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Dynamic duo to double up as wild card entry in main draw
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net THEY have long been close friends and junior rivals. Now Nikkita Fountain and Grand Bahamian Larikah Russell are teaming up to play together as a doubles combination - a role they have playe
Dynamic duo to double up as wild card entry in main draw
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net THEY have long been close friends and junior rivals. Now Nikkita Fountain and Grand Bahamian Larikah Russell are teaming up to play together as a doubles combination - a role they have playe
Dynamic duo to double up as wild card entry in main draw
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net THEY have long been close friends and junior rivals. Now Nikkita Fountain and Grand Bahamian Larikah Russell are teaming up to play together as a doubles combination - a role they have playe
COACH BULLARD HOLDS OPEN HOUSE FOR PARENTS OF BASKETBALL PLAYERS
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net COACH Geno Bullard Sr is no longer at Westminster College where he helped to turn the Diplomats' basketball programme into the most successful in the Bahamas Association of Independent Secon
Tia Rolle aims to be one of the next female sprinters to watch
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net SHE has made the transition from one division and one school to another but Tia Rolle's goal is still the same - to be one of the next female sprinters to watch out for. Now at Alabama State
Cousins making their presence felt at Nationals
WHEN they are not playing each other or teaming up together in doubles, close cousins Saphire and Breann Ferguson are on the sidelines cheering for one another. The daughters of two brothers - Barron and Bjorn Ferguson - recalled how they got introduced to the sport of tennis by their grandfather Roscoe Ferguson, whom they call “pappa.”
'Fireman' postpones meet until next April
INSTEAD of going to Grand Bahama, Chris 'Fireman' Brown has decided to holf off his initial Invitational Track and Field Classic and is now expected to stage it at the new Thomas A Robinson Stadium next year.
Dominic Demeritte ‘humbled’ by new post
DOMINIC Demeritte, the last athlete to win the International Amateur Athletic Federation’s World Indoor Championships’ 200 metres, is now the latest Bahamian to enter the track and field coaching ranks at an American college - a role he relishes with enthusiasm. Last week, Jayme Pendergast, the director of athletics at Life University, announced the appointment of the 1995 St John’s College graduate to the position of leader of the men’s cross country and men’s track and field programme in Marietta, Georgia.
Justin Roberts and Maginley stay alive in doubles
AFTER they both got eliminated the day before in their singles, Bahamian Justin Roberts and his close friend and long-time partner Jody Maginley from Antigua and Barbuda stayed alive in the men’s doubles in the Legacy Bank NWA Tennis Series.
Boxers have golden opportunity to prepare for 'Road to London'
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net COACH Andre Seymour says local boxers Valentino Knowles and Carl Hield have a golden opportunity to continue their preparation for the "Road to London" when they travel to Cardiff, Wales, th
200 specialty only focus for 'golden girl' Debbie
200 specialty only focus for 'golden girl' Debbie By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net Having struggled in her bid to win a medal in the shorter sprint, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie has decided to try something new this year and o
NPWBA best-of-three playoffs to begin this weekend
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net WITH the regular season completed, the New Providence Women's Basketball Association is all set to begin its best-of-three playoffs, featuring the three previous championship teams, on Satur
Major fast tracks to 2022 Commonwealth Games
WITH the postponed 2020 Olympic Games that have been pushed back to next year in Tokyo, Japan out of his grasp, cyclist Jay Major is focusing his attention on his third appearance at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
The Transition Game
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net HE'S 6-feet, 9-inches and 270 pounds. He hails from the Family Island. But come this year, center Shaquille Oneil 'Shaq' Cleare will be making the transition from high school to college on a
Henry Rolle to co-ordinate relay coaching staff
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net WHEN Team Bahamas heads to this year's Olympics, coach Henry Rolle said they are going to make every effort to ensure that all four relay teams are present at the Games in London, England. R
Triple jump legend Willie Banks visits Nassau
VETERAN long-triple jump coach Peter Pratt said he was delighted to renew his relationship with former American world record holder Willie Banks.
Leevan Sands: ‘My goal is to qualify for Tokyo’
AS he prepares for his second season as an assistant coach with the Bears’ track and field team at the University of Northern Colorado, Leevan “Superman” Sands is eagerly looking forward to his final appearance at the Olympic Games.
NPBA ELECTIONS: ‘We couldn’t proceed with the meeting’
EUGENE Horton will have to hold onto the presidency of the New Providence Basketball Association a little longer than he had anticipated.
High jumper Donald Thomas eager to resume season next year
EVEN as a late bloomer in the sport, Grand Bahamian Donald Thomas has surged on top of the Bahamian chart as a high jumper, having won every medal possible except for the Olympic Games.
BJ Murray III wins Home Run Derby
POWER hitting third baseman Bertram Murray III, coming off an impressive year in the Chicago Cubs minor league baseball organisation, capped off the first All-Bahamian final to become the first home grown player to capture the Don’t Blink Home Run Derby title. In a dramatic showdown as the fifth edition of the event returned from Paradise Island to the Montagu shores, Murray, better known as ‘Deeja,’ out-slugged Trent ‘T-Money’ Deveaux 9-8 in the final of the country’s biggest event that highlighted the majority of the players playing in the minor leagues or in college.
