With the new administration already in place, it is quite understandable why it seems that sports is not a priority.

It’s not that it is not a priority, but we understand that there are more pressing matters for the Aquino administration to resolve, …

There are coaches and then there are armchair coaches. This is true in Philippine basketball, where each and every basketball aficionado has an analysis on what went wrong in every basketball game. But remember that basketball coaches live and die with their best judgment in a …

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A FILIPINO player’s lack of size may be the reason why it is easier to find a talented guard rather than a talented center in the country.

I am not sure if this was the reason behind coach Ron Jacobs penchance to build his team around a solid point guard, a …

PART two of building your team is actually about recruiting, and saying such, it is important to exactly know what you are looking for. Although we have seen several types of team offenses evolve throughout the years, the concept of basketball positions basically remain the same.

This is particularly true in …

Cyberspace is a delight for a big basketball fan. Just click into Yahoo! or SportingNews and you, acting as a team manager, could build your team around a set salary cap with the best talent for each position ready for the picking.

In fact, you will have all the superstars in …

THIS week’s query is interesting and deserves greater attention, so I gave precedence to reader Gary N., who wrote:
Hi Coach Eric,

My 13-year-old daughter, an incoming high-school freshman, was invited to train with her school’s varsity team. They practice four times a week this summer, mostly physical strengthening and basketball fundamentals, …

THERE’S a saying that you miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. I’ve also heard somewhere that we are a nation of bystanders.

Both sentences above actually have one common denominator that is most people today are more reactive than proactive. We merely watch rather than participate.

And why is …

SPORTS headlines reported the suspension of a school after one of its players was found to have used someone else’s identity.

Some two years ago, there was also this player who allegedly had someone take a high-school equivalency test for him to enter college and play for his school.

Without delving on …

THERE’S an oft-used phrase in professional sports that “players win games, coaches lose them.”

As both a player and a coach myself, I won’t dispute this saying although it’s better to expound on what it really means, particularly in today’s basketball world.

Truth is, coaches being removed from their posts nowadays are …