On Thursday, Police United FC takes on Team Olimpia in its home game for the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League. In its last outing with Pachuca, team Belize took eleven goals and scored zero against the Mexican team. Back in August, Belize traveled to Honduras where it lost four-nil to Olimpia. Today, team Olimpia arrived in […]
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The jewel is preparing to host an international volleyball competition. It’s a first for the local volleyball association which is putting its best foot forward in terms of logistics as well to compete. The local team will be competing against teams from the region but the highly anticipated game will be against Guatemala. News Five’s […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The premier league of Belize continues to roll and the Belize City fans were treated to a rather entertaining ballgame as the B.D.F. hosted the Freedom Fighters from Punta Gorda Saturday night inside the MCC Grounds where we certainly pleased with the return of […]
In sporting news, there is a major championship tournament coming to Belize next week, in the sport of volleyball. Belize is hosting the International Volleyball Federation’s World Championship qualification tournament for our region from September twenty-fourth to thirtieth. All Central American countries save the higher-ranked Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic are participating. This afternoon […]
The competition begins next week Saturday at the Saint Catherine Academy Multi-Purpose Center on Marine Parade. Belize as hosts faces a tough road to try to reach the top two teams and advance to the Continental Round. The Association has hired Cuban coach Delio Arruebarrena to oversee preparation of the team. He spoke to us […]
Eleven to nil….that is the most embarrassing score of the home game between Police United and Pachuca from Mexico which was held on Tuesday night. By our records, it is the worst ending to any international game played by Belize with now Pachuca edging closer to a place in the 2016/2017 Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League […]
At this time at the F.F.B. Stadium in Belmopan, the Mexican Football team, Pachuca is playing against Police United from Belize in a return match in the CONCACAF Champions League. It’s not going well for Belize and at half time; the Mexican team continues to rout Belize five-nil. A sports team on the ground reports […]
National football champions of Belize, Police United Football Club, have been off to a rough start in their maiden CONCACAF Champions League appearance. They lost four goals to nil to Honduran giants Olimpia in their first game and three to nil to Mexican club side Pachuca on the road after holding them to a scoreless […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Infotel went into Game II of the BDBA Firms Division 3 game Champion Series needing only a win to own the 2016 title as they faced the Belize Bank Bulldogs inside the BES Gym Friday night. The opening minutes displayed the tension in the […]
We’ll have much more in Sports with James Adderley, but today, elite female cyclist Kaya Cattouse told us that she competed in a race in Merida over the weekend. The two stage criterium saw over two hundred cyclists from the region compete. Cattouse won both races at La Vuelta Yucatan 2016. She returned to the […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We turn immediately to the Premier Football League Opening season where Week II took us to Sugar City where Orange Walk FC hosted the closing season champion Placencia Assassins inside the People’s Stadium. Folks the difference became as clear as daylight when 5 minutes […]
Good evening, welcome to Sports Monday. The Premier Football League Opening Season got off over the weekend with 4 matches countrywide. Saturday night at Capital City, Belmopan hosted FC Belize at the Isidoro Beaton Stadium. FC Belize looks to open the scoreboard when Marlon Gutierrez engineers this one on one encounter with the keeper […]
Belize is being proudly represented at the Olympics by Belizeans Katy Sealy, Brandon Jones and Renick James. James, who competed in judo, lost his ninety-kilogram or hundred and ninety-eight pound category, round-of-thirty-two match on Wednesday to Nauru’s Ovini Uera. He is back in Belize and told us all about his experience on the mat today: […]
James, an instructor with the Belize Judo and Jiujitsu Academy, is proud of completing the match and representing his country. He says that Belize can look forward to medals in this discipline as our practice and instruction improves: Renick James, Olympian in Judo “Definitely I am looking forward to the next event that is […]
Eleven Miss Belize pageant contestants and their director; the Special Envoy for Women and Children; the Vice-President of OCEANA in Belize; the Music Ambassador and son of the Prime Minister, among others, this afternoon found themselves together at the Baymen’s Tavern of the Radisson Fort George Hotel. The purpose? To cheer on American gymnast and […]
Biles, who has Belizean parentage, has accepted an offer of a visit for her and her teammates to the Jewel by the Belize Tourism Board, although details are to be worked out. Today’s Olympic watch party” was covered by a crew from American news channel CNN. But, is the local cheering for Biles, like for […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Belize District Basketball Association completed its back matches on Friday night at the BES Gym as it prepares to stage its 8 team playoffs which gets off on the 20th and the 21st of August. We caught the matchup between 2 playoff bound […]
On Wednesday we told you about Simone Biles, the American gymnast with a special Belizean connection, who was all set to dominate in the Olympic Women’s Gymnastics competition. The competition was such a big deal that it earned a special local audience as relatives of Biles were joined in Belize by a writer for the […]
For Belizeans following the Olympics, the name Simone Biles may have popped up a number of times by now. The nineteen year old gymnast has already won several world championships outside of her qualifying for the US Olympic Gymnastics team, and is widely considered the top gymnast in the world. She and the rest of […]
In Rio today, Belize’s own Renick James went up against Ovini Uera of Nauru; a tiny island nation northeast of Australia, in the men’s ninety kilograms Judo event. With Judo’s fast paced action and penalties against non-combativity, the match was over fairly quickly. James put up an admirable defence until a second near-takedown earned Uera […]
Three Belizean athletes are participating in their very first Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero—Renick James in Judo; Katy Sealy, in the hundred meter hurdles and Brandon Jones in the two-hundred-meter race. Twenty-eight year old instructor James is competing on Wednesday while Sealy and Jones will be competing in separate disciplines in the track and […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Hurricane Earl has come and gone, leaving in its wake, a major setback to the sports—at least in the southern part of the Jewel. The Isidoro Beaton Stadium inside Capital City Belmopan was the only venue in the area hit that withstood the ferocious […]
Good Evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The BDBA’s Firms Division Basketball is in a rush to conclude its remaining back matches and Saturday night inside Big Bird’s Isle we caught up with the heated showdown between Central Health and the Belize City Council Dragons that was aired on July 7th. […]
It has been announced that track and field athletes Katy Sealy and Brandon Jones will represent Belize at the Olympics 2016 in Rio. While the Sealy selection has stirred controversy because Kaina Martinez will not represent, tonight, we can report that twenty-eight year old judo instructor and athlete Renick James has been chosen as a […]
