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Football / Video of the US vs TnT match
« on: August 18, 2005, 11:06:42 PM »


Today I uploaded the first half of the game and,  if time permits,  tomorrow I will upload the second half.

It is unlikely that I would post short clips or highlights.

http://www.ecaribbeansports.com


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Football / We stand a chance. Pan 1Gua 1; mex2 cr 0
« on: August 17, 2005, 09:38:20 PM »

In the 78th minute
Panama 1 Guatemala 1

Mexico 1 Costa Rica 0

In the 90th min
mex 2 Costa Rica 0

Pan 1 Gua 1

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The events (4X100, and 4X400) will be shown (tape delayed) in about three hours from now, here on the West Coast (US), and many folks are looking forward to it with some anticipation; some are aven talking about a gold. 

Please do not post spoilers.


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Football / Revisiting the TnT Vs US 9Feb05 Match; Referees, etc
« on: August 08, 2005, 07:38:35 PM »

What can we as fans do to promote fair, just or unbiased refereeing?  The topic is particularly important because I believe that whenever a team is playing against the US the referees’ calls tend to be in favor of the US.  In some ways the referees are looking out for themselves, if they make a bad call against the US, then it might affect the number of future games  they referee, their advancement etc. It then appears that when there is doubt, the team that is playing against the US does not receive the benefit of the doubt.  I saw that in the US versus Guatemala WCQ match.

The issue is particularly relevant now, as we approach the 17 Aug match.  In the last WCQ,  Stern John was called offside in the 20th minute, and at that time I thought that the call was highly questionable.  On reviewing the tape, it again  appears as though Stern is not offside.  If others concur, any idea what action was taken by the TTFF; and more to the point how we as fans can let the appropriate authorities know that biased refereeing is not acceptable.

http://www.ecaribbeansports.com/MyImages/SJohnQuesOffside/SJohnoffside.html

http://www.ecaribbeansports.com/TnTvsUS_9Feb05.html



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Cricket Anyone / 20-20 Cricket anyone
« on: August 02, 2005, 02:55:06 AM »


The 20-20 cricket is coming on strong: that is twenty overs for each side.  Do you think that the concept will catch on in T&T and the Caribbean?

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The moment M. Wie steps on to the greens of Augusta National, it will be a defining moment in sports.

I want to see more young girls in T&T pick up the sport.  Maybe we can borrow the programatic details from the South Koreans.

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LEBANON, Ohio -- Michelle Wie is three wins away from an invitation to the Masters.
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The 15-year-old from Hawaii birdied three of the final five holes and beat Jim Renner, 3 and 1, in her second match of the day to advance Thursday to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur Public Links.

Wie, the first female to qualify for a men's USGA championship, earlier won 6 and 5 over C.D. Hockersmith.

The 6-foot phenom who nearly made the cut on the PGA TOUR twice and was tied for the lead in last month's U.S. Women's Open might be on the verge of her most stunning feat of all.

Augusta National traditionally invites the winner of the Public Links to the Masters, and chairman Hootie Johnson has said the all-male club would welcome Wie or any other female who qualified.

So far, she has met every challenge.

Wie avoided an early deficit when Renner missed 6-foot birdie tries on his first two holes. She took over from there, going 3 up at the turn with an 18-foot birdie putt at No. 9.

Renner, a junior at Johnson & Wales University in Miami and the reigning NAIA medalist, won hole Nos. 10 and 12 to narrow the gap, but Wie, using a 3-iron, hit a 220-yard shot at the 13th hole to 15 feet and then rolled in the difficult downhill putt to push the lead back to 2-up.

   
Michelle Wie will play BYU junior Clay Ogden in Friday's quarterfinals. (AP)    
At the par-4 15th, Renner's second shot ended up 4 feet away while Wie was in heavy rough left of the green. But she hit a flop shot that rolled in, with the crowd roaring its approval. Renner had to hit his birdie putt to avoid losing the hole.

At the 17th, Wie hit into a fairway trap and then blasted out to just short of the green, and from there she chipped to 5 feet.

Renner hit his 8-iron second shot over the green and into a large lake. He was forced to take a drop, chipped onto the green and then conceded Wie's birdie putt and the match.

Wie advances Friday morning to play Clay Ogden, a BYU junior who defeated Andrew Black of Chattanooga, Tenn., 3-and-2 in another round-of-16 match.

