August 2009
Steve Tikolo leaving cricket on a high note
By RON FANFAIR
Based on his incredible performance in the four-day Intercontinental Cup match against Canada last week, it's hard to see how veteran Kenyan cricketer Steve Tikolo could justify quitting the sport next year.
In his final appearance here, the 38-year-old right-handed batsman again demonstrated that he may be the best cricketer never to have played in the Test arena, recording mammoth centuries in both innings - 158 and 169 - in the sport's longer version at King City.
Roy Rana is Ryerson’s new basketball coach
By RON FANFAIR
Roy Rana has made the leap from high school to university.
The coach of the successful Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute basketball program takes over the Ryerson University program which enters this season with high expectations after reaching the playoffs last year for the first time in nearly a decade.
With Rana at the helm, Eastern won five provincial championships and five city titles, and the Toronto South league crown all nine years that he was associated with the program.
Bajan gold medalist an inspiration
By RON FANFAIR
Watching 110-metre hurdler Ryan Brathwaite capture Barbados' first World Track and Field Championships gold medal in Berlin last week provided promising Toronto-based sprinter Crystal Emmanuel with inspiration going into this week's Canada Games athletics segment in Prince Edward Island.
Born in Scarborough to Barbadian parents, Emmanuel spent nine years in the Caribbean island where she met the new world champion.
Big Yard: an intriguing look at life in Jamaica
Big Yard, a hilarious and thought-provoking theatrical production starring Oliver Samuels, is a play that should not be missed. Written by Devon Haughton and directed by Shirvington Hannays, Big Yard is set in Spanish Town, Jamaica, where a diverse group of people live in a tenement yard.
Jamaican hospitality students study in Toronto
By RON FANFAIR
Doing a wine tasting seminar at George Brown College last week rather than sipping wine to celebrate her birthday was an acceptable option for Serthine Bailey.
The birthday celebrations can take place after she graduates in December with a Bachelor's degree in Hospitality Management from Western Hospitality Institute (WHI) in Jamaica.
Bailey's among a batch of students in Toronto engaged in a nine-week program jointly offered by the WHI and the Constellation College of Hospitality.
