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Island Games bid should boost local sports

Hosting the Natwest Island Games in 2013 could help Bermuda look beyond cricket and football to sporting success across the board.

Mickelson in line for Tiger's spot

Padraig Harrington won a return trip to Bermuda to compete in the PGA Grand Slam of Golf by taking the British Open title for the second year in a row.

Scramble to comply with drug laws

Sporting bodies that fail to comply with tough new drug testing regulations risk wiping Bermuda off the international sporting map.

Who will win the Grand Slam?

Four of the world's top golfers fly into Bermuda this weekend to do battle on the picturesque Mid Ocean course.

'Unfinished business' for Harrington

Padraig Harrington aims to cap a year of unprecedented success by pulling on the 'pink jacket' as PGA Grand Slam champion in Bermuda next week.
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Mid Ocean - the course that vexed the world's best pro golfers

The Mid-Ocean is one of the trickiest courses in Bermuda. Here's a hole-by-hole look at how the four major winners handled its undulating fairways and superfast greens on day one of the PGA Grand Slam.

Harrington, Furyk in dead heat

Open Champion Padraig Harrington is in poll position to add the PGA Grand Slam to his bulging trophy cabinet after clinging on for a share of the lead, on a day when the whipping north winds and slick greens of the Mid Ocean course chastened the world's best golfers.

Swinging sisters are pint-sized prodigies

They may still be shorter than their golf bags but the young Alvin-ae and Al-shae Landy are already being tipped as the 'Williams sisters of golf'.

* SPORTS FUNDING / HARD TIMES AHEAD

Feeling the pinch: Five major sporting projects that need financing

Plans for a multi-purpose sports centre to take the pressure off the National Sports Centre were announced last week as the bulldozers moved in to demolish the dilapidated club house at Somerset Bridge.

* SPORTS FUNDING / HARD TIMES AHEAD

Money for new events unlikely to materialize

Sporting groups looking for money for new projects and events could very well find themselves in the paupers' line as the economic recession hits.
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* SPORTS FUNDING / HARD TIMES AHEAD

Sports 'will survive' financial crisis

Bermuda can cut more than ten per cent from its sports budget and still fund a raft of new projects - including an Olympic swimming pool, a multi-purpose sports centre and new drug-testing infrastructure, claims Sports Minister El James.

Bermuda Open looking for golfers

The Bermuda Open golf tournament will have a new feel to it this year as it is played at the Tucker's Point course for the first time.

Faldo sees a transformed St. George's as PGA Grand Slam potential

Six-time major winner Nick Faldo plans to transform St George's golf course into a venue that could host the PGA Grand Slam.

This is why playing golf is such a great pasttime

I have absolutely no idea why people play Australian Rules Football.

New game to teach golf to kids

Primary school youngsters are getting to grips with golf, thanks to a new game that makes it possible for kids as young as five to master the basics of the sport.
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The Bermuda Sun bids farewell...

JUL 30, 2014: It marked the end of an era as our printers and collators produced the very last edition of the Bermuda Sun.

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