With less than three weeks remaining before the start of the CARIFTA Track and Field Championships, the event’s Local Organizing Committee (LOC) yesterday introduced the event’s sponsors to the general public. The junior championships will now be known as the 2018 BJ Nottage Flow CARIFTA Games, and will take place in New Providence, from March […]
The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) announced the details and structure of its new Nations League competition this week. The event is slated for September in Miami, Florida. CONCACAF begins with a one-off qualifying phase, while the group phase – comprised of three tiered leagues – will kick off next […]
After overcoming a regular season filled with injuries and mishaps, Dwight Coleby and the Western Kentucky University (WKU) Hilltoppers come into the Conference USA tournament as one of the highest ranked seeds. Coleby is in the midst of his best season as a collegiate player and now, the redshirt senior is looking to take No. […]
The awards continue to roll in for University of Arizona freshman Deandre Ayton, who one day after being named Pac-12 Player of the Year, was named to the All-Pac-12 Conference men’s basketball team yesterday. “He’s a once in a generation player,” Wildcats coach, Sean Miller, said about the 7’1” center following the announcement. “I doubt […]
Team Bahamas failed to capture a medal at the 17th edition of the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) World Indoor Championships, which took place in Birmingham, United Kingdom, over the weekend. Devynne Charlton was the only member of the five-person team to advance to a final over the course of the three-day meet. On Saturday, […]
It’s been tough sledding so far for team Bahamas at the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) World Indoor World Championships in Birmingham, United Kingdom. After a pair of disappointing yesterday finishes from Jamal Wilson and Donald Thomas in the men’s high jump, Alonzo Russell was disqualified in the men’s 400 meters (m). Russell appeared […]
It’s been tough sledding so far for team Bahamas at the International Association of Athletic Federations’ (IAAF) Indoor World Championships in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Two of the five local athletes that traveled for the games were in action yesterday in the men’s high jump. Donald Thomas and Jamal Wilson finished sixth and ninth respectively in […]
The Bahamas men’s national basketball team is now 0-4 through the first round of the 2019 International Basketball Federation’s (FIBA) Americas World Cup Qualifying process. Team Bahamas suffered its latest loss at home on Sunday afternoon against Canada, falling, 113-67, at the Kendal Isaacs National Gymnasium. Brady Heslip had a team-high 19 points for Canada and Anthony […]
The first Bahamian to win an Olympic medal and the first to win Olympic gold, Sir Durward Knowles passed away over the weekend at 100. Sir Durward won the country’s first Olympic medal – a bronze in star class sailing with Sloane “Bunty” Farrington at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Eight years after, he […]
The Bahamas men’s national basketball team looks to win its final home 2019 FIBA World Cup qualifying game on Sundayagainst Canada. The Bahamas is 0-3 so far through the 2019 FIBA World Cup qualifying process, as it lost to Canada in its first game, and then against the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) and the Dominican Republic. […]
The Bahamas men’s national basketball team came up short yesterday in a FIBA 2019 World Cup qualifying game against the Dominican Republic at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium. Victor Liz had 19 points to lead the Dominican Republic to a 96-63 wire-to-wire victory. Rigoberto Mendoza scored 18 points in the win and Louis Montero added 17 […]
The 2018 High School National Track and Field Championships, expected to be bigger and better than ever before, was officially launched yesterday at a major press conference at the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture and the National Sports Authority (NSA) […]
Lourawls “Tum Tum” Nairn walked off the Breslin Center court for the final time on Wednesday night. Nairn, along with seniors Gavin Schilling and Ben Carter, were honored in the closing seconds of MSU’s 81-61 win, which clinched at least a share of the 2018 Big Ten Regular Season title. Spartans coach Tom Izzo started Nairn, Schilling […]
Chavano “Buddy” Hield had his hands full this weekend, competing in two events over the course of the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles, California. On Friday, Hield represented The Bahamas as a member of team World in the Rising Stars game. Hield finished with 29 points to lead team World in […]
A random meeting in an airport turned into an opportunity of a lifetime for Bahamian boxer, Lester Brown. The 23-year-old signed to Hall of fame boxer, Roy Jones Jr.’s, promotional company over the weekend. Brown ran into Jones last August in airport on his way to Las Vegas, Nevada, and began talking to Jones about […]
NASSAU, The Bahamas — Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture the Hon. Michael Pintard waves his newly-purchased first set of Flow CARIFTA Games Bahamas 2018 tickets, during the official launch ceremony of ticket sales for the event, on January 15, 2018, at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium. Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations (BAAA) President […]
