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Junior amateur fighters take spotlight

THE 22nd annual L Garth Wright Golden Gloves boxing tournament featured several dynamic bouts on its five-fight card this weekend.

Meacher ‘Pain’ Major ready for Jamaican Beckford in the ‘Caribbean Showdown’

ONE of the biggest names in local professional boxing, Meacher “Pain” Major is getting ready to step back into the ring for a rematch 10 years in the making.

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Husband and wife to take spotlight

GRAND Bahamians Charnice and Desmond Bain have been together for 21 years - married for 14 and competing in bodybuilding for the last decade.

CAC Champs: Team Bahamas ‘ready to flex its muscles’

THE stage is set. Now it’s time for the competitors to flex their muscles at the 43rd Central American and Caribbean Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation Championships.

L Garth Wright tourney to showcase ‘future of boxing’

CHAMPION Amateur Boxing Club is set to stage one of its longest running events to showcase what director Ray Minus Jr calls the “future of boxing.”

Who is the governing body for American football in Bahamas?

THE war of words between local football organisations continues with the Commonwealth American Football League (CAFL), the latest to weigh in on the controversy.

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Hurdles no obstacle to Jeffery Gibson’s stellar progress

Denise Maycock catches up with the Bahamian star hurdler as he comes home to Freeport for a break after a successful track season.

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A hero’s welcome for Miller and Eve

It was a hero’s welcome for a pair of St Augustine’s College alumnus as they returned to their alma mater.

NPACBO to host referees’ conclave

THE fall season means basketball is soon on the agenda for many Bahamians ranging from the scholastic to the amateur night league level and referees plan to ready themselves much like the players on the floor.

‘Reno’ ready for IBF Middleweight Title Eliminator

POISED to take a major step forward in his career in his quest toward a major title fight, Bahamian prize fighter Tureano Johnson promises to take advantage of his opportunity.

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SANCHESKA Vs RENALDO NFL PICKS: Week 3

What a time…to be alive. We live in a season where the Bucs, Raiders, Jags, Browns and the team from Washington all won on the same day. And I promise you this wasn’t at a Madden tournament. A season where two of the four teams considered lead pipe locks to make their conference championship games are currently winless. It’s the NFL in all its stupid, horrible to bet on, but fun to watch parity (Can I say that? Is that legal here now? I’m not sure about how any of this or how numbers and gambling works. The rallies were fun though).

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NAUGHTY'S WEEK 3 NFL PICKS: Redskins and Panthers help to banish the ‘Weekend from Hell’

WHAT a week that was in the NFL! It definitely turned out differently from what we all expected ... totally!

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RICARDO WELLS' WEEK 3 NFL PICKS: I’m riding the ‘roller-coaster’ after awful start

DESPITE the awful start to this season my superiors are telling me that I have to ride the roller-coaster all the way to the end. Here we go again!

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Spencer earns Sunfish title

SPENCER Cartwright, the current and four-time national champion in the Optimist Dinghy class, won the Bahamas Junior Sunfish National Championship for the first time as the Nassau Yacht Club hosted the annual event over the weekend.

Rain halts Comets vs Cougars senior girls’ softball game

The Charles W Saunders Cougars and Queen’s College Comets will have to wait another day to determine the outcome of their Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools (BAISS) senior girls’ softball game.