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Published:Sunday | June 22, 2025 | 12:13 AMGregory Bryce - Staff Reporter

WITH HIS team surviving a late scare against Guadeloupe in Friday’s Concacaf Gold Cup fixture, Reggae Boyz head coach Steve McClaren was critical of what he deemed inconsistent performances from his players. Jamaica recovered from their opening...

Published:Sunday | June 22, 2025 | 12:11 AM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): WEST INDIES vice-captain Jomel Warrican isn’t heartened by the news that Australia will be without their world-class batsman Steve Smith when the opening Test match between the two teams bowls off here next Wednesday....

Published:Sunday | June 22, 2025 | 12:08 AM

WHEN the women’s 400m hurdles gets under way at the National Senior Championships next week, the big question will be: Is it finally time for Andrenette Knight to shine and rise to the top? In an event dominated by Janieve Russell and Rushell...

Published:Saturday | June 21, 2025 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz came from behind to beat Guadeloupe 2-1 in their crucial Group C game in the Concacaf Gold Cup at the Paypal Park in California, United States last night, to keep their hopes of a quarterfinals berth alive. The win moved...

Published:Saturday | June 21, 2025 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

JORDAN SCOTT continued his impressive form in the men’s triple jump this season with back-to-back Diamond League success at yesterday’s Wanda Diamond League meet in Paris. Following his win in Oslo a week ago, he produced 17.27 metres to win the...

Published:Saturday | June 21, 2025 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Arnett Gardens general manager Peter Thelwell said although they failed in their bid to secure the services of former assistant coach Garnet Lawrence to replace recently departed head coach Xavier Gilbert, he believes they have acquired the ideal...

Published:Saturday | June 21, 2025 | 12:11 AM

LIVERPOOL (AP): Liverpool delivered a huge statement of intent after winning the English Premier League title by signing Germany star Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen yesterday. The transfer fee could climb to 116 million pounds (US$156...

Published:Saturday | June 21, 2025 | 12:10 AM

PHILADELPHIA (AP): Danilo scored the go-ahead goal in the 65th minute and Flamengo scored three second-half goals to move atop their group at the Club World Cup with a 3-1 victory over Chelsea yesterday. Both teams went into the match with three...

Published:Saturday | June 21, 2025 | 12:10 AMSharla Williams/Gleaner Writer

“Hope them change,” Olympic Games shot put bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell told The Gleaner when asked about his rumoured switch of allegiance to represent Turkey’s national team. Asked to clarify who are “them” and if this Turkey move would be...

Published:Saturday | June 21, 2025 | 12:09 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

For many coaches, winning the first game of a best-of-three basketball series would bring some measure of relief. But Simon Brown, head coach of Upper Room Eagles, knows the job is not yet done as they face a tough task to defeat UWI Runnin’...

Published:Saturday | June 21, 2025 | 12:09 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

Following reports that a number of elite track and field athletes are set to switch their allegiances from Jamaica to Turkey, Member of Parliament and Olympian Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn has called for further questions into the role of Jamaica’s sports...

Published:Friday | June 20, 2025 | 9:45 PM

The Reggae Boyz notched their first win in Group C of the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup when they got the better of Guadeloupe 2-1 on Friday night at the Paypal Park to move to three points in the standings. Jamaica recovered from their opening 1-0...

Published:Friday | June 20, 2025 | 12:13 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

AT 20 years old, Roshawn Clarke is Jamaica’s best 400 metres hurdler and, at next week’s JAAA National Senior Championships, the World under-20 record holder will be aiming for his second national senior title. Clarke, who celebrates his 21st...

Published:Friday | June 20, 2025 | 12:13 AMSharla Williams/Gleaner Writer

National athlete Navasky Anderson has set his sights on September’s World Athletics Championships finals after he broke the national 800-metre record recently. Anderson set a national record of one minute 44.61 seconds at the Mission Run Baltimore...

Published:Friday | June 20, 2025 | 12:12 AM

Having lost to Guatemala 1-0 in their opening game of the Concacaf Gold Cup, Reggae Boyz head coach Steve McClaren said the team will need to win their remaining games against Guadeloupe and Panama if they are to advance to the next round of the...

Published:Friday | June 20, 2025 | 12:11 AM

Having been named patron for the 2025 staging of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) Sagicor National Athletics Championship, sprint icon Veronica Campbell-Brown is ready to use her role to inspire Jamaica’s next generation of athletes. “I have...

Published:Friday | June 20, 2025 | 12:11 AM

MIAMI (AP): Kylian Mbappe was discharged from the hospital yesterday after experiencing an acute case of gastroenteritis, and it was not known when he will be able to play for Real Madrid at the Club World Cup. Mbappe missed the Spanish giant’s...

Published:Friday | June 20, 2025 | 12:11 AM

MANCHESTER, England (AP): Manchester City was fined more than one million pounds (US$1.35 million) by the English Premier League (EPL) yesterday for repeatedly delaying kickoff times “without good reason” last season. City, managed by Pep Guardiola...

Published:Friday | June 20, 2025 | 12:11 AM

ATLANTA (AP): Lionel Messi scored his first goal of the expanded Club World Cup on an exquisite free kick, lifting Inter Miami to a 2-1 victory over two-time European champions Porto yesterday. The Herons trailed 1-0 at the break, but Telasco...

Published:Friday | June 20, 2025 | 12:10 AM

CAVE HILL, Barbados (CMC): West Indies women’s cricketers Aaliyah Alleyne and Qiana Joseph have been penalised for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during the second ODI against South Africa here at the 3Ws Oval on Tuesday. The pair were found...

Published:Friday | June 20, 2025 | 12:10 AM

BRISBANE, Australia (CMC): West Indies all-rounders Chinelle Henry and Deandra Dottin have been snapped up in the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) Overseas Player Draft, set to bring their explosive talents to Australia’s premier T20 competition. The...

Published:Friday | June 20, 2025 | 12:09 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

While the track and field community is caught in a frenzy following reports of several elite athletes switching their allegiance from Jamaica to Turkey, Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) President Garth Gayle said that at this...

Published:Thursday | June 19, 2025 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

GARY SUBRATIE summoning claiming rider Emelio McLean aboard DIGITAL ONE for Saturday’s SVL 24th Anniversary Trophy could prove a masterstroke for the four-year-old American filly in her expected battle with fellow United States-bred LEGACY ISLE,...

Published:Thursday | June 19, 2025 | 12:12 AM

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC): SABINA PARK, Jamaica’s iconic cricket venue, has received a major facelift with new state-of-the-art LED lights, just in time for the upcoming Australia series. The upgrade, costing $75 million, is set to revolutionise...

Published:Thursday | June 19, 2025 | 12:12 AM

LONDON (AP): STAR BATTER Steve Smith and his dislocated finger are going with Australia to the Caribbean. Smith doesn’t need surgery on the compound dislocation to his right pinkie from the World Test Championship (WTC) final at Lord’s, captain Pat...

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