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FIBA: Team Bahamas tops Dominican Republic 83-82

TEAM Bahamas, reduced to just nine players, delivered their best performance and the team’s only win of the FIBA 2019 World Cup Qualifiers.

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World Cup: England through to quarters after penalty shootout

England are into the quarter-finals of the World Cup after a penalty shootout victory over Colombia.

Medal haul at CCCAN

BAHAMAS Aquatics continued their medal haul at the 2018 CCCAN Championships.The Under-16 Water Polo team concluded tournament play with a silver medal and secured Youth Pan Am Games qualification in El Salvador, while performances in the 50m butterfl

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Bahamas beaten by Barbados in CAZOVA Championship

FOR the second time in two straight games, the Bahamas met Barbados, this time losing the bronze medal as the CAZOVA (Caribbean Zonal Volleyball Association) Women’s Championship concluded last night at the Ismay van Wilgen Sport Hall in Paramaribo,

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THE PRESS BOX: 'LA-Bron' move could be far from a slam dunk for Lakers

MUCH to my chagrin the inevitable finally happened, LeBron James is a Laker. DIE HARD LAKER Everybody knows I don’t do hypocrisy at all. So I most certainly am not one of these in the moment euphoric Laker fans. I understand their exuberance, m

Dwight Coleby hopes to make impression in NBA Summer League

DWIGHT Coleby hopes to make an impression in the NBA Summer League as he pursues his first pro basketball contract. Coleby had to cut his time with the national basketball team short when he was named to the 2018 Las Vegas Summer League and mini-cam

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Miller-Uibo gets 400m victory in Hungary

SHAUNAE Miller-Uibo, lowering her own meet record, continued her success on the international circuit by repeating as the champion of the women’s 400 metres at the Gyulai Memorial in Hungary.One of four Bahamians entered in the meet yesterday, Miller

Bahamas earns 83-82 FIBA win

A shorthanded Team Bahamas, reduced to just nine players, delivered their best performance and the team’s only win of the FIBA 2019 World Cup Qualifiers. Buddy Hield and Travis Munnings led five players in double figures with 19 points apiece and th

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Junkanoo Bowl: Bahamians advance

Two players, including one of the two Simms sisters from Grand Bahama and No.8 seed Donte Armbrister, advanced out of the first round of the Junkanoo Bowl junior tennis tournament yesterday.In the week-long International Tennis Federation touring eve

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FIFA World Cup in Russia was the ‘Trip of a Lifetime’

MOSCOW, Russia — The FIFA World Cup is universally regarded as the global sporting event of a lifetime. To that end, Budweiser and the Bahamian Brewery & Beverage Company sent a lucky winner on the “Trip of a Lifetime.”

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WORLD CUP: Brazil beat Mexico, Belgium stage stunning comeback

(Mirror.co.uk) Neymar caught fire in red-hot Samara to send Brazil into the quarter finals with a fiesty 2-0 win over Mexico.

FIBA: Bahamas to face Dominican Republic tonight

COACH Mario Bowleg said the men’s national basketball team is prepared to put the devastating loss to the US Virgin Islands behind them and is eagerly looking forward to closing out play tonight against the Dominican Republic on a high note in the FI

CCCAN: Bahamas strong in water polo and swimming

BAHAMAS Aquatics has delivered strong performances thus far at the XXXI CCCAN Swimming Championships, both from its water polo and swimming teams at the event in Aruba.The Under-16 Water Polo team continues their path toward Youth Pan Am qualificatio

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Tributes paid to boxing icon 'Elisha Obed'

The passing of Oswald ‘Elisha Obed’ Ferguson, the first and only Bahamian world boxing champion, has echoed the call for more prominent recognition to be given to the country’s iconic athletes who have excelled at the top of their sporting discipline

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WORLD CUP: France knock out Argentina in seven goal thriller

Kylian Mbappe scored two goals in four second-half minutes to send France into the World Cup quarter-finals with a thrilling 4-3 win over Argentina on Saturday.