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Naomi Osaka has now won two Grand Slam ( major) tournaments. She is now the #1 ranked woman’s tennis player in the world. This incredible athletic achievement has served to divide Japan like a Wall along Mexico. I ran across this interesting article in the Australian ( speaking of racially divided) website Nine. Despite flying…
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Top 10 Rejected Gilas Fans Cheers. 1. Let’s enamor the foreign press with 0-4 record. 2. If only style points counts towards medal determination 3. Show me a good loser and I will show you… never mind. 4. It’s Not Whether You Win Or Lose As Long As You Keep Saying Puso. 5. We May…
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Just in time for the June 12 holiday, an NBA player is proud to be pinoy. NBC Rotoworld called it one of the strangest stories of the off season. If Andray Blatche is proud to be Filipino, can I be proud to be part of the 1972 Maimi Dolphins? Blatche was able to play…
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The ABS-CBN News headline got it right: “Sorry ladies, Chris Tiu is already married”. He’s the perfect Pinoy guy — handsome, Jesuit-educated, star basketball player, smart (as in, a grad of the Ateneo’s flagship mega-hard ultra-elite course Management Engineering), and, get this, super religious. Legend has it that he prays the rosary everyday. Wow! What…
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Tsk tsk. We continue wonder whether Pinoy-style basketball really brings out best the best in Filipinos if even “respected” social media personalities engage in low-brow racist sports fan rhetoric. Dr. Rodolfo “John” Ortiz Teope, PhD, EdD, DSD, DES is National President of the First Philippine Pro-Democracy Foundation, Inc and is host of the online video…
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Something has been bothering me these past few days. Something smelled quite fishy, but I couldn’t quite put a bead on it. The words to describe it had been escaping me. Then it just hit me: Filipinos stink. In more ways than one. They showed this more than ever just recently, if you saw how…
Consider, first of all, the kind of responses that fellow GRP writer Gogs’ article “Why a Smart Gilas Win Means Nothing to Me” drew. They can be summarized with one simple phrase: Butthurt Pinoy pridesters are so predictable. “If you don’t ride on the bandwagon, why don’t you just keep your opinion to yourself?” “Why…
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First things first. I think congratulations are in order for the Philippine National Team in this year’s FIBA Asia championships. Last night they beat South Korea 86-79, and thus clinched a sure spot in the 2014 FIBA World Cup to be held in Spain. A little bit of background for the not-so basketball fans: for…