Good evening, I’m James Adderley with yet another delivery of Sports Monday. Week nine of the Belize Bank Super League brought the re-match between Kraal Road and Hattieville F.C. to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday as the city team looked to avenge a 2-1 loss earlier this season at seventeen miles. However, absolutely no one was […]
The students who represented Belize are back home after a long and uneventful trip at the CODICADER games in Costa Rica. The teams failed to pull off any win and lost every game to the remaining Central American countries. They returned to Belize on a direct Maya Regional Airline flight due to the ongoing conflict […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we’re certainly glad that you could join us for this rush of Sports Monday. Week eight in the Belize Bank Super League took us to Dangriga where the defending champions Valley Renaissance were attacked inside the Carl Ramos Stadium by the Placencia Assassin. In fact the visitors left no […]
The National Basketball team may have won silver at the COCABA games in Cancun but the other battle to keep the medals occurred last week at the International Basketball Federation’s headquarters in Switzerland. Attorney Godfrey Smith, who is just back in Belize, argued that seven disputed members of the national basketball team were eligible to […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley. This is Sports Monday. Week two in the BPFL brought the internecine struggle between FC Belize and the Belize Defense Force at the MCC Grounds yesterday. It’s FC Belize that looks to strike early off the set piece triggered by Orland Lyons that leads to a leader from mark Leslie. […]
The silver trophy is safely in the hands of the Belize National Basketball Team after their spectacular performance in the COCABA games in which they beat the other Central American teams and held the Mexicans at bay until the last seconds of a gripping game. But in Switzerland today, a hearing was held on the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve just logged on to this show we call Sports Monday. The national Celebrations always bring with it a plethora of sporting events and this year is no exception. So we take you immediately to the new and improved Albert Street Circuit for the start of the Elite Open […]
The Santino’s Cycling Classic started in 1985. It was a staple sporting event that would motivate families to line up along Albert and Regent Streets to watch amateur and professional riders compete. In recent years, the event was held on Princess Margaret Drive. The last time the event was held downtown was in 1997 and […]
The COCABA games played in Cancun, Mexico almost a month ago and memories are still vivid as the national basketball team, Belizean Heritage, beat all the Central American teams and came short of the gold on the last seconds of a tight game with Mexico. The team came home to a hero’s welcome as silver […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re very welcome to this delivery of Sports Monday. Week five of the Belize Bank Super League brought San Felipe Barcelona to Belize City yesterday, hosted by Kraal Road inside the M.C.C. Grounds. After a rather controversial start to the season Kraal Road looks to strike early when Tyrone […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The 2009 B.P.F.L. Football Season kicked off yesterday with three big matches nationwide. Here in Belize City at the M.C.C. Grounds, F.C. Belize opened against a San Pedro team intent on establishing itself as a legitimate title contender this time around. However, it is the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re most welcome to this rush of Sports Monday. The Belize National Cricket Champion emerged yesterday at Bermudian Landing where game two of the three game championship series was staged as Excellence of Double Head went in with a one game lead over Wicked Eleven of Flower’s Bank. It’s […]
The basketball dream team received a heroes’ welcome when they returned home on Saturday but it is still not certain if they will keep their silver trophy. The team played all their games under protest after COCABA and the other teams questioned their Belizean heritage. There is still no word from FIBA on whether we […]
Team Belize won silver at the COCABA games in Cancun, Mexico. But despite the silver cup and the heroes welcome given to the players, there is still an air of doubt as to whether the governing body, the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), will accept the results earned on the court. Minister of Sports Elvin Penner […]
By now you probably know two things about the COCABA championship for men held in Cancun, Mexico last week: one, Team Belizean Heritage finished second and two, Team Mexico won a squeaker after a questionable flagrant foul was called with the score tied and only twenty seconds left on the game clock. For many people […]
While the success of Team Belizean Heritage in Cancun won the hearts and support of most Belizeans it also served to re-ignite the discussion about dual-nationality and even the validity of the latest constitutional reform being proposed by the Barrow administration. Under the seventh amendment to the Belize Constitution, government is recommending that persons with […]
Marion Jones won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She won the hearts of Belizeans when she showed how proud she was of the Jewel by pulling out the Belizean flag as she made a victory lap. There were plans to transform the National Stadium into the Marion Jones stadium. But […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re certainly very privileged to present to you this package of Sports Monday. The nation was riveted by the 2009 COCABA Basketball Championship as it was staged at Cancun, Mexico last week where in four days Belize beat Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama and Costa Rica despite the attempt to force […]
The road to gold for Team Belizean Heritage has meant defeating Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama and Costa Rica. Tonight, in a little more than an hour, the focus will switch to Team Mexico which besides having home-court-advantage has also been dubbed as the best Mexican National Team yet. For our own dream team, it will be […]
The discussion over home grown and international players has almost fallen dormant in the face of the success of Team Belizean Heritage in Cancun. In yesterday’s newscast, we spoke with basketball officials about the need for better sporting facilities and also the re-establishment of a semi-pro league to showcase local talent. One name that came […]
But “Too Tall” is not the only one making predictions. News Five took to the streets to find out how the average Belizean is calling it. Fred Garcia, Basketball Player “I guess like every Belizean who has been following, I am and I am actually looking forward to a good show from our boys.” Duane […]
Yesterday it was Panama, today in semifinal play Team Belize—Belizean Heritage—won comfortably over Costa Rica by twenty-four points on the way to proving that games should be settled on the court. Final score: Belize ninety-nine, Costa Rica seventy-five. So what’s next for our Dream Team? Team Mexico in the finals. Yesterday Mexico demolished Costa Rica […]
And Minister of Sports, Elvin Penner, left the country this morning to join the throng of supporters standing behind the Belize National Team in Cancun, Mexico. Penner, along with representatives from his ministry, will also accompany the team on their return trip to Belize. When they touch down at the Phillip Goldson International Airport, following […]
But after Saturday’s motorcade, what’s next for Team Belizean Heritage after the COCABA Championship for men is still up in the air. Yet the possibilities seem endless at this point for our dream team. Even if Belize makes it all the way to the 2012 Olympics, there is a roadmap that the players must follow […]
Tomorrow the Ministry of Sports will break ground for the phase one of the reconstruction of the Marion Jones Sporting Complex. During halftime our correspondent in Cancun, Ava Lovell, caught up with National Sports Council Executive Director, Anthony Michael and asked about developmental plans for basketball in Belize. Anthony Michael, Executive Director, National Sports Council […]
