Tag: UAAP

Ateneans can’t help being “elitists” in the same way gay people can’t help being gay

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It’s the predictable outcome following an athletically “underdog” university going up against a school with the resources and priorities to breed championship basketball teams. Alumni of the University of the Philippines (UP) go to the games to cheer their Maroons then watch as they get routed by the Blue Eagles. Then alumni of the Ateneo…

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Education, Society & Culture

Did the Yellowtards who called on fans to “wear black” walk their talk during the game?

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The Opposition led by the Yellowtards should improve the way they co-ordinate their “activism”. After an impassioned call for basketballdom to wear black during Game 1 of the UAAP match between the University of the Philippines and the Ateneo, nobody seemed to have heeded the ill-thought-out “urge”. Not even Yellowtard senatorial candidate Florin Hilbay could…

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Politics, Society & Culture

UP iskos should wear maroon, Ateneans should wear blue, and Yellowtards should wear black

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Yellowtards are now claiming that they were “misinterpreted” in their ill-thought-out initiative to get fans to wear black when they watch the UAAP basketball match between the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Ateneo de Manila. According to these “activists”, they were merely “urging” and not commanding basketball enthusiasts to wear black during the…

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Society & Culture

Lame forced “unity” colour mars spirit of cutthroat UAAP basketball

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Trust millennial “social justice warriors” to take the edge off a basketball game between two top institutions of learning vying for domination of the Tall Man’s Sport. I mean, who goes to a basketball game expecting a love-in, right? Unfortunately, with a political discourse dominated by SJW snowflakes, even the erstwhile cutthroat sport of Pinoy-style…

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