Baseball is really not that popular in the Philippines but I follow it from time to time nonetheless. Especially that October is the month for Major League Baseball Playoffs.
The Philadelphia Phillies just won over the LA Dodgers to win the National League pennant. They won the NLCS 4 -1.
They now await the winner of the ALCS between the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay.
Major League Baseball Playoffs 2008
Posted by doms | Thursday, October 16, 2008 | Baseball, MLB | 0 comments »Best of luck to Rex's entry to the Busby SEO Test Challenge and his quest for SEO knowledge.
This SEO challenge is spearheaded by Busby Web Solutions. The goal of the challenge is to find out who can optimized a webpage with the key phrase " Busby SEO Test ". Google will determine the top 5 at the end of the contest in January 2009. Grand prize is at 5000 US $.
The Busby Search Engine Optimization World Cup is on its second running. And by now, all the SEO experts or practitioners have created their own optimized pages.
I know it will be very difficult for Rex's entry to rank at all. I hope he achieves his desired minimum ranking.
Retirement or walking away from the Sport that you love and made you great is really the hardest thing to do for athletes who are caught by mother time.
Only a few athletes have walked away from their sports while they are on top.
Brett Favre came out of retirement only a year after that emotional farewell. This resulted in some intrigue in Green Bay. Lance Armstrong will be riding his bike again supposedly for the purpose of promoting cancer awareness. Evander Holyfield is reported to fight again versus a seven - footer.
Of the athletes in my generation, I can only think of Pete Sampras - retiring in top form. He called it quits after winning the US Open, his 14th career singles grandslam title at the expense of my favorite, Andre Agassi.
As I have read from my favorite sports writer, Bill Simmons, Elgin Baylor is another example of retiring when it is already time.
I hope that all sports personalities, specially the superstars have the wisdom to know the difference between walking away or grinding through and the humility to accept that they can not beat mother time
PBA opens 34th Season, Talk N Text escapes Coca Cola
Posted by doms | Sunday, October 05, 2008 | PBA | 0 comments »The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), Asia's first pay-for-play basketball league ushered its 34th season at the Araneta Coliseum with a new broadcasting partner CS9.
Talk N Text opened up the KFC Philippine Cup what used to be called All Filipino Conference with an escape win over Coca Cola 98 -97.
Pokwang (muse of Coca Cola) stole the thunder of the traditional parade of teams and muses with her comedic entrance and highlighted by the crown in her head during the opening ceremonies. Makisig Morales meanwhile had a little booboo in introducing Joaqui Trillo, this years's PBA Chairman. Chairman Trillo officially opened the games.
In the opening game, Talk N Text survived a Coca Cola comeback 98 - 97 for a good start at the KFC Philippine Cup. The Tropang Texter lead most of the game reaching 18 at one juncture before Coca Cola unleashed a furious rally.
Ronjay Buenafe tied the game with a trey time down to 1:20 left. 92 - 92. Cardona answered back with a twinner before Buenafe converted on another trey to help Coca Cola take the lead 95 - 94.
Big man Yancy de Ocampo nailed his own trey as the bottlers regained the lead 97 - 95 with only 35 seconds left in the game.
Cabagnot then sank two free throws to tie the game for the last time with still 32.2 seconds.
In a bizaare turn of events, Coca Cola was able to get back the possession in the next play. Asi Taulava recovered the ball from a loose ball scramble and called a time out.
Unfortunately, they don't have a full time out left - only a 30 second one. As the rules would have it, a time out called on the court of the opposing team is considered a full time -out. Thus, Coca Cola were given a technical foul.
Jimmy Alapag converted the free throw that proved to be the winning point. Coca cola failed to make a basket in the final possession and Taulava's put back was nullified because time already expired.
What a way to start the season
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