Last weekend, Santos Football Club got a much-needed facelift, after the east Kingston-based club completed 90 per cent of phase one of its clubhouse renovation, and fittingly named the building in honour of lifelong servant and current president,...
DANIELLE JORDAN-TAFT of England and Hannah Kuhar of Australia became the first overseas professionals to participate in the Red Stripe Flavours Netball Jamaica Elite League, which ended on the weekend. According to Netball Jamaica President Karen...
VASSELL REYNOLDS, coach of defending Manning Cup champions Kingston College, and Anthony Patrick, the coach of last year’s beaten finalists, St Catherine High School, say preseason tournaments like the Yardie Sports Challenge Cup, which takes place...
THE SECOND finalist in the Red Stripe Flavours Netball Jamaica Elite League will be determined today at the Leila Robinson courts when Kingston Hummingbirds take on St Ann Orchids in a semi-final playoff at 7:30 p.m. The number-one ranked...
FOUR JAMAICAN coaches — Cavalier’s head honcho Rudolph Speid, former national coach Theodore Whitmore, national assistant coach Merron Gordon, and head of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) coaching school, Andrew Peart — are part of the...
JAMAICA’S UNDER-21 netballers have been preparing intensely for the Netball Youth World Cup in Gibraltar, to be held from September 19 - 28; however, Netball Jamaica is currently experiencing an $11.5-million shortfall in its efforts to get the...
AFTER THE sales of Richard King, Dwayne Atkinson, and Jalmaro Calvin to overseas clubs recently, Cavalier boss Rudolph Speid does not think rebooting the defending champions for the upcoming season will be as seamless as it has been in previous...
TWO YEARS after getting a dream trial with Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls, former England Roses player Danielle Jordan-Taft still has aspirations of playing for the homeland of her grandfather, and took the opportunity to play in the Netball Elite League...
AFTER EIGHT months of inactivity, Jamaica super welterweight boxer Joshua ‘Hellrazor’ Frazer returns to the ring on July 26 against Colombian Luis Diaz Pestana in Colombia, and says he feels dangerous and ready. Frazer’s last fight was a third-...
The Netball Jamaica Elite League takes a break this weekend for the Red Stripe Flavours Netball Jamaica (NJ) Fast5 Festival today and tomorrow at the Leila Robinson Courts. Ten teams divided into two groups will contest the preliminaries today,...
FROM TOMORROW until the 20th, the Future Netballers Academy, the only known netball academy in the island, will host its annual summer camp at Wolmer’s Girls’ School, and founder and former national player Jodi-ann Ffrench-Kentish said the academy...
WHAT STARTED out as an annual footballers’ tour with the Lions United Sports Club over 25 years ago has now mushroomed into a full-fledged charity event that is having a major impact. On Saturday, Lions United Sports Club celebrated its 25th...
MANCHESTER SPURS booked their place in the Red Stripe Flavours Netball Jamaica Elite League final after a 36-35 win over St Ann Orchids in their semi-final play-off game at the Leila Robinson courts on Sunday. The Spurs now await the winner of a...
OVER THE last year, former national footballer Michael Tulloch’s eyesight has deteriorated from the impact of glaucoma. Tulloch, who played at centre forward, was a mainstay of the national team during the 1980s. Known for his aerial prowess and...
The BallaSquad Futsal Tournament, taking place at Palm Grove Court off Spanish Town Road, will go into its quarterfinals tomorrow following last weekend’s round of 16 matches. In the quarterfinals, Paradise United take on Wanka n Frenz at 5 p.m.,...
JAMAICA ENDED the recently concluded Junior CASA Championship in the Cayman Islands with a fourth-place finish and four medals, including one gold, one silver, and two bronze, and Squash Jamaica President Karen Anderson and Captain Sanjana...
AFTER HIS confidence-boosting win in the ITF World Tennis Tour M25 in Laval, Quebec, on Sunday, top Jamaican tennis player Blaise Bicknell is looking to climb his way back up the international ranking. Bicknell, who came from a set down on Sunday...
THE JAMAICA Basketball Association (JaBA) hosted a trial, minus its big NBA stars, at the National Stadium courts over the weekend, from which coach Rick Turner will select a squad of 18 for a training camp before the 2027 World Cup pre-qualifiers...
ALTHOUGH SAN Antonio Spurs forward Devin Vassell recently declared his willingness to represent Jamaica’s national basketball team, President of the Jamaica Basketball Association (JaBA) Paulton Gordon said there are still some hurdles to clear...
FORMER DIRECTOR of marketing and sponsorship of Netball Jamaica, Karen Rosen-Baugh, was officially ushered in as the new president of the association, following their annual general meeting (AGM) at The Summit hotel on Saturday. Simone Forbes also...
Mehar Trehan and Sanjana Nallapati added the girls’ under-19 doubles gold medal to their individual silver and bronze medals, respectively, after victory over Barbados at the Junior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Championships, at the...
The new Karen Baugh-led Netball Jamaica (NJ) administration will take office this evening, after the association’s annual general meeting (AGM) at The Summit hotel on Chelsea Avenue. Following nominations on Thursday, only one executive position...
The annual Mayberry Investment Limited (MIL) Junior Tennis Championship, to be held at the Liguanea Club from July 7-11, has been upgraded from a local championship to a regional tournament. This was revealed by tournament organiser, Llockett...
SOON-TO-BE ELECTED Netball Jamaica President Karen Baugh said the country’s premier competition, the Red Stripe Flavours Elite League, has the potential to become a viable product but that they might need a change in approach in order to achieve...
THREE YEARS into her tenure as president of the Jamaica Squash Association, now rebranded Jamaica Squash, Karen Anderson continues her thrust to develop and grow the sport islandwide. Anderson announced the rebranding of the association during the...
