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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.

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Hitmen beat Warriors 4-1

THEY didn’t get a hit, but the C&S Hitmen didn’t need one as they managed to outclass the BTC Elite Warriors in a exciting 4-1 victory in the men’s feature contest of the New Providence Softball Association’s double header on Saturday night.

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Boxing legend Everette 'Elisha Obed' Ferguson dies age 66

Everette 'Elisha Obed' Ferguson, the first Bahamian to win a professional world boxing title, died on Thursday night. He was 66 years old.

SPORTS NOTES

BLUE CHIPS ATHLETIC CAMP REGISTRATIONTHE Blue Chips Athletic Club, headed by Corrington Maycock, is all set to hold its fifth annual Throwers Summer Camp 9am to 3pm July 23-28 at Queen’s College campus.April Smith, in her fourth season as an assistan

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Bahamas falls to the USVI 84-74

The Bahamas men’s national basketball team, even with the services of NBA guard Chavano ‘Buddy’ Hield and college graduate Lourawls ‘Tum Tum’ Nairn, couldn’t find a way to pull off a “must-win” game against the US Virgin Islands.Needing to win by eig

Bahamas teams are selected for IAAF World Jrs and NACAC

BASED on who showed up and what they did at the National Junior and Open Track and Field Nationals, the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations selected its teams to represent the Bahamas at the IAAF World Junior Under-20 Championships and the N