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“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.
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(Because a lot of you bloggers will not be able to get a copy of the limited edition Sports Page, the yearend publication of the Philippine Sportswriters Association, I decided to post some of the articles featured in that magazine. It took a little cajoling plus a promise of a few bottles of beers when arm-twisting failed before Gerry Ramos, who collates the articles before handing them over to the editor who closes the magazine, furnished me with the hard copies of the articles.
It took cellphone airtime and a little bit more charm to convince those writers to have their articles posted on this blog. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy this because the Sports Page usually offers these writers a chance to flex their creative muscles without the constraints of tight editorial newspaper space to restrain them.
To those who hope to become sportswriters in the future, here’s a look at what sportswriting should be.)
Filed under: Sportscenter
(Because a lot of you bloggers will not be able to get a copy of the limited edition Sports Page, the yearend publication of the Philippine Sportswriters Association, I decided to post some of the articles featured in that magazine. It took a little cajoling plus a promise of a few bottles of beers when arm-twisting failed before Gerry Ramos, who collates the articles before handing them over to the editor who closes the magazine, furnished me with the hard copies of the articles.
It took cellphone airtime and a little bit more charm to convince those writers to have their articles posted on this blog. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy this because the Sports Page usually offers these writers a chance to flex their creative muscles without the constraints of tight editorial newspaper space to restrain them.
To those who hope to become sportswriters in the future, here’s a look at what sportswriting should be.)
Filed under: Sportscenter
(Because a lot of you bloggers will not be able to get a copy of the limited edition Sports Page, the yearend publication of the Philippine Sportswriters Association, I decided to post some of the articles featured in that magazine. It took a little cajoling plus a promise of a few bottles of beers when arm-twisting failed before Gerry Ramos, who collates the articles before handing them over to the editor who closes the magazine, furnished me with the hard copies of the articles.
It took cellphone airtime and a little bit more charm to convince those writers to have their articles posted on this blog. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy this because the Sports Page usually offers these writers a chance to flex their creative muscles without the constraints of tight editorial newspaper space to restrain them.
To those who hope to become sportswriters in the future, here’s a look at what sportswriting should be.)
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Someone pointed out to me that I missed giving credit to billiards as a sport that could very well be the ECG machine that jolts our flat-lining Asian Games campaign back to life.
My bad.
After watching the likes of Efren Reyes, Francisco Bustamante and Alex Pagulayan orphan the national pool squad, I felt that the team was better off tying 50-pound rocks to its neck and hurling them off a cliff.
Maybe I was wrong.
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Unless something happens drastically, Team Philippines, which flew to Doha, Qatar, to participate in the Asian Games with dreams of gold, will fly back draped in black and blue.
Okay, call me unpatriotic or what. But a gold medal in these Asian Games seems like a stretch given a combination of many factors that weigh down our country’s national athletes.
Sports officials have predicted that we could win as many as five gold medals in this edition of a quadrennial sports spectacle referred to generally as the Olympics of Asia. Me? I go with the likes of former “Project: Gintong Alay” director Mike Keon, who had the balls to predict that the country’s campaign in the Doha meet would end up a spectacular failure.
