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Bermuda’s most seasoned professional but paradoxically the newest recruit to the Island’s national cricket team, David Hemp is acutely aware his international debut on Sunday will be a case of “everything to lose and nothing to gain.”
The skipper of ...
DATE: Nov 03, 2006
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While contract wrangling between the Bermuda Cricket Board and their top players was finally resolved on the eve of this week’s trip to Africa, the Board have taken another step to ensure a more professional approach to next year’s World Cup.
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DATE: Nov 03, 2006
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A weary national squad touched down at Kenyatta airport in Nairobi last night with the prospects of a gruelling five-week tour — the longest and potentially most demanding ever embarked upon by a Bermuda team — probably the last thing on the players’...
DATE: Nov 02, 2006
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WHITEWASHED on home soil by a touring club side and a contractual dispute which prompted players to boycott training . . . it?s hardly an ideal state of affairs with the cricket World Cup now less than six months away.
Both on and off the field, Berm...
DATE: Sep 29, 2006
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Terrance Armstrong will be shooting for three straight, Kavin Smith his tenth overall and perennial bridesmaid Jay Donawa a breakthrough victory.
But the ?Big Three? in tomorrow?s annual Marathon Derby are unlikely to have everything their own way wi...
DATE: May 23, 2006
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Bermuda might look back on the 18th Commonwealth Games as a festival in which our male athletes were largely overshadowed by their female companions.
And in the history of Island sports, that?s something that, for whatever reason, has rarely happened...
DATE: Mar 31, 2006
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THE Best Little Golf Course in the West.
It?s a catchphrase that had the Southampton Princess used to market its delightful par-three lay-out surrounding the hotel when the property first opened its doors back in the early 1970s, few would have argue...
DATE: Mar 10, 2006
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SO MUCH has already been said and written about the Dubai cricket debacle, it would almost be churlish to dwell on the national team?s numerous shortcomings.
Bermuda flew out to the Middle East with few expectations, having not played a competitive o...
DATE: Feb 10, 2006
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WHATEVER the make-up, it now appears certain Bermuda will take to next year's Commonwealth Games in Melbourne one of the largest and arguably strongest squads the Island has ever assembled for a major Games.
In excess of 20 athletes from half-a-dozen...
DATE: Dec 23, 2005
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If the Winter Olympics were being held this week, Bermuda?s Patrick Singleton would likely have found himself atop the podium with a gold medal dangling round his neck ? such has been his dominance on the skeleton track in Turin, Italy, where the act...
DATE: Nov 27, 2005
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