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Politics News Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the politics facet of life. Politics-News Blog: Sports-and-Politics News Villalva: Sports and Politics: November 6, 2007 by Henry C. Villalva
PHILIPPINES: Who says politics and sports don't mix? Only the naive would dare say that in their locality's scheme of things politics don't go hand in hand with sports. Look at the persons holding top positions in the government's leading sports agencies. Aren't they cut-and-dried political appointees--usually election losers or certified political has-beens who happen to be close to the powers-that-be and who have the temerity to flaunt their pretensions to being sportsmen or patrons of sports? Look at the athletes from the provinces who by stroke of luck get drafted to the national training pool. Except for a few who are extraordinarily skilled only the ones who get recommended by their mayors and/or congressmen get tickets to the pool and later on to competitions abroad. Obviously the it's-not-what-you-can-do-but-whom-you-know formula is still very much in place. It's still being used as standard of measurement in place of whatever little is left of that sense of fairness. It's what one needs to show off in order to get recognized or go places. Even when a deserving athlete is already in the national pool, the kind of room and board accommodation he gets very much depends on whether he gets recommended to a "Class A" type of accommodation by some politician close to sports bigwigs. We used to hear endless tales about this from Negrenses in the training pool. Politics News Blog Comment: Sports and politics must make a good match as both are the games of power and that too, a dirty game of power. In fact all game of power is dirty always. How come sports are the games of power and that too a dirty one? - you may ask. I'll simply answer your question by asking again if they are ever played with a real sportsman spirit or just for the sake of winning by hook or by crook! We all know that their very design instigates us to hatch all the conspiracies in order to get the desired results. Sports betting and match-fixing aren't any new things to the world. Politics along with the underworld is bound to enter where money does! Isn't it high time that we think about changing the basic design of our sports on earth? Wanna have some bidding fun with 'Politics' on ebay auction? You might grab a bargain or two! Just say your bid and you're done: I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Life Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. This RSS feed keeps you informed about new developments taking place on this site. It also harbors 25 journal bloglets posting insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. In order to subscribe to the blog, right-click on the orange RSS button (see buttons up to the left) and then paste the URL into your RSS reader. Or click on add to My Yahoo! button or My MSN or Add To Google button if you keep a personalized home page there. If you are not sure what RSS or blogging is all about, click on What's an RSS Feed? here:
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