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Joaquin M. Henson (aka Quinito Henson) is a Filipino sports journalist and television color commentator. His newspaper column, Sporting Chance, has appeared in the Philippine Star since the 1980s. Dubbed as "The Dean"[1], he himself has laced his writing with nicknames given to various athletes, such as "Captain Lionheart" for Alvin Patrimonio and "Tower of Power" for Benjie Paras.[2] A sport consists of a physical activity or skill carried out with a recreational purpose: for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of a skill, or some combination of these. ...
For other uses, see Journalist (disambiguation). ...
A color commentator (colour commentator in Canada), sometimes known as a color analyst, is a member of the broadcasting team for a sporting event who assists the play-by-play announcer by filling in any time when play is not in progress. ...
A column a recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine or other publication. ...
The Philippine Star is one of the leading daily newspapers in the Philippines. ...
Alvin Vergara Patrimonio (born November 17, 1966) was nicknamed The Captain and was a professional basketball player from the Philippines. ...
Venancio Benjie Johnson Paras, Jr. ...
Henson graduated from the De La Salle University-Manila in 1973 and began his career in sports journalism shortly thereafter. Beginning in 1982, Henson was featured as one of the color commentators in the television broadcast of the games of the Philippine Basketball Association by Vintage Sports. He was retained as a television analyst by the various television networks that acquired the broadcasting rights over the PBA games after Vintage lost the rights to 2002. As of 2007, he was among the pool of sportscasters who covered the broadcast of PBA games on ABC. Website: www. ...
For other uses of PBA, see PBA. The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a professional basketball league in the Philippines founded in 1975. ...
The PBA on Vintage Sports was a presentation of Philippine Basketball Association games on Philippine television network Peoples Television from 1982 PBA season to 1995 and Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation from 1996 - 1999. ...
The PBA on ABC is a presentation of Philippine Basketball Association games on the Philippine television network Associated Broadcasting Company. ...
Henson is noted as an expert on the National Basketball Association, a frequent subject of his newspaper column. In the 1980s, he served as host of the then once-a-week broadcast of NBA games on GMA Network. In the 1990s, he was a commentator on the Philippine live broadcast coverage of the NBA Finals. He presently is a member of the NBA Blog Squad, a group of bloggers whose blogs are featured on the official website of the National Basketball Association. NBA redirects here. ...
Global Media Arts (GMA) Network, Incorporated (PSE: GMA7 and GMAP), a Philippine multi-media conglomerate, is a television network in the Philippines. ...
Logo of the NBA Finals. ...
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A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ...
Henson also frequently writes about boxing and has frequently worked as an analyst on marquee fights featuring Filipino boxers, such as those of Super Featherweight boxing champion Manny Pacquiao. He is often paired on these broadcasts with the Sri Lankan-born play-by-play announcer Ronnie Nathanielsz. For other meanings of these words, see boxing (disambiguation) or boxer. ...
Mens classifications according to WBC, WBA, IBF, and WBO: Weight classes for boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics: See also Boxing Categories: | ...
Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao, (born December 17, 1978 in Kibawe, Bukidnon, Mindanao, Philippines), simply known as Manny Pacquiao or Pac-Man, is a Filipino professional boxer. ...
Play-by-play, in broadcasting, is a North American term and means the reporting of a sporting event with a voiceover describing the details of the action of the game in progress. ...
Henson was honored with the first-ever Olympism Award from the Philippine Olympic Committee for excellence in journalism in 2004, as well as the first-ever Philippine Catholic Mass Media Award in the sports column category in 2005.[1]
Henson counts the American Muppets creator Jim Henson as a distant relative[2]. His wife Menchu was a commercial spokesperson featured in Philippine advertisements for Maggi. For the slang term, see Muppet (slang). ...
James Maury Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990), was the most widely known puppeteer in American television history. ...
Poster ad by Firmin Bouisset Maggi sauce. ...
Notes 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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