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Joaquin M. Henson (born October 14, 1950), also known as Quinito Henson, is a

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and

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. His

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, ''Sporting Chance'', has appeared in the ''

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'' since the 1980s. Self-dubbed as "The Dean", he himself has laced his writing with nicknames given to various athletes, such as "Captain Lionheart" for

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and "Tower of Power" for

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Career

Henson graduated from the De La Salle University in 1973 and began his career in sports journalism shortly thereafter. Beginning in 1982, Henson was featured as one of the color commentators in the television broadcast of the games of the

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by Vintage Sports. He was retained as a television analyst by the various television networks that acquired the broadcasting rights over the PBA games after Vintage lost the rights in 2002. As of 2022, he is among the pool of sportscasters who covered the broadcast of PBA games on

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. Henson is noted as an expert on the

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, a frequent subject of his newspaper column. In the 1980s, he served as host of the then once-a-week broadcast of NBA games on

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. In the 1990s up to the present, he is a lead color-commentator on the Philippine live broadcast coverage of the NBA Finals, broadcasting live on site all but one series (2002) from 1997 to 2008. He presently is a member of the NBA Blog Squad, a group of

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of the National Basketball Association. Henson also frequently writes about

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and has frequently worked as an analyst on marquee fights featuring Filipino boxers, such as those of boxing champion

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. He is often paired on these broadcasts with the Sri Lankan-born Blow-by-Blow announcer Ronnie Nathanielsz. Henson was honored with the first-ever Olympism Award from the Philippine Olympic Committee for excellence in journalism in 2004, as well as the first-ever Philippine Catholic Mass Media Award in the sports column category in 2005.

Personal life

His wife Menchu was a commercial spokesperson featured in Philippine advertisements for Nestlé's

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product line.

Notes

External links

NBA Blog Squad - Quinito Henson
{{DEFAULTSORT:Henson, Joaquin Living people 1950 births Kapampangan people Filipino television journalists Sports commentators De La Salle University alumni University of the East alumni Philippine Basketball Association broadcasters National Basketball Association broadcasters Boxing commentators