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Summer of Thunder: McNeese State in win column, Dukes dominate in debut

THE McNeese State Cowboys concluded their experience in the Bahamas with a pair of wins while Duquesne Dukes made their debut in dominant fashion at the Summer of Thunder. The Cowboys lost the first game of the series to the Commonwealth Bank Giants

Women's Softball Americas: Team named

DESPITE the challenges they had faced in securing the necessary funding and the players available, the Bahamas Softball Federation has announced the list of players that will represent the Bahamas at the World Baseball/Softball Confederation Women’s

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Gibson and Seymour just miss the medal podium

Bahamian national record holders Jeffery Gibson and Pedrya Seymour just missed out on getting on the podium with a medal in their respective men’s 400 and women’s 100 metre hurdles yesterday at the Pan American Games.In defending his title at the gam

Neely to represent Bahamas at Junior Caribbean Cycling

FELIX Neely, the top junior cyclist in the country, will leave town today to represent the Bahamas at the Junior Caribbean Cycling Championships in Georgetown, Guyana, August 10-11. Neely, 16, will travel with Grand Bahamian Kenton Roker, the first

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'I only wanted to fight, so when I got the opportunity to go to Thailand, I took it'

AFTER the death of Kevin ‘Kimbo Slice’ Ferguson in 2016, the community of Fox Hill has seen the rise of another local mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter in Giovanni ‘Mofire’ Johnson. After his family moved to Florida in 1995, Johnson returned home in

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Carey Jr sets sights on Spain, Miller set to join the UBL

A PAIR of Bahamian senior men’s national basketball team players will be on the move to new franchises this fall in their pro careers. Mike Carey Jr will head to the LEB Silver league in Spain while Tavario Miller exits the LEB Silver for the Urugua

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Team Bahamas in Back-To-Back 3-0 victory

ON the Dominican Courts of Clay our girls came to play.After recording a shutout victory against the host country, the Bahamas’ under-12 girls team followed up with another 3-0 victory over Cuba yesterday.Saphirre Ferguson would lead out the gate str

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Bahamas eliminated

DESPITE a stellar performance on the mound from Cleve Sutherland, Team Bahamas was unable to generate enough run support and was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Cal Ripken Baseball Major 70 World Series. Sutherland finished with 10 strikeout

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Eugene Stuart to begin rookie yearas pro volleyball player in Finland

DIRECTOR of Sports Timothy Munnings joined 6’7” Eugene Stuart at the Lynden Pindling International Airport yesterday as he prepared to leave for Finland to begin his rookie year as a professional volleyball player for the ‘Karelian Hurmos’ volleyball

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Seymour advances to final of 100m hurdles

Pedrya Seymour led the list of top performers for Team Bahamas yesterday at the 18th Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.Seymour advanced to tonight’s final of the 100m hurdles and will enter with the fourth fastest qualifying time of the field. She fin

Thomas on a roll, Chisholm makes an impact

TAHNAJ Thomas set a season’s best strikeout total for the third time this season and continues to be the leading pitcher in the rotation for the Bristol Pirates. Thomas now has 42 strikeouts on the season to lead the Pirates and is seventh in the Ap

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Mocs rout Giants 95-72 in Summer of Thunder

Coach Lamont Paris liked the physicality that the Commonwealth Bank Giants brought. He was even more impressed with how his University of Chattanooga Mocs responded to the pressure.

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Gibson, Morley advance out of prelims in Peru

MEN’S defending 400 metre hurdles champion Jeffery Gibson and swimmer Laura Morley were the only two Bahamians to advance out of the preliminary rounds in both track and field and swimming as the XVIII Pan American Games got started for those two disciplines yesterday in Lima, Peru.

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‘Hoopin’ by the Park’ a success

EMANCIPATION Day saw the culmination of the second annual Hooping by the Park Basketball Tournament which came to an exciting close on Freedom Park in Fox Hill as the champions were crowned in all four divisions.

Southern Shores Tennis Clinic gets underway

THE third annual Southern Shores Tennis Clinic is currently underway at the Percy Munnings Community Centre. And according to coordinator Cory Francis, this promises to be an exciting time for all of the participants.