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Jamaican lands sports director role at University of Toronto

Published:Friday | August 1, 2025 | 9:36 AMSharla Williams/Gleaner Writer

FORMER DIRECTOR of Sport at The University of West Indies, Mona campus, Dalton Myers, has been appointed as director, Interuniversity and High Performance Athletics at the University of Toronto. This announcement was made by the University of...

Track and field sets September 1 deadline for female eligibility gene tests ahead of worlds in Tokyo

Published:Wednesday | July 30, 2025 | 1:10 PM

MONACO (AP) — Clarifying promised rules on female eligibility, track and field's governing body set a September 1 deadline Wednesday for athletes to pass a gene test for competing at the world championships. World Athletics said in March it would...

Antigua's PM condemns murder of young cricketer

Published:Wednesday | July 30, 2025 | 10:50 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Antigua's Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Wednesday warned that youth violence is now an existential threat facing the Caribbean region after the body of a teenager found with stab wounds in a gutter last Friday had been...

Stacked-with-class BGLC feature too close to call

Published:Wednesday | July 30, 2025 | 12:19 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

VARIABLES ABOUND in Saturday’s Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) feature at five and a half furlongs, an open allowance in which no punter should try playing hero by jumping to a banker on raw form. PACK PLAYS and MAHOGANY, for...

ABRUPT END

Published:Wednesday | July 30, 2025 | 12:18 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

ARNETT GARDENS’ quest to defend their Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Shield title came to an abrupt end yesterday when they were defeated 4-1 by AC Port of Spain in their final group stage match at the Hasely Crawford Stadium. A brace from...

‘We will beat Pakistan if we execute better’

Published:Wednesday | July 30, 2025 | 12:18 AM

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC): DESPITE BEING on the wrong end of a 5-0 drubbing in their just-concluded T20I series against Australia, West Indies white-ball captain Shai Hope is still confident ahead of his side’s three-match series against Pakistan...

Sunshine Girls to renew rivalry with Vitality Roses

Published:Wednesday | July 30, 2025 | 12:17 AM

NETBALL JAMAICA today announced the dates of the 2025 edition of the Horizon Series, the second staging of a series between the Sunshine Girls and England’s Vitality Roses. The series, earmarked for four years, has the unique feature of being...

Supreme Ventures gets behind World Youth Netball campaign

Published:Wednesday | July 30, 2025 | 12:15 AM

NETBALL JAMAICA (NJ) president Karen Rosen-Baugh said the Supreme Ventures Limited’s (SVL) donation of $5 million has brought renewed hope to the association as they make inroads into the $11 million the under-21 Sunshine Girls need to get to the...

Ocho Rios head coach happy with progress

Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2025 | 12:09 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

OCHO RIOS High School head coach, Veron Peterkin, says after their historic run in the ISSA daCosta Cup football competition last season, the team is focused on continuing from where they left off. Peterkin, who guided the team to historic heights...

Good weekend on the track for Jamaicans

Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2025 | 12:09 AM

THERE WAS some success for Jamaicans on tracks across Europe and on the island this weekend. Ackeem Blake, for one, following his fourth-place finish in the men’s 100m at the London Diamond League meet, won at the ISTAF Olympiastadion in Berlin,...

Glenmuir open preseason with Clarendon title

Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2025 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

THE CLARENDON Elite Football competition ended on Sunday at Glenmuir High School, with the home team securing a 2-0 win over Vere Technical in the final. In the third-place play-off, Denbigh squeezed out a 2-1 victory over Munro College. Favourites...

Australian grateful for Elite League experience

Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2025 | 12:08 AMSharla Williams/Gleaner Writer

WHILE MANY Jamaican netball players dream of an opportunity to play in the Suncorp Super Netball League, Australian Hannah Kuhar went in the other direction, travelling 36 hours across the world to play in the semi-professional Red Stripe Flavours...

Coaches happy with preseason tournaments

Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2025 | 12:08 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

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...

Team Jamaica ready for all comers at 37th CAJGC

Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2025 | 12:08 AM

JAMAICA WRAPPED up their final practice session in the blazing sun at the Constant Spring Golf Course in Kingston on Saturday under the guidance of national coach Jonathan Newnham, ahead of the 37th Caribbean Amateur Junior Golf Championship (CAJGC...

Elite League final MVP, mom takes aim at new challenge

Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2025 | 12:08 AMSharla Williams/Gleaner Writer

NETBALL JAMAICA Elite League finals MVP Tracyann Francis’ achievements go far beyond what she did in the final of the Red Stripe Flavours Netball Jamaica Elite League on Sunday. Just to be part of that final, the Kingston Hummingbirds goal shooter...

Glenmuir hunt daCosta Cup reprieve

Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2025 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

FOLLOWING THEIR semi-final exit at the hands of neighbouring school Garvey Maceo in last year’s daCosta Cup football competition, Glenmuir High School are hoping to go all the way this time around. Undoubtedly the top team heading into last year’s...

Arnett still in danger after big win

Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2025 | 12:08 AM

IF ARNETT Gardens are to advance to the next round of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Shield competition, they will need another dominant performance against Trinidad and Tobago’s AC Port of Spain today, as only the group winners will...

‘NO CONFLICT’

Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2025 | 12:07 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

MICHAEL RICKETTS, president of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), has defended the appointment of Rudolph Speid as technical adviser to the Reggae Boyz programme, saying the Cavalier’s boss is the “best man for the job”. With the hopes of...

Deion Sanders says he had bladder cancer but plans to coach the Colorado Buffaloes this season

Published:Monday | July 28, 2025 | 2:23 PM

BOULDER, Colorado (AP) — Colorado coach Deion Sanders disclosed Monday that he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of bladder cancer but after surgery his oncologist has considered him cured, so he plans to coach this season. Dr Janet Kukreja,...

CWI commits to honouring Wehby legacy

Published:Monday | July 28, 2025 | 12:09 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua: SOME PEOPLE serve cricket with a bat or ball in hand. Others, like Don Wehby, serve it with quiet conviction, deep love, and the courage to help shape what the game must become. Don never walked onto a cricket field in maroon,...

CRUNCH TIME

Published:Monday | July 28, 2025 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

ONE MONTH before the deadline for the entry of all countries’ athletes to the Tokyo World Championships, several Jamaicans who finished in the top three at the National Junior and Senior and Championships [Trials] are yet to attain the automatic...

Akmal’s century carries Pakistan Champions past West Indies

Published:Monday | July 28, 2025 | 12:08 AM

LEEDS, England (CMC): A BRILLIANT century by Pakistan’s Kamran Akmal condemned West Indies Champions to their third defeat in four matches in the World Championship of Legends, as they went down by 49 runs on Saturday. Akmal slammed 113 off just 62...

‘Cornerstone’

Published:Monday | July 28, 2025 | 12:08 AM

THE JAMAICA Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), and the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport are mourning the loss of former GraceKennedy Chief Executive Officer,...

Australia continue domination of hapless Windies

Published:Monday | July 28, 2025 | 12:08 AM

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC): AUSTRALIA ARE one match away from clean sweeping the West Indies on their tour of the Caribbean after securing an exciting three-wicket win in the fourth T20I at Warner Park on Saturday. West Indies did well to get up to...

CWI accepts proposal from CARICOM, Special Committee

Published:Monday | July 28, 2025 | 12:07 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): CRICKET WEST Indies (CWI) has wholeheartedly welcomed the recent proposal put forward by the Bureau of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee (PMSC) on Cricket. In a statement issued on...

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