This Weekend at Winton Rugby Centre:

1:00pm - High School Touch 7s
3:00pm - Buccaneers vs. Baillou - Nassau Cup

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Bahamas-born Andre Deveaux moved up to the big league -- in ice hockey -- this week as he started with the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs. Deveaux, who was born in Freeport, Grand Bahama, moved to Canada at age three and grew up playing hockey for the Welland (Ontario) Tigers. Deveaux signed with the Leafs as a free agent last July.

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On Sunday, November 30, the Bahamas American Football Federation (BAFF) announced the first 25 players chosen for Team Bahamas to fill the possible 75-player roster for the IFAF 2009 Junior World Championship Qualification Tournament games, beginning in Panama City, Panama on January 24, 2009.


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Dignitaries and Olympic guests alike stressed perseverance and hard work as key tools for excelling in life at the 9th Road Runners Track and Field Club Banquet, held in honor of Grand Bahamians Basil and Paula Neymour at the Wyndham Resort on Saturday night.

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Former World Boxing Association Caribbean super featherweight champion Bahamian Meacher Major has been given another opportunity to win the title. Dr. Calvin Inalsingh, who heads the FEDECARIBE, the WBA's Caribbean professional organization, has informed The Nassau Guardian that Major has been granted the option to fight for the vacant title

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When the 2009/10 season starts, there will be a new rugby club in Nassau. The club is being established by perennial favorite, Albon 'Ninja' Gibson and is currently under the working name of 'The Barbarians' (after his very successful sloop).


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The organizers of Girls Soccer on Grand Bahama wish to inform players and parents that there will be no soccer for girls on Saturday November 22 as the coaches will be away at a conference.


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The Saint Andrews Hurricanes under Athletic Director Peter Wilson has done it again, for the second straight year the school has shown its dominance in the softball league again this year his year they have won titles in three of the four divisions in The Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools softball championships.


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This Week at Winton Rugby Centre

Thursday, November 13th
4:30pm - Cuckoos vs. Baymen (Canada)
Players - please be reminded that Cuckoos will need some support this evening as many of their players cannot make the 4:30 kick off time. If you can be there, please bring your boots.

Saturday, November 15th
3:00pm - Baillou vs. Buccaneers - Nassau Cup

Click for last weeks results.

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This Saturday it will be week five in the Commonwealth American Football League and it is not the perennial powerhouse and defending champion Orry J. Sands Pros that are undefeated but, it is their longtime arch rival John Bull Jets who are 4-0 to start the season.


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Joe Calzaghe overcame a first-round knockdown to beat Roy Jones Jr. in a unanimous decision Saturday night. The Welshman said this would be his final bout

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Despite being held to a season-low 20 yards rushing, the Tennessee Titans improved to 9-0 Sunday with a 21-14 win over the Chicago Bears. The Titans remain the NFL's only undefeated team.

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Saturday, 8th - 3:00pm
Cuckoos vs. Baillou - Bahamas Cup
This is the season opener and both clubs are well up for it - should be a good game

Sunday, 9th - 3:00pm
Buccaneers vs. Baymen RFC
A 'new look' Buccaneers have a number of raw new recruits who will get their rugby baptism against Baymen Rugby Club, out of Newfoundland, Canada. With a couple of players who have Canada National Caps, Baymen are not to be taken lightly.


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Girls soccer is underway and growing in popularity on Grand Bahama. In the most recent series of games the scores were as follows:


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The Bahamas Golf Federation will host the Kerzner International/ Fred Higgs Corporate Golf Challenge on Sunday, November 9th at the Ocean Club Golf Course. The event in its 12th year is a major source of funding for the BGF junior development programme that was establish back in 1996 and it allows top executives in the country to unwind for at least a day.


