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THREE major footraces in two months. After the Cebu Marathon last Jan.14, it’s the 7-Eleven Run early today (very early at 1 a.m.). What makes this event unique is it’s run simultaneously this morning in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao: Filinvest Alabang in Manila, Cebu Business Park here, and SM City Davao in Mindanao.

After these two back-to-back 42K full marathon events, the long distance runners are not finished yet. Two Sundays from today, it’s the highly-anticipated SM2SM Run. Celebrating its 8th anniversary this 2/18/18, the prize money is unrivaled: P50,000 goes to each 21K champion and the total cash prizes this year (from last year’s P586,000) has jumped to P703,000.

Raffle prizes? This is SM and they have a bonanza: 8 Cathay Pacific round trip tickets to Hong Kong, 8 Samsung Galaxy Note 8s, 8 Samsung LED TVs, Fujifilm cameras, 6 GCs in Sheridan Beach Resort in Palawan, 3 GCs in Radisson Blu, 8 GCs in Parklane Hotel, Swatch watches, Bayfront Hotel breakfast coupons and Trans Asia round trip tickets.

The race venue is at SM City Cebu and will feature 21K, 12K, 8K and 4K distances. Registration fees are P550 for 4K, P650 for 8K, P750 for 12K, and P950 for 21K. Each runner receives a breakfast meal and loot bag with premium items. Deadline for registration is Feb. 15. This event is for the benefit of Cebu Newsworkers Foundation, Inc. and Children of Cebu Foundation, Inc.

Congratulations in advance to the top officials of SM, led by the indefatigable Marissa Fernan, SM’s top marketing head for the Visayas, Jen-Jen Amigo, and SM’s Senior Public Relations Manager for VisMin, RJ Leduna.

SUPER BOWL. With an estimated 110 million TV viewers, the 52nd Super Bowl offers the largest television viewership of any show. Some highlights of this event:

The New England Patriots will be aiming for their sixth Super Bowl ring while the Philadelphia Eagles is gunning for their first SB trophy.

Venue is in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The weather forecast tomorrow? It’s -16C. Good thing the game will be played indoors.

Tom Brady will be appearing in his eighth Super Bowl (more than anyone in history). If the Pats win, he’ll become the oldest quarterback to win a Super Bowl. Brady is 40 years old. Married to supermodel Gisele Bundchen, they have two children (Vivian Lake and Benjamin Brady). Brady has another child with Bridget Moynahan (John Edward Moynahan).

The Eagles are such underdogs that fans have been wearing dog masks. They’ve worn them throughout the playoffs — and the Eagles have won every single playoff game.

The national anthem will be sung by the artist Pink. And Justin Timberlake will perform in the haltime show. It’s his third appearance: the first in 2001 as a member of NSYNC and the second, in 2004, during the wardrobe malfunction involving Janet Jackson.

Television ads will be watched. The cost of a 30-second commercial? It’s $7.7 million.

In Philippine time, the Super Bowl will be played tomorrow (Monday) at 7:30 a.m.

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