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Toledo Royal Knights to resume play in January

December 21, 2006 - American Basketball Association (ABA)
Toledo Royal Knights News Release


Indianapolis, IN. The American Basketball Association (ABA) today announced that the Toledo Royal Knights would resume play in January under new ownership and management. According to Joe Newman, ABA CEO, "Toledo is a great ABA city; we've had some problems there, they've been resolved with extremely qualified new ownership and management, and we felt that it was best for the city, the team and the league to resume play with an abbreviated schedule. Toledo fits perfectly into our divisional set up, their team is good, and since "we are the ABA," we felt there was no compelling reason to wait until next season."

The team's ownership and management will include Ben E. Williams, Executive Program Coordinator for Youth Services Incorporated in Toledo; Ed Blankenship, Financial Director and CPA, and former NBA and University of Minnesota Star, Melvin Newbern, the former GM/coach of the ABA Toledo Ice last season. "Obviously, I am very pleased to be a part of this program in Toledo; there's no doubt in my mind that with the proper leadership and management, the Royal Knights can be one of the premiere organizations in the ABA. We have a lot to do, not much time to do it, but we're ready to begin again - and to make Toledo proud of us," said Newbern.

To introduce themselves to the community, the Royal Knights will play 21 games between January 13th and March 10th at various venues throughout the area. Their schedule will be as follows:

Sat, Jan 13 Buffalo at Libbey High School
Fri, Jan 19 Twin City at Central Catholic High School
Sat, Jan 20 at Twin city
Mon, Jan 22 Rochester at Springfield High School
Tue, Jan 23 Peoria at Knights Waite High School
Fri, Feb 2 at Peoria Kings
Sat, Feb 3 Detroit at Knights Central Catholic High School
Sun, Feb 4 Buffalo at Knights Central Catholic High School
Sat, Feb 10 at Anderson Champions
Wed, Feb 14 Rochester at Central Catholic High School
Fri, Feb 16 So. Alabama at Sylvania Northview High School
Sat, Feb 17 Buffalo at Sylvania Northview High School
Mon, Feb 19 at Rochester RazorSharks
Tue, Feb 20 Minnesota at Springfield High School
Wed, Feb 21 Minnesota at Springfield High School
Fri, Feb 23 at Detroit Panthers
Fri, Mar 2 Anderson at Scott High School
Sat, Mar 3 Detroit at Sylvania Southview High School
Sun, Mar 4 at Chicago
Fri, Mar 9 at Montreal
Sat, Mar 10 at Quebec City

For more information, visit www.toledoroyalknights.com, email melnewbern@comcast.net or call 612 327 0961 or Ben Williams at 419 535 1289 and www.abalive.com or email info@bewyouthservices.com.

Note: OurSports Central no longer actively covers the American Basketball Association (ABA) as a professional league due in part to its inability to publish and play a schedule and the transitory nature of many of its teams. For information on professional minor leagues, please see OSC's basketball section.



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