Jerrick Ahanmisi —PBA IMAGES Last Sunday, Magnolia’s Jerrick Ahanmisi found himself forever etched in the PBA’s history books—right at the bottom of the page, as a footnote. The Hotshots guard was on the other end of the league’s first-ever four-point field goal which Meralco counterpart Chris Banchero hit early in the second period of the … Read more
Converge import Scotty Thompson.–PBA IMAGES Converge is patiently waiting for top overall pick Justine Baltazar to finally join its camp. But it still got its mission of transforming last season’s worst record to an upward trajectory off and running. “This is just one game,” acting coach Franco Atienza said. “But it’s a good Day One … Read more
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA — In Kanyama, a bustling township in Lusaka, Josephine Mwanza watched in horror last year as her mother, Christine Banda, suffered violent bouts of vomiting, hours after they shared a meal on a hot afternoon. Banda had complained of a stomachache the previous day and her frequent trips to the latrine alarmed her … Read more