The perennial last-ditch effort to establish a semi-pro basketball league has once again proven successful. And while the female fans are busy doing their hair-nails-clothes thing, News 5’s Janelle Chanona checked out the calibre of the competition. Janelle Chanona, Reporting With little fanfare, but high expectations, tonight Semi-Pro basketball action will take to the hardwood […]
In related news from the world of sports, Belize has a high-powered team entered in one of North America’s most prestigious canoe races…but the problem is the venue has received so much rain that the river is unpaddleable. Armin Lopez, Alex Lisbey, and Daniel Cruz, all veteran champions of our own Ruta Maya race, form […]
The double loss in Canada is history and the 2004 Regent Cup Champion is yet to be decided. So why are we reporting on a midweek football match? James Adderley explains. James Adderley, Reporting The fuel that fires up football in the world is international play, and with the recent kiss and makeup by our […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we?re rolling out another portion of Sports Monday. The Regents Insurance Cup playoffs found two winless ball clubs Saturday night inside the Isidoro Beaton Stadium in week two of the post season as Builders Hardware Bandits played host to Griga United of Dangriga. Shall we say both ball clubs […]
Two Belizean high school students will leave Sunday on the summer trip of a lifetime. Bernard Felix of Wesley College and Joslyn Valerio of Orange Walk Tech have been chosen to attend “Basketball without Boundaries”, a one week instructional camp for outstanding young basketball players that will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. With the National Football Team having returned from the World Cup qualifiers at Canada, the Regent Insurance Cup Playoff kicked off in earnest over the weekend. Yesterday at the People?s Stadium, the number two seed in this four-team playoffs, Juventus of Orange Walk, held court […]
She won an unprecedented five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and in celebrating the feat draped herself in the Belize flag. But tonight world champion sprinter Marion Jones is trying to overcome a hurdle that is threatening to keep her out of the summer games in Athens. The United States Anti-Doping Agency is investigating […]
We all knew the score almost as soon as the game finished Sunday afternoon: four-nil. What we did not get is feel for, however, was how the World Cup qualifying match between Belize and Canada was actually played. Tonight, having just received the tape via FedEx, James Adderley shares the highlights. James Adderley, Reporting The […]
On June twentieth Belizean and foreign cyclists will be pedalling from Benque Viejo Del Carmen to Belize City in the second annual Father’s Day Cycling Classic. The race is hosted by F.M. 2000 and sponsored by Bowen and Bowen Limited. This morning, the company handed over five thousand dollars that will be used to fund […]
Good evening I?m James Adderley with this brand new dish of Sports Monday. The word hit the streets yesterday that the National Football Team of Belize had fallen to Canada 4-zip in the first match of this two game World Cup qualifying series at Canada with Canada. We caught up with National Head Coach Anthony […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we welcome you to this delivery of Sports Monday. As a part of its preparation for next week?s two-match World Cup qualifier at Canada, the National Football Team engaged a two-game international friendly series with the professional military team from insides Guatemala known as Aurora. In game one at […]
It has been a tumultuous and most likely crippling process, but Belize’s national football team has finally been selected… only a matter of days before its first all important World Cup qualifier against Canada. News 5’s James Adderley headed to Belmopan for a scouting report. James Adderley, Reporting The hopes and dreams of Belizean football […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley, this is Sports Monday. The struggle to make the four-team cut in the Regent?s Insurance Cup playoffs intensified into week thirteen, especially with one more round of play remaining at this juncture. In week thirteen, the San Pedro Seahawks took their post season hopes south to Dangriga where they face […]
Sometimes when we read the headlines and watch the evening news, it’s easy to become depressed over what appears to be all the bad things happening to Belize’s children. And indeed, being a young Belizean appears to be an increasingly dangerous occupation. But despite the problems, the overwhelming number of our young people manage to […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we?re rolling out this latest dish of Sports Monday. The Regent Insurance Cup playoffs produce high drama at the M.C.C. Grounds on Sunday as defending champion Kulture Yabra of Belize City hosted Sagitun of Independence in a must win situation. The need for three points prompts the city team […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we?re back in the saddle here on Sports Monday after a few weeks absence and we want to thank Patrick Jones for filling in for us. The first thing we want to do is play catch up on the Regent Insurance Cup Tournament which concluded its three-game schedule under […]
There is hopeful news on the long beleaguered football front…but viewers know that we’ve been down this road before. News 5’s Patrick Jones has the latest. Patrick Jones, Reporting Football players, fans, and supporters across the country may have reason to celebrate. The reason? The Football Federation of Belize and the estranged B.P.F.L. have kissed […]
Patrick Jones A new female cross country champion crowned in Belize City… The Bandits draw closer to first place in football…and the ladies of Unitedville extinguish the Flames in Camalote. Good Evening, with the post Mother?s Day weekend edition of Sports Monday, I am Patrick Jones. The sporting scene was a busy place this past […]
Kulture Yabra and Juventus rough it out on the barracks, while Flames, Falcons and Duurly?s Cristal reign supreme at the Joan Garbutt stadium in Esperanza. Good Evening, with the May third edition of Sports Monday, I am Patrick Jones. The M.C.C. Grounds in Belize City was the scene of one of a fiercely contested match […]
Patrick Jones, Reporting Bodies in Motion at the Princess Hotel…The Bulls got some football schooling in Calcutta…And, pain and excitement on the diamond out west as the 2004 Cayo softball competition resume play after the Easter break. Good evening, with the April twenty-sixth edition of Sports Monday, I am Patrick Jones. The Belize Shotokan Karate […]
In sporting news, the Belize Premier Football League has taken a hit with the abrupt departure of one of its eight teams in the middle of the season. Hankook Verdes is pulling itself out of B.P.F.L. play due to what it calls biased behaviour by league executives as well as the officials on the field. […]
The eyes of the softball world were fixed on Rogers Stadium this weekend as teams from El Salvador and Jamaica rolled into town to challenge the Belize National Team in two days of thrills and excitement on the diamond. Good Evening and welcome to Sports Monday, I am Patrick Jones, in tonight for James Adderley. […]
He has been a fixture on the local cycling scene for a quarter of a century. But this week, Santino Castillo, sponsor of the sport’s biggest team, announced that he’s bowing out…at least for the next year. In a letter sent to president of the Belize Cycling Association, Gerald Garbutt, Castillo cites family commitments as […]
Long before there was a Marion Jones to look up to there was another young Belizean woman who dominated the local sports pages. Margaret Usher was her name, and while she was only one member of an immensely talented group dubbed “The Golden Girls”, Margaret stood out for her single-minded dedication to the game of […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this dish of Sports Monday. We hope you enjoyed the Easter and we know you know that the Easter always brings the annual Cross Country Cycle Classic on Holy Saturday, so we take you immediately out to Georgie August on the Western Highway for the […]
