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                    [Title] => MBA blow-up on the horizon?
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Representatives of the five teams asked this writer to accompany them on an unannounced visit to the governing Multi-Regional Basketball, Inc. (MRBI) board meeting last Tuesday to ask when they would get paid.


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                    [Title] => MBA All Stars whip South Koreans, bounce back in Jones Cup
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                    [Title] => VJ Santos, MBA Hardcourt Hero of the Week
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Ito’y makaraang tabunan ng Stars ang kanilang win total sa MBA First Conference at ngayon ay nanalasa sila ng todo para sa kampanyang makarating sa National Championship ngayong darating na Disyembre.


At ang lahat ng ito ay bunga na rin sa pagsisikap ng 5’8 rookie guard ng University of the Assumption Blue Pelicans.


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                    [Title] => TPG Davao rips Negros
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                    [Title] => LBC bounces back, routs Pangasinan
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The Blades, beaten by the Gilbey’s Olongapo Volunteers (95-92) on Saturday, showed much better form against the Waves as they controlled the game from the start.


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                    [Title] => Slashers clobber Blades in Game 1
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Chris-Dennis Madrid came off the bench to score 20 points, the bulk of these coming in the pivotal second quarter run when the Slashers transformed a close contest to a ghastly rout.


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Samantala, isinara ng Cebuana Lhuillier ang kanilang kampanya sa first round makaraang ibagsak ang 78-70 paghihiganti sa RCPI-Negros noong Sabado ng gabi sa University of St. La Salle gym sa Bacolod City.


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Hapee-ness is a warm Cup

June 21, 2003 - 12:00am

Hapee Toothpaste seemed destined to win the Sunkist-PBL 2003 Unity Cup after going through a wringer of a championship series with an equally-talented Viva Mineral Water — a gut-wrenching playoff that was decided...

Sports

ICTSI-La Salle storms past Cheeseball-Shark

By Joey Villar | November 17, 2002 - 12:00am

LIPA — James Yap made his presence felt in his first game for ICTSI-La Salle in the PBL Challenge Cup, dishing out key plays in the stretch to lead his team to a 77-74 decision over Cheeseball-Shark in a road...

Sports

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‘Forgotten 5’ pleads for pay

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

Representatives of the five Metropolitan Basketball Association teams who have more than two months’ unpaid salaries Tuesday trooped to the LBC Offices, site of the governing MRBI’s board meeting, hoping...

Sports

MBA All Stars whip South Koreans, bounce back in Jones Cup

July 21, 2002 - 12:00am

TAIPEI - The Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA) All Stars of the Philippines rediscovered their winning form and kept their flickering championship dreams alive in the 25th Chunghwa Telecom William Jones...

Sports

VJ Santos, MBA Hardcourt Hero of the Week

June 25, 2002 - 12:00am

Dahil sa husay na ipinapakita ng rookie na si Vincent John ‘VJ’ San-tos, umangat ng husto ang Pampanga Stars. Ito’y makaraang tabunan ng Stars ang kanilang win total sa MBA First Conference at ngayon...

PSN Palaro

TPG Davao rips Negros

June 24, 2002 - 12:00am

Cagayan de Oro – TPG Davao unleashed a series of ferocious runs in the final two quarters as it walloped first conference champion RCPI Negros, 108-87, yesterday to extend its amazing run to four in the MBA...

Sports

LBC bounces back, routs Pangasinan

June 18, 2002 - 12:00am

SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – LBC Batangas bounced back from its opening day loss with a 96-77 rout of Osaka Pangasinan yesterday in the MBA National Conference at the Bren Z. Guiao Convention Center here. The Blades,...

Sports

Slashers clobber Blades in Game 1

May 26, 2002 - 12:00am

BACOLOD CITY — RCPI Negros built a hefty second quarter lead and held on to it as it turned back LBC Batangas, 89-80, for a 1-0 lead in their best-of-five MBA first conference finals series at the University...

Sports

Blades napurol sa Volunteers

May 13, 2002 - 12:00am

LIPA CITY, Batangas -- Kumana ng krusiyal na basket si Brixter Encarnacion nang pabagsakin ng Olongapo Volunteers ang LBC-Batangas, 93-78 kagabi at pangunahan ang North qualifier sa MBA First Conference sa Lipa Youth...

PSN Palaro