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West Indies can regain cricket supremacy
Sports: With the group of young talented cricketers gaining the exposure that they so long needed, most of them have shown signs of raw talent and future success. The players include Kirk Edwards, Darren Bravo, Kieron Powell, Devendra Bishoo, Ravi Rampaul, Andre Russell and Sunil Narine. These players have shown that they are capable of holding their own under tough conditions. Comment.
Fast pace at Colgate Women’s Games
Sports: Thousands of girls and young women from all over the east coast competed recently in the first preliminary meet of the Colgate Women’s Games, the nation’s largest female amateur track series, and the unofficial opening of the winter indoor track season. Comment.
GIANTS, JETS STILL IN RACE
Sports: Thousands of girls and young women from all over the east coast competed recently in the first preliminary meet of the Colgate Women’s Games, the nation’s largest female amateur track series, and the unofficial opening of the winter indoor track season. Comment.
Klinsmann calls on new faces for U.S.
Sports: The U.S. national team will begin preparations for its 2014 World Cup qualifiers with the first training camps of the year at two sites, in the U.S. and Panama, Jan. 3-26, 2012. The Americans will play two international friendlies early, versus Venezuela in Phoenix (AR) on Jan. 21 and at Panama on Jan. 25, 2012. Comment.
Monroe athletes post their best numbers
Bronx: The Monroe Mustangs indoor track team is enjoying a brilliant season on the track and also in the classsroom. Led by pole vaulter Francisco Javier Escobar and shot-putter Danzel Rolle, who both came up aces with 4.0 GPA’s in their freshman semesters at Monroe, eleven other Mustangs achieved GPA scores of over 3.5. In fact, the GPA average for the entire 45-member team is at 3.0. Comment.
Bucknor blasts Windies players, administrators
Caribbean: Former world-rated cricket umpire Jamaican Steve Bucknor has painted a damning picture of the recent cop of West Indies players and administrators. Comment.
Nets starting five look ahead
Sports: Last year Tyson Chandler helped to lead Dallas to its first championship in the National Basketball Association. This year in a late start to the season because of a strike, the center would like to do the same for the New York Knicks, who acquired him just before the pre-season started. Comment.
BARCELONA WINS AGAIN
Sports: The best of Europe defeated the best of South America, and the temptation to compare one of South America’s best players to Europe’s best is all but a passing single thought. Spain’s Barcelona defeated Santos of Brazil, 4-0, in Yokohama, Japan on Sunday to win its second FIFA Club World Cup title; and Lionel Messi put to rest, again, that he has no equal in the world, not even the multi-talented Neymar of Santos. Comment.
Jamaica’s track and field stars
Sports: World champions Yohan Blake and Veronica Campbell were formally recognized as the stars of Jamaican track & field this year. Comment.
India wins 5th O.D.I. by 34 runs
Sports: India defeated the West Indies by 34 runs in the fifth one-day international winning the series 4-1. Comment.
Backcourt duo gets off to slow start
Sports: It will take time before the varsity basketball team at Brooklyn’s Bishop Ford High School gets it together. Inexperience on the varsity level is contributing on the negative side to the under .500 start. Comment.
Road to the Super Bowl underway
Sports: The road to the Super Bowl tournament is underway. First the teams must finish out the regular season, play a post season or playoff tournament, and then advance to the Super Bowl, which will be contested on the first Sunday in February. Everything is still wide open, with several spots already clinched. Comment.
ONE-DAY CHAMPS
Sports: India took the one-day series in a terrific style thanks to India’s captain Virender Sehwag who slammed 219 runs from 149 balls with 7 sixes and 25 fours. Comment.
Runners prepare for Olympic trials
Sports: Zenith Velocity is a club track team, based in New York, but its members usually adults, and former high school athletes, are not restricted to reside in New York or the area. Comment.
Jamaicans look to Olympic ice skating
Jamaica: Optimism is high for Jamaican athletes competing in next year’s summer Olympics in London, England. However, if an endorsement from nationals abroad is approved, the fervor could extend to the distant future and the 2014 Winter Games in Russia. Comment.
Jabbar aims high & scores again
Trinidad and Tobago: Former all-time leading scorer with the National Basketball Association and Trinidad & Tobago native Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was awarded the Lincoln Medal by Attorney General Eric Holder. Comment.
Jamaica: Jamaican sprinter Steve Mullings was banned for life after being found guilty of a second doping offence. Comment.
FINALLY A WIN
Sports: West Indies defeated India by 16 runs in the third One-Day International to keep the five-match series alive at 2-1. Comment.
Brazilian great Socrates dies
Sports: Former Brazilian captain Socrates - who led the team in the 1982 World Cup, a team considered the best Brazilian side never to win the World Cup – died in a Brazilian hospital on Sunday from an intestinal infection, the Brazilian Football (Soccer) Federation announced. Comment.
Lara bemoans poor infrastructure
Sports: Former West Indies batting legend Brian Lara has said that the cricket infrastructure in the Caribbean is terrible and it will take between five to 10 years to bring the sport back up to a top level in the region again. Comment.
Windies tactics must be modified!
Sports: Apart from the West Indies cricket team being deprived of the best team on the field, their performances in the one-day games in India have been of a low standard. Comment.
Trinidad calls for day of soccer consultation
Sports: Trinidad and Tobago soccer fraternity, still reeling from its early ouster from 2014 World Cup qualifying, held what was referred to as ‘national football (soccer) consultation’ on Sunday, hosted by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation. According to acting Federation president, Lennox Watson, the idea was to let the public have its say as to what went wrong in Trinidad’s failed attempt to reach the CONCACAF semifinal round of qualifying for the 2014 Brazil World Cup and for the way forward. Comment.
Patrick John to appeal FIFA ban
Dominica: Former Dominica Prime Minister Patrick John is to appeal the decision by FIFA ethics committee to ban him from all football activity for two years and a fine of US$3,000 for his alleged role in the bribery plot involving former presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam. Comment.
GALAXY DEFEATS RED BULLS
Sports: Mike Magee’s goal in the 15th minute off a David Beckham assist was all that the Los Angeles Galaxy needed to defeat hosts New York Red Bulls at Red Bull Arena Sunday afternoon. Comment.
