‘It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish’
All the way in New York City on national television at the famous Madison Square Gardens, middleweight Tureano ‘Reno’ Johnson moved one step closer to inking his name in Bahamian history by following in the footsteps of his idol, Elisha Obed, the first Bahamian to win a world title.
Sports Notes
THE Bahamas Olympic Committee extended its congratulations to Tureano ‘Reno’ Johnson for his success in Madison Square Gardens, New York, last week Friday.
Buddy one of best in Big 12
As he entered his junior season with the Oklahoma Sooners, expectations loomed high for Buddy Hield and the Grand Bahamian native has delivered.
Elite athletes ready for ‘a very competitive’ marathon
JUST days away from the sixth Sunshine Insurance Race Weekend, and this year’s event promises to be the biggest edition of the philanthropic effort to date.
GSSSA: Lions win double header over the Sharks
THE HO Nash Lions scored a pair of wins in a double header over the SC McPherson Sharks as the Government Secondary School Sports Association gets back in gear with its basketball season.
Homecoming for a sporting hero
With three international belts now in his possession, Tureano ‘Reno’ Johnson feels like the only one missing is a world title.
All-For-One regatta Class winners presented with awards
CAPTAIN Emmit Munroe said the best way for him and his Original Courageous to remember his former long-time friend, King Eric Gibson, was to win the inaugural King Eric Gibson All-For-One Regatta in Montagu Bay over the Majority Rule Day holiday.
Tureano 'has the potential to become a world champion'
MINISTER of Youth, Sports and Culture Dr Daniel Johnson said the Bahamas has a story to tell for a young man who went from Pinewood Gardens all the way to Madison Square Gardens and demonstrated to the world that he has the potential to become a world boxing champion.
BSF to host ECASC Men's Championship in New Providence
TO highlight “Softball Week” in the Bahamas, the local governing body of the sport will host the English Caribbean Amateur Softball Confederation (ECASC) Men’s Championship in the capital.
Tureano Johnson: ‘I’m here to take over this division’
TUREANO ‘Reno’ Johnson left Madison Square Garden Theater with the World Boxing Association’s International and vacant World Boxing Council’s silver titles around his waist. He simply punished Colombian Alex Theran for five rounds before he was declared the winner with his 13th technical knockout.
Athletes qualify for CARIFTA in T-Bird Flyers Track Classic
WITH a change in policy for the selection of the team for the CARIFTA Games, at least five athletes made sure that their tickets were booked for the trip to St Kitts and Nevis April 2-4 when they competed at the T-Bird Flyers Track Classic in the original Thomas A Robinson Track and Field Stadium over the weekend.
‘Having her right next to me pushes me’
WHEN good friends Devynne Charlton and Carmiesha Cox left the Bahamas two years ago to pursue their collegiate athletic careers at Purdue University, the sprinting duo knew that they would be providing the competition for each other as they race in the same events.
No. 16 Oklahoma loses to Kansas State despite Buddy Hield’s 31
CONFERENCE play continued to heat up in men’s NCAA division basketball and two Bahamian players were able to post career numbers, despite coming in a losing effort for their teams.
Junior forward Jonquel Jones leads the Colonials en route to an historic year
NEARLY at the halfway mark in the NCAA Women’s Division I College basketball season, Jonquel Jones is en route to an historic year as she leads the George Washington Colonials.
Sports notes
MEL Ferguson, commissioner of the Commonwealth American Football League, has announced that based on added interest of individuals wanting to run for the office of president of the league, the executive committee has agreed to reschedule the election date from January 12-13 to February 12-13.
