One Dabawenyo sports guru

DELAYED BLOGCAST: Last Monday I had a very long lunch with two friends, MC of the Business Mirror and blogosphere’s Mr. Clean Slate, Mo, who also writes for Manila Standard Today.

Time with Mo is time to update about sports. He breathes sporting fire in the city. Not that he is the only one I know. But Mo is a reporter, an advocate and a public servant. In his passion for sports you could see his desire to push for “sports governance”.

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Legal battle over spray ban goes to higher court

The verdict is out: the court has upheld as valid and constitutional the city ordinance banning aerial spraying in plantations. In a decision dated September 22, Judge Renato Fuentes of Regional Trial Court Branch-17 junked the petition of the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA) questioning the constitutionality of the ordinance, the Interface for Development Initiatives Inc. said. Read the rest of the story on MindaNews.com.

But the banana growers, standing in a legal defeat after being favored with a preliminary injuntion three months ago, will appeal the case in the Court of Appeals Branch in Cagayan de Oro City, insisting the ordinance is unreasonable and invalid.

PBGEA said they have prepared for the worst and have rallyied lawyers to prepare for the appeal as soon as possible. Read the rest of the story on MindaNews.com.

Other sectors hailed the decision, read reaction here.

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Back to Sports in a Davao neighborhood

Today I broke free from a personal myth that I could no longer play basketball. I still can despite gaining weight and this strange feeling of distrust that I couldn’t even last a minute in the court.

We played ball early afternoon, after a hearty lunch of seafoods and grill today in a friend’s place along Jacinto Extension.

I was with a group of photographers visiting a friend to help him up with some academic requisites. While I began to feel envious of their cameras, I entertained myself with mangosteen and luckily another friend invited me out of respetar if I want to play.

How could I refuse. My last streetball game was in 1999, when we all anticipated the coming of the Y2K bug. That was eons ago.

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City gov’t seeks new site for Davao Sports Complex

According to this report by Rico Biliran, the proposed sports complex is not yet off the hook. We are probably the only big city with no modern sports complex. But at least there’s hope. (Fingers crossed)

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 June) – The City government of Davao is looking for a
new site where the proposed multi-million Davao City Sports Complex would be
erected, City Administrator Wendel Avisado said.

“We are searching for a new place now to situate the sports complex, “ said
Avisado after the awarding rites of the Run for P.E.A.C.E Region XI, a
nationwide simultaneous running event at the Rizal Park, yesterday.

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Bukidnon prides its Mt. Everest achiever, but media gag on

DON CARLOS, Bukidnon – Hail to one of Bukidnon’s new young heroes!

Carina Dayondon, 28, one of the three Filipino women who made history to climb Mt. Everest is from this agriculture-rich town in southern Bukidnon.

Dayondon joined two others, Noelle Wenceslao, 27 and Janet Belarmino, 28, both from Luzon in setting a record as the first women to complete a traverse climb on Mt. Everest, that is, climbing from the north in the Tibetan side to the peak and then down the south side to Nepal.

The three are also reportedly the first women from South East Asia to have climbed Mt. Everest’s peak, the world’s highest point.

The feat followed that of three Filipino climbers, Leo Oracion, Pastour Emata and Romy Garduce, last year who reached the summit though the southeast side.

There were reports the Provincial Government of Bukidnon will prepare a welcome program for the young sports climber and a get-together with friends at the Ateneo Mountaineering Society, her climbers’ club while in the university.

Her family and friends are proud of her achievement but they cannot talk about her following a block to grant any interview to the media, including Bukidnon-based media.

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‘Stop blaming, start working,’ mountaineers say on proposed Mt. Apo ban

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 Apr) – “We should stop blaming and start
working on what can be improved,” the president of a mountaineers’
federation said amidst a plan by environment and tourism officials to
ban a climbers’ group from Mt. Apo.

Rey Sumagaysay, president of the 26-group Mountaineers Federation in
Southern Mindanao (MFSM), said zeroing in on the Mindanao Alliance
Mountaineering Club (MALMOC), the group of Ian Caasi who drowned Mt.
Apo’s Lake Venado on April 5, is not just.

Members of the Protected Areas Management Board (PAMB) of the Mt. Apo
Natural Park announced in a press conference Monday they are planning
to blacklist the group from entering the park in the next three years.

MFSM backed MALMOC’s claim they did nothing wrong even if they are
willing to push for a deeper probe. Photo courtesy of CADRe.

