WILL PIDO and company shed tears of joy in Season 71?

The heartbreaking image of the Growling Tigers’ mentor and his wards after being eliminated by the Ateneo de Manila Blue Eagles last year could just be a brief interlude toward earning another stripe of wisdom going into the grilling hour.

“That was a bad experience,” Jarencio told the Varsitarian. “We’ll make sure that it will never happen again.”

After all, the Tigers already showed much heart and composure last Season 70. Despite hitting the cellar of the team standings with two early losses, Jarencio’s pack rose from the slump and repeated its Season 69 turnaround by winning eight of their next 12 games to finish with an 8-6 win-loss card at the end of the eliminations.

The Tigers also made their presence felt in the defensive end, clawing down their opponents’ production from 80 points an outing in Season 69 to just 70 points per game last season.

But the sequel to the Cinderella run was cut short right at its climax by Ateneo, the same team that the Tigers pulverized in the best-of-three Season 69 finals.  read more »

EAGER to reclaim the title the Tigers lost last season, coach Pido Jarencio now brings in a pack of raw yet promising greenhorns at the start of Season 71. More than just backstopping their seasoned comrades, rookies Clark Bautista, Emilian Vargas, Jeric Fortuna, Carmelo Afuang, Christopher Camus, Carlos Fenequito, Jackson Wong, and Allein Gail Maliksi are raring to parade their individual arsenals against the fiercest hardcourt batallions assembled for this year’s UAAP cage wars.  read more »

OUTGROWING a failed back-to-back title test, the UST Tigresses could have just easily dispatched the harrowing lessons of Season 70 as mere footnotes in its newly devised basketball workbook.

But a lesson, good or bad, enriches experience, a weapon the Peque Tan-mentored squad gamely recognizes.  read more »

HOBBLED by the untimely exit of key player Remia Buenacosa, the UST Tigresses surrendered to pressure and crumbled before a towering Adamson University squad, 61-73, in the finals of the 2008 Nike Summer League last June 13 at the Philippine Sports Arena.

“They were just tired, I guess,” Coach Peque Tan told the Varsitarian. “That explained why they came out lifeless by the second half of the game.”  read more »

SHE HURDLED every roadblock but the last.

Season 70 Most Valuable Player Rose Anne de la Cruz may have rampaged through a crowd of lightweights en route to booking a finals ticket in the Dunlop Open women’s badminton tournament.

But dominating a seasoned member of the national team proved unlikely as she absorbed a clinical 19-21, 10-21 loss in the singles championship last June 6 at the Powerhouse courts in Makati.  read more »

THE DEATH of actor Rodolfo “Rudy” Fernandez, who took up college units at UST, has brought to fore the unheard of fury of periampullary cancer, a rare tumor that grows in the gastrointestinal tract. With news of the actor’s death preoccupying national media, the question on the back of many minds is how exactly the unknown disease can kill.

Periampullary cancer occurs when a tumor grows around the ampulla of Vater, a duodenal duct which evolves from the meeting point of the pancreatic and bile ducts.  read more »

TWO YEARS after redefining the UST landscape, the Quadricentennial Square with its “interactive fountain” has become a popular campus hangout and a must-see for visitors.  read more »

FOR PEOPLE with refractive problems like Cecilia Ramirez, 34, bringing eyesight back to perfect vision was blurry a decade ago, and options were limited to wearing eyeglasses or contact lenses. But hope came with the discovery of Lasik treatment which revitalizes optimum vision in an instant.  read more »

Ganito pala sa kolehiyo, unang araw pa lang, may assignment na. Katatapos pa lang magpakilala ng buong klase sa isa’t isa, pinagpapasa na kami ng aming propesor ng iginuhit naming dream house bilang Plate #1 para sa drafting class kinabukasan. Gusto raw niyang malaman kung mayroon kaming kakayahan sa pagguhit. Sa tingin ko naman, gusto niya lang kaming pahirapan sa pagkuha ng mataas na marka.  read more »