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PBA-FM

Each night specialist programs broadcast a specific genre of music, ranging from Classical, World, Rock & Roll, Jazz, Country, Progressive Rock and Rhythm & Blues.


1987 PBA/IBA World Challenge Cup

Most Valuable Player of the PBA/IBA Challenge Cup: Ray Hall (IBA All-Stars)

1990 Presto Tivolis season

Presto Tivolis won its fourth All-Filipino title and Sixth Crown overall, the fourth winningest ballclub in the PBA, coach Jimmy Mariano won his first title, while Arnie Tuadles become the first player to win two championships with two different teams in one season, having earlier won a title for Shell when he moved to Presto in the middle of the Second Conference.

2003 PBA Invitational Championship

The 2003 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Samsung-Invitational Championship, is the second conference of the 2003 PBA season.

2010–11 Powerade Tigers season

The 2010–11 Powerade Tigers season is the 9th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

2011–12 Powerade Tigers season

The 2011–12 Powerade Tigers season is the 10th and final season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Aloguinsan, Cebu

Jojo Tangkay - A professional basketball player notably played in PBL then PBA's Welcoat Dragons.

Atoy Co

Later that same year, Co was part of the twelve (12) initial inductees to the PBA Hall of Fame alongside fellow Crispa players Bogs Adornado and Philip Cezar, and Toyota stalwarts Jaworski, Francis Arnaiz and Fernandez together with former PBA Commissioners Leo Prieto, Emerson Coseteng and Atty. Rudy Salud as well as legendary Crispa coach and team manager, respectively, Dalupan and Danny Floro, and the late anchorman Joe Cantada.

from Rudy Salud, former PBA Commissioner - "Sweet-shooting. He would hit shots that many coaches would say, 'No, no, no . . . . good!'"

Brian Voss

In that season, at age 51, Voss won his 25th PBA Tour title—a mixed doubles championship with Diandra Asbaty.

(The PBA record of 17 straight seasons with a title is now held by Walter Ray Williams, Jr.)

Carmen Salvino

Despite all his victories, Salvino listed a loss to his good friend Dick Weber in the finals of the 1988 PBA Showboat Senior Invitational among his most memorable tournaments.

Clara Guerrero

She earned the #4 seed for the stepladder finals of the 2013 PBA Cheetah Championship, joining Liz Johnson (2005) and Kelly Kulick (2010) who have also made the TV finals of PBA Tour events.

Dave Husted

The 1995 victory was in front of the largest crowd to ever witness a PBA event: 7,212 at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, MI.

Dave Soutar

He is also one of only three bowlers to win a regular or Senior PBA title in five decades (joining Dick Weber and Johnny Petraglia).

Dennis Roldan

Before entering show business, he was a basketball player for Trinity College, prior to being drafted to play for a short time with the Philippine Basketball Association's (PBA) Ginebra team and 1983 Gilbey's Gin Gimlets season team.

Diandra Asbaty

Champion at 2010 PBA Don and Paula Carter Mixed Doubles tournament (with Brian Voss)

Doug Kent

(See article: PBA Bowling Tour: 2006-07 season.) For his efforts, he was voted the Chris Schenkel PBA Player of the Year and received a four-year exemption for PBA tour events.

Enrico Villanueva

Another incident happened during a 2006 PBA preseason game at the Emilio Aguinaldo College Sports Center in Manila when both players were reportedly involved in a physical and verbal exchange.

Fernando Zobel de Ayala

Mr. Zóbel is married to Catherine Silverio (daughter of former PBA coach Dante Silverio).

Florida Keys Marathon Airport

For a time in the early 1970s, Air Florida provided service to Marathon and Key West, followed by Provincetown-Boston Airlines (PBA) which used a combination of DC-3s and modern turboprop aircraft.

Greg Slaughter

Greg Slaughter was paired with Japeth Aguilar to form one of the most formidable duos in the PBA and was dubbed the "twin towers".

Japeth Aguilar

As expected, the Burger King Whoppers nabbed Aguilar as its overall No.1 draft pick in the 2009 PBA Draft; however days after the draft, he boldly declared that he would join the Smart Gilas Pilipinas developmental basketball program coached by Serbian Rajko Toroman, a move which caused controversy within the PBA and angst especially by the team that drafted him.

Johnny Petraglia

Petraglia would win two more majors: the 1977 BPAA U.S. Open and 1980 PBA National Championship, making him one of only six players to earn the PBA career "Triple Crown." (Billy Hardwick, Mike Aulby, Pete Weber, Norm Duke and Chris Barnes are the others.

