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Angela Rizzi to Direct Major Entertainment Initiative

July 25, 2005 - American Basketball Association (ABA) News Release


Indianapolis, IN. The American Basketball Association today named Angela Rizzi as Vice President of Entertainment replacing David Rose who will assume other responsibilities within the organization. For the past 12 years, Ms. Rizzi has served the South Florida business community both personally, and through the companies she has founded, Prestige Promotions, Inc and Prestige Models & Talent, Inc. Through these companies, she continues to offer the most professional service in promotional marketing, entertainment, and event planning. According to Joe Newman, ABA CEO, "Dave set an excellent foundation for our entertainment division. We are now ready to take it to the next level and felt that Angela's background and experience could help us maximize the potential that entertainment can provide for our fans."

Angela is currently in the process of launching a National Music Tour and Reality Show entitled "Starz in Motion," which will lend itself to the entire ABA league for musical entertainment and community interaction.

In addition to business experience, Ms. Rizzi has realized a modeling and acting career. Her accomplishments include: printing modelking, representation of numerous products, both English and Hispanic movies, commercials and television programs. In 1995, she was selected Miss Miami Grand Prix and has served as the Emcee for the City of Miami's Special Programs including the National Crime Night Out and the Olympic Torch Run Program attended by over 100,000 people.

She donates her time and marketing expertise to various worthy causes including coordination of JamMiami, a Latin Jazz concert raising over $300,000 for music programs in Miami-Dad public schools, and was nominated for a Latin Grammy. She has lent her time and resources to various charitable organizations such as MakeAWish Foundation, MiamiBridge, the CHARLEE Program and Ayuda.

Having a diverse background in a combination of business, creative arts and communty service, Ms. Rizzi offers this insight to create and implement strong, community-based promotional campaigns and innovative entertainment to the Florida Pit Bulls, where she is co-owner of the team. She stated, "Our goal is to make ABA Entertainment as exciting as ABA basketball and to give our fans the best entertainment and sports value in the world -professional music and sports at affordable prices - an unbeatable combination." For more information, email Angela Rizzi at angela@prestigepromotion.com or info@prestigepromotion.com or visit www.abalive.com.

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