Mendoza: ‘Absent’ Cortez ushers in ‘Redemption Remogat’
This time, there was no Jacob Cortez to bail La Salle out of trouble. No, he didn’t call in sick. This time, he was collared by a dreaded dragnet, reducing him into a gangland-type mugging victim in a dark alley peopled by mobsters. With University of the Philippines protecting a 65-62 lead on a clutch jumper by Gerry “The Scary” Abadiano with 1:01 left, Cortez would lose the...