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Noli Eala, who rose from the ranks of broadcasting to become the top honcho of the country’s biggest sports entertainment industry, on Tuesday resigned as commissioner of the Philippine Basketball Association in the aftermath of his disbarment by the Supreme Court.

“To ease the pain of the people who matter most to me, my family especially my children and to shield the league I truly care for with so much passion from any erroneous perceptions related to my disbarment case, I’m tendering my immediate resignation,” said Eala in a statement read before the media at the PBA office.

He was disbarred by the high court for “grossly immoral conduct.”

“It is a painful decision brought about by a painful personal circumstance but I have always believed that the PBA is bigger than any one man, one team, one player or one team owner,” Eala added.

Eala, 44, ended his statement by appealing that he be allowed to deal with his personal ordeal privately, then left his seat, returning back to his room followed by some staff members who were in tears.

He met with the PBA personnel a few hours earlier, bidding his farewell to them.

A former TV anchorman who succeeded the late Emilio “Jun” Bernardino as PBA take-charge guy at the end of the 2002 season, Eala said he’s leaving the PBA “cognizant and gratified that I have turned things around with the help of the PBA board, my hardworking staff and the greatest players any commissioner can ever have.”

He added: “The PBA has scaled new heights and reached new goals – financially stable, organizationally sound and still the biggest sports entertainment property of the Philippines.”

He quit his post in the PBA although he vowed to continue to pursue and exhaust all legal remedies in his disbarment case.

The Supreme Court, in a nine-page decision on Aug. 1, disbarred Eala due to a “grossly immoral conduct” that stemmed from an extramarital affair.

The PBA board held a special board meeting earlier in the day at EDSA Shangri-La Plaza and voted, 6-3, to ask Eala to resign.

Red Bull, Sta. Lucia, Alaska Milk, Talk n Text, Coca-Cola and Air21 counted for the majority vote.

It was Eala’s first day in office following his return from Tokushima, Japan where he served as the RP delegation head in the recent 2007 FIBA-Asia championship.

Eala had had big involvement in the RP team, playing a key role in the formation of the BAP-Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, of which he became a trustee.

Before the end of the 2003 season, Eala proposed to the PBA board a new two-conference format which is now being enforced. The board also approved Eala’s plan to move the league calendar from February to December to October to July, which took effect in 2004.

Eala served as PBA commissioner for four seasons. He was the league’s sixth commissioner after Leo Prieto, Mariano Yenko, Rudy Salud, Ray Marquez and Bernardino.

yah... napnood ko din to last nyt... sino na kaya ang papalit sa kanya.... sayang maganda pa naman mga plans nya para sa PBA....

morality isyu kc e!!! mas minabuti na nya mag-resign kesa tanggalin pa xa... :D

magaling sana xa...

hahha isa rin sa abogago...biruin mo umapela sa chairman of bar ba yun na ipawalang bisa ung case nya kas secret naman ung pagsasama nila nung girl hahahha

Engot sha e.

pero mas ok naman talaga na magresign sha kesa sisantehin sha ng board... at least nakaiwas. :D

hmmmmnn :think:

quote ko lng from

Wives and lovers
By Conrado de Quiros
Inquirer
08/06/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- I do not now recall what the title of the movie was or what it was about. What I recall is that there was a scene there where the hero lands in jail in provincial France after being put there by the husband of the woman he was seeing. The hero, a visiting American, pleads his case before the warden. Surely, he says, it is no crime. Surely, he says, the warden can understand these things, after all he is French. The warden listens judiciously and then replies (words to this effect):

“Ah, monsieur, to see a married woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American. You deserve jail.”

I remembered this when I read that Noli Eala has been disbarred from being a lawyer by the Supreme Court. The reason for it being that he has been seeing a married woman and has in fact had a child by her. The complaint was filed by the woman’s husband, who submitted various proofs of it. The Supreme Court was stentorian in its condemnation:

“In carrying on this extramarital affair with the woman prior to the declaration that her marriage with complainant was null and void, and despite respondent himself being married, he showed disrespect for an institution held sacred by the law. And he betrayed his unfitness to be a lawyer.”