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Freestyle soccer players from 49 countries around the world will compete in Sгo Paulo, Brazil November 16-18 for the first Red Bull Street Style International Soccer Championships and the soccer player with the most memorizing tricks will be crowned.
Young Terry Delancy beat off all the competitors in The Bahamas earlier this year and will represent The Bahamas in Brazil.



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The Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture officially inducted 15 Bahamians on Saturday night at the British Hilton Hotel increasing the National Hall of Fame. Among the dignitaries to induct the inductees were Governor General Arthur Hanna and the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Desmond Bannister.


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Live Scores For The 2009 World Cup Qualifiers

From Nassau, Bahamas. The Nawira 2009 Rugby World Cup.



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Watch the 2009 Nawira Rugby World Cup Qualifiers live here (back online at 9.15am Sun 26th for the first game)

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The Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association is really excited about the recently released COTECC Ranking for Boys 14 and Under, considering the past few years the federation had no juniors with a COTECC Boys’ 14 and Under rankings.


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The NAWIRA Sevens World Cup Qualifiers will be shown LIVE on www.RugbyBahamas.com on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th for those who could not make it.

For those of you who are going to the games, tickets are $10 per person and $300 for the VIP which includes a complimentary bar.

We may also have the option for paying by credit card on or before the day.. If you would like to have more information please contact Ely Miles.

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Women’s basketball has a reputation for being just as hard hitting and exciting as the men’s game and the same goes for the highly competitive New Providence Women’s Basketball Association where the best female players in The Bahamas display their skills.


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In preparation for the biggest event of his young tennis career 11 year-old Justin Roberts will be playing in the Boys 14’s main draw of the TCA Super Series Tennis Tournament the 18 - 21 October, 2008 at the Mid-Town Racquet Club in Weston, Florida.

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USA and Canada are the only North America sides to have graced the Rugby World Cup Sevens stage, a statistic they will be hoping to maintain at the region’s qualifiers for the 2009 edition in the Bahamas on 25-26 October.



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The Event: Sevens Rugby World Cup NAWIRA (North American & The West Indies) Qualifier - The top two teams in the group will represent the region in the Sevens World Cup in Dubai 2009.
11 Mens Teams, 7 Womens Teams, 64 Matches over 2 days.

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The second week of competition was underway on Tuesday evening at the newly renovated Squash Club on Village Road with six teams of five players participating in matches of best of five. For each game won a point is scored for the team.


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The International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) is now preparing for its last track and field competition of the 2008 season with $3 million dollars in prize money at stake and six Bahamians are in contention to challenge for some of the prize money at the finale in Stuttgart, Germany September 13-14.


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At the recent Royal Bank Olympic Swim Trials Freeport Aquatic Swim Club (FASC) had eight entry-level stroke and turn judges that past the International Swimming Federation officiating course during the month of May worked their first major event at The Bahamas trials

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After almost two years of solid development work in The Bahamas, BFA Technical Director Neider Dos Santos has received an offer to return to coaching at the professional level. This was an offer too good to refuse for the Brazilian, who with difficulty and sadness has asked to be released from his contract with the Bahamas Football Association.


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Silver winning men's 4x400-meter relay team members of Bahamas smile with their medals during an awarding ceremony during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008.

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That's what 'Superman' Leevan Sands was feeling last night after he secured the first medal for The Bahamas at these 29th Olympic Games here in Beijing, China.



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Usain Bolt claimed his third gold medal and set his third world record of the Beijing Games as Jamaica stormed to victory in the men's 4x100m relay.

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Leevan Sands does it for the Bahamas. At last a medal is heading back from the Beijing Summer Olympics 2008 to the Bahamas. Sands managed to get a distance of 57ft 8 1/2in.

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Christopher Brown just missed out on the bronze medal at the Beijing Summer Olympics.

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Only two Bahamians left to compete at the Beijing Sunmmer Olympics 2008. Christopher Brown and Leevan Sands.

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Debbie Ferguson McKenzie not fast enough for a medal in the Track & Field - Women's 200 Meters Final.

