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This piece was originally meant to be about another analysis of an intriguing event in sports, and may yet turn out to be one. But for the nonce, I’d like to talk about how tough times are, particularly for those out there supporting families, trying to scratch out a living. Many of us live in a precarious balance, where one delayed check or payment means the power company cuts off your electricity, literally leaving you in the dark.

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Naging panauhing pandangal si Ryan Gregorio, head coach ng Philippine Cup champion Purefoods Chunkee Giants. Inamin ni Gregorio na paakyat ang kanilang laban sa huling conference.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134237 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => PSN Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 345071 [Title] => Adidas Streetball Challenge [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Sinimulan kahapon dito ang ika-11 adidas Streetball Challenge, na patungo sa isa pang national championship na gaganapin sa SM Mall of Asia. Ang mga magtatagumpay doon ay dadalhin sa Guangzhou, China, para sa kahuli-hulihang adidas Asian Streetball Challenge, kung saan defending champion sa boys division ang Pilipinas.

Ito na ang pinakamatagal na three-on-three basketball tournament sa Pilipinas. Sa katunayan, sa ika-sampung edisyon noong 2005, pinarangalan ang limang "All-Time Starting Five" ng adidas.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134237 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => PSN Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 342699 [Title] => Dealing with Dad / Streetball memories [Summary] => Raising a father is probably one of the most difficult things one could ever do. At least, that’s what my sons tell me.

Seriously, though, it’s one of the toughest jobs in the world. Not only are you the provider, but you are the workhorse, packing mule and 700-pound gorilla. You are the driver, carpenter, mechanic, coach, teacher, referee, big brother and occasional maid. You don’t sleep, are often last to eat, and when things go wrong, can hardly breathe.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 289209 [Title] => LARONG KALYE [Summary] => Ipinagdiriwang ng adidas Philippines ang ika-sampung taon ng adidas Streetball Challenge sa Festival Mall sa Alabang ngayong weekend.

Labing-anim na koponan ng mga kampeon mula sa National Capital Region, Luzon, Visayas at Mindanao ang naglalaban sa midgets, juniors, girls at seniors division. Ang mga magwawagi sa seniors at girls ay magiging kinatawan ng Pilipinas sa darating na Asian Streetball finals na gaganapin sa Araneta Center sa unang weekend ng Setyembre.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134237 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => PSN Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 273890 [Title] => It’s Josh not Joe [Summary] => National Basketball Association (NBA) slam dunk champion Josh Smith of the Atlanta Hawks is coming to town with Houston Rockets star Tracy McGrady and Portland Trail Blazers guard Sebastian Telfair to grace Adidas Asian Streetball Finals in September.

That’s Josh, not Joe. It was earlier reported that Joe would be in the tour group.

The awesome threesome should make quite an impact. McGrady had a choice of which countries to visit during the NBA summer break and picked the Philippines. He was here with Tim Thomas five years ago and obviously, liked what he saw.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 256647 [Title] => Holy Cross best in Adidas streetball [Summary] => On this occasion, he was not to be denied. John Paul Escobal made sure he was not.

Seven-time streetballer Escobal, team captain of Mindanao champion Holy Cross of Davao College, played the biggest game of his life and delivered the marginal basket in the sudden-death shootout to power his team past NCR street basketball king Colegio de San Juan de Letran, 21-20, and grab the over-all seniors title of the adidas Streetball Challenge 2004 National Finals staged at the Easter College in Baguio City.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 249506 [Title] => The power of one [Summary] => SAN FERNANDO, PAMPANGA — This writer is searching for inspiration on this Mother’s Day while observing the Luzon finals of the 2004 adidas Streetball Challenge, an annual rite of summer wherein our young boys and girls bake in the sun while testing themselves against kids of other parts of the country for bragging rights to three-on-three basketball.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 201316 [Title] => UST, Ateneo lead Adidas NCR qualifiers [Summary] => University of Sto. Tomas (UST), Adamson University, San Beda College and Ateneo de Manila University emerged as the early qualifiers to the National Finals of the adidas Streetball Challenge 2003 by ruling the National Capital Region (NCR) elimination round of the event held over the weekend at the Araneta Center in Cubao, Quezon City.

UST, playing under the name Team Clutch, successfully defended its NCR Seniors championship by toppling a hard fighting Arellano University-Team Citron, 17-13.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200580 [Title] => Lancers to defend adidas Streetball crown [Summary] => Take it to the street!

This will be the theme when Adidas holds the seventh edition of the adidas Streetball Challenge 2003 with a kick-off Metro Manila leg this weekend at the Araneta Center carpark in Cubao, Quezon City.

