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Perhaps to the relief of many sports organisations, this will be the final Friday Forum. It has been both fun and frustrating in the sense that some in Bermuda have yet to grasp the concept of freedom of speech. As are all columns, it is simply opini...

A footballer’s career can often be shaped by his club manager. Their decisions will determine whether it becomes a case of pain or gain. With so many Bermudian players in the news these days — enough overseas to fill the entire national team — it’s i...

David White did not care too much for sport but he was passionate about how it should be reported. The long-time former editor of this newspaper, who died in the early hours of last Saturday, showed little interest in anyone who spent their spare tim...

Tyler Butterfield’s performance at the World Ironman Championships in Hawaii and female cyclists Nicole Mitchell and Zoenique Williams’s accomplishments at the recent Caribbean Championships might rate as two of the best showings by Bermuda athletes ...

The incongruous sight of a posse of 6ft 6in brutes riding atop a tiny scooter along Front Street is a sure sign that the Classic’s back in town. It’s hardly the macho image that rugby players would want to portray but then they don’t give a hoot whil...

Cricketers playing football, footballers playing cricket . . . does it matter? More to the point, does anyone care? It’s just another storm in a teacup. National cricket team skipper Janeiro Tucker and his fellow squad member Dion Stovell played fo...

The last couple of weekends have provided more examples of why Bermuda continues to produce outstanding performances by individual athletes but their success is rarely replicated by those in a team sport. The obvious explanation is that as a country ...

Bestowing honourable membership at Port Royal on Adam Scott at the end of Wednesday’s Grand Slam of Golf, Premier Craig Cannonier congratulated the Australian for being a wonderful ambassador for Bermuda. That may be so but in this same week a sports...

There’s good reason Ireland’s Padraig Harrington enjoys his visits to Bermuda. He loves the Island and the people, maybe almost as much as his own Emerald Isle, and then there’s the fact that he returns home an awful lot richer than when he arrived. ...

Bermuda Cricket Board were, at the very least, guilty of misleading the public this week. Strong words perhaps but, nevertheless, applicable. Our experience with BCB is that they can be economical with the truth. Suspicion was raised when the Board r...