One hundred forty-five professional basketball players voluntarily attended a tax briefing at the Bureau of Internal Revenue headquarters in Quezon City after the BIR filed tax evasion complaints against two of them.
Don’t expect ex-PBA import Jamelle Cornley to make a comeback if proven guilty of his actions. PBA Commissioner Chito Salud said in a statement that Cornley, who was arrested after allegedly assaulting a police officer Wednesday morning, will have “zero chance of playing in the PBA again” if the charges pressed against the six-foot-five forward are “proven to be true.”
The recognition of Atty. Chito Salud as Executive of the Year in the 2013 Philippine Sportswriters Association awards is a “validation” of the PBA’s success in instilling a culture of sportsmanship among its players.
(GOODBYE DOC: It’s no plain coincidence that Manolo Iñigo’s last call in his final column last week was addressed to national sports leaders for them to “get their act together and end our long-running tag as ‘Sick Man of Sports in Asia.’” Iñigo, Doc to many scribes, including me whom he had ushered into the world of sportswriting while still in college, had always been a lead crusader. He instilled in many who had trained and started under him the tenets of clarity, competence and promptness. We owe you a lot Sir Doc.)
PBA COMMISSIONER Chito Salud yesterday sought to cool a simmering controversy, defending the reputation of San Miguel Corp. without addressing the veiled threat of a pullout by the league’s only remaining pioneer member.
Following San Miguel Corporation’s mull over pulling out its teams, PBA Commissioner Chito Salud reassured that the group’s image remains firm in a statement Tuesday afternoon.
For steering the country’s top sports entertainment choice, the Philippine Basketball Association, to a banner year in 2012, league commissioner Chito Salud earned the distinction of Executive of the Year that will be bestowed by the Philippine Sportswriters Association on March 16 at Manila Hotel.
SOMEBODY ought to extend some kind of assistance to former PBA cager Dennis Espino, who is currently locked up in the San Fernando provincial jail for illegally detaining his secretary Mildred Eiman at his Northline Farm in Arayat, Pampanga, in 2011.
PBA commissioner Chito Salud turned around the sagging fortunes of the Philippine Basketball Association within two years, which only deepens my respect for the man’s management and marketing expertise.
It is a relationship that one could say has come full circle.
Former Ateneo stalwart Greg Slaughter finally got the clearance to suit up for PBA D-League’s only champion.
Philippine Basketball Association commissioner Chito Salud is convinced that the league will break the gate attendance record it established last season.
PBA COMMISSIONER Chito Salud yesterday said Barako Bull center Don Allado is “out of his mind and a sore loser” after the latter’s tirade against the league over a social network site but said that the league is willing to give the player his day in court.
