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Published:Sunday | January 19, 2025 | 12:14 AM

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP): WEST INDIES collapsed to 137 all-out within one session against Pakistan spinners Noman Ali and Sajid Khan as 19 wickets fell on Day 2 of the first Test yesterday. Pakistan, who were bowled out for 230 in the first innings on...

Published:Sunday | January 19, 2025 | 12:14 AMGregory Bryce - Staff Reporter

EVEN AS the island recorded its lowest Olympic medal tally since the 2004 Athens Games along with heartbreaking setbacks on the track, the sport of track and field could not call the season a loss with new stars emerging throughout. Jamaican...

Published:Sunday | January 19, 2025 | 12:13 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

THE YEAR 2024 was a bittersweet one for the Jamaica Basketball Association (JBA). Among the highs was the return of the National Basketball League (NBL) which was halted for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, four games into the 2019 season....

Published:Sunday | January 19, 2025 | 12:13 AM

THE YEAR that was 2024 was interesting for the sport of kings in many respects. There was controversy, there were special races, special horses, but as interesting as anything else, there were two jockeys who made the season anything but normal....

Published:Sunday | January 19, 2025 | 12:12 AMGregory Bryce - Staff Reporter

AS SHE collected the prestigious RJRGLEANER Sportswoman of the Year award on Friday night at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, veteran triple jumper Shanieka Ricketts said her age will not be slowing her down as she prepares for the 2025 season. Ricketts...

Published:Sunday | January 19, 2025 | 12:09 AMSharla Williams - Gleaner Writer

COMPETING IN track and field at the Olympics has been the goal of many Jamaican athletes, but Chevroy Lindo would rather walk his way to the Games. To prepare for this journey, Lindo recently completed a daring challenge of walking across the...

Published:Sunday | January 19, 2025 | 12:08 AMAlbert Ferguson - Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: DR DONOVAN Bennett, president of the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA), is vehemently opposed to the possibility of a two-tier two-tier system for Test cricket, saying it is not a recommendation he would expect to come out of the...

Published:Saturday | January 18, 2025 | 12:21 PM

Darwin Nunez scored twice in stoppage time as Liverpool beat Brentford 2-0 to strengthen its spot in first place in the Premier League on Saturday. Second-placed Arsenal will look to restore the four-point gap to Liverpool by defeating Aston Villa...

Published:Saturday | January 18, 2025 | 12:09 AM

JAMAICA’S SUNSHINE Girls, while having the benefit of home-court advantage when they take on South Africa’s SPAR Proteas today in the first game of the Margaret Beckford Sunshine Series, face the unenviable task of going into the National Indoor...

Published:Saturday | January 18, 2025 | 12:08 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

Roje Stona and Shanieka Ricketts saw their impressive 2024 calendar year decorated with the prestigious RJRGLEANER Sports Foundation’s Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Awards last night in a ceremony held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel. As many...

Published:Saturday | January 18, 2025 | 12:08 AM

FIRST-YEAR Class One athlete Johan-Ramaldo Smythe of Muschett High was the standout performer at yesterday’s Sprint Fest 100 metres meet at GC College. Smythe ran a personal best (PB) 10.47 seconds to lower his previous best of 10.49 which he set...

Published:Saturday | January 18, 2025 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Defending inter-secondary girls’ champions, Edwin Allen High, will be hoping to continue their early season form when they return to GC Foster College to compete at today’s Central Hurdles Relays and Field Events meet. Athletes will be involved...

Published:Saturday | January 18, 2025 | 12:08 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

TWO NEW primary schools, John’s Hall and Middlesex Corner from Hanover, will be among the other primary, preparatory and high schools at today’s second staging of the ‘Run for the Republic’ development track and field meet at Herbert Morrison...

Published:Saturday | January 18, 2025 | 12:08 AMGregory Bryce/Gleaner Writer

Having become a staple in the track and field calendar for Jamaica’s junior athletes, the McKenley/Wint Track and Field Classics promises a schedule filled with top athletes in its 10th staging today at the Calabar High School. With its inaugural...

Published:Saturday | January 18, 2025 | 12:08 AM

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): Coco Gauff still hasn’t lost a match or even a set at the Australian Open — or, actually, this season. She moved into the fourth round at Melbourne Park with a straightforward 6-4, 6-2 victory over 2021 US Open runner-up...

Published:Saturday | January 18, 2025 | 12:08 AM

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (CMC): Shai Hope cracked a masterful, unbeaten half century, but his Dubai Capitals still went down to the Sharjah Warriors by five wickets in a high-scoring affair when the International League T20 (ILT20) continued...

Published:Saturday | January 18, 2025 | 12:07 AM

MULTAN, Pakistan (CMC): Despite starring on the opening day of the first Test against Pakistan, pacer Jayden Seales says he expects spin bowlers to play a major role on the remaining four days. Seales, the lone fast bowler in the West Indies’...

Published:Saturday | January 18, 2025 | 12:07 AM

MULTAN, Pakistan (CMC): West Indies fast bowler Jayden Seales snared three early wickets, but half centuries from Saud Shakeel and Mohammad Rizwan helped to rebuild Pakistan’s innings on the opening day of the first Test here at the Multan Cricket...

Published:Friday | January 17, 2025 | 1:51 PM

Erling Haaland has signed a new contract at Manchester City through 2034, committing his long-term future to the Premier League champions with one of the most lucrative deals in football amid uncertain times for the club on and off the field....

Published:Friday | January 17, 2025 | 12:10 AM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): Fakhar Zaman’s brilliant 67 off 52 balls led the Desert Vipers to a five-wicket victory over MI Emirates at the Dubai International Stadium as action continued in the International League T20 (ILT20) here...

Published:Friday | January 17, 2025 | 12:09 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

The prestigious RJRGLEANER Sports Foundation National Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Awards Gala will be held tonight at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel. Track and field athletes have, as usual, dominated the awards this year, as 12 of the 13...

Published:Friday | January 17, 2025 | 12:09 AM

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): Learner Tien, a 19-year-old qualifier from California, became the youngest American man to reach the Australian Open’s third round since Pete Sampras in 1990, upsetting a racket-tossing Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (...

Published:Friday | January 17, 2025 | 12:09 AM

MANCHESTER, England (AP): Amad Diallo rescued Manchester United with a late 12-minute hat-trick to earn a 3-1 win over last-place Southampton in the English Premier League yesterday. The 22-year-old winger equalised in the 82nd minute, put United...

Published:Friday | January 17, 2025 | 12:08 AM

CARDIFF, Wales (CMC): Former Great Britain Winter Olympian Mica Moore has officially switched allegiance and will now represent Jamaica in bobsleigh, a move she describes as a “tremendous honour”. The 32-year-old made history for Team GB alongside...

Published:Friday | January 17, 2025 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

The spotlight will be on the Class One boys at today’s Sprint Fest 100 metres at G C Foster College in Spanish Town. The first event is set to begin at 2 p.m. Excelsior High’s duo of Malike Wright and Riquelme Reid will be the top sprinters on...

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