As preparations intensify for the Belize-Mexico match-up next week, tonight News Five’s Janelle Chanona takes a closer look at the players who will defend our national pride on the hardwood of the Belize City Centre. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This morning Team Belize hit the hardwood at the City Centre in its first official practice. The […]
With the clock counting down to next week’s big game against Mexico, this afternoon our News Five crew was part of the small welcoming committee waiting at the Phillip Goldson International Airport to greet two Belizean basketball players who will help to defend our national honour. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Point guard Darwin Carter and forward […]
Good evening. I?m James Adderley and you?re locked into this fresh flick of Sports Monday. They came from every walk of life … they came from every direction in every shape and size … every section was represented. The painted fans made a big time statement of support and nuff Sub Umbra Floreo showed up […]
Football, most commonly referred to as the World’s Sport is now Belize’s sport, with all eyes set on our Under 21 National Football Team ready to take on Panama this Sunday in the last match of the Central American Games. This tournament serves as prequalification for the Central American and Caribbean Football Championship to be […]
Since winning the CariCom Championship in 1998 Belize’s stature in international basketball has been on a downhill slide. That situation will hopefully be reversed when a newly selected national team will take to the City Centre court on May second and third against Mexico. The four game home and away series is prequalifier for what […]
The national under twenty-one football team continues its quest for international status despite being impeded by lukewarm support from the Belizean public. As the best loser from round one of the Central American under twenty-one championship, Belize finds itself paired with Panama for a final shot at the tournament in Cartejena, Colombia. The odds in […]
There was no shortage of bad news over the last four days but when future historians recount the happenings of Easter 2006, only one event will be remembered: the heroic ride of Shane Vasquez. In five hours and fifty-eight minutes of superhuman effort the twenty-seven year old from Cayo erased four years of national fustration […]
Tonight is the beginning of Belize’s longest holiday weekend and over the next four days some of us will be resting, some of us praying, some drinking … and many may be doing all three. But come dawn on Saturday morning any Belizean worthy of citizenship will be glued to the radio for coverage of […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this week?s serving of Sports Monday. The future of Belizean cycling was on display yesterday with the presentation of the Junior Cross Country Classic which left San Ignacio for the sixty-six mile ride to the Leslie?s Imports at the entrance of Belize City. Some thirty-one hopefuls, including the reigning […]
Tired but happy to be home, today Belize’s young football stars returned to familiar soil. Following a two-nil surprise victory over El Salvador on Sunday in Dangriga the nation’s football hopes were riding with the Belize squad when they entered Cuscutlan Stadium last night in San Salvador for the return match. Unfortunately they found themselves […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?re absolutely welcome to this Monday issue of Sports Monday. The highly anticipated U-21 clash between the national football teams of El Salvador and Belize took us to the Carl Ramos Stadium in Dangriga yesterday. And of course, the flags emphasize the gravity of this encounter as both teams […]
In a special appearance, tonight James Adderley reports on the arrival of an under twenty-one football squad out of El Salvador and how our boys are preparing for this weekend’s match-up. James Adderley, Reporting The national U-21 football team of Belize will face their Salvadoran counterparts in the first leg of the Central American Football […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and it?s a pleasure to welcome you this edition of Sports Monday. Folks we take you immediately to South Stann Creek for the start of the 2006 National Road Championship of cycling, which left scenic Silk Grass around nine a.m. yesterday. Going in as defending champion is the man Shane […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we welcome you to this fresh serving of sports Monday. Week five in the RFG Trophy Tournament found F.C. Belize of the Metropolis inside the Isidoro Beaton Stadium Saturday night against Belmopan United. And it?s the home team looking for the early lead off this spotkick from Derys Benavides, […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week three of the RFG Trophy Tournament brought Hankook Verdes of Cayo into the M.C.C. Grounds for a Sunday evening date with the Belize City team called F.C. Belize. And talk about a fast start for the home team. We?re only five minutes into the […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this hefty version of Sports Monday. The Baron Bliss weekend brought with it a plethora of sporting activity and we?ve got most of it for you. First we head west to the Hawkesworth Bridge in San Ignacio for the ninth running of this La Ruta Maya event. This year?s […]
For the past eight years, spectators and competitors alike have gathered beneath the Hawkesworth Bridge for the start of the La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge. Before dawn this morning, News Five’s Karla Vernon, Brent Toombs, and Stephen Ferguson headed west where they found spirits higher than the river. Karla Vernon, Reporting The eighth La […]
And while La Ruta Maya is the weekend’s big sporting event, the annual Baron Bliss Harbour Regatta will also kick off on Sunday. The sailing boat race committee hopes that a couple of changes this year will add more excitement to the event. According to Harbour Regatta Chairman Edward Flowers, the race course has been […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we?re here to drop this load of Sports Monday live and in living colour into your living rooms. The RFG Insurance Trophy Tournament, not to be confused with the RFG Insurance Cup Tournament, kicked off over the weekend featuring ten teams in five matches, from two groupings. At the […]
Football fans didn’t even have time to start missing their favourite players as this weekend turf action kicks off once again on fields across the country. Today we caught up with tournament coordinator Ruperto Vicente who explained how this year’s season will play out. Ruperto Vicente, Tournament Coordinator ?Football has become more exciting as a […]
Every March, sports fans turn their attention to the water … some to the Baron Bliss Harbour Regatta, but most to the La Ruta Maya River Challenge. Tonight we take a look at the race that will break backs in the name of bragging rights. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For the past seven years, everyone from […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?re totally welcome to this dish of Sports Monday. The Valentine Cycle Classic was unveiled on the Western Highway on Saturday in both male and female categories by the Belize Cycling Association. We now join the seven Belizean athletes who dared to start this forty-two mile journey from Cotton […]
It’s been missing from the Belizean sports scene for almost two years, but according to the organisers, this season semi-pro basketball is back with a vengeance. News Five’s Karla Vernon has the latest from the hardwood at the Belize City Centre. Karla Vernon, Reporting After a two year hiatus, semipro basketball opens tonight with defending […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this week?s splash Sports Monday. Day seven of the M and M Tour saw Marlon Castillo?s meteoric rise to the top of the overall standings. So as we join the start of the ninety-five mile ride in stage eight, packaged in a three-lap format from the Belmopan junction to […]
And in a final sports note, we are happy to report that on Saturday night Belizean Milt Palacio tied his career scoring mark by tallying twenty points in a game against the Houston Rockets. In addition to his nine buckets and two free throws, Palacio also pitched in with six assists. His team, the Utah […]
