Good evening and welcome to this week’s edition of Sports Monday, I am Paul Lopez. We have some exciting sports highlights and reviews for you tonight. So, let’s get started with the Inter-Office Basketball League. The IBL 2022 Champions have been crowned and they are none other than the undefeated team Tuff eNuff. Taking a […]
Well-known Belizean cyclist, Oscar Quiroz has officially signed with the Miami Blazers, a racing team from the United States. The Galen graduate and junior environmental policy analyst within the Department of Environment began participating in the sport from the age of fourteen and became one of the country’s top cyclists, competing nationally and internationally. Quiroz has […]
So who are the Miami Blazers? Well, the 2022 Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic champion is a member of the team. Zamir Guerra, the Public Relations Officer of the 501 Valvoline Cycling Team, for which Quiroz is a member, shares insight on the fairly new team that has been making its mark in cycling […]
Goodnight and welcome back to another edition of Sports Monday. I am Paul Lopez. Let’s jump right into it folks. The biggest basketball match of the year, to date, went down inside the Belize Civic on Friday night. It was all action and no-nonsense when Tuff eNuff clashed with Central Health/Customs in the first of […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of Sports Monday. I am Paul Lopez. Let’s kick this week’s coverage off with our player of the week. We had a conversation with one of our Female National Volleyball Team players, Fatima Ramirez, who is making major moves in Jacksonville, Florida. Ramirez is pursuing a bachelor’s degree at Edwards […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of Sports Monday, I am Paul Lopez. With the passing of Hurricane Lisa came devastation across Belize District. Many residents are still picking up the pieces and, sporting facilities across the city were not spared. Hurricane Lisa came in like a raging bull at a rodeo event, leaving hundreds of […]
Welcome to another edition of Sports Monday, I am Paul Lopez. The Inter-Office Basketball League is down to its final matches. On Friday night, basketball fans made their way over to the Belize City Civic Center for two action-packed games. Tuff eNuff took on Belize Water Services in game two of their best-of-three series. Well […]
On Wednesday, we told you that an international friendly match between Ghana’s Asante Kotoko Football Club and the Belize National Football team was scheduled for November. Well, today the Football Federation of Belize issued a releasing stating that the National Team Committee has taken a decision to cancel the matches. According to the release, the […]
Back in September, we told you that the Belize Jaguars Football Team has been preparing to play against Ghana’s top football club. Well, the Ghanaian team has confirmed that they will arrive in Belize on November fifteenth. The team plans to be here for ten days, not only to compete in the highly anticipated match, […]
Goodnight folks, and welcome to another edition of Sports Monday. I am Paul Lopez. We bring you highlights from sporting events that took place over the last week. Tonight, we continue our coverage of the Inter-Office Basketball League, we will focus on two cycling showdowns, tell you what’s happening in boxing, and in tertiary level […]
Welcome to another edition of Sport Monday. I am Paul Lopez. This week we will dive into the results of Friday night’s Inter-Office Basketball showdown inside the Mexico Sports Complex, in memory of Ian Mariano Sr. Also, we will be bringing you the highlights from Championship Day for the Live Life Youth Basketball Tournament 2022, […]
Moving on now to some more basketball action, we take you to the Lopez Mateo Park in King’s Park for the finals of the Live Life Youth Basketball Tournament 2022. The Ministry of Home Affairs and Sprite teamed up earlier this year to give young men from communities across Belize City and surrounding villages an […]
And from the Hard Rock Boyz, came the MVP for the Live Life Youth Basketball Tournament. He is none other than Kevin Hamilton. Hamilton, at only twenty eight years old, has enjoyed a great deal of personal success in the sport. He has defied many of the odds stacked up against him, coming from a […]
To wrap things up for this edition of Sports Monday, we bring you some stats from the Premier League of Belize football. PLB is in its tenth week of competition. The past weekend saw Wagiya defeat Progresso FC with a score of one to zero. Benque Viejo FC took on Verdes FC and won that […]
Welcome to this Monday’s edition of Sports Monday. Tonight, we will be bringing you the stats and highlights from the U13 Elite Boys Championship, the Benny’s Interoffice Basketball League, and the men’s national team basketball open tryouts. We begin our coverage with the Football Federation of Belize’s Under-thirteen Elite Boys Championship, which came to a […]
Moving on now to the Benny’s Interoffice Basketball League in memory of Ian Mariano Sr. On Friday night, six teams faced off in three, action-packed basketball matches inside the Mexico Center in Belize City. The Central Health/Customs Enforcers took on the Digi Wallet Bucks. The Belize Coast Guard/Belize Port Authority went up against the Grace […]
This week’s I.B.L. matches are scheduled for this Thursday, Friday, and Sunday inside the Mexico Center. And to more basketball news, an open men national team basketball tryout was held on Sunday at the Belize Civic Center. The tryout was hosted to select a national team to compete in the upcoming FIBA 2023 United Cup […]
Earlier generations knew and respected her for her passion in the discipline of boxing. She was a force to be reckoned with. The name Henrietta Gill was known for turning boys to men through the discipline of a sport and Sabreena Daly found out how in her latest look on the right side. William […]
Gianni Infantino, the President of FIFA, is in Belize. He has been in the country since Tuesday. Today, he called on government officials, as well as the staff at the Football Federation of Belize. It is the first time in recent history that a president of FIFA has visited the country. Infantino was greeted by […]
President Infantino was also asked for his take on F.F.B.’s performance, as far as managing FIFA funds are concerned. The two-time FIFA President sang the praises of President Sergio Chuc, lauding what he says has been transparent management of finances. Here is what he told reporters. Gianni Infantino, President, FIFA “I really want to […]
Women representing Belize internationally in football does not make the news every day, but we have one person to feel proud of tonight in that discipline. Jayda Brown graduated from Galen University last year and is now enrolled at Campbellsville University where she plays football with the university’s Tigers Football Team in the state of […]
There’s also basketball news tonight with the first-of-its-kind National Basketball Tournament held over the weekend for youths in Belize City. The Ministry of Youth and Sports hosted the two-day event for under-fifteen and under-eighteen youths who competed for cash prizes and scholarships for secondary and tertiary levels. The tournament marked the culmination of two months of […]
Minister Espat also gave an update on the use of the Belize Civic Center. The thirty-three million dollar sporting facility is buzzing with activities says Minister Espat. He says that the greatest challenge the Civic Center poses is its excessive consumption of energy used to power its air conditioning system. But, according to Espat, engineers […]
Today, Belize captured two gold medals at the U-20 Central American Athletics Championships in Managua, Nicaragua. Mia Sylvester won Belize’s first gold medal in the discus throw event with a throw of forty point eight-five meters, improving on her personal best by almost four meters. Later, Kirk Elrington Junior won Belize’s second gold medal, this […]
Belize’s athletes in the various disciplines are often put to the test when they compete against their peers from other countries. Sometimes they make us proud, and at other times, we see where their preparation in the sport did not make them the best at their game to contend on the international level. Many have […]