If Wie were to win her match with Ogden, she would play in the semifinals Friday afternoon. The championship is a 36-hole match Saturday.

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General Discussion / Ames wins Canadian Skins Game
« on: July 07, 2005, 09:36:35 PM »


Ames wins Canadian Skins Game; Nicklaus finishes in second place
July 5, 2005
GolfWeb Wire Services    
 

WHISTLER, British Columbia -- Stephen Ames took five skins Tuesday to win the Canadian Skins Game title.
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Jack Nicklaus finished second, followed by John Daly and Vijay Singh in the two-day competition at Nicklaus North golf course.

Ames collected $92,443 Tuesday for a two-day total of $120,578. The Canadian began play Monday by winning two skins and $28,135.

Nicklaus matched his first-day total with a tap-in birdie worth $48,231 on the first hole of the back nine. Playing under steady rain on the back nine of a course he designed in 1995, Nicklaus totaled six skins and $96,462.

Even in victory, Ames deferred to the 65-year-old Nicklaus, using the event to prepare for a much-anticipated final British Open next week on the Old Course at St. Andrews.

"It was just a pleasure to get to play with Mr. Nicklaus," said Ames, who had not done so previously. "We had a great week."

Daly was third after just missing an ace on the 210-yard 17th. After Ames' long putt hung on the lip, Daly's easy birdie gave him two skins and $40,192 for a two-day total of $52,250.

PGA TOUR money leader Singh was shut out for the second straight day. After missing a couple of short putts for skins on Monday, Singh went back and forth Tuesday between a regular and cross-handed grip with his putter.

Nicklaus hit a 7-iron inside two feet on the 158-yard par-3 10th. After watching Singh, Daly and Ames miss birdie putts in the 15-20-foot range, Nicklaus tapped in to win the first skin of the day.

"I just had to sit there and watch," he said.

When Nicklaus missed his first fairway of the event on the next hole, he decided against searching for his ball in the long rough.

"Let's see if they can make a skin," he quipped as he quit on the hole.

For the next four holes no one could. Ames, a native to Trinidad and Tobago who received his Canadian citizenship in 2003, finally drained an 8-foot putt for the lone birdie on the 433-yard, par-4 15th to win five skins and $92,443.

Singh had his best chance at a skin when the other three got into trouble on the par-4 final hole, but his routine two-putt par was matched by Daly's up and down out of the bunker to force a playoff. Replaying the 18th, Singh hit his second shot to 15 feet, but was again undone by Daly, who hit a wedge to five feet.

Both settled for par and, with the rain pouring down, the players agreed not to play another extra hole, instead donating the final $20,096 skin to charity.


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Stephen Ames has made more sports fans aware of the T&T flag than perhaps any other T&T athlete, with the possible exception of  Ato Bolden.

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Football / Rudder's Panama
« on: June 03, 2005, 01:21:39 AM »

All week ave been singing this song.  Hoping for a warrior's victory, but long after the result of  Saturdays game is forgotten, many of us will still be singing the song. Yuh know the chorus sing it nah

Ah find El Dorado
It really was down in South
But it wasn't Mexico
Dem was talking bout
Dem rich Trinidadians show me
Dis whole  El Dorado ting
Dey say dey living here like Lords
But den dey gone to live there like kings
As dey get a little money in dey pocket
They hidin' de kakadah.
And as yuh miss dem scamp and dem
Dey somewhere in Panama

CHORUS

So I   I   I  I,   I goin to Panama
I gotta go to Panama
What it is dey having over dere
To make Trinis just gone clear?
Some say that they gone with      ….  thousands
Some say dat is tens of  ….  thousands
Some talking about even  …   millions
And for their pension  …     billions
Icyah take ole talk
I takin' a walk
I done buy meh duty free rum
Stamp meh passport, Panama here I come

It had dis chinese gentleman
Ooh  I don't know he name
They say he was a big businessman
And racing was he game
They even call him some kinda ambassador
Ah really  don't know
But in  dis pappyshow land
Nearly everything is a pappy show
They say he had a riding partner
They call this fella the worst
I have to finish the mauvais langue
When I reach in the next verse.

So I  I   I   I,   I goin to Panama etc
I cyah take ole talk
I takin a walk
All yuh doh spoil meh fun
Tear meh ticket
Panama here I come.