Jojo Lastimosa

Lastimosa was one of the original members of the Purefoods TJ Hotdogs franchise upon its entry into the league in 1988 as one of the illustrious quartet which included PBA 4-time MVP Alvin Patrimonio, many-time "Mythical Team" and All-Defensive Team Member Jerry Codiñera and perennial All-Defensive Team member, Glenn Capacio.

Junjun Cabatu

Known by many because of his father Santiago "Sonny" Cabatu, Sr., who is a former PBA player and was the very first draft pick of the league in 1985.

Junmar Fajardo

Fajardo's Petron faces theSan Mig Super Coffee Mixers on the 2013 PBA Governors' Cup Finals this is where Fajardo was now known as the most dominant big man to play in the PBA since Asi Taulava.

Letran Knights

Willie Miller (2002 and 2007 PBA MVP, RP Powerade Team Member)(playing for Brgy. Ginebra Kings - PBA)

Lordy Tugade

Tugade is one of the PBA's best three point shooter along with James Yap, Dondon Hontiveros and Jimmy Alapag.

Lubao Institute

Ian Sangalang- Basketball Player currently playing in the PBA with the San Mig Coffee Mixers

Mark Magsumbol

Former Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) import Harold Arceneaux led the Dragones with 42 points.

PBA Bowling Tour: 1959 Season

After a layoff of several months, the PBA tour held its final event of the season at Bar-Jan Bowl in Dayton, Ohio.

PBA Bowling Tour: 1986 Season

Late in the season at the Brunswick Memorial World Open, George Branham III made history by becoming the first African American to win a national PBA Tour title.

PBA Bowling Tour: 2007–08 season

Marking the end of the 2007-08 PBA season on ESPN, the fourth annual Motel 6 Roll To Riches was contested on April 13, 2008 in Orlando.

PBA Flight 1039

PBA Flight 1039 was an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante that was operated by Provincetown-Boston Airline on a scheduled passenger flight from Jacksonville International Airport in Jacksonville, Florida, to Tampa International Airport in Tampa, Florida.

People Express Airlines

People Express also bought midwest commuter carrier Britt Airways and Provincetown-Boston Airlines (PBA), a regional airline serving New England and Florida.

Philip Cezar

He finished his illustrious PBA career as the No. 6 leading scorer with 12,077 points behind Fernandez, Abet Guidaben, Alvin Patrimonio, Atoy Co and Nelson Asaytono.

Pilipinas Basketball

It consists of four of the Philippines' major basketball stakeholders - the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), the Philippine Basketball League (PBL), National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), as well as Joey Lina, then-president of the BAP, representing the said association.

Professional Women's Bowling Association

Former PWBA members such as Kelly Kulick, Kim Adler and Liz Johnson would eventually become exempt members of the PBA Tour.

Rain or Shine Elasto Painters draft history

Furthermore, they also took part in an expansion draft in which they were able to select three players from the other PBA teams who were not protected by their clubs, acquiring Rob Wainwright, Gilbert Lao and Denver Lopez in the process.

Samboy Lim

In one of the invitationals where foreign teams were pitted against PBA teams, Samboy Lim saved the face of the Philippines when he single-handedly took over in the IBA-PBA challenge in 1987 where the import was a then obscure Bobby Parks.

State College Area High School

Gabe Norwood - former NCAA basketball player, currently playing in the professional PBA league

Sunday Salvacion

Sunday Salvacion (born December 17, 1978, in Tago, Surigao del Sur) is a Filipino professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) who plays for the Meralco Bolts in the small forward and shooting guard positions.

Tommy Manotoc

Manotoc briefly served as deputy commissioner of the PBA in 1985 under commissioner Mariano Yenko.

Trick bowling

More recently, the PBA brought trick bowling to the national spotlight by creating a trick bowling competition, similar to the All-Star games of other professional sports leagues, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, National Football League, and National Hockey League.

U/Tex Wranglers

It was lopsided, as the Wranglers swept the Redmanizers (the first in PBA finals history as well) as Jones and Glenn McDonald, who came in on the 5th game of the conference to replace erstwhile import and ex-ABA player Henry Williams, simply took over.

Wayne Webb

The 20 titles put him in a 12th-place tie with fellow PBA Hall of Famer Dick Ritger.

Webb's victory denied Williams the chance to become just the second bowler in history to win both the USBC Masters and USBC Senior Masters in a career (PBA Hall of Famer Dave Soutar is so far the only player to win both).


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