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Sports meme invasion

Memes have been flying around social network sites in recent months. These fancy pictures that have one liner jokes are dominating websites all over the online world to the colorful world of sports. Perhaps very few if not the any could have imagined the impact memes would have when it started. The result of likes,…

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Abanilla: ‘It’s a work in progress’

After four games in Season 75 of the UAAP, the DLSU Green Archers have found themselves at fourth place with the National University Bulldogs, with both teams nursing a 2-2 record. The players donning the green and white jerseys have since improved after Head Coach Gee Abanilla implemented a system that would tap every player’s…

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Jed Manguera – The Lockdown Specialist.

A masked Jed Bryan Manguera enters the court with four other white shirts ready for another tour of duty. This time around he has to guard one of the league’s top offensive guns and last year’s Rookie of the Year, Kiefer Ravena. Ravena receives the leather on the right wing. Driving hard, he found DLSU…

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The Lady on the sidelines: Angeline “Billie” Capistrano

The University’s new courtside reporter, Angeline Bea “Billie” Capistrano comes from a family of hardcore La Salle fans. A junior AB-OCM student and self-confessed health freak, Billie will now be the Lasallians ears and eyes in each Archers’ huddle this UAAP season. Billie explained her reason for auditioning; she said, “I wanted to give back…

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CRASH COURSE (Part 1 of 2): Navigating the UAAP venues

Stuck at home with your television sets? Why not go to the venues and watch the games? Many have been confused with the directions to the locations of the UAAP games while some have gotten stuck in traffic and others have been stranded in the LRT. Here is a quick guide and set of directions…

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Sports

Golden ticket: A guide to the UAAP ticketing scheme

It is that time of the year again; the UAAP has started and university students are hyped up to watch the heated games and make a bid to secure a golden ticket either by going to the venue a couple of hours before, lining up in front of the schools’ sports office or haggling with…

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UAAP themes before “Unbreakable”

Rivalries and confrontations have always been common in the UAAP; unique themes are not. A theme is a unifying idea that serves as the backbone of events that give a program direction and fluidity. According to DLSU UAAP Board Member Edwin Reyes, themes provide uniqueness to an event. Moreover, themes make an event memorable. Throughout…

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Sports

Lady Archers, unstoppable in two games

The DLSU Lady Archers proved to be dominant in the team’s first two outings, beating preseason queens, Adamson Lady Falcons and UE Lady Warriors, to open a Taft-based bid for the UAAP Season 75 Women’s Basketball Championship. In the first two games, numbers show that the Tyrone Bautista-mentored squad has been consistent in offense and…

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The few, the proud, the paperbacks: Books in a paperless society

In Rogue Magazine’s April 2012 issue, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos reported that the sale of e-books used for Kindles were outselling their paper counterparts. To some, this is proof that technology wins out, yet again. With growing concerns over the environment, e-books mean less waste. That is: less need to shave off a few more…

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The world you purchase

Ever wondered why nowadays you suddenly see men and women of impeccable physique and alien complexion in billboards along every highway? When you look in magazines, newspapers, the Internet, or go to the mall, there they are again, looking all handsome and well dressed. But unlike any typical Filipino celebrity, these people are not those…