As attention shifts to Belize’s own international performances, dismal in most cases, this afternoon local organisers maintained that initiatives to step up our athletic success are already in the works. Yolanda Fonseca, Bz. Chief of Mission, Belize Commonwealth Games The National Olympic Association has a plan whereby we are looking at a quadrennial programme to […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley stepping up with this fresh dish of Sports Monday. Recreational cycling has gripped Belize by a storm and even threatens to overtake the very highest levels inside the sport as far as popularity goes. Over the weekend the Santino’s Bike Club presented the King of the Hills Cycle Classic for […]
Normally, viewers would have to wait until Monday for their regular helping of sports, but the CONCACAF action in Orange Walk on Thursday night was so exciting, James Adderley just had to bring it to you tonight. James Adderley, Reporting Game two of the CONCACAF Champions Cup series between Eagles of Belize and Olympia of […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and here comes Sports Monday. The Queens of the Hill Cycling Classic was staged Saturday and Sunday over the weekend featuring two stages on the more hilly terrain inside this beautiful jewel. At the start of stage one of this event on Saturday, Shalini Zabaneh, Anthea Sutherland, Gina Lovell, Alicia […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we’re certainly glad you’re able to join us for this issue of Sports Monday. Yesterday the Sunday afternoon exploded at the Sandlighters Promenade where the Sprint Lionman Triathlon was presented by the Belize Triathlon Association. Among the afternoon movers here in Belize City is Liz Zabaneh haling from Independence […]
Calling all football enthusiasts…next week the National Sports Council will launch the pilot phase of a national goalkeeping workshop at the M.C.C. Grounds in Belize City. According to Tournament Coordinator, Marvin Ottley, participants don’t need to come with any kind of football skills to have fun and learn the game for free. This morning Ottley […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?re riding this fresh wave of Sports Monday. Not surprisingly folks, Emily the Hurricane put quite a damper on things here in Belize over the weekend, except for the Benque Fiesta which provided for us Belizeans, most of the non-Emily excitement over the past two days. The blast of […]
This weekend eight courageous women are expected to hit the hills and valleys of the Stann Creek and Cayo districts in the Belize Cycling Association’s annual Queen of the Hills competition. The country’s top female riders such as Fiona Humes Gonzalez, Marinette Flowers, Gina and Gabriel Lovell, and this year’s Cross Country Champion Anthea Sutherland, […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Harrison Parks National Cricket championship reigned supreme at Double Head Cabbage on Saturday where the host team Excellence went into game two of the three game series with a 1-game lead over Brilliant of Crooked Tree. For certain, the Double Head fans who had […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this fresh dish of Sports Monday. The Harrison Parks National Cricket Tournament staged game one of the three game championship series for 2005 at Crooked Tree Saturday where Brilliant hoped to take a one-game lead over archrival Excellence of Double Head Cabbage. The home team elects to bat last, […]
This weekend the hardwood at the Belize City Centre will echo with the sounds of basketball action as a Belizean All-Star line up takes on a roster of international collegiate players. The match-up is the result of an invitation from the American Airlines Ruff Riders basketball team of the United States challenging our national selection. […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this fresh dish of Sports Monday. Game one of the Regent?s Cup three-game championship series got off to a roaring start yesterday inside the People?s Stadium where Juventus of Orange Walk played host to the defending champion, Sagitun of Independence. The visitors managed to rouse Charlie Slusher in the […]
The Women’s Issues Network is known to many simply by its initials, WIN… and last night, it really was about women winning when the culmination of a basketball tournament pitted two strong teams against each other. James Adderley has the action in a special sports report. James Adderley, Reporting The WIN-Belize Female Basketball Tournament presented […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with yet another dish of Sports Monday. The WIN-Belize Female Basketball Championship series is currently taking centre stage at the City Centre. Yesterday Maria Chang Eagles went into game two of this three game series against perennial rivals Sparks with the opportunity to close out the show and grab the […]
Semi-pro basketball. It may have fallen off the national sports scene, but that does not mean that the hardwood at the Belize City Centre is silent. While an ongoing inter-office competition has been getting much of the media spotlight, a group of city women have been living out their hoop dreams over the last couple […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this version of Sports Monday. Week five of the Regent?s Cup playoffs found the defending champion and host team Sagitun fighting for its championship life against worthy contender San Pedro Seahawks Saturday night at Independence. With thoughts of repeat flashing, the 2004 BPFL champ looks for the early lead […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week four of the Regent?s Cup playoffs found two of the pre-season favourites locked in bitter combat inside the People?s Stadium yesterday as Juventus of Orange Walk hosted the defending champions Sagitun of Independence. The home team looks to establish the lead six minutes in, […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this fresh dish of Sports Monday. Week three of the Regent?s Cup playoffs took us again to Calcutta at Corozal where the home team Bulls hosted the sizzling San Pedro Seahawks on Sunday. Still looking for its first playoff win, the Bulls attack off this set piece and while […]
It’s called “Expedition Climb Up” and will take a group of adventure-seekers all the way to the top of Victoria Peak this weekend. For the second year running, a team of officers from the customs department will leave their air conditioned offices behind to trek miles of jungle terrain to raise funds to help the […]
Good evening I?m James Adderley with this massive dish of Sports Monday on your TV dial. Week two of the Regent?s Cup Playoffs took us to captivating Calcutta in Corozal where the home team Bulls played host to a red hot Juventus ball club from inside Orange Walk. Thus it?s no surprise that the Calcutta […]
It was intended to be a truce of sorts, a chance for enemies to put aside their grudges and to shoot hoops instead of bullets… And perhaps even more importantly, a welcome break from the violence that consumes so many young lives. Patrick Jones reports from the court, the basketball court. Patrick Jones, Reporting Their […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?re in tuned with Sports Monday. The fifteenth annual female Cross Country Classic ran for some sixty-five miles from Santa Elena, Cayo to Belize City in a monster package on the Western Highway yesterday. For sure, the early morning sights and sounds are indeed quite distinct from those of […]
What do most women want for Mother’s Day? Flowers? A sentimental card? Breakfast in bed? Sounds good, but so does some nice prize money. But just how many Belizean women are willing to ride all the way from San Ignacio to Belize City to get it? We’ll let Patrick Jones tell you. Patrick Jones, Reporting […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this week?s serving of Sports Monday. We take you immediately out to the City Centre where the WIN-Belize female basketball competition was in full effect Friday night as league-leading Maria Chance Eagles took on archrival, Sparks. Enid Dakers finds herself at the right time at the right place to […]
And just before we go, we have one final play to show you, coming out of the just concluded Central American Juvenile Female Softball Championships. This was a bittersweet effort turned in by two of the outfielders for the Belizean team. On a ball hit to left-centre-field, centre-fielder Kaina Martinez and left-fielder Nikita Young both […]
