Good evening folks, I am Duane Moody and welcome to this episode of Sports Tuesday. James Adderley is taking some time off, so I am sitting in for him. It’s week fifteen of the 2014 National Elite Basketball League and the top four teams in the semi-final rounds are Cayo Western Ballaz, Belize City […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week 14 in the NEBL brought regular season play to a close with 3 teams vying for the remaining 2 spots in the 4 team post-season. So we head to Birds Isle where Friday night Belize City Smart No Limit and the Dangriga Culture […]
Belize’s participation in the international football scene has been virtually absent since the Jaguars represented the Jewel in 2013 in a rather insipid debut at the CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament. While their introduction to a higher level of football has left a lot to be desired, the Football Federation of Belize is fielding the Lady […]
According to Lady Jaguars Head Coach Kent Gabourel, after sizing up the competition he is confident that the team will overcome the Guatemalans. As to the financial support, Vicente says the business community, as well as Lifeline Founder Kim Simplis-Barrow have all contributed generously to the football program. Kent Gabourel, Head Coach, Lady Jaguars […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. Week 13 in the NEBL season saw the Corozal Heat show up at Sugar City Friday night with only 6 players suited up to face the OW Running Rebels. Both teams come in with identical records of 2 wins 10 losses. Marcel Richards gets Corozal […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week 12 in the NEBL Season saw Belize City No Limit look for revenge against the Cayo Western Ballaz who had burned them in a 1 point Win at San Ignacio. At Bird’s Isle Friday night, No Limit came out looking to use the […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week 11 in NEBL Basketball brought a battle royal to San Ignacio where 2 teams with identical records of 9 wins 1 loss each took the court inside Sacred Heart College to determine who would be the undisputed league leader going into week 12 of […]
The National Elite Basketball League is heading into its eleventh week of regular season play and this weekend the number one seed San Pedro Tiger Sharks is set to take on the Cayo Western Ballaz. While the Western Ballaz will have home court advantage on Saturday, they share a similar record of nine wins and […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s the sporting news. The 86th running of the Annual Cross Country resigned supreme on Holy Saturday as expected from the biggest one-day sporting spectacle in this beautiful Jewel of ours. A total of 105 riders participated of which 21 were foreigners; about 20% of the field. Among […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We take you out immediately to scenic San Pedro for Saturday night’s big time shootout between San Pedro Tigersharks and Belize City Smart No Limit as the NEBL rolled into week 10 of 14 week regular season. Tonight, No Limit comes out to a smoking […]
One month ago Minister of Sports Herman Longsworth told News Five that the Marion Jones Sporting Complex was close to completion. That’s a story we had certainly heard before, multiple times, so we pushed him on it. He told us then that he had told the contractors that if the Cross Country Cycling Classic did […]
So that’s the Band Fest story in a nutshell. But since we were at the People’s Stadium, we couldn’t help but take a closer look at the facilities there. It was all pretty terrible. Apart from the broken down and burglarized B.N.E. building and the ashy football field…it all looked abandoned and decrepit – definitely […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We take you immediately top the Isidoro Beaton Stadium in Capital City where the Belmopan Bandits played host Verdes FC in PLB football which is rapidly streaking into money time as we enter week 1 of the 2nd round under the 2 round format. Verdes […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Let’s start with the action in the National Elite Basketball League which took a crucial ballgame to the Y Not Island at Dangriga Saturday night where the Culture Warriors were see bug to exact sweet revenge on the Cayo Western Ballaz to kick off the […]
The third annual primary school table tennis competition was held today at the Belize Elementary School Auditorium. Seven schools, sixty-four athletes and two hundred and fifty-six games later, the top four athletes were all of Saint Joseph Primary School. The competition is a part of the Belize Table Tennis Association’s goal to keep the sport […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. Week 7 brought up the halfway mark in the National Elite Basketball League so we journeyed to Orange Walk Saturday night where the Running Rebels were looking for only its 2nd season win against league leading San Pedro Tigersharks. A foot that looked much […]
Payanam, in the Dravidian language of Tamil, means journey. It is also the name of a photo exhibit that will be launched at the Image Factory on Friday. The collection of images depicting the people, places and cultural diversity of India was compiled by photographer Rajah Biswanath who, over the course of a twenty-two day […]
Super striker Deon McCauley, now signed with the Atlanta Silverbacks in the North American Soccer League, is basking in the limelight of his crowning achievement, besting household names, including Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as the world’s lead scorer on the road to World Cup 2014. McCauley’s rise to stardom is featured on FIFA.com in […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. The spotlight of NEBL basketball shone on Belize City’s Smart No Limit Friday night as they faced the Belmopan Bandits at Big Birds Isle in a bid to rebound from week 5’s heartbreaking loss to Cayo Western Ballaz at San Ignacio. The visitors open […]
Every year at this time, Special Olympics Belize stages its Fun Run to promote awareness of special needs children. The event has been growing exponentially and this year, Fun Runs are being held in all district towns from north to south. The main event was held this Wednesday in Punta Gorda attracting a huge crowd […]
Since its groundbreaking in August 2009, the Marion Jones Sporting Complex has been slow to become a reality. In fact, construction began on enclosing the perimeter before work could commence on the building of bleachers and other features of the multimillion dollar facility. It’s been over four and a half years and the stadium is […]
Athletes and coaches across various sporting disciplines are presently taking part in a training seminar organized by the Belize National Sports Council, in collaboration with facilitators from Northern Illinois University. The group is learning the implementation of critical life skills through sports. This afternoon a press conference was held at the ITVET to introduce the […]
President of the Basketball Federation of Belize, Paul Thompson, is the newly elected Vice President of the Confederation of Central American Basketball (COCABA). On Saturday, representatives from member states attended the annual congress meeting in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and Thompson was voted into the executive. Also elected to the executive was Yamil Bukele of El Salvador […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The 17th running of the Annual Belikin La Ruta Maya attracted 68 canoes as the Mopan River tossed to and fro under the power of the many paddles turning its waters at the start. For sure, some are in it to win it while […]
Crowds gathered this morning at the banks of the Mopan River in San Ignacio for the start of the annual Belikin La Ruta Maya River Challenge. More than sixty teams started the competition, but it is anyone’s guess how many will make it to the finishing line on Monday at the Belcan Bridge. And as […]
