Orin Davidson

By Orin Davidson For an undistinguished, low achieving West Indies cricket team, the shock and outrage being expressed around the region at the omission of Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard for the upcoming World Cup, is surprising.

By Orin Davidson   As expected, the Golden Jaguars team of 2014 is coming home with its tail between its legs from the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) qualifying competition.

  As the countdown intensifies for the World Junior track and field championships, top United States-based coach Shaun Dietz feels Guyana has an excellent chance to produce its best ever display which however can be ruined if the local national governing does not act with more alacrity.

In front of a loud New York crowd, Winston George overcame slight nerves and a heavy head wind to run the best race of his career, setting a new men’s 400 metres national record at the Adidas Diamond League athletics meet yesterday at Icahn Stadium in the “Big Apple”.

By Orin Davidson As underdog status goes, Clive Atwell’s is as extreme as they come.

“Time is longer than twine”—— so states one of the oldest English expressions used in times of distress.

The headlines have been dominating Regional sports pages …..”West Indies knocked out by rain in T20 semi-finals”.

By Orin Davidson It’s been  three years since Guyana’s football has been rid of the Colin Klass -led Guyana Football Federation (GFF), but déjà vu is set  to  engulf the sport all over again, under the current administration.

The media release explained it was a decision made “in the best interest of West Indies cricket.”

This is not a  time for  chest thumping  “I told you so” self praise; it is not time to crow over the failures of players you don’t’ like for insular reasons, rather, it is  a time when utmost pressure has to be applied  to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to finally wake up to reality.

As England was rapidly tumbling to  defeat against Australia in the just concluded third Ashes cricket Test, a spectator expressed his desire to have a five-day long game for a Christmas gift.

The defiance displayed by West Indies selectors in the face of withering criticism and shame in light of the latest annihilation of the West Indies senior team in the just concluded Test series in India is mind-boggling.

So, it will be a Christmas without Kashif and Shanghai football, and thanks to uninspired leadership by the new Guyana Football Federation (GFF) administration, bruised feelings are being nursed within the fraternity at a time when Guyanese are accustomed to sharing goodwill.

West Indies cricket administration has transitioned into changed leadership, but as the great writer/philosopher Alphonse Karr once remarked, “The more things change the more they are the same.

By Orin Davidson Beaten but unbowed, was Sachia Vickery’s disposition after  suffering  elimination   in the  women’s singles of the U.S.

By Orin Davidson   Capitalizing on vociferous support from a small but ardent gathering of Guyanese, Sachia Vickery posted her maiden Grand Slam match victory yesterday by dispatching veteran Mirjana Lucic-Baroni at the US Open tennis tournament here in New York.

In sport you have the good, the bad and the ugly, like in almost every aspect of life.

By Orin Davidson Guyana’s Olympic Games sprint prospect Kadecia Baird is stepping up  plans for her best ever outdoor season this year  and hopes to better her personal best performance.

The endorsements have been numerous, the hype bigger than ever and this year’s election for Guyana Football Federation (GFF) president promises to be the most eagerly awaited ever in the sport.

From Orin Davidson  in New York Now that the blame game over Guyana’s disappointing performance at the London Olympic Games is behind us, a golden opportunity has presented itself for the protagonists to back up the talk and throw maximum support behind this country’s participation at the upcoming Junior CARIFTA Games.