Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Belize City first division football competition for the Smart Challenge Cup has moved into the second round. So we took in Saturday’s matchup between Kraal Road and BWEL Jaguars inside the M.C.C. Grounds. The first real threat at g oal comes from the Jaguars […]
If you were cruising along various basketball courts and football fields on south side Belize City, you would note that some refurbishments are taking place. The National Sports Council is in charge of the upgrade to sporting facilities in the old capital and the money, not a whole lot, forty thousand dollars, was approved by […]
There is a new head coach for the senior male softball national team. On Saturday, the executive council of the Belize Softball Federation named veteran softball player, Nelberth Flowers, to head the team. Flowers has a long trajectory in the sport and has played for the jewel in several regional games. He was a member […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we certainly welcome you to this issue of Sports Monday. As the Belizean nation gets ready for the Holy Saturday Cross Country event, the Belize Cycling Association continues to present even more races in an effort to prepare its athletes for prime time. So we looked in on Saturday’s […]
The Belize City over thirty-five football competition continues to roll inside the M.C.C. Grounds as the battle for the lead in the standings between Ebony Lake and Kulture Yabra rages. Both teams saw action yesterday with the number one spot at stake. And here’s kickoff time as the cellar dwelling, Northside United, goes up against […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and it is indeed with great pleasure that we welcome you to this first delivery of Sports Monday for 2010. New Years Day brings with it a monster cycling show sponsored by Krem and this time around some hundred and ten athletes in the four major categories suited up for […]
There is an update to the ongoing challenges of the Belize National Basketball Team who won silver at the August COCABA Games held in Cancun, Mexico. You will recall that the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), disqualified Herbert Allen, Dakin Braddik, Charlie Burgess and Kyron Stokes. FIBA claimed they weren’t Belizeans or that they didn’t receive […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s your weekly dish of Sport’s Monday. It was a big weekend out at Independence Saturday night as Texmar United hosted San Felipe Barcelona in a must win situation after losing game one of the Belize Bank Super League Championship three game series in a scorching 3-2 affair that […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Belize Bank Super League Tournament kicked off its championship series as San Felipe Barcelona hosted Texmar United of Independence up north inside Orange Walk yesterday. At stake is twenty-seven thousand, five hundred Belize dollars, a gold medal for each player off the winning team […]
In other news, Belizean track star Marion Jones proudly raised the Jewel’s flag at the 2000 Sydney Olympics where she won five medals; three gold and two bronze. But she was stripped of those awards after admitting in October of 2007 to using steroids prior to the event. Jones gave up the medals days after […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we’re coming at you with yet another splash of Sports Monday. Yesterday brought money time to the M.C.C. Grounds as the Belize Premier Football League staged its final game in the home and away championship series between F.C. Belize and the Belize Defence Force for the 2009 title. The […]
And it’s not one of the dominant sports, but table tennis has been gaining popularity over the past couple years. A workshop started today at the auditorium of the Belize Elementary School (B.E.S.) to teach coaches the proper techniques of the sport. It is a first level course and twenty-four participants from all over the […]
The Belize Basketball Federation has embarked on an ambitious training program targeting four areas: discipline, increased competition, promoting and building the sport. It program is designed for players and coaches. This follows a summer camp in August in which the Federation partnered with UNICEF to provide training on the fundamentals of the sport. And this […]
And while at the training program, we got an update on the status of an appeal regarding the nationality of Herbert Allen, Dakin Braddik, Charlie Burgess and Kyron Stokes of Belizean Heritage who were disqualified by FIBA. In August, the team placed second in the COCABA Games. It’s been three months since the games that […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley rolling into the world with this segment of Sports Monday. The Belize Bank Super League kicked off its playoff round with the divisional elimination this weekend as Kraal Road, leader of the South Zone, hosted the number four seed from this division, Cayo South United. Despite dominating Cayo South during […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this dispatch of Sports Monday. With Ida gone, the Belize Premier Football League staged week eleven of its annual competition as advertised going into the weekend. On Saturday inside the M.C.C. Grounds, the Belize Defence Force played host to the San Pedro Dolphins in a […]
The students who competed in the CODICADER games in Costa Rica were awarded earlier this week, and today the sponsors took the spotlight. The National Secondary School Sports Association (NSSSA) handed out certificates of appreciation to the organizations that made it possible for one hundred and three Belizean athletes to participate in the competition. While […]
When a group of Belizean students travelled to Costa Rica to participate in a series of sporting events in September, they made the news because they encountered problems at the Honduras/Nicaragua border due to the political situation in Honduras. The students returned to Belize by plane and were again in the news because their performance […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week ten of the B.P.F.L. competition brought League Leading Hankook Verdes to the M.C.C. Grounds to face a floundering F.C. Belize who came in yesterday after losing two straight matches. Will they be able to avoid dropping three in a row? Well here goes. Feeling […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for this portion and Sports Monday. Kraal road of Belize City went into week twelve of the Belize Bank Super League with a four point lead in the standings of the north zone, already assured of moving on to the eight team playoffs. How did […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and it’s always a pleasure bringing you another this thing we call Sports Monday. Week nine of the B.P.F.L. regular season brought the internecine struggle between F.C. Belize and the Belize Defence Force to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday and indeed the outcome proved to be surprising. For the Military unit, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley rolling into your living room with this thing we call Sports Monday. The Belize Premier Football League provided evidence of still being alive this weekend with the actual completion of a double header package. Upon checking we found out that of the seven teams that started the 2009 season only […]
As you know by now, the national basketball team won silver at the COCABA championships in August in Cancun, Mexico. The team played under protest because the eligibility of several players were questioned by FIBA officials who felt that the nationality of the Belizean players had to be determined by the age of sixteen. The […]
The decision to appeal Haas’ judgment has to come from the Belize Basketball Federation. That is the only point bouncing in the mind of B.B.F. president Paul Thompson. The ruling never discussed the eligibility of the basketball team in the COCABA games in Cancun. So the B.B.F. is not sure whether or not the team […]
We begin tonight’s newscast with a breaking news from Geneva and it’s not good news, certainly, it is not what was expected. Late this afternoon, a decision was handed down in the case of the Belize Basketball Federation versus FIBA in which the federation was challenging the nationality of certain members of the Belize Team […]
