One Dream, One World, One U?!

The tag line should be familiar. It's a spin-off of Solar Entertainment's "One Dream, One World, One Channel" theme for the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympics starting this oh-eight oh-eight and oh-eight. Yeah, it's in China and and the Chinese beliefs including using the right numbers for good luck. When writing the figure "8" it's supposed to point up and that means a charm to them... And we damn need the same charm for the next few weeks for everything to work... So anyway...

One U is the name of the college recap-features-news show starting the 22nd this month on BTV (Tuesdays, 9PM). From the name itself it's rather self-explanatory that it came from the words "one university"... Basically, the school of thought (pun intended) of the said show is to recap anything-and-everything college hoops in the Philippines--- yes, not only the more popular NCAA and UAAP but ALL university basketball across the islands... Meaning the Golden Knights from Naga will have a chance to compete for air time. Or not. i am not even sure if that team is #1 in that city, let alone in that province. Let alone in that region. Let alone in that zone. (And yes, i am confused with the zoning qualifiers so let's leave it at that first.)

Outside the news and update persona, the show will also serve as the hype-machine of the Philippine Collegiate Championship--- where the who's who in the college scene battle it out to decide who indeed is the best college squad in the land. "There can only be one" the league's battle cry... So here's one for the schools; that they send their Duncan Mcleods rather than mere mortals called Team B...

One U will feature writers from the www.inboundpass.com as the guest analysts and will be hosted by Mico Halili (most likely) and a female host i can not name yet. Mico, by the way is a respected commentator from the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) coverage. And the female host will hopefully have more than basketball brains than just a simple beaut.

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Solar's Olympics coverage will start in exactly a month. Expect a full court, end to end coverage of the greatest show on earth! To show how serious Solar is with this event, the company decided to open up slots and airing time for Olympic events in entertainment channels such as ETC, 2nd Avenue and JACK TV! Not to mention that CS/RPN plus BTV and Solar Sports will have of course their take on this large piece of cake...

Solar Sports will also feature hourly Olympic updates starting at 9 am to 10 pm and a Olympic recap show before the day ends.

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Met Gilbert Arenas yesterday at the Adidas press con at the Manila Peninsula. Such a nice, nice guy. So much for my bias that he is one of the more arrogant and overconfident players in the NBA, he is simply an outspoken player that is misunderstood in many levels by many people. i am a convert and i will never look the same way again at Arenas as i look at the Kobe's and McGrady's who were nice but did not show they had the grounded personality that Agent Zero had. Hibachi!

And damn it, i did not bring a camera.