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Published:Saturday | July 19, 2025 | 12:05 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

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,...

Published:Saturday | July 19, 2025 | 12:05 AMAinsley Walter/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICAN lightweight fighters, – 169lb – Ackeem Lawrence and Nicholai Reid, have been important mainstays in the combined martial arts team’s arsenal, especially team-fighting, which the unit dominated internationally, once going unbeaten in 53...

Published:Saturday | July 19, 2025 | 12:05 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

The Jamaica Paralympic Association (JPA), in collaboration with the University of West Indies (UWI) Faculty of Sport, is set to host the second staging of the Commonwealth Sport GAPS (Gather, Adjust, Prepare, Sustain) Americas...

Published:Friday | July 18, 2025 | 12:13 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

THE YEAR is 1963. The West Indies have just completed a tour of England where they defeated their opponents 3-1 in a five-Test series, led by the experienced Sir Frank Worrell. Desiring silence away from the team’s celebratory mood, Worrell decided...

Published:Friday | July 18, 2025 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JASON MCKAY, founder of Jamaica’s combined martial arts team, yesterday said the annual International Sports Karate Association (ISKA) United States Open, held at the Coronado Springs Resort at Disney World, Orlando, Florida, is the single-biggest...

Published:Friday | July 18, 2025 | 12:13 AM

BARCELONA, Spain (AP): LAMINE YAMAL will switch to the number-10 jersey at Barcelona, the same number Diego Maradona, Ronaldinho, and Lionel Messi wore for the Catalan club. “I’ll try to build my own path, but all kids would like to be like them,”...

Published:Friday | July 18, 2025 | 12:12 AM

AUCH, France (AP): TOUR DE FRANCE riders applauded for a minute before the 12th stage yesterday in memory of Samuele Privitera, the 19-year-old Italian who died after a crash while racing in Italy the day before. Privitera crashed in the first...

Published:Friday | July 18, 2025 | 12:12 AM

AP: IT IS the world’s most popular sport, and yet there is still debate over what it should actually be called. Is it football or soccer? US President Donald Trump waded into the topic while at the Club World Cup final in New Jersey last Sunday. He...

Published:Friday | July 18, 2025 | 12:12 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Rangpur Riders were denied a fourth consecutive victory in the ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League (GSL) after heavy rain forced the abandonment of their final group-stage match against the Central...

Published:Friday | July 18, 2025 | 12:12 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): THE GUYANA Amazon Warriors secured their spot in the ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League (GSL) final with a commanding four-wicket victory over the Hobart Hurricanes XI, triumphing with 21 balls to spare at The Guyana...

Published:Friday | July 18, 2025 | 12:11 AM

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC): TEAM JAMAICA delivered an outstanding performance at the 2025 Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships (CAGC), securing second place overall and the Arthur Zaidie Trophy runner-up title with 23 points. However, the celebration...

Published:Friday | July 18, 2025 | 12:11 AM

SWANSEA, Wales (AP): SNOOP DOGG has become a “co-owner and investor” of Welsh football club Swansea. The former Premier League club, now in the English second division, didn’t disclose financial details in yesterday’s announcement, which shines a...

Published:Friday | July 18, 2025 | 12:11 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): IT IS no secret that West Indies fast-bowling great Sir Andy Roberts does not mince words when it comes to criticising players, coaches, and even administrators with regard to West Indies cricket. The Antiguan has once...

Published:Friday | July 18, 2025 | 12:11 AM

MONACO (AP): WOMEN’S MARATHON world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich was provisionally suspended for a positive doping test yesterday. Track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said Chepngetich tested positive for a banned diuretic and masking...

Published:Friday | July 18, 2025 | 12:07 AM

LONDON (AP): DANIEL DUBOIS said he’s “going to be the man” when he fights Oleksandr Usyk with all of the major world heavyweight belts on the line Saturday. The boxers met Thursday for what was a tame final press conference ahead of their rematch...

Published:Friday | July 18, 2025 | 12:07 AM

THE POCKET Rocket Foundation is now accepting applications for its 2025–2026 scholarship programme, reaffirming its commitment to supporting Jamaican student-athletes. It is open to high school athletes from second through to sixth form who excel...

Published:Thursday | July 17, 2025 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

IT WAS a busy day for Jamaican athletes, who competed across three World Continental Tour meets in Canada, Italy, and Switzerland on Tuesday. Competing at the Spitzen Leichtathletik Silver meet in Luzern, Switzerland, World Championships in Luzern...

Published:Thursday | July 17, 2025 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

FOLLOWING BOTCHED exchanges at the World Relays and failure to achieve the automatic qualifying mark for the Tokyo World Championships, Jamaica’s male sprinters will make another attempt this Saturday at the London Diamond League in their bid to...

Published:Thursday | July 17, 2025 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-BRED RIDEALLDAYS’ impressive performance, dismissing fellow importees, non-winners of three races, in a decent 1:33.0 for seven and a half furlongs, June 21, signalled a horse going places, worthy of being backed in Saturday’s...

Published:Thursday | July 17, 2025 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

RICHARD STONE, the first fighter to win back-to-back Night of Champions International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) World Championship titles at the International Sports Karate Association (ISKA) United States Open, returns to the main tournament for...

Published:Thursday | July 17, 2025 | 12:08 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Thursday | July 17, 2025 | 12:08 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): WEST INDIES Women’s captain Hayley Matthews has been appointed as a Caribbean Premier League (CPL) ambassador. Describing her as a “trailblazer on and off the pitch”, the CPL said Matthews will play a pivotal role in its...

Published:Thursday | July 17, 2025 | 12:08 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): TWO-TIME WORLD Cup champion Andre Russell has called it quits on his international career. The 37-year-old Russell, who has represented the West Indies in more than 140 international matches over a 15-year career and was...

Published:Wednesday | July 16, 2025 | 9:20 PM

The construction phase of the redevelopment of the National Stadium in Kingston is set to begin in 2026 with the project expected to be completed by 2029, the Ministry of Sports has informed. The ministry says the redeveloped stadium will...

Published:Wednesday | July 16, 2025 | 12:13 AMGregory Bryce/Gleaner Writer

WITH THE current Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL) nearing its finale, Christina Hudson, chair of Professional Women’s Football Jamaica Limited (PWFJL), declared their first season in operation a success. The JWPL underwent a rebrand at the...

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