Japan and the Philippines A Contrast in Pansin
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 …
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Dedication To Basketball Does Not Translate To Wins
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 …
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Why Andray Blathche Being A Proud Pinoy Makes Perfect Sense
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 …
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Are there still available men like Chris Tiu??
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 …
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Social media celeb John Ortiz Teope gets on the #GilasPilipinas racist bandwagon!
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. …
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Filipinos stink
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 …
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Why a Smart Gilas win means everything to Filipinos
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 …
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A proposal for our politicians: donate pork barrel, help send Filipino fans to Spain for FIBA 2014
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 …
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