When I read this, the first thing I wondered about was what constituted fitness to be a lawyer. Was it a capacity to be faithful to one’s spouse or the talent to not get caught? Was it the capacity to be as irreproachable as Caesar’s wife or the talent to make Caesar’s wife look irreproachable while doing things with her behind Caesar’s back? If the second, then I can buy the Supreme Court’s reproach. If the first, well, if the Court is serious about it, then I fear we may not have very many compañeros left to share their company, not excluding the justices of the Supreme Court themselves.

One could almost always hear the Court observing judiciously underneath these words: “To see a married woman, that is being a compañero. To get caught, that is being a karpentero.”

In movies, farces like this produce only comic effects. In real life, farces like this produce tragic ones. Eala himself argues that he did not carry out his relationship with the woman “in scandalous circumstances,” the sine qua non of disbarment, his intentions, even if they went against the grain of orthodoxy, being honorable. Proof of it was that he readily acknowledged being the father of the woman’s child and would like nothing better than to live with her if the laws of God and man, or at least of Juan de la Cruz and his Catholic God, did not forbid it. In movies, that could very well be a love story.

I do not know Noli from Fili, I’ve never met him. I only know that he has the thankless job of trying to sell an increasingly un-sellable product in the form of Philippine basketball, a passion that has doomed this country to sports limbo. But I do know injustice—or hypocrisy—when I see one.

At the very least, I don’t know what the Supreme Court’s ruling exactly upholds. It suggests of course that it is the institution of marriage by frowning on Eala’s apparent betrayal of it. But I’ve always thought marriage was premised on one very fundamental element, which is mutual consent, if not indeed passion, on free choice, if not indeed willing surrender. If a marriage is bad, I don’t know why the law, in all its majesty, must exert itself to enforce it. Does this ruling really uphold a very Christian view of unions or a very macho view of a man’s proprietary claim to his wife, no more and no less than his proprietary claim to his car, which at the extreme gives him leave to commit a crime of passion?

But I leave that for another day. More to the point, Eala’s crime, if it is so, is a private one: His affront is to another person, not to the public. I do not know why the Supreme Court should deem the institutions of law and marriage so infirm they can be rocked to their roots by the shudders of love, however tumultuous and illicit. This country does not lack for lawyers whose crimes are patently public ones: The injury, quite apart from insult, they inflict is to the citizenry, not to another person. I do not know that the institutions of law and democracy are so stout they can withstand the kind of pummeling they’ve gotten lately from absolute malefactors.

Virgilio Garcillano and Lintang Bedol are lawyers. They are proud of the fact and advertise it at every turn. Why the Supreme Court has not yet defrocked them before the bar, well, that can only be explained by the kinds of bars the justices frequent. Bedol, in what we can only attribute to divine intervention, supplied the perfect image for what he and Garci are—or indeed what Benjamin Abalos and his entire crew in the Comelec are—by finally heeding Abalos’s summons wearing an eye patch. Presumably he was having an eye infection treated—alas, to no avail. But there and then, heaven’s message was clear: Lady Justice wore a blindfold to show that the law saw no race, no creed, no color. Gentleman Bedol wore an eye patch to suggest that the Comelec scorned no coin, no bribe, no blandishment.

Garci went on to run as congressman of Bukidnon, though fortunately the voters there wore neither blindfold nor eye patch and resolved not to add “Honorable” to “Hello.” And Bedol continues to breathe the same air we do. But Noli Eala, who has merely defied unnatural obstacles to promote his affections—and whose real crime is defying natural obstacles to promote a sport premised on height—may no longer apply himself to things in the name of the law.

Feel free to take the lesson you feel more appropriate: Don’t be unfaithful to your spouse, only to the voters. Or, two, don’t be caught being unfaithful to your spouse, only to the voters.


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:think: napa isip lang ako. bat nga ganun?

ang haba naman nyan hihihi :beh:

ang haba naman nyan hihihi :beh:

nyahahahah. ang ganda kse ng sinulat ni conrado de quiros about eala e. kaya share ko dito :D

o nga eh... weird... a crime of passion.

Feel free to take the lesson you feel more appropriate: Don’t be unfaithful to your spouse, only to the voters. Or, two, don’t be caught being unfaithful to your spouse, only to the voters.

tignan mo nga naman o.. kalokohan

kung gagawa ka ng kalokohan dapat ready ka sa mga mangyayari sau lalu na public property ka hehehe

kers, hba e!!! mya kna lng basahin ung article!!! :D :D :D

sayang..ganda p nmn ng ginawa nya s pba..