East Bay Pit Bulls
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The East Bay Pit Bulls is a team in the American Basketball Association (2000) based in the East Bay
section of the San Francisco Bay Area
. Home games are played on the campus of Las Positas College
in Livermore, California
.
True to their name, the Pit Bulls are also devoted to the rescue of real life pit bull
dogs in addition to their community basketball outreach. The highlight of that effort takes place in their regular season finale on March 5, when Shorty Rossi
, host of the Animal Planet
series Pit Boss
, will visit to share his own message of pit bull rescue.
East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)
The East Bay is a commonly used, informal term for the lands on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay, in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, United States...
section of the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
. Home games are played on the campus of Las Positas College
Las Positas College
Las Positas College is a community college located in Livermore, California, United States, on . It began as an extension program of Chabot College in 1963, offering 24 classes and enrolling 810 students at three sites, including Livermore High School...
in Livermore, California
Livermore, California
Livermore is a city in Alameda County. The population as of 2010 was 80,968. Livermore is located on the eastern edge of California's San Francisco Bay Area....
.
True to their name, the Pit Bulls are also devoted to the rescue of real life pit bull
Pit bull
A Pit bull is any of several breeds of dog in the molosser breed group.Many jurisdictions that restrict pit bulls, including Ontario, Canada,, Miami, Florida, U.S...
dogs in addition to their community basketball outreach. The highlight of that effort takes place in their regular season finale on March 5, when Shorty Rossi
Shorty Rossi
Luigi Francis "Shorty" Rossi is the star of Pit Boss, a reality series on Animal Planet. He is also the owner and talent manager of Shortywood Productions, a company that works with dwarfs in the entertainment industry and Shorty's Rescue, an organization set up for Pit Bull...
, host of the Animal Planet
Animal Planet
Animal Planet is an American cable tv specialty channel that launched on October 1, 1996. It is distributed by Discovery Communications. A high-definition simulcast of the channel launched on September 1, 2007.-History:...
series Pit Boss
Pit Boss (TV series)
Pit Boss is an American television series docudrama that follows Shorty Rossi, owner of Shorty's Rescue, an organization set up for Pit Bull rescue. The series premiered on Animal Planet on January 16, 2010....
, will visit to share his own message of pit bull rescue.