Aside from cash prizes and gift items from sponsoring adidas for the winners, participants will be gunning for berths in the Philippines team competing in the fifth Asian Finals set midway this year in Seoul, South Korea.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )
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This piece was originally meant to be about another analysis of an intriguing event in sports, and may yet turn out to be one. But for the nonce, I’d like to talk about how tough times are, particularly for those out there supporting families, trying to scratch out a living. Many of us live in a precarious balance, where one delayed check or payment means the power company cuts off your electricity, literally leaving you in the dark.

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Naging panauhing pandangal si Ryan Gregorio, head coach ng Philippine Cup champion Purefoods Chunkee Giants. Inamin ni Gregorio na paakyat ang kanilang laban sa huling conference.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134237 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => PSN Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 345071 [Title] => Adidas Streetball Challenge [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Sinimulan kahapon dito ang ika-11 adidas Streetball Challenge, na patungo sa isa pang national championship na gaganapin sa SM Mall of Asia. Ang mga magtatagumpay doon ay dadalhin sa Guangzhou, China, para sa kahuli-hulihang adidas Asian Streetball Challenge, kung saan defending champion sa boys division ang Pilipinas.

Ito na ang pinakamatagal na three-on-three basketball tournament sa Pilipinas. Sa katunayan, sa ika-sampung edisyon noong 2005, pinarangalan ang limang "All-Time Starting Five" ng adidas.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134237 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => PSN Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 342699 [Title] => Dealing with Dad / Streetball memories [Summary] => Raising a father is probably one of the most difficult things one could ever do. At least, that’s what my sons tell me.

Seriously, though, it’s one of the toughest jobs in the world. Not only are you the provider, but you are the workhorse, packing mule and 700-pound gorilla. You are the driver, carpenter, mechanic, coach, teacher, referee, big brother and occasional maid. You don’t sleep, are often last to eat, and when things go wrong, can hardly breathe.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 289209 [Title] => LARONG KALYE [Summary] => Ipinagdiriwang ng adidas Philippines ang ika-sampung taon ng adidas Streetball Challenge sa Festival Mall sa Alabang ngayong weekend.

Labing-anim na koponan ng mga kampeon mula sa National Capital Region, Luzon, Visayas at Mindanao ang naglalaban sa midgets, juniors, girls at seniors division. Ang mga magwawagi sa seniors at girls ay magiging kinatawan ng Pilipinas sa darating na Asian Streetball finals na gaganapin sa Araneta Center sa unang weekend ng Setyembre.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134237 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => PSN Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 273890 [Title] => It’s Josh not Joe [Summary] => National Basketball Association (NBA) slam dunk champion Josh Smith of the Atlanta Hawks is coming to town with Houston Rockets star Tracy McGrady and Portland Trail Blazers guard Sebastian Telfair to grace Adidas Asian Streetball Finals in September.

That’s Josh, not Joe. It was earlier reported that Joe would be in the tour group.

The awesome threesome should make quite an impact. McGrady had a choice of which countries to visit during the NBA summer break and picked the Philippines. He was here with Tim Thomas five years ago and obviously, liked what he saw.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 256647 [Title] => Holy Cross best in Adidas streetball [Summary] => On this occasion, he was not to be denied. John Paul Escobal made sure he was not.

Seven-time streetballer Escobal, team captain of Mindanao champion Holy Cross of Davao College, played the biggest game of his life and delivered the marginal basket in the sudden-death shootout to power his team past NCR street basketball king Colegio de San Juan de Letran, 21-20, and grab the over-all seniors title of the adidas Streetball Challenge 2004 National Finals staged at the Easter College in Baguio City.
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[DatePublished] => 2004-05-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 201316 [Title] => UST, Ateneo lead Adidas NCR qualifiers [Summary] => University of Sto. Tomas (UST), Adamson University, San Beda College and Ateneo de Manila University emerged as the early qualifiers to the National Finals of the adidas Streetball Challenge 2003 by ruling the National Capital Region (NCR) elimination round of the event held over the weekend at the Araneta Center in Cubao, Quezon City.

UST, playing under the name Team Clutch, successfully defended its NCR Seniors championship by toppling a hard fighting Arellano University-Team Citron, 17-13.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200580 [Title] => Lancers to defend adidas Streetball crown [Summary] => Take it to the street!

This will be the theme when Adidas holds the seventh edition of the adidas Streetball Challenge 2003 with a kick-off Metro Manila leg this weekend at the Araneta Center carpark in Cubao, Quezon City.

Aside from cash prizes and gift items from sponsoring adidas for the winners, participants will be gunning for berths in the Philippines team competing in the fifth Asian Finals set midway this year in Seoul, South Korea.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )
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