Hawkins awaits!

Fans can still catch the Stranger Things event happening today until tomorrow, November 29.

📍 Nov 28–29
Annex House — 10 a.m. onwards
Pepco, The Fun Roof, Alamat — 7 p.m. onwards
Apotheka — 9 p.m. onwards

📸: netflixph/Instagram

Is a podium finish finally in their Christmas stocking? The UP Pep Squad opens the #UAAPCDC2025 with a festive holiday routine! #namamaskUPo! #UAAPSeason88 | via JR Isaga

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Is this the start of something new for the UE Pep Squad? The #UAAPCDC2025 wildcats-- or rather, wildcards, are out for a podium finish after a High School Musical-themed performance! #UAAPSeason88 | via JR Isaga

Photos from UE Pep Squad's performance (Photos: UAAP)

Swiper, no swiping (the gold)! Do you see the gold? Ain't no mountain high enough for an #ADUventure as the Adamson Pep Squad aims to turn last year's silver to gold in the #UAAPCDC2025! | via JR Isaga

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Is it like Ohtani? Or Ruth? You be the Judge! Batter up as the DLSU Animo Squad aims for a podium home run in the #UAAPCDC2025 with their baseball-themed performance! #UAAPSeason88 | via JR Isaga

Here are some photos of their performance:

Not perfection, just determination. There is #NothingHoldingBLUEBack as the Ateneo Blue Eagles bring out the big hits and aim to improve their standing in the #UAAPCDC2025! #UAAPSeason88 | via JR Isaga

Sugoi desu ne, dattebayo! Slicing and dicing through the air like a Konoha #NINEja, the NU Pep Squad dynasty seeks a record-breaking NINTH title in the #UAAPCDC2025, just 12 seasons after their first! #UAAPSeason88 | via JR Isaga

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No recess, no lunch break, but they still ate! The FEU Cheering Squad taps into its inner child with a #BaTAMPinoy childhood nostalgia act in the #UAAPCDC2025! Will they indeed return to their golden age and rule the roost once more? #UAAPSeason88 | via JR Isaga

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It's all tricks and treats in the final performance of the #UAAPCDC2025 as the UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe goes spooky with a #GhoUSTe spectre-acular routine for a record-breaking ninth championship! #UAAPSeason88 | via JR Isaga

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For the seventh straight UAAP season, the FEU Cheering Squad is a podium riser after back-to-back second runner-up finishes! This is FEU's 11th bronze medal and 23rd overall medal alongside four golds and eight silvers. | via JR Isaga/Rappler

Still the silver standard, the 'AdUventurous' Adamson Pep Squad rises to its second-straight second-place finish in the UAAP Season 88 Cheerdance Competition thanks to an adventurer-themed routine!

This is Adamson’s fourth silver medal and eighth medal overall alongside one gold and three bronzes.

Adamson scored 659 points, a stunning 0.5 difference to FEU’s 658.5. | via JR Isaga/Rappler

JUST IN. In just 12 seasons, the NU Pep Squad dynasty is now the undisputed best program in UAAP Cheerdance Competition history after its record-breaking ninth championship with a dominant score of 695 points!

CDC legacy programs UP and UST remain tied in second place with eight titles each. Adamson and FEU complete the 2025 podium as first and second runners-up, respectively. | via JR Isaga/Rappler @here

RED-EMPTION!

Just a year after a failed three-peat conference title bid, the Petro Gazz Angels are back as the gold standard in import-laden tournaments as the new PVL Reinforced Conference champions!

Led by Lindsey Vander Weide and Brooke Van Sickle, Petro Gazz is now the winningest team in the Reinforced Conference with three championships. | via @JR Isaga - Rappler @here

PERFECT START!

Gilas Pilipinas completes an opening-window sweep of Guam in the FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers after a resounding 95-71 home win at the Ateneo Blue Eagle Gym.

Justin Brownlee leads the way with 20 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds, and 2 steals as the Philippines improves to 2-0 in Group A to tie Australia.

📸 : FIBA

Star Cinema, The IdeaFirst Company, and Viva Films premiere the trailer for their Metro Manila Film Festival 2025 entry “Call Me Mother” on ABS-CBN’s primetime newscast “TV Patrol” on Tuesday, December 2.

Directed by Jun Robles Lana and starring Vice Ganda and Nadine Lustre, the film is set to hit theaters on Christmas Day, December 25.

In the film, Twinkle De Guzman (Vice Ganda) is close to finalizing her adoption of Angelo when the child’s biological mother, Mara (Nadine Lustre), returns with a proposal: Twinkle must coach her for the Miss Uniworld pageant, and in exchange, Mara should stay away from Angelo.

📸: Screenshots from ABS-CBN News/YouTube

UAAP | FINAL:

Despite multiple comeback threats, the fourth-seeded La Salle Green Archers keep control from start to finish to push the top-ranked NU Bulldogs to a #UAAPSeason88 Final Four do-or-die match, 87-77!

Game 2 is on Saturday, also at the Araneta Coliseum.

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Multiple heroes step up as La Salle celebrates the return of Kean Baclaan with a wire-to-wire win over NU to force a sudden death match in the #UAAPSeason88 men's basketball Final Four!

Jake Figueroa paces the loss, albeit with 8 costly turnovers.

UAAP | FINAL:

FIGHTING BACK.

The UP Fighting Maroons advance to their fifth straight championship series after fending off the UST Growling Tigers in a thriller, 82-81!

#UAAPSeason88

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Harold Alarcon plays hero anew for UP as his 22 points send the Fighting Maroons to their sixth finals series in the last seven seasons.

Nic Cabañero leads UST in scoring as he dons the Growling Tigers jersey for the final time.

#UAAPSeason88

Strong Group Athletics snags the first three free agents of the disbanded Chery Tiggo Crossovers, namely rising PVL star wingers Cess Robles and Ren Peñafiel, and libero Karen Verdeflor.

The three are now expected to land with either the ZUS Coffee Thunderbelles or the Farm Fresh Foxies. | via @JR Isaga - Rappler