MONICO PUENTEVELLA

Before I start my column for this week, maybe some of you have been wondering what I’m doing here every Monday. Several years ago, while I was still doing my duty as commissioner with the Philippine Sports Commission for more than six years, appointed by then-President Fidel Ramos and later on reappointed by former President Erap, one day, I bumped into my former high school teacher in La Salle Bacolod, the late Bro. Andrew Gonzales, who was then-president of the Manila Bulletin and asked me if I would be interested to do a weekly column. Anything under the sun and possibly, more on my line of work in Philippine sports. It revived my love for writing, and mostly on issues of the day, political, sports, music, etc. One day, I decided to sit down and wrote my thoughts and frustrations on the fate of Gilas, recently. So here I am. Never did it occur to me that I would be doing this again at this stage in my life. But as some of you would say, “what the heck.” Why not? Just do it.

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