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Association's presidency resolved, and senior soccer back on track.
But don't for a minute believe everything's rosy in the BFA garden.
Far from it.
Football in Bermuda is perhaps at its lowest ebb for many years.
Generally, the senior standard is no...
DATE: Dec 08, 2000
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Just-retired Elliot Hubbard believes there are at least two Bermudian cyclists who have what it takes to follow in his footsteps on the professional circuit.
Hubbard, Bermuda's first and, so far, only full-time pro cyclist, announced his retirement l...
DATE: Dec 01, 2000
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Soccer at the high school level would appear to be akin to a car without wheels...or worse, one stuck in reverse.
For, while the sport remains a part of the general schools' curriculum, the game at the extra-curricular level breathes only via respira...
DATE: Nov 30, 2000
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elected president of Bermuda Olympic Association (BOA), succeeding Austin Woods.
Woods had long ago announced that he would not seek another term after spending 12 years in the top post, leaving Hoskins, who had served some 20 years as Secretary Gene...
DATE: Nov 25, 2000
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announced his retirement after a career which put the Island on the cycling map.
The 27-year-old, who rode last season for the New Jersey-based Navigators team, said in a press conference at the Hamilton offices of Conyers, Dill and Pearman that he w...
DATE: Nov 24, 2000
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The Olympic Games may have come and gone, but for Xavier James and coach Brooks Johnson the `torch of desire' still kindles.
And it is with a burning ambition to make it to the next level that Bermuda's top sprinter has attacked pre-season training, ...
DATE: Nov 03, 2000
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Former national soccer coach Mark Trott has hit back at allegations that he is giving Bermudians who travel to England for trials with professional teams false hopes.
Trott, who has been instrumental in helping a number of players make contact with p...
DATE: Oct 21, 2000
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Overhyped expectations are causing mediocre Bermudian footballers to fall flat on the bigger stage, says sports educator Clinton Smith.
Smith, who is the Department of Education's PE head, said many hopefuls ended up sitting on the wall blaming the w...
DATE: Oct 20, 2000
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side, Queens Park Rangers.
The big Somerset player, who is just 15-years-old, recently returned from Europe after touring with the national Under-17 side.
It was after this that contacts were made in England and the west London side has just announce...
DATE: Oct 19, 2000
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While talent is often the flower that catches the eye, it takes a lot more to achieve success.
And just as the anti-drug sports commercials being shown on local television place emphasis on substance over substances or style, so such will new nationa...
DATE: Sep 19, 2000
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