Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve just climbed aboard for this sweet ride on Sports Monday. Football fervour reached fever pitch as week three of the Belize Premier Football League playoffs found Sagitun of Independence hosting the defending champion Kulture Yabra of Belize City Saturday night. We give you this look at the venue […]
It’s been promised more times than Marion Jones has Olympic medals, but this time it looks for real. Following the visit of the legal advisor for the Marion Jones Foundation, work appears ready to commence on a new synthetic track and other amenities for Belizean athletes. According to Sports Consultant in the Officer of the […]
Their names are well known…but not necessarily in the positions of guard, forward and centre. But not to worry, the ragtag bunch of basketballers will be playing their hearts out at City Centre Friday night…all in the name of charity. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This Friday night, the Belize City Centre will hold court to an […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve logged on to the deal we call Sports Monday. Week two of the six game Belize Premier Football League playoffs brought the two remaining undefeated ball clubs to a showdown at capital city Saturday night, where defending champion Kulture Yabra of Belize City, was hosted by the Builder’s […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to our first edition of Sports Monday for 2003. The Belize Premier Football league kicked off its four-team playoffs over the weekend and it did bring show time to Belize City. (helicopter landing on field) No, this is not news of an attack on Iraq or […]
There’s big news on the Belizean basketball scene tonight as word trickled through town that our boys have had their bronze medals upgraded…to silver. News 5 understands that organizers of the Nineteenth Central American and Caribbean Games have declared Belize as second place finishers after tests revealed that at least one Puerto Rican player had […]
Believe it or not, not everyone was sleeping in late on New Year’s Day. In fact, some sixty cyclists left Corozal town just after 9:00 a.m. as part of the thirteenth annual Krem Cycling Classic. Despite the heat, cramps and flat tires, these pedal pushers made it to Belize City in record time: three hours, […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and welcome to our closeout show for the year 2002. The sporting community at large might have taken the Christmas pause, but the fever is growing inside the football world as the Belize Premier Football League heads into its playoff round beginning January fourth and fifth. We are therefore very […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re in tuned with Sports Monday. The “Glimpse of the Future” basketball game Friday night at the City Centre was supposed to bring together our top twenty-five high school players in the country, international scouts and the Belizeans fans in a love triangle. But it didn’t quite happen that […]
They are high school basketball’s best and brightest…and all this week they are being put through their paces. This afternoon I had a front row seat on the action. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This afternoon, the screech of sneakers and the constant drum of a basketball echoed through City Centre as day two of the All […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this delivery of Sports Monday. The National Secondary School Basketball tournament was staged at the City Centre over the weekend featuring eight teams, so let’s join the female finals as Wesley College of Belize City, goes up against Orange Walk’s Technical High. Kelly Rivers comes […]
Belize’s bronze medallists may have returned from El Salvador, but that doesn’t mean the excitement is over on the basketball court. In fact, as I found out this afternoon, it’s just beginning. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Tension mounted today as teams from high schools across Belize counted down to the climax of their season…the National Championship […]
The big news on the basketball beat this week is the much anticipated national high school championship games scheduled to take place on Friday and Saturday at the Belize City Centre. And while the tournament signals the end of the high school season, some of the players won’t stop sweating for another week. Specially appointed […]
We heard from National Basketball Team member Keith Acosta last night on Sports Monday, and today his team mates held a press conference to give a full account of their performance in San Salvador. News 5’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting While the team gave a good account of themselves, earning a bronze medal, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re just in time for this fresh dish of Sports Monday. Juventus of Orange Walk rolled into San Ignacio yesterday desperately needing a win to return to the top four in the Belize Premier Football League standings with two weeks of regular season football remaining. Would Acros Real Verdes […]
We would have liked to report tonight that the Belize National Basketball Team pulled off a surprise upset of Puerto Rico and went on to trounce the Dominican Republic en route to a shiny gold medal in the Central American and Caribbean games in El Salvador. But to paraphrase the Rolling Stones, while you can’t […]
As I speak, Belize’s National Basketball Team is sweating hard against highly rated Puerto Rico in the final four of the Central American and Caribbean Games in El Salvador. That match-up will be followed by the Dominican Republic versus Guatemala. Friday night the winners square off for the gold and silver, while the losers fight […]
It has now been confirmed that Belize’s National Basketball Team has qualified for a shot at a medal in the Central American and Caribbean Games in El Salvador. This was made possible by the defeat of Mexico at the hands of the heavily favoured Dominican Republic, 79-67. On Thursday Belize will go up against the […]
The elation following Sunday night’s basketball victory over Mexico at the Central American and Caribbean Games in El Salvador, has turned to embarrassment as the Belize National Team took a licking Monday night at the hands of the Dominican Republic. The final score was eighty-nine, forty-three. Belize was without the services of top scoring guard […]
Sporting news is usually handled in the last section of Monday’s broadcast, and indeed James Adderley will make his scheduled appearance shortly. But tonight we’ll pre-empt Sports Monday with the good news that on Sunday night the Belize National Basketball team won its opener in the Caribbean and Central American Games in El Salvador. The […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for this latest issue of Sports Monday. Week eleven of the Belize Premier Football league found second place Sagitun being hosted at the Ricalde Stadium by Corozal Victory as the race to make the four team playoffs intensifies. With only twelve points to its season […]
Belize has won its first medal in the Caribbean and Central American Games in El Salvador. This morning racquetball star Matthew Anderson defeated his Guatemalan opponent in a comeback victory fourteen-fifteen, fifteen-six, fifteen-two. This afternoon, however, he lost to a Mexican–who happens to be ranked sixth in the world–by a score of fifteen-five, fifteen-two. The […]
And in news from the Caribbean and Central American Games in El Salvador, word has been received that Belize’s sole entrant in the racquetball competition continues to advance. Matthew Anderson beat his opponent from Costa Rica by a score of fifteen-six and fifteen-two, to rack up his third victory. Tomorrow comes crunch time as Anderson […]
In Tuesday’s action at the Caribbean and Central American Games in El Salvador, Belize’s sharpshooters aimed valiantly but failed to make the finals. Charles Chavannes scored five hundred and forty-six points, finishing tenth in the second round, not enough to qualify for advancement. Ian McIntosh placed twenty-third in the first round. Marksmen from Venezuela are […]
Earlier in this newscast we mentioned the Association of Caribbean States meeting in Belize City. And while government officials gather in meeting rooms at the Princess, athletes from many of those same countries are competing in San Salvador, capital of El Salvador, in the Caribbean and Central American Games. Through an arrangement with Cayo’s Channel […]
