George Cleare expected to be the head coach of our Olympic team
WHEN the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations sends in its team for ratification by the Bahamas Olympic Committee for the 2016 Olympic Games, it’s expected that George Cleare will be pegged as the head coach.
Jones: ‘We’re still young, still hopeful for the season’
LIKE most highly touted rookies, Jonquel Jones is facing an adjustment period in her rookie season of WNBA basketball.
‘He was a people’s person . . . boxing has lost a great legend’
ALL around the world he was known as the greatest boxer of all time. But to Arthur Clarke and Pat ‘the Centreville Assassin’ Strachan, Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest humanitarians they have ever met.
Justin Lunn: ‘I just want to get my breakthrough’
ALTHOUGH he has not allowed his disability in his right arm to get the best of him, Justin Lunn has been hampered by his performance on the tennis court and he’s just waiting to get his breakthrough.
Judo Federation launches ‘Neighbourhood Heroes’
BAHAMAS Judo Federation has launched the social media campaign, Neighbourhood Heroes. Its purpose is to bring awareness of the training and accomplishments of the athletes who are trying out for the CARIFTA 2017 and other international tournaments.
Rising tennis stars take international spotlight
PHILIP Major Jr, who made the main draw on the European Circuit a few months ago, turned his attention to some US match play in Lynchburg, Virginia, over the weekend.
Sandals Emerald Bay hosts its 1st Annual Global Golf Tournament
EXUMA, The Bahamas — Sandals Emerald Bay hosted its 1st Annual Global Golf Tournament, attracting top producing travel agents from Canada, South America and the US.
Bahamian-born street fighter and MMA pioneer Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson dies at 42
KEVIN "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson, the Bahamian-born bearded street fighter who parlayed his internet popularity into a mixed martial arts (MMA) career and worldwide fame, has died. He was 42.
Gardiner executes ‘solid race model’
Although he got off to a slow start, men’s national 400 metre record holder Steven Gardiner is slowly coming around to where coach George Cleare expects him to be - a legitimate threat at the August Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Rugby Americas: Team Bahamas winless at 0-3
IT was a new venue but the same result for the Bahamas Rugby Football Union’s national team as they remained winless at 0-3 in the Rugby Americas North Championship.
Junior national basketball teams in CBC U-16 Championships
THE draw has been set and the Bahamas Basketball Federation’s junior national teams now know the paths they will have to face if they wish to qualify further in regional competition.
SPORTING MISCHIEF & MAYHEM: RIP to the Greatest, the Louisville Lip - and my hero
Toll the ring bell As sports tickers buzzed across tv screens worldwide with the melancholy news of the passing of Muhammad Ali, I sat quietly in my front room tears streaming down my face, reflecting on a man who in so many ways impacted my life and those of my peers all while living up to his nickname ‘The Greatest’.
Swimmers to represent the Bahamas at Goodwill Games
THE Bahamas Swimming Federation is sending a national swim team to the Goodwill Games August 19-21 in St Lucia. This is the XXII edition of the Goodwill Games swimming meet held annually in one of five member countries in the southern Caribbean.
Major Jr beats Rolle in marathon match
It took a marathon three set for the youthful Kevin Major Jr to dispose of veteran Marvin Rolle in the final of the Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association’s final trials for the Davis Cup team.
Gardiner leads 400m field with season’s best 44.62
STEVEN Gardiner, showing some flashes of his breakout season last year when he broke the men’s 400 metres national record, led a field of Bahamian elite athletes with a sizzling performance in his specialty at the American Track League.
