Don’t blame refs - Prieto (Oct. 10, 1982)

PBA Commissioner Leo Prieto defended the league’s pool of referees after being criticized for its handling of the second Toyota-Crispa match in the 1982 PBA Open Conference.

Don’t blame refs — Prieto

‘Discipline starts with teams’

Tempo

Published Sunday Oct. 10, 1982

The eight Philippine Basketball Association teams will have to police their ranks to prevent hardcourt fights and other incidents which are blamed on the referees most of the time.

PBA Commissioner Leo Prieto said it is the duty of club officials, particularly the team managers and coaches, to instill discipline among their players.

Life ban poised on three cagers (Oct. 7, 1982)

Bernie Fabiosa, Francis Arnaiz and Abe King were handed hefty punishments and for their role in a brawl that marred the second Crispa-Toyota meeting in the 1982 PBA Open Conference.

Life ban poised on three cagers

Tempo

Published Friday Oct. 8, 1982

Three players from Toyota and Crispa were meted stiff penalties as the Philippine Basketball Association cracked the whip on the hotheads following last Saturday’s violent incident at the Araneta Coliseum.

Aside from the suspensions and fines slapped on them, PBA Commissioner Leo Prieto issued an ultimatum to Abe King and Francis Arnaiz of Toyota and Bernard Fabiosa of Crispa.

The three were to behave or face a lifetime ban.

Probe of PBA referees sought (Oct. 4, 1982)

Crispa team owner Danny Floro called on PBA Commissioner Leo Prieto to probe the league’s officiating crew following his team’s overtime loss to Toyota in their second 1982 Open Conference elimination round duel.

Probe of PBA referees sought

By Rey Bancod

Tempo

Published Tuesday Oct. 5, 1982

Crispa basketball team manager Danny Floro has asked for an investigation of Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) referees in the wake of the deteriorating officiating in the league.

In a stinging three-page letter to PBA Commissioner Leo Prieto last Sunday, Floro said that “censures, suspensions, and reprimands can do little to improve officiating.”

He asked Prieto to study the activities of the referees even outside the playing court.

What did Fabiosa whisper? (Oct. 4, 1982)

A fan described in detail the fight involving Crispa’s Bernie Fabiosa and Rudy Distrito and Toyota’s Francis Arnaiz and Abe King that marred their second elimination round match in the 1982 PBA Open Conference.

What did Fabiosa whisper?

Tempo

Published Monday Oct. 4, 1982

With 1:32 left of regulation period, all hell broke loose in the Crispa-Toyota game Saturday at the Araneta Coliseum.

Four players — Francis Arnaiz and Abe King of Toyota, Bernard Fabiosa and Rudy Distrito of Crispa — were subsequently thrown out by the referees after the hardcourt scuffle.

What really happened? An eyewitness, Corazon Navarro-Reyes, who was seated at ringside near where the incident took place, related her story to Tempo.

Game 116: Toyota 129, Crispa 119 (Oct. 2, 1982)

Toyota topped Crispa in overtime but not after four players from both teams were ejected during the fourth quarter of their second elimination round meeting in the 1982 PBA Open Conference.

Toyota outplays Crispa

Fight mars game; 4 players thrown out

By Bert Eljera

Bulletin Today

Published Sunday Oct. 3, 1982

With the referees losing control, the intense Crispa-Toyota rivalry, relatively quiet for the last five years, exploded anew last night with a player fight at the Araneta Coliseum.

The Super Corollas, banking on clutch hits by Arnulfo Tuadles and Andrew Fields, outplayed the Redmanizers in overtime, 129-119, before a wildly cheering crowd of some 18,000 fans.

But the result of the explosive contest was hardly the story.