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Sims Looking Forward To Championships
[Written by Patrick Bean] Playing in honour of the late Brian Morris, Michael Sims hopes his fifth Butterfield Bermuda Championship is a charm. Golf is an individual sport, where one matches skill and wit against Mother Nature in a partially modified form, in competition with others. Bermuda’s Michael Sims will be one of many who, starting on Thursday,... Read more of this article
Golfer Adam Scott On Upcoming PGA Event
[Written by Patrick Bean] Australian golfing legend Adam Scott is well aware of Father Time’s diminishing effect on an athlete’s ability to defeat the rising tide of a powerful, young group of challengers hungry to duplicate his success on the PGA Tour. Changed priorities and physical dynamics inherent with one’s maturation from care-free youngster... Read more of this article
Raiders Win In Antonio Pierce’s Coach Debut
[Written by Patrick Bean] Antonio Pierce, the son of Bermudian Cleo Burrows, won his first National Football League [NFL] game as interim head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday. Pierce, who was promoted from linebackers coach to the top position last week, following the firing of former head coach Josh McDaniels, guided his team to a 30-6 shellacking... Read more of this article
Volunteers Helped Make ICC Event A Success
[Written by Patrick Bean] While Bermuda’s senior cricketers failed in their recent bid to qualify for the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, the Island’s hosting of the regional qualifier involving Canada, Cayman Islands and Panama has been noted as a success by the world governing body. Playing no small part in the smooth running of the event... Read more of this article
Terron To Spin His Way To Cricketing Success
[Written by Patrick Bean] Once a near lost art, there are so many right-arm, leg break bowlers around today that it’s hard to believe that this type of delivery had almost disappeared from the game of cricket, with the modern resurgence largely keyed by the late, great Australian wrist spinner and his Pakistani and Indian contemporaries Abdul Qadir... Read more of this article
Panamanian Cricketers Thrilled To Meet Sluggo
[Written by Patrick Bean] It is said that pictures say a thousand words and memories last forever, and so it is that the legend of Dwayne [Sluggo] Leverock’s superlative, diving catch and gleeful celebration during the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies lives on in the history of world cricket. At a time when fitness was increasingly becoming a... Read more of this article
‘Now That’s A Good Wicket Out There’
[Written by Patrick Bean] Bermuda Cricket Board [BCB] high performance chairman, Allan Douglas Sr, who has overseen the preparation of the cricket pitches at the National Sports Complex’s [NSC] North Field and White Hill Field for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Americas Regional Qualifier, has done his utmost to ensure the grounds are set up extremely... Read more of this article
Coach Seymour: Impacting Lives With Football
[Written by Patrick Bean] “One coach will impact more young people in a season than the average person in a lifetime.” – Billy Graham It was not by accident that Danvers [Dio] Seymour Jr ventured into coaching football; it was destiny. From the day he arrived on planet Earth, Seymour was earmarked for this specialised area of the teaching... Read more of this article
Somerset’s DeSilva Calls Time On Captaincy
[Written by Patrick Bean] Somerset’s Jordan DeSilva has decided to step down as captain of Cup Match champions, Somerset Cricket Club at season’s end. A three-time Cup Match winning skipper, DeSilva made known his decision to step away from the position during Friday night’s annual Cup Match prize presentation at the west end club, expressing... Read more of this article
First Premier League Event Labelled A Success
[Written by Patrick Bean] The inaugural Bermuda Cricket Board [BCB] produced and sponsored Bermuda Premier League [BPL] has been labelled an organisational success, even as Bermuda failed in its quest to emerge as champions, losing the final match against Barbados, who showed themselves the superior outfit throughout. Respectable sized crowds attended... Read more of this article
Cricket: Grassroots Beat Bermuda Select XI
[Written by Patrick Bean] Grassroots Cricket Academy ended their participation in the inaugural Bermuda Premier League [BPL] on a winning note, as they defeated Bermuda Select XI by 63 runs in the Plate Final at National Sports Centre, North Field on Sunday. The youthful Antigua and Barbuda squad outclassed the team from the Bermuda, a mixture of emerging... Read more of this article
Cricket: Barbados Win Inaugural Premier League
[Written by Patrick Bean] Barbados defeated Bermuda by seven wickets at National Sports Centre, North Field today [Sunday] to win the inaugural Bermuda Premier League [BPL] championship. After losing the toss and being made to chase Barbados’ score during the tournament’s opening encounter last Tuesday, the situation was reversed this time around... Read more of this article
