Ken Carter is the subject of the based-on-a-true-story movie "Coach Carter". In that movie, he was the coach of the Richmond High School basketball team that was locked out of playing due to academic reasons ( Read more... )

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Upon reading some older journal entries, I've come to the conclusion, that as I've spent more time here in the Philippines, the more reluctant I am to reveal things about myself. Both intra and interpersonally. I think I'm imploding.

That or I'm really shallow.


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Every day at work, I do the Newday.com crossword puzzle. On average, I finish each puzzle in about 7 to 8 minutes. This is without checks or cheating. My best time was 4 minutes and 21 seconds. That was, until today, when I destroyed my old record by nearly a minute. The bar has been set at 3 minutes 27 seconds. I doubt I'll ever beat that ( Read more... )

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Earlier this week, our Ad Agency won a pitch winning us an account for a local bank. The final two agencies envolved in the pitch was mine and one owned by my uncle, who's pretty much a legend in Filipino advertising. This marks the first time I've beaten him. Upon knowing that we won, I wrote a letter to the whole agency thanking them for their ( Read more... )

3 buses laced with bombs just exploded on my street.

For Lent, I will be giving up "self improvement" in any way shape or form.

This will be difficult.

ANYONE WHO IS A BASEBALL FAN NEEDS TO READ JOSE CANSECO'S NEW BOOK.

In his book, Canseco writes:

"I've always wanted to stay in the game and run an organization, so after the Red Sox hired Theo, I studied all this 'Moneyball' stuff and learned about OPS and VORP and EQA and DIPS ERA and so on. I wrote a couple computer programs to help evaluate ( Read more... )

Is it just me, or is ESPN.com slowly beginning to make every article they write an "insider" article. That is such crap. Even old Sports Guy columns are now "insider" material. This is evil. This is corporate America at it's worst. Don't make me have to check out CNNSI.com, or worse. CBSSPORTSLINE.com! A word to the wise, ESPN... a word to ( Read more... )