Beautiful Cebu

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Friday, June 10, 2011

SPORTS | Who are you rooting for? Mavs or Heat? Or is it the Azkals?

Jason Terry, Mavs hero in today's game against the Miami Heat. (photo from NBA. com)
Move over Azkals. The NBA Finals is here and this basketball-crazy nation is again frantically following its original beloved sports, basketball. The Mavs are up 3-2 in what is turning to be one of NBA's best Finals series.

In today's game, Jason Terry's crucial three-point shots in the dying minutes of the play nullified strong defense put up by the Miami Heat. What the Mavs couldn't do inside the paint, Jason Terry did excruciatingly well from the perimeter. Terry's shots were the type that could break a team's spirit. The Heat faded away in the final minutes of the game.

The present Finals Series is quite unexpected after the usual finalist, the LA Lakers were edged out. It's hard to predict who will be this year's Champion. There are no clear favorites as both teams are hungry for an NBA title, especially the Mavericks who had never won an NBA crown.

As for the Azkals, they were in Cebu last week. Tall, white Filipino-Briton Phil Younghusband stood out among the players. Fans swarmed him more than any other member of the Philippine soccer team. Report had it that work stopped at the Cebu Provincial Capitol after employees trooped to the Governor's office where the team went to give a courtesy call on Governor Gwen Garcia. Phil, said many Cebuanos, could very well be a good basketball player, relatively tall that he is. But it would be bad for Philippine soccer which never had a celebrity player until Phil came along.
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