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Exuma brings ‘new level of excitement’ to cycling championships

FOR the first time in 20 years, the National Road Cycling Championships are coming to Exuma, where the sport’s popularity has exploded in recent years.

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Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association holds Team Trials for 2025 Billie Jean King Cup and Davis Cup

The Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association (BLTA) held the Team Trials for the 2025 Billie Jean King Cup (BJK) and Davis Cup (DC) at its National Tennis Centre.

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Tennis phnom Khai Rees ‘dazzles’ at tourney in Greece

YOUNG Bahamian tennis sensation Khai Rees, playing in the ATP tour in Crete, Greece, just played the match of his career, but was beaten.

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Athletes put on a show at Silver Lightning’s Road to Tokyo Track & Field Classic

IN the first track club meet since the CARIFTA Games over the Easter holiday weekend in Trinidad & Tobago, some of the members of the Bahamas team got to put on a show over the weekend.

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Brezile Hamilton and Justyn Thompson win gold

BREZILE Hamilton and Justyn Thompson demonstrated why they are considered one of the top pickleball doubles teams in The Bahamas.

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Lions, Big Red Machine win flag football titles

St Augustine’s College Big Red Machine made it look so easy in their three-peat, while the HO Nash Lions had to dig down deep in their comeback for their first title as the Bahamas Youth Flag Football League completed its third annual High School Tournament.

Track meet held in honour of Frank ‘Pancho’ Rahming

The Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture’s 2025 Frank “Pancho” Rahming National Primary Schools Track and Field Championships was deemed a great success.

Leah Cartwright and Andre Forbes earn rowing scholarships

RISING young stars Andre Forbes and Leah Cartwright have now placed themselves in a class of their own as Bahamian rowers at Windsor Academy.

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Grand Bahamian Paul Greene Jr commits to the UMBC Retrievers

AFTER leading the Southern New Hampshire University men’s Penmen basketball team to their second straight NE10 Championship tournament crown, Grand Bahamian guard Paul Greene Jr is moving on to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Bahamians teaming up at FIU

Head coach Jesyka Burks-Wiley will now have the benefit of a Bahamian connection on her Florida International University Panthers women’s basketball team for the 2025-26 season.

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Top sailor Paul de Souza looking ahead to the Olympic cycle

THERE’S nothing like training at home. Just ask Paul de Souza, the reigning champion of the International Laser Class Association (ILCA) Bahamas Open Senior Nationals.

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Red-Line Athletics hosts 4th annual Youth Track Classic

Meet organiser Tito Moss said he couldn’t be happier with the way things turned out for their Red-Line Athletics’ fourth annual Youth Track Classic.

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Junior Baseball League of Nassau wins the title in Long Island

THE Bahamas Baseball Association took its junior development programme to Long Island over the weekend with the Junior Baseball League of Nassau winning the title.

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Whitfield Ching Jr making his presence felt

THERE are many players in the pipeline who are hoping to make their presence felt on the international scene in basketball and one of them is Whitfield Ching Jr.

Sports calendar May 2

THE Masters Softball Association’s best-of-three championship series and Dudley ‘Bones’ Moxey Memorial Challenge is scheduled to take place this weekend at the Archdeacon William Thompson Softball Park at the Southern Recreation Grounds. The action is slated to start at 1pm on Saturday with the Drifters facing the Scorpions in the Dudley ‘Bones’ Moxey Memorial Challenge.