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Emil Guillermo: Are you ready for a Pay-Per-View Spelling Bee? To help the kids, of course.
You know how much I enjoyed the Scripps Spelling Bee.
But there was one problem.
Those kids—They need more comp.
For all those $50,000 words they spelled?
Emil Guillermo’s Linceblog: It’s Timmy Day again at the ball park
Giants fans still look forward to every Lincecum start. Especially Filipino baseball fans the world over, as Lincecum remains the best ever-part Filipino baseball player to play in the Majors.
Saturday night the two-time Cy Young Award winner makes his 10th start of the season, and what a season.
He’s back to the Timmy of old at 5-2, and a 2.56 ERA in nine starts.
He looks good for tonight. Last year he was 2-0 against tonight’s opponents, the Braves with an ERA of 1.32.
The Giants overall just look good these days. If pace makes the race, they’ve reversed the trend of “fast start, lousy May” of previous years (remember 2013?). Now it’s lousy start, strong May, stronger June?
They’ve won seven of their last 8 at home. The Giants are hitting, fielding, pitching.
And now they’ve overtaken the Dodgers to be first in the NL West.
Can the defending world champs make it last?
Emil Guillermo: Can’t get enough of those National Spelling Bee champs? The Filipino word didn’t stump them. Nor did the Fijian word, as South Asians dominate.
Must say it was an exciting finish last night. And the real history was made when Vanya Shivashankar became co-champ. Her sister Kavya won in 2009 on the word laodicean.
No siblings have ever won the title in the 88-year history of the National Spelling Bee.
Read my story on NBCNews.com/Asian-America.
It’s been said the Spelling Bee is the Indian Super Bowl. Indeed, South Asians have won 7 straight years.
Last night, some potential stumpers included a Filipino word. Not filicite, that’s got nothing to do with Filipinos.
And thamakau, which has nothing to do with cows.
But POBLACION!
Now that’s a Filipino word.
And co-champ Gokul Venkatacham got it in the 7th round.