The San Francisco Pioneers were an American professional basketball team that played two seasons in the Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL) from...

Diamonds, Houston Angels and San Francisco Pioneers. On January 30, 1980, the West defeated the East, 115–112, in the 1980 WBL All-Star Game. On April 9...

Colasurdo Mayo was selected with the first pick in the 1979 WBL draft by the San Francisco Pioneers. Former NBA coach Larry Costello was hired as the head...

the WBL Finals. The league was divided into two divisions, with the Dallas Diamonds, New Jersey Gems, New Orleans Pride, San Francisco Pioneers and the...

the only team in the WBL that remained in constant operation through the league's eight years. At one point, former San Francisco Giants outfielder Kevin...

League (WBL), the first women's professional basketball league in the United States, from 1979 to 1981. During her first season with the San Francisco Pioneers...

The 1979 WBL draft was the second annual draft of the Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL). The draft was held in June, 1979, at the Hotel Roosevelt...

pick in the 1979 WBL draft by the Pioneers. During her first season, she averaged 15.8 points and 9.1 rebounds per game and was named WBL All-Pro and selected...

WWJ (covering WBL / WWJ, 1921-1979) The Life and Works of Dr. Lee De Forest by C. S. Thompson (New York: Smedley Press, 1931) "WWJ—Pioneer in Broadcasting"...

two seasons in the Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL) for the San Francisco Pioneers, averaging 15.7 points in 43 games. She missed the majority...

league championship in its second season, defeating the Iowa Cornets. The WBL began with a player draft held in Manhattan's Essex House in July 1978, with...

expansion team for the 1979–80 WBL season, along with the California Dream, New Orleans Pride, Philadelphia Fox, San Francisco Pioneers, St. Louis Streak, and...

agent sought after by all the eight remaining WBL teams—negotiated a contract with the San Francisco Pioneers, whose coach, former NBA player Dean Meminger...

night market, Vaughn Harper deejayed the quiet storm graveyard program for WBLS-FM which he developed with co-host Champaine in mid-1983. In 1993, Harper...

of the playoffs, Houston was knocked off two games to one by the San Francisco Pioneers. The team was disbanded after the 1979-80 season. HISTORY OF THE...

Meminger went into coaching and in 1980 he led the New York Stars to the WBL championship. Meminger was born in Walterboro, South Carolina, and came to...

basketball with the Houston Angels of the Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL) and was the first and only woman ever to be officially drafted by the National...

commercial radio station licensed to Berkeley, California, and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned by Salt Lake City–based Bonneville International...

was a franchise that played in the Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL), one of only three teams in the league to survive through all three seasons...

founding fathers of hip hop music and culture. His weekly radio show airs on WBLS 107.5 FM from Monday to Saturday at 6pm EST. Red Alert is one of the first...

Emmis announced that it would sell its New York City stations WQHT and WBLS to Mediaco Holding—an affiliate of Standard General—for $91.5 million, a...

Radiophone", as amateur station 8MK, and its subsequent transformation into WBL and later WWJ, something with which the newspaper stoutly disagreed: for...

Arbitron in its time slot on 107.5 WBLS in New York, the Hal Jackson Sunday Morning Classics. He was given a Pioneer Award by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation...

Experience in Sound." WBLS would experience a period of tremendous success from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s as it pioneered the urban contemporary...

operated in cities that once hosted Western Baseball League teams. The WBL operated from 1995 to 2002. On May 9, 2005, Major League Baseball's all-time...

player: 1979–1980 California Dreams 1980 San Francisco Pioneers 1980–1981 Minnesota Fillies 1981 San Francisco Pioneers As coach: 1977–1979 Cal State Fullerton...

basketball league in the United States (a distinction held by the defunct WBL), the WNBA is the only league to receive full backing of the NBA. The WNBA...

Radiophone" broadcasts, originally as licensed amateur station 8MK, then later as WBL and WWJ in Detroit, Michigan. Union College in Schenectady, New York began...

2024). "Usher Reveals Lauryn Hill's 'Miseducation' Inspired 'Confessions'". WBLS. Retrieved May 22, 2024. Vena, Jocelyn (November 23, 2010). "Beyonce Inspired...

Webb, 78, tattoo artist (b. 1944) John Watson, 73, football player (San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints) (b. 1949) July 3 Clifford Alexander Jr.,...