I came across an interesting article from Mr. Quinito Henson about the issue of imports playing in the UAAP/ NCAA basketball. Here's excerpts of the article: Imports or no imports? SPORTING CHANCE By Joaquin Henson (The Philippine Star) Updated July 25, 2010 12:00 AM Comments (11) View comments The commercialization of college basketball may lead to a situation where the disparity between the haves and have-nots will seriously impair the balance of competition particularly with regard to the recruitment of imports. At the moment, three schools in NCAA seniors basketball are “armed” with imports – San Beda College with 6-7 American Sudan Daniel, Emilio Aguinaldo College with Indonesian Ke Wei Lim and Jose Rizal University’s Cameroon pair Joe Etame and Nchotu John Njei. The link to the full article is as follows: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=596563&publicationSubCategoryId=69 Actually, the article got me thinking about the possibility of having non-Pinoys in the other UAAP/ NCAA sports such as swimming, volleyball, table-tennis, etc. My worry here is that this could set up some sort of invasion of foreigners e.g. African athletes in track and field in collegiate sports. Pano na ang Pinoy talents nyan? But on the other hand, having foreign athletes could up the level of the competition, thereby pushing Pinoy collegiate athletes to excel further.