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Jamaica's Usain Bolt became the first man to win the Olympic sprint double with two world records when he blazed to 200 metres gold in 19.30 seconds.



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Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas sneaks the fourth place in the 200m semi final to get a spot in tomorrows final.

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Douglas Cowper emerged victorious with a 2-0 score over challenger Joe Euteneuer in the finals of the Gatorade Handicap Squash Tournament held last week at the Squash Club on Village Road. Close to twenty squash enthusiasts took part in the two-week handicap style tournament.



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With no whiplash changes Monday in Medals Per Capita, the entire planet had time to pause before it could begin shuddering over a possible party-crashing from Earth’s Godzilla nation.

That would be, of course, the Bahamas, those 700 islands which only look sanguine and nonthreatening with all those cays and palm fronds, but which in reality constitute an awesome and monstrous force.


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Michael Phelps: From Boy to Flipper

The story of how a Baltimore boy became a national sports icon.

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Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace managed to get 2nd place in the Women's 100m Free Qualification - Heat 3, but not enough to take her to the next round.

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The other kids kept throwing his borrowed racket over the fence when eight-year-old Devin Mullings played tennis on his local court in the Bahamas.

Now the world number 1,025 is playing singles at the Beijing Olympics alongside Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. He cannot wait to get his picture taken with them.

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Jeremy Knowles finished 4th in the Men's 200m Medley Qualification - Heat 3, but it was not enough to take him to the next round.

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To say that Taureano Johnson's Olympic debut was quite impressive would be an understatement. That's how dominating he was Sunday night at the Workers' Indoor Arena here at these 29th Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

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The other kids kept throwing his borrowed racket over the fence when eight-year-old Devin Mullings played tennis on his local court in the Bahamas.

Now the world number 1,025 is playing singles at the Beijing Olympics alongside Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. He cannot wait to get his picture taken with them.



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In what could turn out to be her final Olympics, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie was honored with one final tribute by her teammates and officials of Team Bahamas last night.

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The Bahamas contingent of swimmers at the 2008 Olympic Games being held August 9-24 in Beijing, China consists of four athletes: Elvis Vereance Burrows, Alana Dillette, Jeremy Knowles, and Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace. The group is under the coaching direction of former Olympian and head coach of the Bahamas Swimming Federation.



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India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of Bahamas blew away two match points, going down to top-seeded Bryan brothers -- Bob and Mike - in the semi-final of the Cincinnati Masters.

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The Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations had two venues to decide where to hold a training camp for its sprinters, jumpers and throwers leading up to the Beijing Olympic Games

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Jamaica and the Bahamas will have to wait to see if the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) stripping of the United States' 4x400 metres relay team at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, will result in medals for them.

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Shane Pinder is a Bahamian who serves as the women’s head volleyball coach at Liberty University in Lynchburg Virginia and he has his sights set on one day winning the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) volleyball title with Bahamians a part of his programme.


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Earlier yesterday, the Marlins were said to be holding a slim chance of pulling off a trade for Manny Ramirez.

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As the weeks quickly roll by and the departure date for our Bahamian Olympic Team draws ever near, excitement and anticipation levels mount. Determined to help see our athletes once again blaze a trail of glory, Furniture Plus a local, Bahamian owned company has stepped forward to assist the valiant efforts being made by the Bahamas Olympic Association’s fundraising committee.

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Starting at Winton Rugby Centre, the Cuckoos Rally de Rugby will take your team on a tour of the island in which you will collect clues and items that will at least make you better informed about the island and at best win you a fortune in gold.


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The United States dominated Bahamas 111-51 to start day two of the FIBA Americas U18 Championship played in Formosa, Argentina.


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Its showtime! The Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations (BAAA) Scotiabank Olympic Trials will get underway this evening at the Thomas A. Robinson Track and Field Stadium at 6:00 p.m. The event has attracted top athletes from around the country, all in hopes of qualifying for the XXIX Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

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