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THERE WAS precious little coming from Jamaican international Leon Bailey after bagging his first UEFA Champions League goal during Aston Villa’s 3-1 win over Club Brugge at the Jan Breydel Stadium in Belgium yesterday, the winger seemingly staying...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): WEST INDIES all-format head coach, Daren Sammy, believes that some of the region’s best T20 and ODI players can help to bolster the Test team. However, Sammy has made it clear that he does not intend to force any player to...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP): VIRAT KOHLI led the way with 84 runs off 98 balls as India beat Australia by four wickets yesterday to reach the final of the Champions Trophy. Kohli’s 74th ODI half-century helped India finish with 267-6 in reply...

IN A significant milestone for Jamaican polo, 876 Polo — the UK’s first Jamaican polo team — will return to the island for a special exhibition match against a combined US-UK squad at Kingston Polo Club at Caymanas Estates on Sunday. While polo has...

AP: A SUPERB goal from Brahim Diaz helped Real Madrid maintain their dominance of the Madrid derby on Europe’s biggest stage with a 2-1 victory over bitter rivals Atletico in the first leg of their Champions League last 16 tie yesterday. Atletico...

NOTTINGHAM, England (AP): GOALKEEPER MATZ Sels was the hero for Nottingham Forest as he saved the last penalty in a shootout to take his team past Ipswich Town and into the quarterfinals of the FA Cup yesterday. The teams were tied 1-1 after 90...

MUTTENZ, Switzerland (AP): FORMER FIFA president Sepp Blatter distanced himself from corruption in football when he went on trial yesterday for the second time alongside his one-time protégé Michel Platini. Blatter and Platini returned to a federal...

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC): DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Jamaica Women lost for the second time in four matches, going down by one wicket in a thriller to the Leewards Islands Women in CG United Women’s Super50 action at Warner Park in St Kitts yesterday....

SPEAKING AT the Cricket Hall of Fame in Connecticut over the weekend, Leader of the Opposition, People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding, has called for more support for the growth of Jamaican cricket. Golding, a self-described lover of...

WHEN THE ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) gets under way on March 25, one athlete expected to draw significant attention is Wolmer’s Boys’ Class 1 sprinter Gary Card. Card, the fastest male junior sprinter in the...

RICARDO ‘BIG 12’ Brown, Jamaica’s leading heavyweight boxer who is now based in Canada, will be gunning for his 13th victory in as many professional bouts on Friday when he takes on American Colby Madison, whose record is 11 wins, seven losses and...

MEMBERS OF the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), the Professional Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL) and the JFF referees’ department are working for a speedy resolution after referees refused to suit up for Sunday’s round of Jamaica Premier League (...