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It was an open secret that players’ salaries had gone unpaid since end of April or early May. Some teams had, in fact, already decided to stop playing until their back wages had been paid to them. But very few were as lucky to have found alternative livelihoods as Chris Clay, who has been forced by circumstances to seek employment as an import for Sta. Lucia Realty in the PBA.


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Immigration commissioner Rufus Rodriguez said Matthew Gaerlan Mitchell, who
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MBA blow-up on the horizon?

By Bill Velasco | August 31, 2002 - 12:00am

The loose ends of the MBA are starting to haunt them. A month after the league announced its surprise closure, the Olongapo Volunteers, Cagayan de Oro Amigos, Pampanga Stars and Pangasinan Waves desperately sought...

Sports

MBA Players at Coaches Naghahabol

By Bill Velasco | August 1, 2002 - 12:00am

Naghahanap ngayon ng paraan ang mga naulilang manlalaro’t mga coach ng Metropolitan Basketball Association upang makolekta ang mga suweldong di nabayaran noong liga. Habang nagpaplano ng susunod na hakbang...

PSN Palaro

Death of the MBA?

By Bill Velasco | July 29, 2002 - 12:00am

The MBA, as we know it, is gone. The operating Multi-Regional Basketball, Inc. or MRBI, has finally stopped the economic hemorrhaging by ceasing its current National Phase. It was an open secret that players’...

Sports

Grassroots program ng MBA totohanan

March 15, 2002 - 12:00am

Hindi lamang sa salita ang Metropolitan Basketball Association ukol sa grassroots development, gusto nitong masangkot dito, direkta man o hindi. Isa sa mga pangunahing desisyon na ginawa ng pro league sa pagpasok...

PSN Palaro

MBA to sign P50M contract with NBN

By Joey Villar | November 20, 2001 - 12:00am

The Multi-Regional Basketball, Inc. (MRBI) is close to signing a P50 million contract with the National Broadcasting Network (NBN) to have the Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA) as one of the TV station’s...

Sports

MBA shakedown

By Bill Velasco | October 29, 2001 - 12:00am

The Metropolitan Basketball Association has found a new home for the 2002 season. After the announcement that ABS-CBN might no longer carry the fledgling league after the current campaign, officials of the Multi-Regional...

Sports

Immigration bans Cebu Fil-Am

By by With reports from Rey Arquiza | January 11, 2000 - 12:00am

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) ordered yesterday the deportation of a Filipino-American basketball player found guilty of making a mockery of the Philippine national anthem and the national flag. Immigration...

Sports