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CARIFTA mascot 'Iggy'a delight for students

MEET Iggy, the mascot for the 2018 Flow Carifta Games.The Local Organizing Committee, headed by its chairman Rosamunde Carey and IAAF Councilwoman Pauline Davis, presented Iggy to the Yellow Elder Primary School during a special assembly on Wednesday

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Buddy exits game with apparent knee injury

ORLANDO, Florida - Buddy Hield reached double figures for the fourth time in the last five games and helped the Kings snap an eight-game losing streak.The Kings scored a 105-99 win over the Orlando Magic Tuesday at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florid

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Georgette Rolle tees off today in LPGA Classic

GEORGETTE Rolle, playing as the Bahamas’ exempted player for the fifth time, will tee off at 12:53pm today in the first round of the 2018 Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic at the Ocean Golf Club on Paradise Island.Rolle, 32, will play in the last of 35

Thompson: 'Last year was my best year yet'

AFTER winning the Race to the CME Globe to cap one of her best years on tour, Lexi Thompson put her golf clubs away for a month this offseason to rest a strained left hand. Not that she wanted to do that. “It was needed time off,” Thompson said Wedn

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Bahamas LPGA Classic officially open

The Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic, now in its sixth year, has helped to solidify the Bahamas as the sports mecca of the region, said Travis Robinson, parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Tourism and Aviation.

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Students get some pointers at junior golf clinic

PROFESSIONAL players Jackie Stoelting and Marissa Steen provided some tips to close to 70 government and private junior and senior high school students just before the start of the 2018 Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Golf Tournament.

NPBA: Rockets, Resistance in win column

THE Caro Contractors and the Rockets split their pair of games played on Monday might as the New Providence Basketball Association continued its regular season action at the AF Adderley Gymnasium.

Students get some pointers at junior golf clinic

PROFESSIONAL players Jackie Stoelting and Marissa Steen provided some tips to close to 70 government and private junior and senior high school students just before the start of the 2018 Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Golf Tournament. Stoelting and Steen par

Bahamas LPGA Classic officially open

The Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic, now in its sixth year, has helped to solidify the Bahamas as the sports mecca of the region, said Travis Robinson, parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Tourism and Aviation.Robinson was speaking at the offici

NPBA: Rockets, Resistance in win column

THE Caro Contractors and the Rockets split their pair of games played on Monday might as the New Providence Basketball Association continued its regular season action at the AF Adderley Gymnasium.The Caro Contractors Resistance won their division II

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Rolle to represent Bahamas in Pure Silk Classic

For the fifth time, Georgette Rolle will carry the Bahamian flag at the Ladies Professional Golf Association’s Pure Silk Bahamas Classic.In preparation for this year’s tournament that will run from Thursday to Sunday at the Ocean Golf Club on Paradis

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Cornish puts up solid numbers for the Seawolves

JARON Cornish continues to produce solid numbers in his first season with the Stony Brook Seawolves in the America East Conference. Cornish recorded his second double double of the season with 16 points and a season high 13 rebounds in Sunday’s 53-51

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Hurst fires 8-under-par 65 to qualify

VICKY Hurst of Melbourne, Florida, now in her 10th season on the LPGA Tour, fired an 8-under-par 65 yesterday to win one of two qualifying spots in this week’s $1.4 million Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic.Daniela Darquea of Ecuador won the other spot

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THE PRESS BOX: Anthony Miller Jr pitches very impressive five innings of 'no hit' ball in 7-1 victory

WITH all the negativity and controversy surrounding sports these days, in all the various sporting disciplines, both locally and internationally, it’s always refreshing to see youth excel in sports, giving hope, with a new generation of athletes on t

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Sea Waves Aquatic Team heptathlon makes a splash

THE Sea Waves Aquatic Team, headed by Shirley Mireault, provided an opportunity for the local swimmers to participate in a slightly different format than the usual swim meet held in the Bahamas Swimming Federation.More than 154 swimmers braved the we