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Jose “Joe” Antonio, the long-standing sports editor of People’s Journal, passed away Wednesday night.

He was 69.

His remains lie at the Diligence Room of the Loyola Memorial Chapels and Crematorium Commonwealth.

A proud son of Cabiao, Nueva Ecija, Joe was passionate with sports growing up most especially with baseball and the Tour of Luzon cycling.

He took up BA Marketing at the University of the East while juggling his time as a working student at Puyat undergarments.

But Joe would be lured by sportswriting later on when he chanced upon an announcement inviting students to take exam and join the Weekly Dawn while passing by one day at the office of the school’s official organ.

He honed his craft as member staff of the organ, who later on was promoted sports editor, and eventually, became its managing editor.

A vacancy at the Times Journal launched Joe’s sportswriting career in 1976 under the late sports editor Gus Villanueva, and spent the next 10 years with the newspaper covering various sports, from basketball, baseball, cycling, marathon, boxing, athletics, among others.

Joe briefly worked with Tempo and Manila Times in the early post-Edsa Revolution era, before coming back home to the Journal family after being invited to serve initially as assistant sports editor of the widely-read People’s Journal.

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