Rene Simoes, the Brazilian who coached Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz to the 1998 World Cup finals, has put his hat into the ring to become the Bermuda Football Association’s new technical director, the Royal Gazette newspaper reported Thursday.

New England Revolution assistant coach Paul Mariner, the 54-year-old former Ipswich and England striker, and Jamaica-born former Liverpool and England star John Barnes, whose interest in the post was reported earlier by the Gazette, have also applied for the US$125 000-a-year post.

The 55-year old Simoes is best known for guiding Jamaica the first English-speaking Caribbean side to ever qualify to the World Cup in France nine years ago.

This Miami Dolphin nightmare has reached unthinkable heights. Last Sunday Miami not only suffered their seventh loss, but again suffered a key loss in their personnel as, by far the best player on the team, and Pro-Bowler Ronnie Brown left the field in the third quarter of the game against the undefeated New England Patriots with a torn ACL (knee) ligament. Brown managed to walk off the field under his own power and seemed fine during interviews following the game, but following an MRI Monday the news broke that Brown had torn his ACL. However, he wasn't the only Dolphin to leave Sundays game with a torn ACL safety Renaldo Hill also left the game with the similar knee injury. Hill's loss hurts what is already a struggling Dolphins defensive backfield that already lost starting strong safety Yerimiah Bell early in the season, and Bell's backup Tavaris Tillman.

Although some of us idealistic ‘Dolfans’ were trying to will the Dolphins to win the game, the real question coming into this game was how much points would the Patriots manage to put up against the leagues worst defense? It only took one half for us to have the answer, as the Patriots scored a whopping 42 points by the end of the half. The final answer was 48. Yes 48, that’s almost 50. Jeez! .Tom Brady manhandled the Dolphins, throwing 6 Touchdowns. Two were thrown to star wide receiver Randy Moss who beat cornerback Cameron Worrell on a deep jump ball before the half.

It seems like when former Dolphins players return with other teams to play at the stadium formerly named after Joe Robbie, and now called Dolphin’s stadium they excel. (Could Dolphin Stadium be really jinxed, like some silly people are claiming because the name was changed from its founder Joe Robbie? Now I am sounding silly, but I am searching for an explanation for this ill-fated season.). Former Dolphin Wes Welker ended his day with 138 yards and 2 touchdowns against his old squad. Cleo Lemon got his second consecutive start but the Patriots defense managed to give him a rough time, forcing Lemon to fumble early in the 1st half. Lemon threw for over 200 yards with his young set of receivers led by second-year receiver Derek Hagan with 4 receptions for 56 yards.

Hosts Trinidad and Tobago will face Jamaica in both men’s and women’s competition in their opening games at the inaugural Caribbean Hockey Cup next month.

The tournament, set to start on November 7 at the National Hockey Centre in Tacarigua, will also involve teams from Barbados and Guyana playing in a round-robin series.

The top two teams will face each other in the final, while the third and fourth-placed teams meet in a third place play-off.

Western United copped the Jamaica National Money Transfer Trophy last Sunday as they defeated Thunder Bolts in the finals of the Miramar Premiere Soccer League Knockout competition played at the Miramar Regional Park, in Miramar.

The victory was somewhat of redemption for Western who lost in the league finals against Unity FC previously.

However it was not easy for Western who was pushed back on their heels early on in the game by an aggressive Thunder Bolts who came out in an attacking mode mounting several raids inside the Western half. Sean Barrette in particular wreaked havoc on the Western defense with some dazzling dribble mesmerizing them as he performed his magic with the ball. He was eventually brought down in the penalty box twenty minutes into the game, by Western captain Jason Davis as their defense failed to contain him.

Craig Zaidie former Jamaican national player would score the ensuing penalty kick to give Thunder bolts an early 1-0 lead. They would produce many more chances but was unable to capitalize, keeping Western in the game which stood at 1-0 into the half time break.

The second half started with Western regrouping and showing signs of a comeback. However it was not until the final 15 minutes of regulation that Western started to dominate after coach Michael Palmer went to his bench for his ace Hector Wright another former Jamaican national player. He would pay immediate dividends scoring from a free kick some thirty five yards out to even the game at 1-1.

The score would remain tied after 90 minutes of ball forcing a penalty shoot out and after a Kavan King miss for Thunder Bolts everybody else netted for both teams resulting in a 5-4 shoot out victory for Western.