Powerade Team Pilipinas Had Their First Loss against Jordan in Jones Cup Debut

admin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:00:18 +0000

The Powerade Team Pilipinas out-hassled by Jordan in the midst of second-quarter breakaway and never recovered in a disappointing 90-59 loss to open its campaign in the 31st William Jones Cup.

The Nationals started strong in the few minutes of first quarter and only trailed by two points 17-15 at the end of this quarter. It has been a very close game until Jordanian’s 6-4 point guard Rasheim Wright started to play a tremendous game in both offense and defense by cutting the Nationals’ defense in shreds, setting screens that set up their outside shots clearly breaking Team Pilipinas’ man-to-man defense.

He was the same player who terrorized Chot Reyes’ RP team during the 24th FIBA Asia Olympic qualifier in Tokushima, Japan two years ago. It ended the Philippines’ bid of qualifying in the 2008 Beijing Olympics following an 84-76 victory in the preliminary round of the 24th FIBA Asia Men’s Championship.

Powerade Team Pilipinas players have difficulty to set up their momentum in this game. They trailed by as many as 79-45 halfway into the fourth quarter.

“We have to learn how to beat this team if we hope to make the Turkey tournament (World Championship),” said RP team coach Yeng Guiao, who hinted of a major adjustment when the team returns.

In other opening day games, Lebanon, with the veteran Fadih El-Khatib outscored Taiwan-B, 93-61, while South Korea, which is bracketed with the Philippines, Japan and Sri Lanka in Group A in the FIBA Asia tournament, edged Kazakhstan, 75-73, despite getting out rebounded by 42-32.

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admin — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:39:42 +0000

Cockfighting is a true bloody sport that pits two roosters against each other. Spectators may place their bets, and the fight ends after one or both roosters die. Cockfighting is very common throughout all of Southeast Asia especially in the Philippines. They often called it “Sabong”. In fact, sabong is one of the Philippines’ national sports. There are illegal and legal cockfights. But in the United States and in most places of Europe, cockfighting is strictly prohibited. Besides being cruel to animals, cockfighting is closely connected to other crimes like gambling, drug dealing, illegal firearms sales and even homicide.

In 2000 BC, cockfighting was originally a pastime in the Indus Valley Civilization. The sport was very popular in ancient times in India, China, Persia, and other Eastern countries and was introduced into Greece in the time of Themistocles. Then, the sport spread throughout Asia Minor and Sicily. For a long time the Romans affected a despisement of this “Greek diversion,” but they ended up adopting it so enthusiastically that the agricultural writer Columella complained that its devotees often spent their whole patrimony in betting at the side of the pit.

Cockfighting is very popular in the Philippines. Many Filipinos would love to gamble on the fight. Legal cockfights are held on cockpits every week. Illegal cockfights, called tupada, happen any time in open areas. In both kinds of cockfights, knives are used. Gloves are used for training purposes only. Derbies are also held. These are cockfights where owners will field a fixed number of cocks. (E.g. 3-cock derby or 6-cock derby). The one with the most wins wins the jackpot. The Philippines has hosted several World Slasher Derby. There are 2 kinds of knives used in Philippine cockfighting. The single blade (use in derbies) and double blades. All knives are attached on the left leg of the cock. But depending on the agreement between owners, blades can be attached on the right leg, or even on both legs. Sabong and illegal tupada are judged by a referee called sentensyador, whose verdict is final and not subject to any appeal.

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Powerade Team Pilipinas Had Their First Loss against Jordan in Jones Cup Debut

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