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UAAP Season 88

UAAP Season 88 is the 2025–26 University Athletic Association of the Philippines season hosted by the University of Santo Tomas under the theme "Strength in Motion, Hope in Action". It opened September 19, 2025 before 36,600-plus at UST, closed May 15, 2026, and featured a new volleyball green-card fair-play system and a La Salle basketball title over UP.

UAAP Season 88 basketball tournaments

UAAP Season 88 basketball tournaments (2025–26), hosted by UST; DLSU Green Archers won the men's title over UP Fighting Maroons 80-72 in Game 3 at Araneta Coliseum, Finals MVP Mike Phillips, La Salle's 11th championship.

UAAP Season 88 volleyball tournaments

UAAP Season 88 volleyball tournaments: eight-team collegiate men's and women's leagues of UAAP Season 88, opened February 2026 at MOA Arena with a new green card fair play system; DLSU swept the women's event 16-0 for a 13th crown, FEU and NU rematched in the men's finals.

UAAP Season 89

UAAP Season 89, the 89th season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines, hosted by FEU under the theme "For Everyone, UAAP," opened September 12, 2026 at the Mall of Asia Arena; men's basketball began September 13 with a compressed schedule for the Asian Games.

UAAP Season 89 basketball tournaments

UAAP Season 89 basketball tournaments: men's, women's, and U16 basketball of the 89th UAAP season (2026–27), hosted by Far Eastern University under the theme "For Everyone, UAAP", with La Salle defending the men's title from September 13, 2026.

UAB Blazers football

UAB Blazers football: University of Alabama at Birmingham FBS team in the American Conference, playing at Protective Stadium. Began 1991, shut down after 2014, returned 2017; coached by Alex Mortensen since December 2025.

UAE Pro League (دوري المحترفين الإماراتي)

UAE Pro League (دوري المحترفين الإماراتي), ADNOC Pro League, the UAE's top-flight professional football league; 14 clubs, double round-robin, professional since 2008/09; Al Ain record 13-time champion.

Sep 19, 2026

Ualá

Ualá is an Argentine fintech company founded in 2017 by Pierpaolo Barbieri and based in Buenos Aires, serving more than 11 million clients in Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia.

Ualalapi

Ualalapi is a 1987 historical novel by Mozambican writer Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, telling through a Nguni warrior the life of Ngungunhane, last ruler of the Gaza Empire.

UALink

UALink (Ultra Accelerator Link) is an open interconnect standard letting AI accelerators like GPUs directly access each other's memory, developed by a consortium including AMD, Google, and Microsoft.

Sep 19, 2026

Ualli

Ualli was a king of Mannea, a kingdom in the Zagros mountains of western Iran, who took the throne with Assyrian support after his father Ahsheri was assassinated.

Uanga

Uanga (Feitiço, Spell) is a 1951 novel by the Angolan writer Óscar Bento Ribas, a folkloric romance portraying the customs of Luanda and blending fiction with ethnography.

Uanhenga Xitu

Uanhenga Xitu, pen name of Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho (1924–2014), was an Angolan writer and MPLA politician whose best-known work, "Mestre" Tamoda (1974), satirized colonial assimilation.

Oct 20, 2026

Uanui Virgae

Uanui Virgae, a 917-km virga (dark linear streak) feature on Titan at 45.2°N, 235.3°W, IAU-approved April 5, 2010 and named for the Māori Great Rain god Uanui.

Uapaca

Uapaca (sugar plum genus) is a Phyllanthaceae genus of dioecious African and Madagascan trees; U. kirkiana, the miombo sugar plum, is a prized edible-fruit and timber tree of southern Africa.

Uapaca guineensis

Uapaca guineensis (rikio, sugar plum) is a West and Central African Phyllanthaceae tree of wet tropical forests, used for local construction timber, raw edible fruit, and traditional medicine; IUCN least concern.

Uar Bernard

Uar Bernard, Nigerian defensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles, drafted No. 251 overall in round 7 of the 2026 NFL Draft via the International Player Pathway program; never played organized football before the NFL.

Uasin Gishu

Uasin Gishu is a county in Kenya's Rift Valley, headquarters Eldoret (city), population 1,163,158, area 3,345.2 km2. Kenya's breadbasket for maize and wheat, home of champion long-distance runners, devolved unit since 2010.

Uatu

Uatu the Watcher is a Marvel Comics character who observes Earth from the Moon and often breaks his race's oath of non-interference to help heroes like the Fantastic Four.

UAU (group)

UAU (유아유, You Are You) is the first subunit of K-pop girl group Dreamcatcher, formed by JiU, SuA, and Yoohyeon; it debuted May 28, 2025 with Playlist #You Are You and returned July 1, 2026 with Playlist #Your Youth.

Sep 29, 2026

UAV photogrammetry

UAV photogrammetry is a remote sensing method that reconstructs 3D terrain models, point clouds, and orthophotos from overlapping drone images, using structure from motion algorithms.

Sep 24, 2026

Uaxaclajuun Ubaah K'awiil

Uaxaclajuun Ubaah K'awiil, also known as 18 Rabbit, was the 13th king of the Maya city of Copán from 695 to 738, noted for its monumental sculpture.

Uaxactun

Uaxactun is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the Petén region of northern Guatemala, discovered by Sylvanus Morley in 1916 and conquered by its rival Tikal in 378 AD.

UAZ (УАЗ)

UAZ, from the Russian for Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant, is a Russian automaker in Ulyanovsk known since 1941 for the UAZ-469, Bukhanka van, and Patriot SUV.

UAZ-452

The UAZ-452, popularly known as the Bukhanka (Буханка) for its loaf shape, is a Soviet and Russian four-wheel-drive van built by UAZ since 1965 and still in production.

UAZ-469

The UAZ-469 is a Soviet four-wheel-drive light utility vehicle produced by the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant from 1972, replacing the GAZ-69 and serving military and civilian roles in over 80 countries.

UB City

UB City is a mixed-use complex of office towers, luxury retail, and serviced apartments on Vittal Mallya Road in central Bengaluru, India, developed by the UB Group and Prestige Group.

Ub Iwerks

Ub Iwerks (Ubbe Ert Iwwerks, 1901–1971), American animator who animated the first Mickey Mouse cartoons at 700 drawings a day, founded Iwerks Studios (Flip the Frog), and invented the multiplane camera, Xerox animation, and optical printing at Disney.

UB-221

UB-221 (CUE-221, Ascendant-221) is a humanized anti-IgE IgG1 monoclonal antibody, humanized from mouse clone 8D6, that binds IgE Cε3, neutralizes free IgE, and uniquely spares CD23-mediated IgE downregulation; in Phase 2 CSU trials it beat placebo and outperformed omalizumab.