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World record swim attempt from Eleuthera to Nassau underway

An Australian endurance athlete has started an attempt to achieve a world-record 80 mile swim in the open waters of the Bahamas.

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Wildcats blow out Brackettes 12-2 to take 2-0 lead in championship series

THE New Providence Softball Association’s ladies defending champions Sigma Brackettes avoided getting shutout again, but they couldn’t stop the pennant winning Sigma Wildcats’ onslaught as they pulled off another abbreviated victory.

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'I just see Carl if he was here, just how happy he would be'

STEPHANIE Meadows, still sobbing, was too overwhelmed to express her gratitude to the New Providence Softball Association for remembering her son.

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Hitmen seal 10-9 walk-off victory over Truckers

RUDY Fox may not have come through as a clutch hitter so far for the Arnette’s Sporting Lounge Hitmen, but the Sting Truckers will remember why the versatile cricket player was slotted into their clean-up spot in the line-up.

A perfect 6-0 season for the Hurricanes

IT was a perfect season for the Holland College Hurricanes football club, and now they set their sights on the postseason and successfully defending the Atlantic Football League’s Moosehead Cup.

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CAFL season opens with intense rivalry

THE Commonwealth American Football League (CAFL) officially kicked off this weekend with a rematch of the last four Boil Fish Bowl championship games between the defending champions V8 Fusion Stingrays and the Orry J Sands Pros at DW Davis.

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Big Red Machine destroy Giants

For the second consecutive BAISS game the St Augustine’s College junior boys softball team needed only three innings to take out their opponents as “The Big Red Machine” destroyed St John’s Giants 11-1 yesterday.

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Stiff competition in the 'Briland' regatta

THE 25th North Eleuthera Regatta hosted by the North Eleuthera Regatta Association October 6-13 marked the last event on the country’s 2014 regatta calendar.

Sports in brief

SMALL in stature but with a big heart, Ambrose ‘Cabbage’ Hanna was the forerunner of the great Bahamian triple jumpers. However, the sporting community mourns his passing after he died on Sunday, September 28. He was 89.

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Wildcats blank Brackettes 7-0

MARY 'Cruise’ Sweeting and the pennant winning Sigma Wildcats sent a strong message to the defending champions Sigma Brackettes.

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Tank says judges' unanimous decision 'ridiculous'

SHERMAN ‘The Tank’ Williams said he threw enough “conch punches,” but was highly disappointed in the judges, calling it “ridiculous” after he suffered an unanimous 10-round decision to hometown favourite Joseph Parker at The Trusts Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand, on Thursday night.

Top pitchers and batting champions take the spotlight

SIGMA Wildcats’ infielder Jeanette Hilton and Sting Truckers’ outfielder Lamar Watkins are the New Providence Softball Association’s 2014 ladies and men’s batting champions respectively.

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Hitmen stun Truckers 13-3

ALCOTT Forbes was on top of his game and that made all the difference as the defending champions Arnette’s Sporting Lounge Hitmen stunned the pennant winning Sting Truckers 13-3 to snatch game one of the New Providence Softball Association’s best-of-seven Carl ‘Bang Bang’ Johnson championship series.

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RENALDO'S RAMBLINGS: NFL PICKS WEEK 7

There were two weeks of media fervour surrounding the premature demise of the Pats dynasty.