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Our flag has hidden much too long
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 14, 2017When, shortly after admission to the Olympic movement, Dominica for the first time took part in the 1996 Summer Games at Atlanta, U.S.A, the small nation of ours held up ...
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Volts in the bolt of lightning
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 7, 2017Every, now and again there is a tendency to indulge in the assertion that so and so is the best performer of all time in a particularly sport and track ...
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Tailoring a more effective national football team
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 1, 2017A case, hopefully, of fourth time lucky has now surfaced for Dominica's football at national level as the DFA imports from Trinidad a coach to chart the way forward. Older ...
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Abuse of the drawing board
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMarch 22, 2017Like most everyone, I was inclined to suggest that West Indies may have just about turned the corner as to its fortunes when selection came about for the recent O.D.I ...
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Bleak, cold winds to be endured by Caribbean footballers
Reginald St. H ShillingfordFeb. 22, 2017Among the differing viewpoints surrounding world football is one that the FIFA move to increase the number of countries to qualify for the final stages of the World Cup Tournament ...
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Youthfulness extended upwards
Reginald St. H ShillingfordFeb. 7, 2017Arbitrarily, the limits of youthfulness in tennis settle at about the age of 29. In fact, a tennis playing friend of mine stuck ardently to expressing his age as no ...
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Who can you trust?
Reginald St. H ShillingfordJan. 22, 2017The ancient Olympic Games supposedly began in Greece in the year 776 BC and were staged every four years in the wooded valley of Olympia. They continued until the year ...
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Getting away from Laissez faire
Reginald St. H ShillingfordDec. 17, 2016Escape from the clutches of a lower standard of football, as assessed on the global scale, has recently been expressed as a possibility by the Trinidad football authorities. Great prospects ...
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Another "No Mas"
Reginald St. H ShillingfordDec. 12, 2016After all the extensive media hype about the big fight between Jamaican Nicholas Walters and Ukrainian Vasyl Lumachenko that took place in Las Vegas, on Saturday it was nothing more ...
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Unending confusion
Reginald St. H ShillingfordDec. 3, 2016There is a saying sometimes applied in sports to the effect that a high quality official is little noticed. He or she does the
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Fencing in embryo
Reginald St. H ShillingfordNov. 22, 2016A potentially fruitful connection has arisen between embryonic fencers in Dominica and Barbados, giving rise to a group of fencers from the latter territory participating in Dominica's second national competition ...
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Crop over
Reginald St. H ShillingfordOct. 19, 2016A somewhat bizarre suggestion was offered by a Jamaican cricket lover during the last week. He summed up the current string of losses and bad performances by West Indies against ...
