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Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:43 PM

HIGHLY RESPECTED sports marketer Tanya Lee Perkins is raring to get started as Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) ambassador, a post for which she was announced in a press release from the football governing body yesterday. “It is an honour to serve...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:43 PM

MULTAN, Pakistan (CMC): WEST INDIES Test captain Kraigg Brathwaite has rated his team’s 120-run victory over Pakistan in the second Test match as one of the best of his cricketing career. The regional team defeated the home side inside three days...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:43 PM

MULTAN, Pakistan (CMC): LED BY another outstanding performance by left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican, the West Indies ended a 30-year drought for a Test victory in Pakistan by defeating the home side by 120 runs on the third day of the second Test at...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:42 PMGregory Bryce/Gleaner Writer

INTER-SECONDARY SCHOOLS Sports Association (ISSA) chairman of swimming, Andrea Bryan Hughes, is pleased with the way the first meet in her post, the High Schools and Tertiary Swim on Saturday at the National Aquatic Centre, went. “I think we had a...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:42 PM

MANCHESTER, England (AP): MANCHESTER CITY have signed another young defender in the January transfer window after 18-year-old left back Christian McFarlane joined yesterday from sister club New York City FC. McFarlane has been with New York City...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:42 PM

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): OF ALL the praise bestowed on Jannik Sinner after he won his second consecutive Australian Open championship, and third Grand Slam title overall, nothing felt as significant as the comparison made by runner-up Alexander...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:41 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

CALABAR HIGH School secured three victories at the inaugural New York State International Invitational Indoor Track and Field Meet, held last weekend at the Ocean Breeze Track and Field Facility in Staten Island. The meet, the brainchild of...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:40 PMGregory Bryce/Gleaner Writer

WALKING ACROSS the stage to receive the 2024 Aquatics Athlete of the Year award at the recent RJRGLEANER National Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Awards was a life-changing experience for young swimming sensation Kia Alert. “When I received...

Published:Monday | January 27, 2025 | 8:03 PM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Saudi Arabia club Al-Hilal said Monday it reached an agreement with Brazilian striker Neymar to terminate their contract by mutual consent. The deal was due to expire in the middle of the year. The club said in a...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:37 PMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica Premier League (JPL) leaders Mount Pleasant Football Academy created history yesterday after they defeated Tivoli Gardens 1-0 at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex to extend their winning streak to 11 matches, and in the process, broke...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:37 PM

LONDON (AP): English football match officials body say police are investigating “abhorrent attacks” aimed at English Premier League (EPL) referee Michael Oliver and his family following the match between Wolverhampton and Arsenal. Oliver was the...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:37 PMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

PANAMANIAN Ismael Velasquez yesterday completed a weekend sweep of trophy races at Caymanas Park, rallying even-money favourite GEOLITHIC to beat fellow American SHE’S A GODGIFT by a length and a quarter in the Bonnie Blue Flag Trophy. Velasquez,...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:36 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

FORMER inter-secondary girls’ champions St Jago High displayed their best form this season with several good performances at last Saturday’s 23rd staging of the Queen’s/Grace Jackson Invitational meet at the National Stadium. St Jago dominated...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:36 PM

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: Team Blue Rising achieved a groundbreaking moment in the E1 Series as Sara Misir secured the team’s first-ever podium finish at the thrilling event in Jeddah. With a strong performance, Team Blue Rising claimed 24 points on...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:36 PM

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): There are all sorts of ways beyond merely the score to measure just how dominant Jannik Sinner was while outplaying and frustrating Alexander Zverev during the 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory yesterday that earned the 23-year-...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:36 PM

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC): The Surrey Royals captured the Dream 11 T10 cricket title with a comprehensive eight-wicket victory over the Surrey Risers in the final at Sabina Park on Saturday. After being sent in to bat, the Risers wasted a glorious...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:36 PM

MULTAN, Pakistan (CMC): West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite scored an invaluable half-century, and his batters produced a gutsy effort to install them as favourites to push for victory against Pakistan going into the third day of the second Test...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:36 PM

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Published:Sunday | January 26, 2025 | 12:18 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

DESPITE A second-place finish in the opening race of her season, Shericka Jackson’s coach at MVP, Paul Francis, is happy. The World Athletics Championships 200-metre gold medallist clocked 7.18 seconds in the women’s 60 metres at yesterday’s Queen’...

Published:Sunday | January 26, 2025 | 12:18 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

THE TOURING South Africa under-21 team completed their domination over the young Sunshine Girls, securing a 47-33 win at the National Indoor Sports Centre yesterday, whitewashing the hosts in their three-game series. The SPAR Baby Proteas entered...

Published:Sunday | January 26, 2025 | 12:18 AMGregory Bryce - Staff Reporter

AS THE pot covers rang out among the din of an excited crowd at the National Indoor Sports Centre, the Sunshine Girls completed a sweep of their three-match Margaret Beckford Sunshine Series in a 58-47 win against South Africa in the series finale...

Published:Sunday | January 26, 2025 | 12:17 AM

AMIDST THE call for more youth participation in cricket at the secondary level, First Global Bank (FGB) and GK General Insurance (GKGI), both members of the GraceKennedy Financial Group, have pumped over $9 million into the 2025 Inter-Secondary...

Published:Sunday | January 26, 2025 | 12:17 AM

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC): WITH THE West Indies Women set to play in the upcoming ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup Qualifiers, their head coach Shane Deitz has called for more consistency from his players. The West Indies Women comprehensively...

Published:Sunday | January 26, 2025 | 12:17 AM

KAZAKHSTAN (CMC): THE MVP Track Club duo of Jamaicans Kishane Thompson and Tia Clayton both won gold at the Astana Indoor Meet for Amin Tuyakov Prizes yesterday. Thompson got his indoor season off to a winning start at the opening World Athletics...

Published:Sunday | January 26, 2025 | 12:17 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

PACK PLAYS yesterday reproduced his Mouttet Mile speed to dismantle top-class rivals in the Eileen Cliggott Memorial at six-and-a-half furlongs. Sent off as the 7-5 favourite, the four-year-old American, who led December’s Mouttet Mile, turning for...

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