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Cougars earn 7-2 win over Comets

WITH the defending champions St Augustine’s College Big Red Machine rolling away with the junior boys’ division, the battle for the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools’ playoffs intensified with the second and third place teams hooking up.

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Star Trackers athletes show appreciation to sponsor

THREE athletes showed their appreciation recently to Karen and JR McDonald after they paid a courtesy call to the major sponsor of their Star Trackers Track Club.

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D Robinson tees off with best amateur golfers in US, world

It wasn’t the type of performance that he anticipated, but Devaughn Robinson was still delighted to have been a part of a prestigious group of players in the US Mid-Amateur Championships.

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UB Mingoes fall to Broward, FNU

THE University of the Bahamas continued their march towards becoming a part of the NAIA and its Sun Conference this past weekend with another road tour into Florida.

‘We would like to be able to win the regatta’ for Sir Durward

OVER the past three decades, Eleanor ‘the Sailing Barber’ Johnson said his annual St Valentine’s ‘Catch Me If You Can’ Massacre has benefitted tremendously from philanthropist Sir Durward ‘Sea Wolf’ Knowles.

Lady Truckers, Hitmen win openers in NPSA finals

THE defending champions Johnson’s Lady Truckers and the C&S Hitmen took the opening matches in their respective New Providence Softball Association championship series.

Shanea Armbrister assistant coach of Lady Tigers

SHANEA Armbrister made a quick turnaround from the court to the sidelines with her first hire as a member of a collegiate coaching staff.

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THE PRESS BOX: Man down! 5 QBs to replace the injured ‘studs’ in Fantasy

I KNOW some of you fantasy football owners are still crying this morning. And, if you are, it’s because you probably had Aaron Rodgers on your team.

No champions crowned this year in the BGDBA

THE Bamboo Shack Cybots were leading by 21 points in the third quarter when the game was stopped and no decision was made on the outcome. As a result, no champions have been crowned this year in the Bahamas Government Departmental Basketball Association.

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New inductees in WBSC Hall of Fame

The Bahamas will add their 17th and 18th inductees in the World Baseball Softball Confederation Hall of Fame after administrator Burket Dorsett and coach Godfrey ‘Gully’ Burnside were added to the list last week. During the WBSC’s Extra Ordinary Con

Axemen improves to 5-2 with 35-17 victory over X-Men

A redemption season for the Bahamian trio at the Acadia football programme also turns out to have a similar effect for Axemen as the team clinched an early Atlantic University Sport football postseason berth. On Saturday, the Axemen improved to 5-2

JBLN draft complete, teams finalising rosters to start season

THE Junior Baseball League of Nassau completed its Draft this weekend and teams are now finalising their rosters to start the 2018 season. Thirty-seven teams and 470 young boys and girls will compete in the league’s 29th season of youth baseball and

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First 'Knucklehead' Cross Country Championships

TWO long-time distance running rivals turned best friends collaborated to put on the first William ‘Knucklehead’ Johnson Cross Country Championships. Rupert Gardiner’s Silver Lightning Track Club hosted the one-day meet on Saturday at the Bahamas Go

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Senior Men's National Team No.59 in new 'FIBA World Ranking'

AS teams head toward the FIBA World Cup and Olympic qualification, the Bahamas is one of 15 islands in the Caribbean Basketball Confederation to make the lastest edition of the rankings list. The Bahamas senior men’s national team was ranked No.59 i

Cybots get 106-103 win over police, take 1-0 lead in playoffs

EUGENE Bain had a monster game as he helped to power the Bamboo Shack Cybots to a 106-103 victory over the Police Crimestoppers as they took a 1-0 lead in the Bahamas Government Departmental Basketball Association’s best-of-five championship series.B