Having worked for BTV since 2007, I’ve met and interviewed quite a number of international basketball stars, but only when they come to Manila. Every year, I watch, tinged a bit green with envy, as the network sends different, more senior talents to the annual NBA All Star Weekend, or the NBA Finals, or whatever else major, giant, special, international sporting event there is. Every year, I think silently to myself, “Ok, next year, that’ll be me getting on that plane.”

This year, as I dragged myself through the nth security check, in the nth airport, in the nth hour of transit (27 hours in total, that included 4 airports, 3 connecting flights, 1 ½ hours of delay, 4 airplane meals and 2 airport meals, two airlines, and one US snowstorm so bad that all flights after ours were cancelled), I thought to myself—or said out loud, I’m not sure—“What the hell did I get myself into?”

What I had gotten myself into was the 2010 NBA All Star Weekend in Dallas, Texas.

Me, experiencing snow for the first time! Read the rest of this entry »

Game notes from Sta. Lucia vs Burger King game 10/30/09:

• Final Score SLR def Burger King 101-93
• Undrafted free-agent rookie Josh Urbiztondo plays “dream game” on PBA Halloween Night

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This April, Nike launches the Nike Air Yeezy shoes, a collaboration between Nike and Grammy-award winner Kanye West. Named after the musician (Kanye’s nick is Yeezy), the new shoes draws on Nike’s rich sporting history and fuses them with original lines, materials, and design elements that reflect West’s unique style.It’s a shared vision of Kanye West and Nike to “create a modern classic that reflects elements of Nike’s sporting past, and remixes them with Nike innovation to deliver a unique shoe.” Read the rest of this entry »

Although, Tony Blair has long left the country, I think it’s still important for anyone who’s heard his talk, share what he has discussed. No one can question Tony Blair’s wit and charisma. The former prime minister is a great speaker who even managed to bring in his good-mannered humor in his talk. I was really hoping that he would go into detail, give more specifics, but the former Prime Minister decided to give things a broad, academic, and insightful take on leadership’s role in the global world we are living in.

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CS9 hosted a special premiere of the film “The Watchmen” last Thursday, March 5 in Rockwell Powerplant Mall. I was very lucky to be invited to the event and be the first few people to view the much-anticipated movie. “The Watchmen,” a film based on D.C. comic book by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, is said to be one of the most accurate comic book film adaptations. Set in the mid-1980’s the film follows the lives of retired super heroes/vigilantes caught in a web of mysterious killings and an impending nuclear war versus the Soviet Union and The United States. These characters try to solve a conspiracy to kill former heroes and vigilantes like them only to realize that they are part of a bigger evil plan.

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