![At the wake of former Pasig City Vice Mayor Rosalio "Yoyong" Martires on June 20, 2024. [Brian Yalung photo]](https://sportsbytes.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/viber_image_2024-06-21_10-35-48-871-400x200.jpg)
Rosalio “Yoyong” Martires fought until his last breath for as long as he could. The illness happened after a provincial trip. He was given all the medical attention possible but complications on his pneumonia were too much to handle for the Filipino Olympian, comedian, basketball player and politician.
Traditionally, April 9 has been a “red-colored” national holiday in the Philippines as we Filipinos commemorate the fall of Bataan to the invading Japanese military forces during the four-year World War II hostilities.
Toyota and Crispa played a pair of exhibition games dubbed the “Last Hurrah in Guam” in March 1984.
Hosting the 11th Asian Age Group championships in New Clark City Aquatics Center in Capas, Tarlac is proof that Philippine Aquatics is capable of achieving the unimaginable years back.
![Fortunato Co Jr. with Baby Dalupan during their Crispa days in the PBA [photo credit: Henry Liao | PBA Annual]](https://sportsbytes.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/423036708_372918415459229_4423821038244712269_n-400x200.jpg)
Baby Dalupan tried but failed to reunite with some of his top players, Abet Guidaben and Yoyoy Villamin, from the defunct Crispa Redmanizers when he was calling the shots for Great Taste in 1987.
It was on February 1, 1984, when the basketball world was rocked following word that the fabled Crispa Redmanizers were disbanding after 10 seasons in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).
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The 1978 MICAA tournament got off to an auspicious start on January 8, 1978, when one of the inaugural games, the one between Refrigeration Industries and Imperial Textile Mills (ITM) was marred with controversy.
PBA legend Renato “Ato” Agustin, also known to most as “The Atom Bomb,” proved that he was not only good as a player but also as a coach.
![[L to R] Virgilio Cortez, Francis Arnaiz and Ramon S. Fernandez of the Toyota Comets [Brian Yalung photo collection]](https://sportsbytes.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Cortez-Arnaiz-and-Fernandez-400x200.jpg)
PBA legend Francis Arnaiz details how he stepped back quietly from the pro ranks to live a quiet life in the United States back in 1986.
Toyota import, Andrew Fields, delivered the winning points that night, scoring the last three that shoved the Tamaraws to a 102-100 lead coming from a 99-100 deficit with about seven seconds to go.