Vargas takes on fireman’s role after board sniffs traces of planned attack on league

There’s smoke in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) board and amiable chair Ricky Vargas is going out of his way to put out the fire.Flying home on Sunday after presiding over the board of governors’ planning session in this posh French capital, Vargas has sought an audience with Converge owner Dennis Abrina Uy to convince the tycoon to soften his stand on the board representation mess and to clear the air about what Vargas and his colleagues see as an attempt to weaken the league.

“We need to straighten this out before it truly gets out of hand,” Vargas, the TNT chair, said on the eve of his Qatar Air flight to Doha and then Manila. “I’m sure we can talk this out like tr…

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