In front of a loud New York crowd, Winston George overcame slight nerves and a heavy head wind to run the best race of his career, setting a new men’s 400 metres national record at the Adidas Diamond League athletics meet yesterday at Icahn Stadium in the “Big Apple”.
By Orin Davidson
It’s been three years since Guyana’s football has been rid of the Colin Klass -led Guyana Football Federation (GFF), but déjà vu is set to engulf the sport all over again, under the current administration.
This is not a time for chest thumping “I told you so” self praise; it is not time to crow over the failures of players you don’t’ like for insular reasons, rather, it is a time when utmost pressure has to be applied to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to finally wake up to reality.
As England was rapidly tumbling to defeat against Australia in the just concluded third Ashes cricket Test, a spectator expressed his desire to have a five-day long game for a Christmas gift.
The defiance displayed by West Indies selectors in the face of withering criticism and shame in light of the latest annihilation of the West Indies senior team in the just concluded Test series in India is mind-boggling.
So, it will be a Christmas without Kashif and Shanghai football, and thanks to uninspired leadership by the new Guyana Football Federation (GFF) administration, bruised feelings are being nursed within the fraternity at a time when Guyanese are accustomed to sharing goodwill.
West Indies cricket administration has transitioned into changed leadership, but as the great writer/philosopher Alphonse Karr once remarked, “The more things change the more they are the same.
By Orin Davidson
Capitalizing on vociferous support from a small but ardent gathering of Guyanese, Sachia Vickery posted her maiden Grand Slam match victory yesterday by dispatching veteran Mirjana Lucic-Baroni at the US Open tennis tournament here in New York.
By Orin Davidson
Guyana’s Olympic Games sprint prospect Kadecia Baird is stepping up plans for her best ever outdoor season this year and hopes to better her personal best performance.
The endorsements have been numerous, the hype bigger than ever and this year’s election for Guyana Football Federation (GFF) president promises to be the most eagerly awaited ever in the sport.
From Orin Davidson
in New York
Now that the blame game over Guyana’s disappointing performance at the London Olympic Games is behind us, a golden opportunity has presented itself for the protagonists to back up the talk and throw maximum support behind this country’s participation at the upcoming Junior CARIFTA Games.
Clive Lloyd’s latest rejected bid to head the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is the latest example of the perverse state of its governance which is seemingly damaged beyond repair.
This time it wasn’t an embarrassment perpetuated by the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), rather one the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) brought directly upon itself.
The year was 1984, the ground – Albion Sports Complex and the Guyana opening batting pair ended up pulverizing the Leeward Islands bowling attack for a mammoth 202-run first innings partnership.