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THE NEXT generation of Jamaican football talent received an unforgettable lesson in perseverance and excellence recently when René Simões, the iconic former coach of Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz, visited daCosta Cup champions Garvey Maceo High School as...

CEC WRIGHT didn’t know exactly how many wickets he had taken. Though he cherished every one of them, from unknown teenagers to the greats of the game, he had lost count, given how long he’d been playing. He was still going at 85, turning out for...

MUMBAI, India (AP): MUMBAI INDIANS crushed defending champions the Kolkata Knight Riders by eight wickets to finally post a win in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Monday. Five-time champions Mumbai lost their first two games and turned their...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): WEST INDIES head coach Daren Sammy has earmarked Shai Hope as the best person to elevate the One-Day International and T20 teams to the next level. The 31-year-old Hope was announced as T20 captain on Monday by Cricket...

LIVERPOOL, England (AP): LIVERPOOL’S BID to clinch a record-tying Premier League title hasn’t been affected by persistent reports linking Trent Alexander-Arnold with a move to Real Madrid at the end of the season, manager Arne Slot said yesterday....

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): NICHOLAS KIRTON, the captain of Canada’s cricket team, is in police custody as he assists police in relation to a drug charge. The 26-year-old Barbadian was taken into police custody on Sunday after arriving at the...

DWAYNE ATKINSON scored twice as Cavalier came from behind twice to draw 2-2 with Arnett Gardens in the feature Monday night Jamaica Premier League (JPL) game at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex. Fabian Reid fired Arnett in front after eight...

AFTER EARNING a point against Waterhouse on Monday in the Wray and Nephew-sponsored Jamaica Premier League (JPL), Chapelton Maroons head coach Vassell Reynolds is targeting survival for the club entrenched in a fierce relegation battle. With just...

PRINCIPAL OF Hydel High School Dr Walton Small hailed the school’s track and field head coach, Corey Bennett, as one of the greatest local coaches of all time because of what he has been able to achieve with very limited resources. Hydel celebrated...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): THE WEST Indies will have a new Test captain when they take on Australia in the summer following the resignation of Kraigg Brathwaite yesterday. According to a press release from Cricket West Indies (CWI), the 32-year-old...

Many pundits predicted a close finish between Kingston College (KC), Calabar High, and Jamaica College (JC) for the boys’ title on the eve of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, but in the end it turned out to be a one-...

There is a saying that lightning never strikes in one place twice, but the opposite was true for the defending and 10-time girls’ champions Edwin Allen High at last week’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships. Two years ago,...