All eyes were on Bobby Ray Parks on Thursday as National University opened the Filoil Flying V Premier Hanes Cup — but he drew strength from the ones looking at him from above.
THERE’S a whole generation of PBA fans who unfortunately did not see or experience the brilliance of the late Bobby Parks, who passed away this week.
TALK ‘N Text coach Norman Black stood there, his gaze fixed at the lifeless body of former fellow import Bobby Parks in the white casket.
RAY Parks may be a winner on the hardcourt. But the past months had been marked by two huge personal losses for the amateur basketball star.
Bobby Parks, the only seven-time winner of the Philippine Basketball Association’s Best Import award, passed away Saturday after more than a year of battling larynx and lung cancer. He was 51.
For San Miguel Beer coach Bobby Parks, Game 1 showed how his Beermen’s top seeding hardly intimidated the Westports Malaysia Dragons.
Behind a 29-point explosion from Ray Parks Jr., National University thwarted Far Eastern University, 85-74, Friday in the Filoil Flying V Hanes Pre-Season Cup at the San Juan Arena.
Just four days after a sub-par outing, Leo Avenido fired 33 points to power the San Miguel Beermen past the Bangkok Cobras, 86-78, in the Asean Basketball League (ABL) Sunday at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.
A bench-clearing brawl marred another heated showdown between the two Philippine squads in the Asean Basketball League Sunday.
But coach Bobby Parks would rather remember San Miguel Beer’s steady game down the stretch as his Beermen tripped the AirAsia Philippine Patriots, 68-66, in a match that also featured a lot of trash talks and staredowns at the FilOil-Flying V Arena in San Juan.
A humbled San Miguel squad no longer sees itself as favorite when the Beermen clash with the AirAsia Philippine Patriots in an early showdown of league heavyweights this weekend.
Two crack rookies aim to bring their touted act to a San Miguel squad vying for a strong debut in the Asean Basketball League (ABL) next month.
Basketball, boxing and football topics make for an exciting final session of the PSA Forum this year at Shakey’s UN Avenue Tuesday.
The AirAsia Philippine Patriots have tapped PBA Hall of Famer Billy Ray Bates to join their coaching staff while starting their search for a replacement for head coach Louie Alas.
