Football fans will have plenty to cheer about this weekend as intervention by the Minister of Sports has resulted in an agreement to resume play in the BFL. The decision by the Belize National Football Association and Belize Football League came as the result of a meeting convened by Minister Cordel Hyde between BNFA president […]
La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge has in just a few years grown into one of the nation’s premier sporting events. This year’s race, aside from its usual complement of young and strong paddlers, will also feature some new technology: a canoe built with a unique blend of multicultural skills. Jose Sanchez reports from the […]
It is Belize’s most widely played and watched sport…and also its most lucrative. But football in Belize, beset by humiliating losses at the international level and almost constant conflict locally, is on the brink of crisis. News 5’s James Adderley sat down with officials on both sides of the issue to see what the future […]
Belize Electricity Limited dished out fifteen thousand dollars to Krem Radio’s management as a contribution to the station’s New Year’s cycling race. With hopes that Belize may someday produce a corps of world-class athletes, the need has been seen for more investment in sporting activities. While we wait for that to happen, the generous donation […]
There has not been a whole lot of good news coming out of our national football selection, which is rapidly gaining a reputation as the doormat of Central America. But looking at the kids just starting out in the game, there is reason for hope. The following story, which comes courtesy of Channel 3 in […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re strapped in for this exciting ride on Sports Monday. The Central Division Male Basketball Champion emerged Friday night in the rubber match of the three game series between the pre-season favourite Anglican Cathedral College and the challenger Excelsior High at the City Centre. This picture of the stands […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re in for the latest rush on Sports Monday. Week five in the BFL football season found the have nots taking theirs from the have’s. Most prominent among the have’s going into the weekend were the Builders Hardware Bandits of Belmopan, who were perched at the very top of […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this fresh serving of Sports Monday. Defending BFL champions Sagitun rolled into the MCC Grounds for a crucial match-up with the city team Kulture Yabra, the only team in the jewel with a winning record against the Independence team. Would the Yabra dominance continue today? We […]
We are led to believe that the highest levels of sporting accomplishment are reserved for the young; that once you’re past twenty-five, it’s pretty much downhill. Well if you watched Hilly Barrow finish this year’s Lion Man competition you know that that belief is false. The conventional wisdom was also defied over the weekend as […]
In addition to winning gold, this weekend Belizean athletes will be looking to raise some. On Saturday, the Belize Amateur Athletic Association road racing committee will be holding a relathon, a run for relief, in aid of hurricane victims. The relay gets underway at six a.m. in Benque Viejo and ends in Belize City. John […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and welcome to this big time dish of Sports Monday right after Garifuna Settlement Day, celebrations weekend. Some twenty-eight riders suited up for the seventy-mile Garifuna Day Cycle Classic, which got off Sunday Morning at eight-fifteen. Some five miles after the start at mile thirty en route to Dangriga through […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and welcome aboard this big time ride on Sports Monday. The drought has been extensive, prolonged by constant feuding at the very top of the Belizean football structure, but now mercifully it’s over, the football drought that is. The BFL resumed regular season action over the weekend with six games […]
In a follow up to yesterday’s report on Sports Monday, the National Sports Council, BNFA and BFL have issued the following press release. Hon. Cordel Hyde, Minister of Sports, this morning met with representatives from the BNFA, the BFL and the National Sports Council at MCC Grounds and made a joint commitment to the development […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re tuned to this fresh dish of Sports Monday. In the headlines, the BFL stand off with the National Sports Council is taking centre stage. The Sports Council has ruled the no football matches are to be played at the MCC Ground until November eighteenth due to damage from […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into another blast on Sports Monday. The Central Division Secondary School competition has become a plus for basketball right about now and we caught up with Friday night’s ticket at the City Centre. And as you can see high school basketball is a bustle of energy, complete […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and you’re locked in to this latest dish of Sports Monday. For those who couldn’t wait for the return of BFL regular season football play scheduled for November fourth, yesterday’s observance of FIFA Fair Play Day at Belmopan provided some relief with a football quadrangular that featured defending champions Sagitun, […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and welcome to this edition of Sports Monday. Our focus remains on track and field since the conclusion of the Sydney Olympics, where two Belizeans participated. With us is Linsford Castillo a former athlete and former General Secretary of the Belize Amateur Athletic Association. We inquired from Mr. Castillo his […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderly and you’re in tuned to the first post Keith serving of Sports Monday, being aired on a Tuesday. The entire nation was hooked into Marion Jones at the Sydney Olympics when Hurricane Keith had us all scurrying for higher grounds. In that turbulence we might have lost focus of the […]
She won her third Olympic medal in Sydney this morning, but the problem is that it was bronze and not gold. After topping the field in the one hundred and 200 metre sprints, Marion Jones had to settle for third place in the women’s long jump. Her last attempt was a heartbreaker as she easily […]
When she won her first gold medal in the hundred metres in Sydney, Belizean hearts swelled with pride… And when she ran her victory lap with the Belizean flag held high those hearts nearly stopped beating from the excitement. So what did Marion Jones do for an encore? Not only did she win the 200 […]
In news from Sydney, Marion Jones will shortly be going for gold medal number two. The semifinal rounds in the 200 metre dash will begin around one Thursday morning Belize time with the final about 2 hours later. A number of other major track and field finals will also be held throughout the night including […]
Jayson Jones is a Belizean sprinter who lives in the USA and recently graduated from Florida State University. A little over an hour ago he carried Belize’s Olympic hopes on his shoulders as he settled into the blocks in the opening heat of the 200 metres in Sydney. Here’s the race as called by Caribbean […]
If by now you are not familiar with the name Marion Jones, chances are you’ve been living underwater for the last month. She’s the U.S. born sprinter, who has the distinction of being the world’s fastest woman, and figures to win as many as five gold medals in the Sydney Olympics. She also happens to […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and you’re locked into this fresh dish of Sports Monday. The Regent Millennium Football Cup Tournament regular season got underway this weekend with six matches staged nationwide. We caught up with the MCC opener between Kulture Yabra and Caye Caulker Turquoise. And if you weren’t in your seat 8 minutes […]
On Thursday evening as most Belizeans were well into their independence celebrations, halfway around the world the nation was making its debut in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Emma Wade, one of only two athletes representing Belize, was entered in the one hundred metres and Channel Five broadcast the event live. She runs in lane 5, […]
