scorer with 7.8ppg, shooting 40 percent from the field. Gone are Sam Marata and everybody's Tito Raul, Raul Soyud, who put up double digit outputs on a team that is horrid on both ends of the floor. And I don't see that changing anytime soon. Gone are the days when there is actually some fight in the Fighting Maroons. Yes, it's not what they're good at, but still, emulating the Philadelphia 76ers in tank mode year in and year out can only make it worse. What chance do they have now? Every celebrated recruit they have flamed out - let's not discount my HS batch mate, Mike Gamboa, this side of Marvin Cruz and Nestor David. Paolo Romero is the only one with an actual shot at making himself relevant, along with Kyles Lao. The Alinko Mba experiment miserably failed, and the Chris Ball mix isn't going to go somewhere else.
Predicted record: 1-13 (someone is bound to be caught on an unlucky day)
[DatePublished] => 2014-07-09 12:17:41
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[AuthorID] => 1239181
[AuthorName] => Cris Cayanan
[SectionName] => Video Features
[SectionUrl] => video-features
[URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/videos/20140709/up-uaap.gif
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[ArticleID] => 1344273
[Title] => University of the Philippines
[Summary] => How do we start from this? You have a sophomore as your leading returning scorer with 7.8ppg, shooting 40 percent from the field.
[DatePublished] => 2014-07-08 08:00:00
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[SectionName] => Sports
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[URL] => http://www.philstar.com/sports/basketball/uaap-season-77/template/images/logo/up-fighting-maroons.jpg
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[ArticleID] => 959246
[Title] => At First Glance: University of the Philippines Fighting Maroons
[Summary] => They finally received a four-star recruit that will eventually pan out into a diamond. Imagine if he can bring his brother in a year. Looks positive, UP.
[DatePublished] => 2013-06-27 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1656860
[AuthorName] => Pio Garcia
[SectionName] => Sports
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[ArticleID] => 950743
[Title] => UP blasts youth team in Martin Cup
[Summary] => UP blasted the Philippine Youth team, 75-53, to reach the semifinals of the 19th Fr. Martin Summer Cup basketball tournament at the Trinity University of Asia gym in QC last Monday.
[DatePublished] => 2013-06-06 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 849677
[Title] => Bulldogs escape Maroons' upset axe
[Summary] => MANILA, Philippines – National University bolstered its Final Four bid by turning back University of the Philippines, 65-60, Sunday in the 75th season of the UAAP men’s basketball at the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.
[DatePublished] => 2012-09-16 16:05:27
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1114697
[AuthorName] => Aldo Avinante
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[ArticleID] => 842198
[Title] => Eagles claw fighting Maroons, stay on top
[Summary] => Ateneo bucked a lethargic performance to pull through with a 73-66 victory over a hard-fighting University of the Philippines and continue to hold the fort in the UAAP Season 75 men’s basketball tourney at the MOA Arena yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2012-08-26 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1097461
[AuthorName] => Olmin Leyba
[SectionName] => Sports
[SectionUrl] => sports
[URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img19/607/spo1thumbn.jpg
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