Rumor has it that Kris Aquino turned down a 40 million peso offer from San Miguel Corp. to endorse a beer product on the grounds she felt it morally wrong to endorse liquor. If the rumor is true, it’s the biggest joke to come to 2005. Here’s an adulteress and home breaker admitting she caught a sexually transmitted disease turning down an offer on moral grounds. I’m splitting at the seams!

On a more sober note, it’s exhilirating to see Filipinos excel in other sports other than (groan) basketball. Let’s face it, we’re no longer taller than our Asian neighbors. Yet, we can still beat them in sports that don’t need height. Jennifer Rosales, Efren Reyes and Manny Pacquiao have taught us that.

Thus we need to see more of primetime sports other than basketball. The only thing exciting to see now at the PBA is the court battle between Asi Taulava and the PBA commissioner. Alas the battle is in the legal courts rather than the hardcourt. It’s funny, though, because Taulava wants to prove he’s a Filipino citizen while many Filipinos would like to disavow their citizenship.

I guess it boils down to money. Taulava probably will not make as much money in his native Tonga. In this case he’ll be anything just to receive the kind of money he gets playing in the PBA. Maybe he’ll even be a Vietnamese.

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