CEBU’S sportswriters are gearing up on their stock knowledge of the sports they are covering.
The Sportswriters Association of Cebu City Inc. (Sacci), formerly known as the Sportswriters Association of Cebu, have set up a series of monthly gatherings that aim to enhance the camaraderie of the group and improve the members’ knowledge about the sport.
The initial activity for Sacci is a briefing and a short seminar on golf, initially planned to be held prior to a major tournament at the Alta Vista Golf and Country Club next week.
“This year will be fun. We hope to have several fun events (learning to play golf, martial arts, dancesport, and many more) that will bring all of us —sportswriters –closer,” said Sun.Star Cebu’s John Pages, who took over Cebu Daily News sports editor Enrico Gabuya as president this year.
After golf, the group plans to hold a short badminton sportsfest next month, a briefing and seminar on the finer points of dancesport and the basics of shooting.
The group is also planning to arrange a brief training on jiujitsu, mixed-martial arts and boxing.
Aside from the monthly gatherings, the group has also set up two major projects this year—the monthly sports forum and the sports trivia contest during the annual Cebu Media’s Press Freedom celebration.
“The Sports Quiz, targeted this September, is another good project that will promote sports to the youth, in particular, the high school students. And lastly, of course, our major annual project, the 27th All-Cebu Sports Awards, to be held in early 2009,” said Pages.
The forum aims to gather the country’s top sports personality for a talk show with the five paper’s lead writers in that particular beat.
Noli Eala, the executive director of the Basketball Association of the Philippines-Samahang Bas–ketbol ng Pilipinas and the brains behind the Liga Pilipinas is the inaugural guest of the forum together with the lead basketball beat writers of Cebu Daily News, The Freeman, Sun.Star Cebu, Banat and Sun.Star Superbalita.
Pages, and Nimrod Quiñones of the Freeman, is currently negotiating with a local TV network for the airing of the forum. (Pooled Report)
