Young men in Haiti play a game of pickup basketball on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. PATRICK FARRELL [email protected] Polycarpe concedes that nine of the 11 players the team took to ...

Petion said basketball has provided an outlet for the players. The tournament invited more than 15 teams from around the world to play in the tournament, including Haiti. Canadian organizers ...

Murphy began reading up about Haiti and learned about the January ... “I get to travel and play basketball with my best friends and work with kids. I’m blessed.” Murphy’s biggest idea ...

Quincy Douby (former first-round pick of the Sacramento Kings who is playing overseas) -- from Brooklyn -- has a similar story. There are several other NBA-Haiti and basketball-Haiti connections.

Haiti will play at the Women’s World Cup for the first time after beating Chile 2-1 in a qualifying play-off. Melchie Dumonay’s double secured victory at North Harbour Stadium in Auckland and ...

Dumornay grew up playing soccer in the streets of the town, and at the age of 10 was recruited to Haiti’s national football youth academy, Camp Nou. Once the country home of the dictator Jean ...