Conflict Between the JOA, JAAA, Coaches and Athletes Impacted Team Jamaica’s Performance in Paris
The unfortunate but not entirely surprising JAAA/JOA imbroglio, which has played out in a very public way at the 33rd Olympiad has resulted in Team Jamaica losing face at the games. As my dear brother Prof. Rainford Wilks likes to say, ‘A blind man on a galloping horse could see that’, a rather apt adage […]
10 Interesting Facts About Legendary Basketball Player Patrick Ewing to Commemorate His 62nd Birthday
Patrick Aloysius Ewing, a.k.a. ‘Hoya Destroya,’ was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on August 5th, 1962. In 1975, at the age of 12, Ewing and his parents, Carl and Dorothy Ewing, emigrated to the United States, where they settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a junior in high school, Ewing, who was already over 6 feet, was […]