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1st Davao Youth Olympics unfolds April 27-29

I found this story interesting. I’m just hoping this one is purely sports, you know what I mean what with the election campaign fever.

All factors held constant, I admire the organizers for putting up sports activities like this to inspire the young!

DAVAO CITY (April 19/Courtesy of MindaNews) – Over 2, 000 youth delegates from this city’s twelve political districts will see-action in the first-ever Davao Youth Olympics on April 27 to 29 at the University of Mindanao Matina campus.
The three-day multisports event will showcase out of school youths, school youths and juveniles from more than 180 barangays of Davao City. They will compete in 10 sport disciplines namely: basketball, volleyball, table tennis, chess, dart, softball, athletics, badminton, dama and sepak takraw. Read more of Rico Biliran’s report at MindaNews.

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OIC appeals to RP, MNLF to declare ceasefire in Sulu

What happens to the tripartite meeting?

Shouldn’t the parties to the issue address these things in the meeting with sense of urgency? I’ve heard the meeting won’t be held in Jeddah anymore but in Manila.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 April) – The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has issued an urgent appeal to the Philippine government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) to declare an “immediate cessation of military operations in the island of Sulu and for the disengagement of their military forces.” Read full MindaNews story here.(MindaNews Photo by Froilan Gallardo taken during the 10th anniversary of the signing of the GRP MNLF Final Peace Agreement in September 2006.Detained MNLF chair Prof. Nur Misuari and former Phil. President Fidel Ramos)

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Townmates cheer Pacquiao’s victory

Congratulation Manny!

(Photo grabbed from www.inquirer.net)
MindaNews Advisory: (GENERAL SANTOS CITY) –The hometown crowd here roared injubilation as homegrown Filipino boxing icon Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao todayfloored Mexican challenger Jorge Solis in the eight round of their 12-roundWorld Boxing Council International Super Featherweight championship fight inthe United States.

The streets essentially turned empty of vehicles as residents watched their
town mate from their television sets, in cafeterias and at the Lagao
gymnasium where a giant television screen was set-up by the city government.
At the multi-million peso mansion of Mr. Pacquiao also at Barangay Lagao,
his mother Dionisia beamed with pride with her son’s astounding victory.
“First of all, I’d like to thank the Lord [for guiding my son into victory].
He [Lord] did not fail me,” said Ms. Pacquiao, who was praying as the fight
progressed.

For highlights of the fight, read the GMA.tv report here.

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All eyes on the Pacquiao-Solis fight

People around Mindanao and the rest of the country would be glued to television again for the anticipated Pacquiao-Solis fight Saturday night (Sunday morning in Davao) at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

It’s the same venue where Pacquiao defeated Marco Antonio Barrera in an 11th round technical knockout on November 15, 2003.

From the focus on the fight between government forces and the rebel New Peoples Army, Filipinos, especially in Southeastern Mindanao where recent encounters erupted , can shift attention to this match where the fighters pit for honor for their countries.

So from the countryside to the ring, its a clash between the Philippines and Mexico. At least, I’m sure we could use a breather!

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EAGA sports: opening lines for easier reg’l cooperation

DAVAO CITY – Sports through friendship games in the BIMP- East ASEAN Growth
Area is opening links for easier economic cooperation in the region, Leon
Montemayor, BIMP EAGA Sports Council chair said.
Montemayor said that with limited resources, the sports councils from the
four-nation sub-regional economic grouping, pursues friendship games to help
build confidence among young people, bridge cultural differences, and hasten
the inflow of economic and tourism cooperation.
He told MindaNews Sunday that sports events promote friendship and
understanding, which could precede or go side by side with more serious talks
for consolidation.

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1ST BIMP-EAGA marathon set today

DAVAO CITY (March 30/MindaNews) – The 1st International Brunei-Indonesia- Malaysia- Philippines- East Asean Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) Marathon fires off April 1 with at least twelve foreign and 6 local top runners vying for honors in the 10-kilometer run18 to 23 years old runners. Lawyer Inday Sara Duterte, daughter of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, will fire the gun starting the race at 6 a.m. a short opening rites to be graced by BIMP-EAGA Sports Council Chairman and Philippine Sports Commission Commissioner Leon “Bingoy” Montemayor and sports minesters from the four member countries.

” This race will mark the 13th Anniversary of the BIMP-EAGA and one of the sport highlights of the BIMP-EAGA week, “Montemayor said.
Long-distance runner’s Juneil Bunsit and Vivian Avergonzado will lead Team Mindanao-Philippine s campaign in the men’s and women’s class respectively.

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