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09-06-2009, 12:09 AM
Kris Aquino offers blood to Donaire, underscoring fighter's ties to Filipinos
September 5, 10:56 AM
SF Boxing Examiner
by Colin Seymour
A source tells me celebrity entertainer Kris Aquino has offered to donate blood to flyweight superstar Nonito Donaire, who is recovering from dengue fever near Manila.
Aquino is the daughter of former Philippines President Corazon Aquino and Benigno Aquino, the senator who rose to prominence as an opponent of the Ferdinand Marcos regime. Kris, a television host who has appeared in several movies, is considered by some to be the country’s second-leading celebrity, after Manny Pacquiao.
Although transfusions are not always part of dengue fever treatment, Donaire’s blood platelet count indicates a transfusion might be the best solution after his fever ****ed back to 104 degrees Friday. “He is feeling malaise,” his in-laws told me Saturday after talking to their daughter, Rachel Marcial Donaire.
There’s a tendency to portray Donaire as an outsider in his native Philippines, because his family moved to California when he was 7 years old and he seems thoroughly American to Filipinos.
But his boxing talent, charisma and performing talent all make him a clear No. 2 to Pacquiao among Filipino fighters during this golden age of the sport in the island nation of 90 million. The Aquino connection won’t make Donaire a blood relative of one of the country’s most prominent families, but the blood donation would cement the notion that he is family.
September 5, 10:56 AM
SF Boxing Examiner
by Colin Seymour
A source tells me celebrity entertainer Kris Aquino has offered to donate blood to flyweight superstar Nonito Donaire, who is recovering from dengue fever near Manila.
Aquino is the daughter of former Philippines President Corazon Aquino and Benigno Aquino, the senator who rose to prominence as an opponent of the Ferdinand Marcos regime. Kris, a television host who has appeared in several movies, is considered by some to be the country’s second-leading celebrity, after Manny Pacquiao.
Although transfusions are not always part of dengue fever treatment, Donaire’s blood platelet count indicates a transfusion might be the best solution after his fever ****ed back to 104 degrees Friday. “He is feeling malaise,” his in-laws told me Saturday after talking to their daughter, Rachel Marcial Donaire.
There’s a tendency to portray Donaire as an outsider in his native Philippines, because his family moved to California when he was 7 years old and he seems thoroughly American to Filipinos.
But his boxing talent, charisma and performing talent all make him a clear No. 2 to Pacquiao among Filipino fighters during this golden age of the sport in the island nation of 90 million. The Aquino connection won’t make Donaire a blood relative of one of the country’s most prominent families, but the blood donation would cement the notion that he is family.