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Thursday, January 19, 2006
Sayson: Keyed up for a West Coast swing
By Homer Sayson
Secondovertime
CHICAGO – Besides the charm, the explosive wit, and the fact that he is a ratings magnet, there’s a much weightier reason why dyAB manager Leo Lastimosa gets the big bucks and the giant billboard: He never runs out of good ideas.
While doing my regular NBA segment at his Arangkada program yesterday morning, Leo, the media giant who has become as large as his billboard that looms the city of Cebu along MJ Cuenco Ave., amazingly hatched a brilliant plan on the fly.
As he adroitly darted me questions about my onsite coverage of the Pacquiao-Morales rematch on Sunday, Leo thought of one thing that will further enhance listeners’ interest on my trip – reality radio.
And just like that, “Ang Adventures ni Homer Sayson” was born.
Through the wonders of VOIP technology, dyAB, through In Touch telephone, will follow my journey to Las Vegas and California, where I will report on the Pacquiao-Morales redux on Jan. 21, the Lakers-Raptors game at the Staples Center on Jan. 22, and an interview with the Antonio L Aldeguer fighters on Jan. 23.
Every hour, while dyAB is on-air, Leo or one of his kapamilya, will call my cell phone and I will immediately yap until my mouth dries. I can only promise not to bore dyAB’s listeners.
With dyAB’s escalating ratings, chances are, you’re already locked on to Arangkada’s AM dial. But in the slim possibility that you aren’t yet, what on this green earth are you waiting for?
DELICIOIUS TREAT. Sun.Star Cebu readers, meanwhile, will have an equally delicious treat.
Starting tomorrow, these sports pages will be dripping with the various story lines of a megafight that has gripped a boxing-crazy nation like the Philippines. Starting tomorrow, my Diary and Grapevine articles will run side-by-side with Second Overtime, which prints daily until my return to Chicago.
Although I have been accredited to five consecutive NBA Finals since 2001, not to mention various world title fights, I still look forward to Pacquiao-Morales II as if I’ve never been to this stage before.
Tell you what, the feeling of going to a fight of this magnitude is so exciting and exhilarating that you never get used to it. I mean, how can I not get excited at the chance to see PacMan and Kobe doing what they do best in a span of 48 hours?
Atsushi Sugiyama of the NBA office in New York talked to me yesterday. He informed me that my Staples Center game-day pass on Jan. 22 allows me to enter the Lakers locker room before and after the game.
Hello, Phil Jackson.
Wow, meeting Phil in the flesh once again is really making my juices flow. Being in the same space with the Zenmaster is the next best thing after having tea with the Dalai Lama.
Well, I gotta go. It’s 5:15 a.m. here in Chicago (7:15 p.m. in Cebu). I’m about to press the send button, a simple task that will allow magic to take over and deliver these meanderings to the Sun.Star sports desk some 7,000 miles away.
My United Airlines flight, non-stop to Las Vegas, leaves in one hour and 35 minutes. It’s a four-hour 36- minute journey, and with a few winks and a prayer, I should be there in the desert while you are sleeping.
Upon arrival, I’ll go straight to my hotel and leave my bags at the bell desk. A press conference awaits me shortly thereafter and I can’t wait to give you the details.
Spread the word, Homer’s in Vegas. And if you want a good read and a decent Pacquiao coverage, all you have to do is get a hold of this newspaper. It can’t get any better than this.
(homsay@hotmail.com)
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