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Published:Wednesday | July 23, 2025 | 12:12 AM

GROS ISLET, Saint Lucia (CMC): SHERMAN AUGUSTIN, a St Lucian national football player who plied his trade in the St Lucia Semi-Professional Football League, lost his life after being fatally stabbed on Monday during Carnival celebrations. The 22-...

Published:Wednesday | July 23, 2025 | 12:11 AM

Monte Carlo, Monaco: JAMAICAN RACECAR sensation Sara Misir delivered a standout performance alongside teammate John Peeters to secure Team Blue Rising’s first-ever win in the UIM E1 World Championship at the Monaco Grand Prix held on Sunday. This...

Published:Tuesday | July 22, 2025 | 10:47 AM

Crystal Palace has taken its fight with UEFA to the Court of Arbitration for Sport by lodging an appeal against its demotion to the third-tier Conference League next season. The Switzerland-based CAS confirmed Tuesday that the Premier League...

Published:Tuesday | July 22, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

FROM HUMBLE beginnings of two gold medals in 2006 — Shawn Cummings in heavyweight continuous-sparring and two-man team-fighting won by Keith Edwards and Jason McKay — Jamaica’s combined martial arts team’s 20th anniversary at the 2026 International...

Published:Tuesday | July 22, 2025 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Tuesday | July 22, 2025 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

AFTER BOOKING their ticket to the Tokyo World Championships in the men’s 4x100-metre relay at the London Diamond League with a nippy 37.80 seconds, Jamaica will now focus on the women’s 4x400m and mixed 4x400m relays in their quest to qualify for...

Published:Tuesday | July 22, 2025 | 12:11 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

IF LOS Perfectos are to achieve their season’s ambition of making it to the Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL) final, they will have to do what no other team has done this season, defeat defending champions Frazsiers Whip. Los Perfectos booked...

Published:Tuesday | July 22, 2025 | 12:11 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

KINGSTON FOOTBALL Academy (KFA) picked up two age-group titles at the recently concluded 2025 Target USA Cup, as they won the boys’ U13 Copper division as well as the boys’ U17 Silver division titles. All five of the KFA teams which were registered...

Published:Tuesday | July 22, 2025 | 12:10 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): FORMER CHAIRMAN of CARICOM’s Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on Cricket, Dr Keith Rowley, says he is strongly against Cricket West Indies’ (CWI) decision to appoint West Indies head coach Daren Sammy as the chief...

Published:Tuesday | July 22, 2025 | 12:10 AM

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC): VETERAN WEST Indies all-rounder Jason Holder says the regional side is still confident of winning the series, despite losing the opening T20I to Australia on Sunday. The Windies stuttered with the bat and were inconsistent...

Published:Tuesday | July 22, 2025 | 12:10 AM

TORONTO (AP): CARLOS ALCARAZ pulled out of the Toronto Masters tournament yesterday, a day after Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic, and Jack Draper withdrew from the hard-court event that begins next week. Alcaraz said Toronto “comes just too soon for...

Published:Tuesday | July 22, 2025 | 12:10 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): COMPETING AT a tournament for the first time in more than a year, and in doubles for the first time in nearly three, Venus Williams hit a big serve on her initial delivery at the DC Open yesterday and, curiously, it was wiped out...

Published:Tuesday | July 22, 2025 | 12:09 AM

LONDON (AP): FORMER ENGLAND midfielder Paul Gascoigne is back home and “doing well” after being hospitalised over the weekend, his representative said yesterday. “Paul voluntarily went into A...

Published:Tuesday | July 22, 2025 | 12:07 AM

MADRID (AP): BARCELONA’S ALREADY-IMPRESSIVE front line is about to be boosted by the signing of Marcus Rashford. Rashford is in Barcelona to complete a move from Manchester United, a person with knowledge of the transfer told The Associated Press...

Published:Monday | July 21, 2025 | 12:12 AM

BIRMINGHAM, England (CMC): SOUTH AFRICA Champions edged West Indies Champions in a rare bowl-out after the two teams played to a thrilling tie in their rain-affected World Championship of Legends (WLC) on Saturday. Led by knocks of 28 from Lendl...

Published:Monday | July 21, 2025 | 12:12 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

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-...

Published:Monday | July 21, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’s MARTIAL artists closed the 2025 International Sports Karate Association’s United States Open with 28 medals — nine gold, 13 silver and six bronze — at the July 17-19 tournament. Richard Stone led with a double-gold as Jamaica combined...

Published:Monday | July 21, 2025 | 12:11 AM

MIRPUR, Bangladesh (AP): SUPER TIGHT bowling by pacer Mustafizur Rahman and a half-century from opener Parvez Hossain Emon led Bangladesh to a seven-wicket victory against Pakistan with almost five overs to spare in their T20 series opener...

Published:Monday | July 21, 2025 | 12:11 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): THE RISING Stars Women’s Under-19 Championship concluded dramatically on Saturday, with Barbados claiming the title after a workmanlike, seven-wicket victory over the Leeward Islands in their rain-affected final at...

Published:Monday | July 21, 2025 | 12:11 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): VENUS WILLIAMS is back on the tennis scene, ready to compete for the first time in more than a year; and while she smiled or laughed frequently yesterday while discussing her return at the DC Open, there was something that would...

Published:Monday | July 21, 2025 | 12:11 AM

LAS VEGAS (AP): MANNY PACQUIAO pushed back against his doubters, the odds, and even Father Time on Saturday night — and nearly made some history. But Pacquiao, in the end, fell just short on the judges’ scorecards as Mario Barrios escaped with a...

Published:Monday | July 21, 2025 | 12:10 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): FORMER PRIME Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Keith Rowley, has refuted claims by Cricket West Indies (CWI) president, Dr Kishore Shallow, that CARICOM governments were not doing enough to assist in the development...

Published:Monday | July 21, 2025 | 12:10 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

CLOSING OUT the regular season atop the league standings and with an enviable unbeaten record, defending champions Frazsiers Whip’s head coach Courtney Dowdie confidently declared they are ready to defend their Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL...

Published:Monday | July 21, 2025 | 12:10 AM

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC): WITH JUST two matches remaining in his storied international career, West Indies T20 star Andre Russell has described his match-winning, unbeaten knock of 43 in the semi-finals of the 2016 T20 World Cup against India as his...

Published:Monday | July 21, 2025 | 12:09 AM

THE THRILL of victory reached new heights at Caymanas Park recently when seasoned punter M. Parker struck gold with an incredible $11 million Twilight 6 bet win, marking the largest payout in three years at the iconic Portmore track operated by...

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