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Spotlight on SportBringing our cricket out of the basement
Reginald St. H ShillingfordOct. 16, 2016An orderly way of classifying standards in international cricket would be to think of Test cricket as the pinnacle of performance both for the individual and a nation. It is ...
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Spotlight on SportTo kneel, to sit, to stand for the anthem
Reginald St. H ShillingfordOct. 1, 2016The world of sport is shaped by the men and women who play, who manage, who adjudicate, who legislate and one way or another influence the way things happen and ...
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Spotlight on SportCan Serena raise the bar?
Reginald St. H ShillingfordSept. 23, 2016To the great majority of commentators and both the live crowd at the U.S Open, added to that many millions on world-wide television, were looking upon Serena Williams in her ...
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Spotlight on SportDrifting away from essentials
Reginald St. H ShillingfordSept. 13, 2016In 1995, the year before Dominica's first appearance in the Olympic Games at Atlanta, U.S.A, we participated in the Pan-American Games for the first time in Mar del Plata, Argentina. ...
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Spotlight on Sport
Tokyo – here we come!
Reginald St. H ShillingfordAug. 31, 2016The celebration of youth, of life, of humanity that was Rio 2016 has simmered down to go hidden beneath the humdrum that is our daily life. Tokyo prepares – the ...
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Spotlight on Sport
The Olympic dream – more than wishful thinking
Reginald St. H ShillingfordAug. 27, 2016Olympic Games 2016 highlighted a number of stellar performances by career professionals like swimmer Michael Phelps (USA), Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man (Jamaica), Andy Murray, tennis superstar (Britain) and ...
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Spotlight on Sport
The Swim Theme
Reginald St. H ShillingfordAug. 17, 2016Rio Olympic Games are well underway and all the ill omens of possible disaster and disruption to the event have seemingly been thrust aside and given way to a grand ...
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Spotlight on Sport
Pélé nameplate to the Rio games
Reginald St. H ShillingfordAug. 9, 2016As I write, one Edson Arantes do nascimento was due to fulfil the honour of lighting the flame to the Olympic Games at the opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro. ...
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Spotlight on Sport
Crux of the Matter with Junior Football
Reginald St. H ShillingfordAug. 5, 2016Our Under 17 Boys National team failed to win a match in the recent CFU Football Tournament. This in itself is not a disgrace. But the matter has to be ...
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Spotlight on Sport
Our shrunken Olympic horizon
Reginald St. H ShillingfordJuly 29, 2016A youngster who was ten years of age when Dominica made its entry into the Olympic Games is now a young adult of thirty and approaching life maturity. Participating in ...
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Spotlight on Sport
West Indies disorder again
Reginald St. H ShillingfordJuly 22, 2016Just as an element of quietness was descending upon West Indies Cricket, and with it a hope of improved grace leading to team consolidation, the immediate period just prior to ...
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Spotlight on Sport
Much more than match play needed
Reginald St. H ShillingfordJuly 16, 2016His recent utterings have made me respectful of the extent to which young Jason Holder gives thought to the development needs of West Indies cricket. Speaking at the close of ...
