IT WILL be interesting to see which eight athletes line up for the men’s 400m final at next week’s National Senior Championships, as it has been a struggle this season for the country’s male quarter-milers. After a surprise win at the Budapest...
AS THE netball fraternity gears up for the start of the 2025 Red Stripe Flavours/Netball Jamaica Elite League, there are concerns that the competition has stagnated and needs revitalising. The Elite League started in 2013 with six teams – St Ann...
HAVING LOST a number of players since the start of the season, Oniel Brown, head coach of Urban Knights, said his team will be drawing on their experience as defending champions when they take on St George’s Slayers in the first game of the...
CAVE HILL, Barbados (CMC): IN A one-sided series decider at the Three Ws Oval yesterday, South Africa Women delivered a commanding performance to defeat West Indies by 166 runs (DLS method), securing a 2-1 One-Day International series victory....
JOHN ISSA created local backgammon history at Jamaica Inn Foundation’s open last weekend, going unbeaten in 15 consecutive games over two nights on the way to becoming the youngest-ever dual champion of the eight-year tournament. Issa, 17, not only...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): WITH TRINIDAD and Tobago men’s football team into the final round of qualification for the 2026 World Cup, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), Kieron Edwards, says they require...
PAISLEY, United Kingdom (CMC): JAMAICAN INTERNATIONAL defender Richard King has sealed a transfer to Scottish Premiership side St Mirren FC, the club confirmed yesterday. The 23-year-old former Cavalier SC captain has signed a contract until 2027,...
CALIFORNIA, USA, (CMC): REGGAE BOYZ head coach Steve McClaren is urging his players to be more aggressive and show more fight after Guatemala claimed a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Jamaica in their Concacaf Gold Cup Group C matchup on Monday at...
WITH JUST over a week to go before the National Senior Championships at the National Stadium — which will be used to select athletes for the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo this September — the name Dejanea Oakley is sparking some interest...
XAVIER GILBERT’S move to Montego Bay United (MBU) from Arnett Gardens came as a shock to many as Gilbert had become a well-liked figure in the Junglists’ technical area. However, the head coach explained he leaves the club on good terms after...
JAMAICA BOXING Association (JaBA) president Stephen ‘Bomber’ Jones has hailed the Wray and Nephew Fight Nights series as an essential platform for the development of Jamaica’s amateur and professional boxers. Jones was speaking yesterday at the...
Another member of Arnett Gardens Football Club is set to join the Montego Bay United (MBU) Football Club. Former Arnett assistant coach, Garnett Lawrence, is to start the Wray and Nephew-sponsored Jamaica Premier League 2025-26 season as...
MIAMI GARDENS, Florida (AP): BENFICA OVERCAME a two-goal deficit, using Ángel Di María’s penalty kick in first-half stoppage time and Nicolás Otamendi’s 84th-minute goal to squeeze a 2-2 draw against Boca Juniors last night in a heated Club World...
MADRID (AP): A SPANISH court has convicted four people who hung an effigy of Real Madrid star Vinícius Júnior off a highway bridge two years ago, the league said yesterday. The defendants were found guilty of hate crimes after hanging a black...
SEATTLE (AP): JAIR CUNHA and Igor Jesus scored in the first half and Botafogo beat the Seattle Sounders 2-1 at the Club World Cup on Sunday night. Botafogo opened the scoring 28 minutes in as Cunha headed in a pass from Alex Telles. A contentious...
SAN JOSE, California (AP): THE UNITED States hope a blowout win over the world’s 100th-ranked team can start to lessen the pessimism created by the Americans’ longest losing streak since 2007. Malik Tillman scored twice and Diego Luna had a pair of...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): PACERS KELVIN Pitman and Raneico Smith took three wickets apiece to propel West Indies Academy to a series-levelling innings and 26-run win over Sri Lanka Emerging Players just after lunch on the third day of their second...
‘SAFEGUARDING IN sports’ is now the popular term being used to sensitise everyone involved in the profession. Not just the vulnerable, but those that wittingly or unwittingly harm others physically, mentally, sexually, or otherwise. “Abuse in...
Kouvola, Finland: JAMAICAN RALLYCROSS driver Fraser McConnell overcame a string of qualifying setbacks to claim a third-place finish in round seven of the RallyX Series, held this past weekend at the KymiRing circuit in Finland. The event marked...
BREADY, Ireland (CMC): NEWLY APPOINTED West Indies T20 captain Shai Hope is relieved that the team ended on a winning note against Ireland after a disappointing tour of the United Kingdom, where they were soundly beaten by England. The Windies...
NEWLY APPOINTED Clarendon College daCosta Cup coach, Devon Anderson, says he is not looking to fill the boots of previous coach Lenworth ‘Teacher’ Hyde, but will try to put his own unique mark on the many-time former champions. After eight glorious...
PRESIDENT OF Montego Bay United (MBU) Dr Germain Spencer is defending the recent appointment of new head coach Xavier Gilbert to begin the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) 2025-26 season, despite criticism from the fans of the club. Gilbert, former...
NATURALISED AMERICAN four-year-old FUNCAANDUN yesterday reminded ATOMICA who’s Horse of the Year, turning tables on the ageing local champion mare with a convincing topweight victory in the Mark My Word Trophy at nine furlongs and 25 yards. With...
REGGAE BOYZ coach Steve McClaren anticipates a very different game when Jamaica take on Guatemala for the second time in a week, in their opening Group C match of the Concacaf Gold Cup at Dignity Health Tennis Center in California at 9 p.m. today....
