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IF NEW tourism minister Wayne Furbert wants to examine the enormity of his task, he need look no further than this week's Goodwill golf tournament. Once one of the most popular international sporting events on the Island, and in numbers one of the la...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. That old adage might be applicable at Bermuda Cricket Board. This week’s elections were a clear case of deja vu. For some reason better known to themselves, the clubs voted in the old guard with Ll...

THERE were no surprises at the top of the medal table when the Pan Am Games came to end last week. Same old story; the USA reigned supreme, picking up almost a 100 medals more than any other country. The ‘U-S-A’ chant rang loud and clear on every sin...

WHEN it comes to annual general meetings among Bermuda's governing sporting bodies, voting for a new president is often a foregone conclusion. Either the incumbent is given a vote of confidence or, after deciding to step down, somebody else from the ...

THOSE who have never watched a PGA tournament live and attended the Grand Slam at Port Royal this week might now appreciate the degree of difficulty the game presents and realise the wide gap that exists between top professionals and scratch handicap...

IF anything could be gleaned from Bermuda’s two World Cup matches in the last week is that nothing unites a nation more than sport. At both games there were roughly between 3,000 and 4,000 spectators, all of them black, white, politicians (from both ...

MCC's players will leave the Island today no doubt echoing the sentiments expressed by former England opener Geoff Boycott even before the tour began. Boycott said he was baffled how an Internation Cricket Council (ICC) Associate country such as Berm...

ONCE upon a time cricket was considered a gentleman’s game. Perhaps elsewhere it still is, but certainly not in Bermuda. The game’s ruled by thugs, league players, most of whom aren’t good enough to play in other countries’ schoolboys teams. When the...

BERMUDA Football Association have put their boot in it even before the first ball of the season has been kicked in earnest. Postponement of the opening Dudley Eve Trophy matches on Tuesday night has quite rightly caused the ire of coaches, the most v...

AT the beginning of the season, it was widely accepted that for Bermuda Hogges this might be a do or die campaign. Yet, taking into account their recent form overseas, it might be premature to begin inscribing their epitaph on the tombstone. Given pr...