WITH FOUR more preliminary rounds of Diamond League events to go before the grand finals in Zurich, Switzerland, from August 27–28, seventeen Jamaicans — led by triple jumpers Shanieka Ricketts and Jordan Scott — are in strong positions to qualify...
NEW YORK (AP) EFENDING CHAMPIONS Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka, who both top the tennis rankings, led 10 former winners of the US Open who were on the entry lists for this year’s tournament announced yesterday. The fields include 18 past Grand...
KINGSTON FOOTBALL Academy (KFA) and Excelsior High kicked off their opening day of the 2025 Target USA Cup in dominant fashion by securing massive wins at the National Sports Center in Blaine, Minnesota. The Target USA Cup, one of the largest youth...
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC): USA-1 INSTALLED themselves as heavy favourites to capture the 2025 Rising Stars Men’s Under-19 50-over Championship by thrashing defending champions Barbados in a clash of unbeaten teams yesterday. What was expected to...
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...
KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC): WEST INDIES Test captain Roston Chase has characterised the West Indies’ humiliating batting performance, which saw them bundled out for just 27 in the second innings in the third and final Test match against Australia on...
ADELAIDE, Australia (CMC): FORMER WEST Indies captain Carl Hooper believes head coach Daren Sammy needs to be answerable for the regional side’s embarrassing performance against Australia in the just-concluded day-night third Test. On Monday, The...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): CRICKET WEST Indies (CWI) president Dr Kishore Shallow has requested an immediate review of the just-concluded Test series against Australia, which the West Indies lost 3-0. The series ended in embarrassing fashion for the...
Only a day after West Indies endured one of its worst performances in nearly a century of playing test matches, the president of the Caribbean cricket board was looking to the past to improve the future. WICB president Kishore Shallow on Tuesday...
LA QUINTA, California (AP): NFL HALL of Famer John Elway won’t be charged after his business partner Jeffrey Sperbeck was fatally injured falling out of his golf cart at a Southern California golf resort community last April, the authorities said....
JAMAICA’s MOST decorated martial artist, 30-year-old Waterhouse native Akino Lindsay, honoured last year in Vienna, Austria, by Europe’s International Sport Kick Boxing Association (ISKA) Amateur Members Association for winning eight individual...
WHEN THE 11th stop in the Wanda Diamond League gets under way this Saturday in London, there will be an invasion of the country’s top senior athletes, as 13 of them are set to compete in individual events, while a stacked men’s 4x100-metre relay...
IN ONE of the most astonishing displays of fast bowling in Test history, Australia’s Mitchell Starc ripped through the West Indies batting line-up, skittling them out for a humiliating 27 runs, their lowest-ever Test total and the second-lowest in...
WHILE TOTAL Football Academy (TFA) walked away with the title at the KSAFA-Guardian Group Under-11 Summer Challenge Cup after two days of competition over the weekend, the tournament organisers declared the event a resounding success. TFA defeated...
MILAN (AP): AT AGE 39, Luka Modric is going to try and help restore seven-time European champions AC Milan to glory after one of the most disappointing Rossoneri seasons in recent memory. The 2018 Ballon d’Or winner signed a one-year contract with...
LONDON (AP): IT WAS July 14. Of course Jofra Archer was going to open the bowling for England against India on the final day of the Lord’s Test yesterday. “Yeah, part of the reason I went with Jof this morning ... six years ago now to the day,”...
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...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): HAYLEY MATTHEWS copped yet another award in her already-glittering career when she took home the ICC’s Women’s Player of the Month award for the month of June. The 27-year-old West Indies captain won the award for...
EVEN THOUGH the embers of the Jamaica Women’s Premier League’s (JWPL) regular season are still smouldering, head coaches of the top four clubs — Frazsiers Whip, Cavalier, Arnett Gardens, and Los Perfectos — have already turned their attention to...
Mitchell Starc took six wickets for nine runs and Scott Boland claimed a hat-trick as Australia dismissed the West Indies for 27 — the second-lowest total ever in test cricket — to win the third test by 176 runs on Monday. The West Indies missed...
AUSTRALIA SURGED to a commanding 181-run lead over the West Indies by stumps on day two of the third Test at Sabina Park, finishing on 99-6 in their second innings after bowling out the hosts for 143 earlier in the day. Despite a spirited...
MONEY MARKET, runner-up nine times from 24 starts, four consecutive since April, yesterday won his sixth lifetime race by outbattling stablemate SENSATIONAL MOVE at five furlongs straight, booking a ticket to what is bound to be another spell of...
LONDON (AP): JANNIK SINNER insisted early on at Wimbledon that he put an excruciating loss to Carlos Alcaraz in their epic French Open final behind him. Sinner was sure that one defeat wouldn’t haunt him, wouldn’t prevent a quick recalibration, and...
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (AP): COLE PALMER scored twice and fed João Pedro for a goal as Chelsea overwhelmed Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in the first half and beat the European champions 3-0 yesterday in the final of the first expanded Club World...
REGGAE BOY and West Ham striker Michail Antonio is mourning the death of his mother, Ceslyn, who died after battling a long-term illness. Antonio shared the news via Instagram yesterday. “Hello mum, it’s your baby boy here. Your time in this...
