GREEN RUN FOR FUN, FITNESS, ENVIRONMENT

THE Green Run at Vermosa 2023 is set to take off on Sunday, June 25 – almost a year to the date of the first Green Run in July 2022. Last year’s Green Run invited everyone to lace up and enjoy the outdoors for physical and mental health after being cooped up at home due to the pandemic.

This year’s Green Run invites everyone to be “leaner and greener” as both serious and fun runners build on their fitness gains. Like last year, the Run continues to support the Haribon Foundation and focuses on how everyone can do their share to save the environment.

There are different levels in the Green Run that will appeal to runners of different fitness levels: a 3K run for beginners, 5K for intermediate runners, 10K for serious runners, and a halfmarathon 21K level for elite runners and athletes in training. This year, a fun and cute 1K Dog Run has been added to the event, giving pets and their owners a great way to bond and get fit together.

Celebrity runners are also expected to participate.

What makes the Vermosa Green Run special is that participants and guests get to enjoy Vermosa’s greenery, open skies and clean atmosphere while pursuing their passion.

“The abundance of wide-open spaces, lush greenery, flat and rolling terrain, and well-constructed walkways who discussed their plans with PSC chairman Richard Bachmann and commissioner Bong Coo at the PSC offices at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex.

Phnom Penh Southeast Asian Games gold winners Juancho Miguel Besana and John Ivan Cruz, who will train in Japan with Yulo and coach Munehiro Kugimiya, will lead the national men’s squad to the Asiad. On the women’s side, Malabuyo will be with Ancilla Lucia Mari Manzano, Kursten Rogue Lopez, and Lucia Gabriel Guttierez to get ready for the Asiad with Naomi Soco as their coach.

“I was hoping to send Ivan to Japan. I was talking to chairman Bachmann about this,” said Norton.

Yulo is among the most bemedaled athletes in the SEA Games and is set to get at least P250,000 from the Philippine Olympic Committee incentives, which were drawn from the support of the Manuel V. Pangilinan Sports Foundation (MVPSF) to the POC Trust Fund initiated by its president Rep. Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino.

The funds were turned over to the POC following the celebration of the Olympic Day on Friday morning at the University of the Philippines (UP) Track and Field Oval. Peter Atencio

“IT’S good that Kai has gotten a top-notch agent in Tony Ronzone, who was featured in Time Magazine sometime back. He brought Dirk Nowitzki and Manu Ginobeli to the NBA. Hope he can get his connections to hire Kai. Tony Ronzone used to run a basketball camp in Orange County called Next Level Camps. I received a souvenir Basketball from that camp,” said former PBA team manager Charlie Favis in vouching for Ronzone. Favis was a former commissioner of the defunct Philippine Basketball League and, as team manager of the Shell team in the PBA for many years, FAvis had extensive experience dealing with agents of PBA imports. He now runs Spalding Basketball Camps, offering basketball training to the youth in Metro Manila.

FIBA WORLD CUP: WHO CAN MATCH UP WITH JOKIC?

SHOULD he decide to play for Serbia, Nikola Jokic will be in a unique position heading into the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023, as he could emulate the achievement of Marc Gasol, who won the Larry O’Brien Trophy with the Toronto Raptors and the Naismith Trophy with Spain in the same year.

Jokic led the Denver Nuggets to a 4-1 series win against the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals where he was also named the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player. With averages of 30.2 points, 14 rebounds, and 7.2 assists per game, the Serbian big man was undeniable as the Heat could not find a way to stop him.

Four-time All-Defensive Second Team member Bam Adebayo was the only effective defender against Jokic as he dominated when substitute big man Cody Zeller was on the floor. The question now is, “Who can step up to face the twotime NBA MVP in the FIBA World Cup?”