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Capitalinos De San Juan
The Capitalinos de San Juan was a Puerto Rican basketball team based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They played in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional The Baloncesto Superior Nacional, abbreviated as BSN, is the first-tier-level professional men's basketball league in Puerto Rico. It was founded in 1929 and is organized by the Puerto Rican Basketball Federation. The Baloncesto Superior Naci ... (BSN). The Capitalinos are the first Puerto Rican basketball champions, the team was very successful having won five championships from the 1930s through the 1950s. For a long period beginning in the late 1970s until the early 1990s, the franchise did not operate. The Capitalinos returned during the 1990s, posting poor win–loss records. In 1998, producer and entrepreneur Angelo Medina acquired the Capitalinos and the Tiburones de Aguadilla, merging them into a new version of the Cangrejeros de Santurce. References {{reflist BSN teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baloncesto Superior Nacional
The Baloncesto Superior Nacional, abbreviated as BSN, is the first-tier-level professional men's basketball list of basketball leagues, league in Puerto Rico. It was founded in 1929 and is organized by the Puerto Rican Basketball Federation. The Baloncesto Superior Nacional, which is played under FIBA rules of basketball, rules, currently consists of 12 teams, of which the most successful has been the Vaqueros de Bayamón with 16 titles as of 2022. The league has produced players that have distinguished themselves in the National Basketball Association, NBA, EuroLeague, Spain's Liga ACB, ACB, and other tournaments throughout the world. Among them, Georgie Torres was the first Puerto Rican to sign an NBA contract & Butch Lee was the first BSN player to win an NBA title. Later on came players like José Ortiz (basketball player), José Ortiz, Ramón Rivas, Daniel Santiago, Carlos Arroyo and José Juan Barea, who were other NBA players that started their careers playing for BSN tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan (, , ; Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States, with a population of 342,259. San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico ("City of Puerto Rico", Spanish for ''rich port city''). Puerto Rico's capital is the third oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, after Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, founded in 1496, and Panama City, in Panama, founded in 1521, and is the oldest European-established city under United States sovereignty. Several historical buildings are located in San Juan; among the most notable are the city's former defensive forts, Fort San Felipe del Morro and Fort San Cristóbal, and La Fortaleza, the oldest executive mansion in continuous use in the Americas. Today, Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo Medina
Ángelo Medina (born April 21, 1956, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico) is an international music executive. Though his given name is Ángel, he was in youth dubbed "Ángelo", given it was his father's art name as a radio presenter. He obtained a B.A. in Labour-Management Relations from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras He is the former manager of Ricky Martin and is the actual manager of Latin Rock giants Maná, Romeo Santos, Draco Rosa, and other well-known Latin artists. President of Empresas Angelo Medina, he has for more than four decades presided over the careers of multiple artists to achieve sweeping commercial success, earning credit as a historically important contributor to the Latin music business Additionally, he is involved in sports promoting (basketball, baseball, and boxing). He owned the Cangrejeros de Santurce (basketball) Cangrejeros de Santurce (in English: Crabmen of Santurce) is the name of several franchises sanctioned by the professional basketball league B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiburones De Aguadilla
The Tiburones de Aguadilla ( en, Aguadilla Sharks) were a baseball team in Puerto Rico's Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente ( en, Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League). They were based in Aguadilla. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum plaque of the Negro leagues star Leon Day, elected in 1995, depicts him wearing an Aguadilla Sharks cap. It is the only case in which a plaque features a cap from a league different from the National League, the American League The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the American League (AL), is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league ... or the Negro leagues. Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente Professional baseball teams in Puerto Rico Aguadilla, Puerto Rico {{PuertoRico-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cangrejeros De Santurce (basketball)
Cangrejeros de Santurce (in English: Crabmen of Santurce) is the name of several franchises sanctioned by the professional basketball league Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN) of Puerto Rico. Named after Santurce, all versions have played out of San Juan. The first franchise was founded in 1918 and began active play in the BSN in 1956, winning titles in 1962 and 1968 before folding. The second iteration of the Cangrejeros played their home games at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum under the ownership of music industry executive Angelo Medina, winning five championships in a six-year span (including four consecutive) and another in 2007. This version remained active for another decade after winning its last championship. In 2021, a new franchise was approved under the name of Cangrejeros under the ownership of artist Bad Bunny and urban music entrepreneurs Noah Assad and Jonathan García. Teams bearing the name of Cangrejeros have won 8 championships and appeared in 14 BSN finals. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
