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Beach volleyball: Setting in the sand

Volleyball featuring only two players a side is a sure challenge to those who are used to playing indoor volleyball. This explains the Lady Spikers’ performance last year; UAAP Season 74’s Women’s volleyball champion, the Lady Spikers, did not translate the team’s dominance in indoor volleyball to beach volleyball. After hard-fought games, the Lady Spikers…

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On revenge and title defense: Bernales and the Judokas

Eyes on the prize. This has always been the motto and mindset of every DLSU Judoka. Now that the UAAP season is just around the corner, Head Coach Sam Bernales will see the fruit of more than a years worth of work. “It took me a year to make the training program for the upcoming…

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“Unbreakable at 75”, UAAP officially on

It’s that time of the school year again. The long wait is over, as the curtains have been raised. The 75th season of the UAAP is now officially open. All summer long, the development of the new venue of the UAAP, the SM Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena, has aroused excitement from sports fanatics for…

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Burning the Animo once more for UAAP 75

Before every season, an annual rally held at the amphitheater for this year, signals the start of the Green and White athletes’ UAAP quest. For this year, Friday the 13th marked the start of good fortune for all the squads of DLSU. The Animo Rally 2012 may be different from the previous rallies, where rookies…

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IN THIS CORNER: Fearless forecast on the Green Archers

  Sports analyst, basketball scribes and former Green Archers share their fearless forecast on the Green Archers’ performance in the upcoming UAAP cagefest. “We have a big chance of being the champs again. Animo!” – Renren Ritualo, former Green Archer, PBA Air21 Express shooting guard   “I think they will be fine! They can go…

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UAAP Season 75: Men’s Basketball Games

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Crunching the digits: Green Archers’ FilOil stint by the numbers

It has been almost a month since the De La Salle University Green Archers finished bridesmaids in the 2012 FilOil Flying V Pre-Season Hanes Cup Tournament.They placed second out of 18 NCAA and UAAP squads, behind first-time champions National University Bulldogs.   The LaSallian presents some interesting figures that highlight the Archers’ breakaway pre-season performance.…

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DLSU clubs in summer action

The spotlight has always been on DLSU teams that have gained a reputation for their intense training in preparation for the UAAP, especially the Men’s basketball and Women’s volleyball team. The big B and V, however, have always overshadowed DLSU’s other sports clubs; these teams have been spreading the Animo spirit, continuously keeping the sport…

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General Championship: Evaluating UAAP Season 74

The Basketball championship, highly-anticipated and hyped-up, is just a small trophy when compared to the UAAP General Championship (GC), which the University of Santo Tomas has monopolized for more than a decade already. La Salle in its last three seasons, however, has seen itself inch away from its first GC title; DLSU has always been…

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Lady Spikers: academics, injuries reason for Shakey’s V-League tilt

Coming off from a remarkable UAAP championship season, the DLSU Lady Spikers stood still after withdrawing from the invitation to participate in the 9th Shakey’s V-League first conference. Tending to academics and nursing injuries appear to be the main issues besetting the Lady Spikers in their declining yet another V-League stint. “Na-invite kami ng Shakey’s…