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WESTERN BUREAU: OLYMPIAN KALIESE Spencer-Carter has been shortlisted to be part of a six-member delegation of local coaches, who will be deployed to the city of Tottori Prefecture, in Japan, under a new Japan-Jamaica exchange initiative known as...

LONDON (AP): WEST HAM striker Michail Antonio is “100 per cent” confident he will play again as he recovers from a car crash that left him with a “completely shattered” leg and a realisation “how close I was to dying”. Antonio crashed his Ferrari...

JAMAICA OLYMPIC Association (JOA) president Christopher Samuda has welcomed the recommendation for the inclusion of boxing at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games after the sport was initially excluded from the programme. In an announcement made...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP): LIONEL MESSI will miss Argentina’s World Cup qualifiers against Uruguay and Brazil over the next eight days due to an apparent muscle injury. The 37-year-old Messi was not included in the 25-man squad announced on...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): PRIME MINISTER of Barbados, Mia Mottley, has congratulated president of the Barbados Football Association (BFA) Randy Harris on being elected to the FIFA Council. Harris, who was also president of the Caribbean Football...

MUMBAI, India (CMC): THERE WERE no heroics from West Indies Women’s captain Hayley Matthews this time around, but that didn’t prevent the Mumbai Indians Women from lifting their second Women’s Premier League (WPL) title after defeating the Delhi...

AFTER HIS impressive performance at the Carifta Trials at G. C. Foster College — where he clocked a personal best of 13.06 seconds, improving massively on his previous best of 13.42 to win Under-20 110m hurdles — Kingston College’s Daniel Clarke...

RAIPUR, India (CMC): AMBATI RAYUDU struck a scintillating half century to lead India Masters to a comfortable six-wicket victory over the West Indies Masters to claim the inaugural International Masters League (IML) title yesterday. Lendl Simmons...

LONDON (AP): NEWCASTLE ENDED their 70-year-wait for a major domestic trophy, beating Liverpool 2-1 in the English League Cup final yesterday. Dan Burn and Alexander Isak scored either side of halftime to seal victory at Wembley. Substitute Federico...

JAMAICAN SWIMMER Sabrina Lyn is looking to continue her impressive performances in the pool this year as she reflected on her life-changing 2024 season where she achieved her dream of competing at the Olympic Games. Lyn vividly recalls her debut at...

COMMANDANT, third on debut as a foreign invader in December’s Grade One US$250,000 Mouttet Mile, yesterday won his second straight race, slamming open-allowance runners by five lengths on the way to clocking a fast 1:24.2 at seven furlongs in the...

IN A match most expected to be a closely fought contest, Frazsiers Whip battered Los Perfectos 7-1 yesterday at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex to remain the only perfect team in the Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL). A brace each from...