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D.C. Jammers cancels annual tour

Jul 29, 2008 Sports

– CARIFESTA cited as reason

By Edison Jefford
The yearend analysis of local basketball will certainly reflect negatively on the sport with the development of yet another misfortune.

Kaieteur Sport was reliably informed yesterday that Head Coach of the Washington D.C. Jammers, Mike Creppy has written the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) to inform them of the unavailability of his team.

Already months late in their usual tour to Guyana, the D.C. Jammers were expected in Guyana on August 12 but a source told this paper that Creppy has sent an email to the GABF to cancel the mainstream basketball event.

Contacted yesterday, Technical Coordinator for the GABF, Robert Cadogan confirmed that the team will miss Guyana this year owing to the “unavailability of the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall due to Carifesta activities”.

“The guys (D.C. Jammers) won’t be coming anymore. We understand that the Sports Hall will be closing on August 14 while the guys were to come on the 12,” Cadogan said, adding that “it is very disappointing news”.

While the source did not go into detail as to the content of Creppy’s email, it is obvious that there were probably auxiliary factors that led to the cancellation of the D.C. Jammers’ 2008 tour as opposed to merely Carifesta.

The facts are that Creppy wrote the GABF–the GABF did not write Creppy informing him of the unavailability of Guyana’s renowned indoor facility. This, in a sordid way, shrouds the Carifesta excuse.

The D.C. Jammers’ tour is one of the biggest calendar events for the GABF and usually bounces off between May and July each year. The lateness of the team and then the ultimate cancellation raises many questions.

The GABF had to know that the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall would not be available as a result of Carifesta. Did the GABF inform Creppy of this fact? Was the D.C. Jammers’ 2008 tour used to mask the GABF inactivity?

Maybe the D.C. Jammers were never on the cards for the GABF since it is unusual for an overseas–based Head Coach to be writing a local association to tell them of a disposition owing to activities in the host’s country.

But Cadogan dodged those concerns when asked yesterday, stating rather that the teams, which include a national under–23, a senior male and President’s XII that were to play D.C. Jammers, will now oppose each other to remain active.

“We will select the national teams at the conclusion of this sub–association tournament; we will still engage them after Carifesta since we need to keep the guys active for the Caribbean championships next year,” Cadogan said.

The cancellation of the D.C. Jammers tour marked the third major basketball tournament that was cancelled within recent months.

First it was the Next Level Entertainment competition that was eliminated, then it was the New Era Entertainment championships to follow last week and now it’s the D.C. Jammers fixture that will follow this dangerous trend.

All these cancellations of major annual basketball events will not only affect the playing of the sport but the generation of revenue for a discipline that does not benefit from subvention from its international parent body.

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