I'll try to be succinct here, as given the emotions brought about by recent national events, it's hard to concentrate on basketball. Nevertheless, a situation happened the other day which I feel I must, I MUST write about. Unfortunately it's one of those situations which cause a hundred thoughts to run in your head, and that hostage drama didn't help, so it took me awhile to get to it. Anyway, here is my attempt:

NU beat UP the other week, with the Bulldogs handing over to the Maroons their 10th consecutive loss to 0 wins in the UAAP. It was the previous game to the ADMU-DLSU 2nd round matchup but I watched with interest just the same, knowing how UP is bleeding for a win and besides it was getting interesting at the end.

With NU ahead by a point with 2 seconds remaining, NU's Jewel Ponferada was shooting FTs. He scored the first and intentionally missed the second. Now here's the amazing and sickening, despicable, horrible, stunning part: Coach Fernandez was instructing his players to intentionally cause successive lane violations in order to 'force' Ponferada to sink his 2nd freethrow, a ploy to neutralize the missed freethrows. After an unbelievable 5 intentional lane violations, and when it looked like UP would keep at it ad infinitum, the refs didn't call the last violation. Ponferada missed, UP lost time on the inbound, NU won the game, Fernandez went ape-shit and to add to the hilarity and as if he didn't embarrass himself enough, UP protested the game.

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No that's not the actual statue, my brilliant Photoshop work is just teasing your eyes.

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I just wanted to say that i'm not completely living under a rock and am well aware of not only Mr. Bartholomew's book, but am an avid follower of his (via his blog) and have been following his exploits for many a year now.

I knew he was writing a book and had been eagerly awaiting its publishing. I am therefore quite happy to announce his booklaunch on the 24th, which I've learned about via spam from his publicity people I assume. Details to wit:

I also know that it's been out for quite awhile now, and having said that, will quickly explain why I haven't bought and read, it.

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for good shoes. Hence..

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I came across an article the other day about how the UP Maroons have become so irrelevant that UP students and alumni don't bother to care anymore, and that it has been suggested they should just give up Men's Basketball altogether.

Now isn't that brilliant? I mean, the sheer logic of it is so unbelievable, it just hits you like a ton of bricks. A ton of logical bricks. And you know while we're at it, why not let's brainstorm a few other things we should just give up as well!

Academics - Yeah you know, all those books and studying weighs on you doesn't it? I mean, do we really need all of that? Of course if we give that up it means we won't have any lawyers, doctors, engineers, not to mention just plain old graduates anymore, and we'd all revert back to living in trees. But isn't that so much fun that hitting those books? Think about it!

The respect of your peers - Anytime someone questions your character, just play the 'who cares what you think!' card, and pretend you don't care! It's easy. All you have to do, is really not care. About others, about yourself, and what you might do to affect the coming generation. It's fun! Our politicians do it all the time and look how fat and happy they are!

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