• Jeffrey Douglas-Murdock, almost 30 years officiating in Dominica

    'NO-NONSENSE' MURDOCK

    Dominica's basketball fraternity refers to him simply as "Murdock", his christened surname. But officially, he is now Jeffrey Douglas-Murdock, having married one of the young ladies in the Douglas family ...

  • TEAM DOMINICA at 2023 ALBA Games. Coach Yannick Regis back/far right. Photo courtesy Sports Division Facebook Page

    DOMINICA IN ALBA GAMES BASKETBALL 2023

    Few Dominicans may have heard about the ALBA Games before 2023, until Dominica sent a 130+-strong contingent to Caracas, Venezuela, for the 5th edition of the ALBA Games, staged from ...

  • CROSSOVER won Regular League and Play-off championships in 2014 (2019 photo)

    SALUTING THE CHAMPIONS: 2006-2016

    Part I of the article presented the Premier Division Playoff champion teams, the champs in the Regular League from that same division, and the team that had captured both categories ...

  • EUCLID BERTRAND in a 2020 Premier Football League match

    BOOTS ON THE BALL!

    Boots, the type of footwear worn by footballers and basketballers, is also the nickname of Euclid Bertrand, a proud son of the soil from the cozy little sporting and fishing ...

  • PHOENICKS of St. Martin, winners of Males segment of KIBC-2022. DABA President standing far right

    KWÉYÒL BASKETBALL AN DONMNIK

    November 3rd, 2022, saw Dominica observing her 44th Anniversary of Independence. A couple of days later, the island's eastern district was pounded mercilessly by over 14 inches of rain dumped ...

  • EARL MATTHEW (Far Right) as coach of Possie Vibrations Lightning U-15 team

    Earl Matthew's Passion for Basketball

    Part I of the article presented on Earl Matthew's formative years in basketball, his playing subsequently in the national, off-season and university leagues, and his representing Dominica and his club. ...

  • Milton Paul (Deceased) with one of Knicks' team trophies; died in 2014

    Remembering Milton Paul (1973-2014)

    Dominica's basketball fraternity, particularly players from the city of Roseau and those on senior division teams from the out-districts from the 1990s knew him simply as Milton. But he was ...

  • DOMINICA Team at 2000 CARICOM Basketball Championships

    Dominica In CARICOM Basketball

    The year after Dominica's basketball League first bounced off, i.e. 1967, our first Island Team was selected.

  • Lennox Jervier in 1982 scored 60 points in a DABA league match

    You Set It… We Break It!

    The main objective in a basketball game is to score points by putting the ball inside the basket of the opponents and to prevent the opposing team from doing the ...

  • Blazers won their 10th basketball league championship in 2009

    Basketball Clippings: 2000s

    Part I of these clippings presented for the four-year period, 2000-2003. The article concludes below.

  • Basketball Clippings: 2000s

    Earlier this year Jump Ball presented some historical information about Dominica's basketball development in the form of 'news clips'. Article No. 106 (June 2022) covered the period 1963 to the ...

  • Lady-Ballers of 7Six7 Sports Club, 2016. Photo courtesy Maggie

    Ambassadors, Pioneers & Renegades

    Part III of the article presented on teams whose names suggested that they were 'always on the move', as well as several of the miscellaneous names such as Home Boys, ...