Education
Henson graduated from the De Louisiana Salle University in 1973 and began his career in sports journalism shortly thereafter.
Henson graduated from the De Louisiana Salle University in 1973 and began his career in sports journalism shortly thereafter.
His newspaper column, Sporting Chance, has appeared in the Philippine Star 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 Alvin Patrimonio and "Tower of Power" for Benjie Paras. Beginning in 1982, Henson was featured as one of the color commentators in the television broadcast of the games of the Philippine Basketball Association by Vintage Sports.
He was retained as a television analyst by the various television networks that acquired the broadcasting rights over the Proceedings of the British Academy games after Vintage lost the rights in 2002.
As of 2011, he is among the pool of sportscasters who covered the broadcast of Proceedings of the British Academy games on AKTV. Henson is noted as an expert on the National Basketball Association, a frequent subject of his newspaper column. In the 1980s, he served as host of the then once-a-week broadcast of National Basketball Association games on Global Media Arts Network.
In the 1990s up to the present, he is a lead color-commentator on the Philippine live broadcast coverage of the National Basketball Association Finals, broadcasting live on site all but one series (2002) from 1997 to 2008. He is often paired on these broadcasts with the Sri Lankan-born blow-by-blow announcer Ronnie Nathanielsz.
Henson also frequently writes about boxing and has frequently worked as an analyst on marquee fights featuring Filipino boxers, such as those of boxing champion Manny Pacquiao. 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.
He presently is a member of the National Basketball Association Blog Squad, a group of bloggers whose blogs are featured on the official website of the National Basketball Association.
