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Danny Ildefonso swears he wants to be a role model to his kids.

But an incident Friday last week somehow tarnished the image he intends to portray, particularly to his two sons -- Shawn, 11, and Dave 9.

No one saw it coming.

The Philippine Basketball Association pays tribute Wednesday night to its founding commissioner – the late Leo Prieto.
 
The affair scheduled at 5 o’clock, precedes the Leo Awards – an annual event fittingly named after him to honor the league’s best performers of the year – and Game 4 of the 2009 Motolite PBA Fiesta Conference Finals.
 

An American political advisor by the name of Anthony Robbins once said “You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Don't think about who you have been. Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.”

Honorees to be enshrined on September 19

The late Emilio ‘Jun’ Bernardino, fifth commissioner of the Philippine Basketball Association, and Bobby Parks, a seven-time Best Import winner, banner a short list of personalities that comprises the third batch of inductees to the PBA Hall of Fame.

Mark "The Spark" back in town but only to cheer for his teammate

After Barangay Ginebra’s heroic conquest of last year’s Fiesta Conference, Mark Caguioa made a beeline to the US to seek therapy for his two knees riddled with tendinitis. Several months, multiple assumptions and thousands of forum discussions later, The Spark is finally back!  Well, back in the country at least.  And that’s a start.

But Kings, Whoppers vow to make necessary adjustments to equalize

It may be their first trip to the Final Four. But their inexperience in this level of the playoffs – where the boys are separated from the men – didn’t reflect in the way the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters handled themselves in Game 1.

That they managed to hold their own against the well-rested Barangay Ginebra Kings only goes to prove that the Elasto Painters deserve to be among the remaining four teams standing in the 2009 Motolite PBA Fiesta Conference.