· July, 2009

Stories about Sport from July, 2009

Lao SEA Games 2009

The 25th Southeast Asian Games will take place in Laos on December 9-18. Visit the official site of the games.

30 July 2009

Libya: Rugby anyone?

Rugby in Libya? Khadija Teri reposts an announcement and notes: “Nothing on the brochure is mentioned about gender… do females play Rugby? I guess this would be a good way...

21 July 2009

Jamaica: Time for Arbitration?

From Jamaica, Girl With a Purpose thinks that the conflict between the West Indies Players Association and the West Indies Cricket Board “needs to go to arbitration…the West Indian public...

15 July 2009

Barbados: Dark Day for Windies

Diaspora blogger Jdid is disheartened by the direction of West Indies cricket, saying: “Thank you WIPA and WICB for killing our cricket. You're both doing a bang up job!”, while...

14 July 2009

Jamaica: Women Needed

In the context of the West Indies Cricket Team's strike, Jamaica's Girl With a Purpose humbly suggests that “the West Indies Cricket Board needs to include at least three women,...

9 July 2009

Russia: Putin and the bikers part II

Voices from Russia translates extracts of and comments an article on Premier Putin's Moscow [Sic!] meetup with Russian bikers, taking time off from the recent Obama-Medvedev summit, as an MC-motorcade...

9 July 2009

Nicaragua: The Passing of Alexis Argüello

From Nicaragua, Juan Ortega pays tribute to Alexis Argüello, a former boxing champion and politician [es], who recently passed away. Even though Ortega was too young to remember watching Argüello's...

6 July 2009

Jamaica: Powell's Time?

Jamaica's Girl With a Purpose predicts that Asafa Powell will give Bolt and Gay a run for their money in the 100m at the Berlin World Championships this August.

1 July 2009