Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s this week’s rush of Sports Monday. Thirty-three of the rising stars in Belizean Cycling suited up for the 12th Annual Junior Cross Country Cycling Classic which blasted off from the Succotz Ferry to complete a 73.9 mile journey that would finish in front of Leslie’s Imports here in […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We immediately head north to the People’s Stadium where Orange Walk United hosted Cayo South United yesterday week 5 of the Belize Bank Super League Tournament. At kick off time the host team wants to get back into the win column while the boys from […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The National Cricket Team has made a dramatic statement in International Cricket by winning the ICC Division 3 Tournament staged at Costa Rica, sweeping all 5 matches in emphatic fashion. On their return to the Jewel Yesterday was filled with excitement, pump and circumstance and […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday The final major race staged by the BCA before the Annual Cross Country Cycle Classic reigned supreme on the Western Highway. Yesterday as it ran from Belize City to Belmopan and back for some 100 miles, some 87 riders are in the hunt today as […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this is Sport’s Monday. The 14th edition of La Ruta Maya brought with it the finest competition this 170 mile river challenge has ever seen and indeed fans loved every moment of it. Here is the start on Friday morning below the Hawksworth Bridge in San Ignacio where 81 […]
As sixteen year old Ethan Neal crossed the finish line in Saturday’s cycling race, he collided into an oncoming pick-up truck. Neal suffered several injuries to the face, neck and body and he got over fifty stitches. His father, Guy Neal, put the blame squarely on the Belize Cycling Association, which he says should have […]
The House of Shotokan Karate Academy was victorious in a tournament against Mexico at the Belize Elementary School Auditorium last week. And this past weekend, there was a rematch but this time on Mexican soil. The Belizean delegation was not deterred and beat the Mexicans on their own turf. Twenty-four fighters, ranging from age four […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and we welcome you to this jam packed serving of Sport’s Monday. We start off with the opening match of the Belize Bank Super League Football Tournament as the defending champion and now named Raymond Gentle City Boys United hosted Paradise Freedom Fighters of Punta Gorda inside the MCC Ground’s […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and we welcome you to this fresh dish of Sport’s Monday. For a 5th time the elite cyclists of this nation took aim at breaking the 1 hour limit set by the Belize Cycling Association to finish the 26 mile ride to Hattieville and back would Saturday February 19th make […]
To be of sound mind you must also be of sound body. Mental health is improved and balanced with physical activity. And one of the most physical sports in Belize is improving the outlook of its younger members while promoting sportsmanship in a competition that is attracting local and foreign talent. The Shotokan House of […]
Tiger Woods is the most popular face associated with golf, which is not a sport popular to most of Belize. But the sport is actually making the fairway into a classroom. If you didn’t already know, there is a Belize Golf Association and it is currently combining the sport with education for the benefit of […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. The 16th Annual DigiCell Valentine’s Cycle Classic proved to us that cyclists are a special breed of athletes who never say quit. Some 83 elite riders were at the starting line inside San Ignacio for yesterday’s 81 mile ride despite a ferocious attack launched by […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley with this week’s portion of Sports Monday. Folks we’re in front of Leslie’s Imports as the Belize Cycling Association launched its 4th Saturday race in preparation for the mighty cross country classic set to blast off on Holy Saturday. 62 riders are signed up for this 26 mile ride and […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this is sports Monday. The Belize District Basketball Association U-17 and U-15 competitions blasted off inside the Civic Center Friday and indeed the fans were not ready for the monster package of excitement that would have been unwrapped. We pick up the action in the 1st quarter of the […]
When you hear about a Cross Country race, the Holy Saturday cycling classic likely comes to mind. But there’s another major Cross Country event in Belize and the rest of Central America but it involves track and field. Following a local competition, six runners have been selected to travel to Tela, Honduras for the Central […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and here is another portion of Sport’s Monday. The 2nd of the Belize Cycling Association’s weekend races for 2011 blasted off from I front of Leslie’s Imports on the Western Highway as 54 of the elite and Masters riders made a bid to complete the 26 mile ride in less […]
This afternoon, Belize played its third game in the regional football tournament, the Copa Centroamericana, in Panama. Today’s game was do or die for the national home team and we can say it is over. Belize fell victim to a poor and shaky start. Giving up a penalty so early in the game was unforgivable […]
It didn’t make it on our Monday sports report, but the Belize Basketball Federation is preparing for the upcoming National under fifteen and seventeen tournaments. And to make sure the ballers from the deep south are included, the President, Paul Thompson and Head Coach of the national junior team, Mathew Smiling, headed to Punta Gorda […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly bursting out another portion of Sport’s Monday. The foot community of Belize might be in disarray at this time but it certainly did not prevent the National Football Team as selected by the recently ratified Football Federation of Belize from competing in the Copa Centro Americano being staged by UNCAF […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley with this week’s serving of sports Monday. The special investigation committee convened by the Ministry of Sports to examine the Football Federation of Belize election processes is hard at work interviewing the various organizations that function under this particular umbrella. We spoke by phone to Miley Garcia National Sports Administrator […]
The Football Federation of Belize (F.F.B.) is responsible for local football. Over the past decade, the man at the helm of the F.F.B., Doctor Bertie Chimilio has been challenged many times but has never been removed from his post as president. But the Minister of Sports, John Saldivar, has signed a Statutory Instrument which he […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Folks we head north to the Santa Elena Border for the 21st running of the New Years Cycling Classic by Krem. On this New Years Day 86 elite riders are in the hunt for the glory including 6 Mexicans, 2 Costa Ricans, 1 Venezuelan and […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this our final edition of Sports Monday for the year 2010. As we look back over the year that was, we’ve singled out 5 events that have left an indelible mark on the Belizean psyche for one reason or the other. We begin with Dr. […]
It has been an extremely chaotic and controversial week for football and this past Saturday Dr. Bertie Chimilio re-emerged triumphant after yet another attempt to oust him from his seat as president of the Football Federation of Belize. Despite strong opposition from Minister of Sports John Saldivar and FFB hopeful Sergio Chuc, Chimilio was installed […]
Good evening I am James Adderley with this week’s dish of Sports Monday. On Saturday at Belmopan, the Football Federation of Belize endorsed Dr. Bertie Chimilio as President of this FIFA affiliated body by a 7 to 1 vote with the Belize Premier Football league being the only dissenting vote. The National Sports Council had […]
