Today’s actually my first day at the new office. I’d spent the last month or so transitioning stuff at the PCIJ while doing editing work after hours for InterAksyon.com, which explains the lack of updates here in the blog. We’re working on a nice new version of the sports site, so I’ll probably still be busy, but once that is done and things settle down, I will: 1) be writing a lot more stuff for the TV5 site; and 2) I’ll still be posting regularly on Fire Quinito. You can hold me to that promise.

For now, check out our wall-to-wall coverage on InterAksyon.com on the Azkals. I’m proud of our output, by the way, and I’d put it up against the work of any other media outlet that also covered the series against Sri Lanka. I filed three stories yesterday:

- Weiss: Bigger challenges ahead for the Azkals
- What's next for the Azkals: Mighty Kuwait
- Azkals destroy Sri Lanka to advance in World Cup qualifier

Ryan Fenix, whom you might know from his previous contributions on this blog, has been doing excellent analysis for InterAksyon as well. We’ll be posting his analysis on last night’s big win later today.

Here’s some big news that would affect you, dear Fire Quinito reader: A couple of weeks ago, I accepted a job offer to head the new sports website for TV5.

Yeah, I don’t know what they were thinking either.

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GMA News Online editor-in-chief Howie Severino emailed last Tuesday night, taking issue with a paragraph I wrote in my last piece about Krip Yuson’s plagiarism:

When I first called up Rey Joble to inform him about the apparent plagiarism, I asked him if he was going to file a complaint to his boss, GMA News Online editor-in-chief Howie Severino, about the matter. Joble responded in the negative; he said he was apprehensive about speaking up about the issue because he knew that Yuson was good friends with his boss, and that he was afraid that making a bigger deal out of it would jeopardize his career. He was ready to just let it pass if it meant that he could just go on with his job quietly – understandable, in this day and age, when most people, even sportswriters, are just concerned about making sure that there’s food on the table for their families.

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This blog turns two years old today, so let me take this opportunity to celebrate this blog’s modest achievements.

Over the past couple of years, the level of discourse about sports in this country has deepened and broadened, and I’m proud to say that Fire Quinito has had a little to do with that, even though the posts here aren’t always polite or in good taste.

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Ikinararangal naming mapabilang sa hanay ng mga Tunay na Lalake, kasama ang iba pang TNL tulad nina Marlene Aguilar at Kim Chiu.

My buddy Gary Mercado of Basketball Exchange (or BallEx, as the kids say these days) is putting together a basketball league in the southern part of Metro Manila. The league will have refs, stats, and all those bells and whistles. Right now, he’s looking to get 8 teams to join the league.

Specifics, from his blog:

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And an updated logo! I’d wanted to change the design for the longest time now, and I finally got around to doing it tonight. The new look comes on the heels of me finishing a couple of long articles for the day job; I worked on the new Fire Quinito design to clear my mind and unwind. Yup, I’m that big of a geek.

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I put up Fire Quinito for a couple of reasons. The first and more obvious reason is that it’s a place where I can let off steam by writing about and discussing sports with people whom I may not have met if it weren’t for the blog. The second is that, as a new media professional, it would give me a sort of a real-world laboratory to figure the ins and outs of serious self-publishing on the Internet.

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Ok, I’m the stupid blogger I mention in the title, and admittedly, most (but not all) of the stupidity of the said exchange came from my end. I’m really not all that comfortable writing about this, but this is the kind of crap I write about anyway, and it’d be weird if I didn’t write about it, so why not.

It all started innocently enough with this tweet from Noli Eala:

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I had been in Chiang Mai, Thailand (home of the 1998 Asian Games, where the Centennial Team won a bronze 1995 SEA Games, where then-Stag stars Marlou Aquino and Bal David led the Philippine team to a gold!) since Tuesday afternoon for the day job. I will be here for the week, which means I’ve missed, among other things Alaska’s 25th anniversary celebration – too bad, because I had been planning to get soused and force Tim Cone to answer whether he’d rather pick Kenneth or Jeffrey if he could have only one guy – and Ateneo’s exciting game 2 win over FEU to win its third straight title.

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