Is a varsity basketball game worth dying for?
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo Thursday, July 31, 2008 In the days of my youth, college basketball was played with the idealism associated with amateur sports. Varsity players gave their 110% for the alma mater. A scholarship plus allowance were the simple rewards then for those who were invited to join a college team. The amateur playing days of our great Olympians Caloy Loyzaga and Ed Ocampo marked the finest years of the NCAA. In the 1950s, college basketball was more popular than the MICAA (progenitor of the pro league but in those days categorized as amateur). But those days are gone. Now, a UAAP team is known to offer allowances that approximate middle management level monthly salaries plus a car, if the player is truly exceptional. The lure of the filthy lucre has entered the realm of college basketball. Like a cancer, greed and corruption tied up to game fixing have succeeded in prostituting a once upon a time virgin. The July 24 frustrated murder of star player Man
