Higgs, Grant playing pivotal role in Big 12
A pair of Bahamian women basketball players have made an immediate impact on their programmes in an elite Division I power conference.
Chris Brown Bahamas Invitational returning for 2nd edition
IT’S official. The Chris Brown Bahamas Invitational is returning for a second edition and it promises to be much better than the initial one in 2013 as the majority of athletes will be using the event as a springboard for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Marathon Bahamas winners in the spotlight
Despite the interruption of the rain, a pair of Americans - Jonathan Volpi and Amos Desjardins - emerged as the overall male champions of the 7th annual Sunshine Insurance Marathon Bahamas full marathon and half marathon at Arawak Cay yesterday. The women champions were Frenchwoman Marina Peron and Bahamian Vanessa Forbes.
SPORTING MISCHIEF & MAYHEM: Celebrating my year of mischief and mayhem in major leagues
TODAY is exactly one year that I started my new ‘big’ gig at Radio House and The Tribune.
Sports Notes
CHAMPION Amateur Boxing Club is scheduled to present its ‘Back on Track’ amateur boxing show 7pm January 30 at the Wulff Road Boxing Square.
Jones named Atlantic 10 Player of the Week for 5th time this season
GEORGE Washington Colonials women’s basketball senior forward Jonquel Jones was named Atlantic 10 Player of the Week for the second week in a row and the fifth time this season, the league announced yesterday. The award covers games played January 11-17.
Nashad Mackey helping to lead Falcons to a national ranking
A SEAMLESS transition to the JuCo game, Nashad Mackey has excelled in his freshman season as he helps lead his programme to a national ranking.
MARATHON BAHAMAS: The thrill of victory (with photo gallery)
Despite the interruption of the rain, a pair of Americans - Jonathan Volpi and Amos Desjardins - emerged as the overall male champions of the 7th annual Sunshine Insurance Marathon Bahamas full marathon and half marathon at Arawak Cay yesterday. The women champions were Frenchwoman Marina Peron and Bahamian Vanessa Forbes.
‘Low point’ winners take the spotlight at Swift swim meet
WITH a change in the format for the meet as the Bahamas Swimming Federation’s 2016 season officially got underway, there were some new names that surfaced at the conclusion of the Swift Swimming Heptathlon Meet.
Outstanding performances at T-Bird Flyers track meet
WITH the CARIFTA Games fast approaching, the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations is hoping that the athletes will start making the qualifying standards to go to Grenada.
Tureano ‘one fist closer’ to fighting Golovkin
THE decision on who will face IBF, IBO, WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin has come down to Bahamian Tureano Johnson now that Englishman Billy Joe Saunders has been ruled out by his camp.
‘Tum Tum’ likely out for ‘couple of weeks’ due to foot injury
THE college basketball weekend produced mixed results for several of our Bahamian basketball players at the Division I level.
Jonquel Jones posts double double in 70-52 victory over Duquesne
SENIOR Jonquel Jones scored 23 points and pulled down 18 rebounds to lead the George Washington Colonials women’s basketball team to a 70-52 win over No. 25 Duquesne at the A.J. Palumbo Center yesterday.
Sports notes
MAJOR League Baseball has announced that it will hold a coaching clinic in Nassau - the first of its kind on the island - January 23-24.
Bahamas on ‘right track’ to host Commonwealth Youth Games
THE Bahamas Government and the Bahamas Olympic Committee went all out over the last few days to ensure that Louise Martin, president of the Commonwealth Games Federation, gives the Bahamas a favourable response in the bid to host the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games.