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Last two verses omitted





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The result was a pain that has not yet subsided.  How come the reggaeboyz are not in the final round of WCQ?  In hindsight many blame the firing of the local coach and the hiring of ``big time’’ coach Lazaroni.  See the discussion on

 http://www.thereggaeboyz.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/014075.html

or commentary on http://www.thereggaeboyz.com/

It is shocking and somewhat humorous to see (in this forum) the extent to which the new coach is perceived as a savior.  The inappropriate dissing of a truly talented local coached will be addressed later.

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Football / Game Report Guatemala Vs T&T
« on: March 28, 2005, 02:39:22 PM »

FIRST HALF

2nd min:    Throw in by A. Pierre (#16), somewhat long
4th min:   Gua attacker missed the ball after a big kick ….  Another good scoring  chance
               was missed by Gua in the 6th.  Also kick over the goal in the 9th min by Gua.
10th min:   Nice dribbling by Jones (#15).   Stern John off side in the 11th.
17th  : Goal by Gua ( #11 Ramirez).  Ball moved under the glove of Hislop. Goalkeeper’s fault true, but Ramirez (who is one of the two persons to be marked all the time) had  all the time in the world to decide if to pass the ball or shoot. The T&T defense seem to be frozen, and that was after the loss of the ball by John.  To me it looked as though Ramirez backed up off the ball then shoot, and the shot was not powerful.  The poor performance of the T&T defense would continue through out the game. 
24th :  Very good free kick by Yorke
30th min:  Classic football by Gua: Ramirez sets up the play and Ruiz (#20) scores. Good goal by Gua.
32nd min:   T&T (#15 Edwards) scores.  The raucous crowd went silent. My Vincy partner who was at the door came back shouting T&T, T&T.  Trying to be incognito I could not celebrate.   The goal was somewhat of a lucky goal as it had the inadvertent assistance of a Gua defender (the ball deflected off the body of the Gua defender).
38th min:   Gua scores: header by Ruiz (#20).   This goal again indicated extremely poor defending by T&T. Ruiz and another Gua player (#16) were wide open and in the mouth of the goal.  T&T had to make sure two players were marked (#20 Ruiz, and Ramirez) and on that score they clearly failed.  Is that the fault of the coach or the players. 

Goals #1, and #3 by Gua were easily preventable, the defending was disgraceful.
T&T clearly needs one more good defender and  another good midfielder. Most of the first half except for the first 15 minutes was played in the T&T half of the field. I don’t remember the T&T attackers being in the Gua box more than twice.


SECOND HALF

1st min: Offside goal by Gua
4th min:  Something of a bicycle kick by John (I think)
8th min:  Good pass by Yorke to Edwards (?) or John
10th : Cross and miss by Gua
15th:   Very good shot on goal by Dwight Yorke.
16th:  Yorke broke  up a good attack by Gua and pass the ball forward into the box … eventually to a header by Eve or John.
18th:  Hard tackle of a  threatening Gua attacker by Yorke, and I think that it resulted in a yellow card on Yorke.
22nd:  Good save by Gua goal keeper – he moved out to reach the T&T attacker.
23rd : Good attacking by T&T (#10, or Edwards).  Hard foul on the T&T attacker by Gua, but it was not called by the ref. Yorke complained bitterly almost putting himself in a position to receive a yellow card. But no action was taken by the ref either with respect to the foul or Yorke.
25th:  Good dribbling by #8 Eve and shot on goal.
27th:  Nice setup and shot on goal by Yorke.
33rd.  Goal #4 for Gua .   The tall T&T defender (I think #13, even though that number is not on the list) simply gave up after he was passed by the Gua attacker. The T&T defender simply stood up and watched the man shoot. No chasing down the man or trying to put a leg in front of the ball.
36th : Good save by Hislop.
39th:  Good dribbling and moving  the ball down the middle of the field by Yorke, then a pass forward.
40th: subs
43rd:   Goal #5, the crowd went wild. They started singing Gua football songs or the national anthem.  Some were shouting 6,6,6,6, en espanol.


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Other Sports / Stephen Ames playing well at Bay Hill Invitational
« on: March 18, 2005, 10:08:16 PM »

Folks,
      Stephen Ames * 
is playing well at Bay Hill.  And it is only two weeks before the Masters.

Any chance of Ames winning the Masters?   

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