Basketball, he said, is the most popular activity in Davao, if not in the entire country.
Every kid wants to play basketball.
There is no second. Especially among the older people. Cock-fighting, often known there as sabong, is in fact the second most popular sport in the country. The rich may own several hundred roosters each - the poorer folk, whatever they can. When I walked through the villages of Davao, where children run around barefoot and houses are kampong-like, made of wood, almost every house had a cock or two tethered to a gatepost by a leg.