Filed under: Sportscenter
“So, what’s your favorite moment in sports?”
The willowy La Salle student, a mass communication major who moonlights as a varsity for her school’s volleyball squad, asked me.
Her friend, who was filming the interview, sat beside her, eyes round in anticipation for the answer.
I took a sip from a large cup containing iced white chocolate, leaned against one of those cushioned chairs in the corner coffee shop near my place and fell into a wonderful wave of reminiscing.
“Well,” I said. “There are a lot, I don’t know where to start, really. Are you sure you have enough memory space on your camcorder for this?”
The two students, who earlier sought this appointment to interview me for a school project, nodded in unison, almost hypnotically, as if they were expecting me to retell the time I rode a Space Shuttle and joined a NASA expedition to Mars.
But hey, there was nothing that spectacular about my job as a sportswriter.
Still, the moments that leave your hair bristling are a-plenty.
Filed under: Above the Rim
It isn’t wise to start the New Year on the wrong foot. But the Basketball Association of the Philippines apparently wants to do just that.
If you’re reading this on the 11th of January, then somewhere along today, the BAP is filing a libel suit against Inquirer columnist Recah Trinidad and sports editor Teddyvic Melendres.
I read a faxed advisory by the group’s lawyer, Bonifacio Alentajan (yes, him. Apparently the BAP believes that one controversy-riddled organization deserves a controvery-riddled lawyer) but failed to make a mental note as to where the case was to be filed.
They did not specify which of Ka Recah’s columns is the subject of their libel case but since my job entails copyreading, editing and closing sports pages for the country’s No. 1 paper, I pretty much have an idea as to which piece is under judicial fire right now.
It is the one where Ka Recah calls BAP sec-gen Graham Lim a bedbug. A surot.
