Fair Play: Yayoy's defense vs. Atan's jab
THE elections are still nine months away and the campaign period hasn’t officially started—though you wouldn’t know that if you watch TV. This early, Yayoy and Atan are getting it on.
Yayoy is Raul Alscoseba, the Sto. Niño toting coach of the Cebu Niños and the guy in charge of boxing at the Cebu City Sports Commission (CCSC).
Atan is Jonathan Guardo, the former chairman of the CCSC who founded his own sports group, GCSOC, the Greater Cebu Sports Organizing Committee—or is it the
Guardo for Congressman for South Cebu?
Guardo, who is no longer on Mayor Tomas Osmena’s Friendster list, started the exchange.
The running man who is running for congressman said last week that Alcoseba and the CCSC can’t distinguish an original idea even if it dances naked in front of them.
They’re parroting him, Guardo claims. Him and his sports programs. Guardo’s parrot accusations, curiously, also parrot the criticisms that the City Council supposedly just parrots the mayor and has no mind of its own. (Whew! I don’t want to grow feathers and talks like that are for the Opinion pages.)
Guardo said he started a boxing program, so the City started its own.
Guardo also sent a team to the Arafura Games. The CCSC did, too.
Not so fast, Yayoy said. The CCSC is no copycat.
Boxing programs are not like food outlets, Yayoy shot back.
They’re not limited to whoever owns the franchise. Helping out a sport, he said, shouldn’t be the exclusive domain of one individual.
The election is still months away. And the elections, as always, bring out the best sportsman in a politico, and this early, we already have a “winner.”
It’s not Yayoy, it’s not Atan. It’s the boxing program. With two sports patrons fighting over it—at least, it’s not over a corpse— things can only look good for Cebu boxing.
Man, I can’t wait for the two to fight over a football program.
GOOD NEWS. Speaking of football, call center employees from various companies are teaming up to put up a tournament for BPO workers.
Under the present set-up, BPO workers, who don’t have as much support and practice as the mainstream clubs, get mangled when they meet these clubs in Open tournaments.
By holding a tournament of their own, they get to face people who share their same passion, work, lifestyle and most importantly, sleeping cycle, on a relatively even field.
According to Tanya Chica, the teams who have signed up are Convergys, Wipro, Teletech, Aegis, Sykes, Lexmark, ePerformax, Accenture.
It’s good that these weekend warriors are helping each other out by holding their own tournament.
Now this tournament, like the boxing program, is something that should be supported, and not because the participants are of voting age. (Hmmm, did a bulb just light up somewhere?)
What the call center folks are doing is what is happening in running. People who got into the sport don’t rely on their NSA—or the local counterpart—and decide to hold running events on their own.
Some failed, some have succeeded. But by holding these events, running has flourished and will culminate in the Cebu Marathon next year.
I hope the football tournament for call center employees kicks off. And I hope it succeeds.
And, since this column, after all, is called Fair Play, I’ll offer my little help to get it running.
Yayoy is Raul Alscoseba, the Sto. Niño toting coach of the Cebu Niños and the guy in charge of boxing at the Cebu City Sports Commission (CCSC).
Atan is Jonathan Guardo, the former chairman of the CCSC who founded his own sports group, GCSOC, the Greater Cebu Sports Organizing Committee—or is it the
Guardo for Congressman for South Cebu?
Guardo, who is no longer on Mayor Tomas Osmena’s Friendster list, started the exchange.
The running man who is running for congressman said last week that Alcoseba and the CCSC can’t distinguish an original idea even if it dances naked in front of them.
They’re parroting him, Guardo claims. Him and his sports programs. Guardo’s parrot accusations, curiously, also parrot the criticisms that the City Council supposedly just parrots the mayor and has no mind of its own. (Whew! I don’t want to grow feathers and talks like that are for the Opinion pages.)
Guardo said he started a boxing program, so the City started its own.
Guardo also sent a team to the Arafura Games. The CCSC did, too.
Not so fast, Yayoy said. The CCSC is no copycat.
Boxing programs are not like food outlets, Yayoy shot back.
They’re not limited to whoever owns the franchise. Helping out a sport, he said, shouldn’t be the exclusive domain of one individual.
The election is still months away. And the elections, as always, bring out the best sportsman in a politico, and this early, we already have a “winner.”
It’s not Yayoy, it’s not Atan. It’s the boxing program. With two sports patrons fighting over it—at least, it’s not over a corpse— things can only look good for Cebu boxing.
Man, I can’t wait for the two to fight over a football program.
GOOD NEWS. Speaking of football, call center employees from various companies are teaming up to put up a tournament for BPO workers.
Under the present set-up, BPO workers, who don’t have as much support and practice as the mainstream clubs, get mangled when they meet these clubs in Open tournaments.
By holding a tournament of their own, they get to face people who share their same passion, work, lifestyle and most importantly, sleeping cycle, on a relatively even field.
According to Tanya Chica, the teams who have signed up are Convergys, Wipro, Teletech, Aegis, Sykes, Lexmark, ePerformax, Accenture.
It’s good that these weekend warriors are helping each other out by holding their own tournament.
Now this tournament, like the boxing program, is something that should be supported, and not because the participants are of voting age. (Hmmm, did a bulb just light up somewhere?)
What the call center folks are doing is what is happening in running. People who got into the sport don’t rely on their NSA—or the local counterpart—and decide to hold running events on their own.
Some failed, some have succeeded. But by holding these events, running has flourished and will culminate in the Cebu Marathon next year.
I hope the football tournament for call center employees kicks off. And I hope it succeeds.
And, since this column, after all, is called Fair Play, I’ll offer my little help to get it running.
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"Now this tournament, like the boxing program, is something that should be supported, and not because the participants are of voting age. (Hmmm, did a bulb just light up somewhere?)"
Although, one organizer commented that the next Inter-Corp (or Inter-Call Center) will be in Cebu City because he got no support from Mandaue City on one of this tournaments.
Perhaps, aspiring 2010 hopefuls would like to organize another tournament before the year ends? Something to appease the ehem - taxpayers? Hehe