Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re fully tuned into this edition of Sports Monday. The city waited for two weeks to view the B.F.L.’s battle for supremacy and finally on Sunday the only two remaining undefeated teams faced off at the M.C.C. Grounds. As host Culture Yabra gives way to the league leader Sagitun […]
In the early 1980’s a very strange phenomenon emerged in Belize City and its environs. Because the nation’s first over-the-air TV station — channel nine — chose to rebroadcast the signal of superstation WGN in Chicago, an entire generation of the old capital’s residents became loyal fans of the Chicago Cubs — one of the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this serving of Sports Monday. Both the local and the foreign weather media categorized the tropical depression crossing the “Jewel” over the weekend as very serious which left the sporting leadership with no alternative but to scrap all scheduled events. First to announce this decision was the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to another serving of Sports Monday. It was billed as a biggie and indeed the Yabra Culture/Grigamandala clash at the M.C.C. Grounds Sunday almost surpassed expectations. Dangriga came to play a star strudded team hungry for a “W” and it’s Yabra with the early attack, only David McCauley […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re tuned into another dish of Sports Monday so we’ll quickly take you out to Rogers Stadium where the National Softball Tournament was staged over the weekend. We pick up the action with Lady Rebels waiting in the wings while Acros of Belize City and Camalote Durleys battle it […]
Belize’s top sport fishing enthusiasts spent their holiday weekend in pursuit of a five hundred pound plus blue marlin and a fifty thousand dollar prize. That’s right, in this year’s Belikin Spectacular Blue Water Fishing Tournament Barry Bowen offered fifty thousand dollars to the man, or woman, who could break the current blue marlin record […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this Tuesday version of Sports Monday. We take you inside week four of the B.F.L.’s Regent Insurance Cup Tournament. We go to the M.C.C. Grounds for the clash of the cellar dwellers starring Grigamandala and Acros Bombers, both looking for their first semi-pro win. It’s just the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We’ll start off at Rogers Stadium but first we want to warn you strap yourself down for this rugged flight. Up one game in a three game series, Acros looks to close the deal against Lady Rebels and they boost a two run lead going […]
Belizeans spar and kata their way into Barbados. Eight Belizeans left the country for Barbados today to compete in the eighth ISKF Pan American Karate Championship. The Belizean team says they are looking forward to the event and have done some domestic traveling to prepare for it. Leonard Nuñez, Captain, Belize Shoto Kan Karate Team […]
Bodybuilder Dylan Jones is feeling very fit after competing with over eighty of the region’s best in the Central American and Caribbean Bodybuilding Championships in St. Maarten last weekend. Jones, who has dedicated himself to the sport for four years, placed fifth in the Masters category out of a field of fifteen. He says this […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is yet another dose of Sports Monday. Sir George Brown’s Acros Bombers made its debut into semi-pro football against no less than the three time defending champion Juventus of Orange Walk yesterday in the friendly confines of the M.C.C. Grounds. In the opening moments the champions must give […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re in tune for this serving of Sports Monday. The softball playoffs at the Rogers Stadium moved one step closer to the showdown between Lady Rebels and J.L.s. With a one game lead in this best of three semi-final series, Lady Rebels gives the ball to ace pitcher Sherlene […]
If Wednesday night’s tie between Taiwan and a Belize National Basketball Selection was an exercise in international diplomacy the Thursday night rematch, with B.T.L. Nets as the home team, was not so polite. Although the Nets came out smoking to build an impressive first half lead the determined teamwork and three-point shooting of the visitors […]
If you missed it, you’ve still got another chance to watch them in action, tonight against the B.T.L. Nets. Last night’s game at the City Centre pitted the Taiwanese National Team against the Belize National Selection. The local boys put up a good, solid fight. Here’s a special report from commentator and News Five Sports […]
To get all you basketball fans out of that slump you’ve been feeling, the National Sports Council and the Taiwanese government have organized the first ever match-up between two Belizean teams and Taiwan’s National Team. The twelve players representing Taiwan arrived in Belize today after playing in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala. While Taiwan […]
Their players might not be six feet tall but they played to win and win they did. The Police Department Eagles entered the interoffice basketball competition as the underdogs but went on to become the kings of the courts in the final game where they beat the Housing and Planning Team by a score of […]
While Belizeans and Taiwanese living in Belize will be watching basketball this week, softball fans also have something to cheer about with two Belizeans inducted into the International Softball Federation’s Hall of Fame. At the nineteenth I.S.F. World Congress in Korea Charles Solis Senior was elected into the Hall of Fame in the Manager/Coach category […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re back at you with a hefty slice of Sports Monday. So we’ll kick off things with international football match at the Norman Broaster Stadium where our National Under twenty-three football selection played host to their Guatemalan counterpart in a bid for the Sydney Olympics. First things first though, […]
The big boxing bout at big Bird’s Isle this Sunday has just gotten bigger. In addition to Horace Cadle versus Javier Gomez and the Ewart Lunk/Edgat Tuz match-ups, another professional bout has been added. Norman “Pappy Poti” Orosco will face Edward Lynch of Hattieville in a four round grudge match. We caught up with Orosco […]
On this week’s Sports Monday James Adderley highlighted the plight of almost a dozen runners who showed up at the starting line for what they thought was a scheduled ten-K race in Belize City. When the officials failed to show and the race obviously cancelled the irate athletes vented their anger to the media. Today […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re invited to this monster dish of Sports Monday. The Santino’s Cycle Classic, in its fifteenth edition, for the first time featured a two-stage race which reigned supreme here in the city over the weekend. We take you to the start on Saturday on the Northern Highway and it’s […]
The disabled among us are all too often shut away from the rest of society like sources of embarrassment and shame. To try to change this way of thinking, the Special Olympics will be held in November. But in the meantime, the committee is organizing events that will get the disabled involved in outdoor events […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for this serving of Sports Monday. The mountain bike community under the leadership of “Popular Fat Boy” Spain out did themselves with a presentation of a monster race yesterday that is bound to go down in history. The president himself is assisting with the registration […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this serving of Sports Monday. First of all we want to thank Karl Tillett for the wonderful job he did holding down the sports desk and yes we’re glad to be back. Folks yesterday saw the presentation of a massive criterion event around the Princess Margaret Drive […]
Good evening sports fans and welcome to Sports Monday. I am Karl Tillett sitting in for the inimitable James Adderley once more. Cricket is a sport born in England and widely played with great passion in England and many of her former possessions. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan and the Caribbean have a […]
