In defense of 'despicable' reporters

THERE he was hunched alone over a table and sitting in a chair at the lobby of this luxury hotel on Ayala Avenue seven years ago.

Marin Cilic, all six-foot-six of him, was in the country then for a team event organized by the now-defunct International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) that featured him and a few other elite players of the sport apparently enticed by the big cash pot for what this corner believed was way too much for exhibition, not competitive, matches.