Sports

GROS, ISLET, St Lucia (CMC): For the first time in its history, the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has surpassed the billion-viewership mark, combining digital and broadcast platforms. The total audience for the 2024 tournament...

NO QUARTER will be given on the lead in Saturday’s George HoSang Trophy in which speedsters MUDSHAFT, BENSON, FREEDOM STREET, and THALITA should have a battle royal at six furlongs. Whereas BENSON might be class-suspect, overnight-allowance winner...

ASTON VILLA winger Leon Bailey is the highest-earning Jamaican player in the English Premier League (EPL) and the joint sixth top-paid player at his club. Bailey, who collects a weekly salary of £120,000, which amounts to over £6.2 million per year...

BANGI, Malaysia (CMC): EMMA MCLEOD scored a half-century, and her opening partner, Kate Irwin, added 46 as New Zealand Under-19 Women strolled to a comfortable 79-run win over West Indies Under-19 Women in their warm-up match at the UKM-YSD Cricket...

FOOTBALL COACHES at the under-14 and under-16 schoolboy level are not happy with the level of investment put into the sport, especially in comparison to the hugely popular Manning and daCosta Cup competitions, which highlight under-19 talent. The...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): JOÃO FONSECA definitively introduced himself to the world as the latest teen sensation in men’s tennis yesterday, upsetting number-nine seed Andrey Rublev 7-6 (1), 6-3, 7-6 (5) in the first round of the Australian Open....

AP: SOME OF the medals from the Paris Olympics seem to be quickly losing their shine. The French mint told The Associated Press yesterday that it is replacing a number of medals from the 2024 Paris Games and Paralympics after athletes complained...

AT THE first executive meeting of the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) for 2025 on Friday, the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) was officially approved as hosts of the organisation’s XIV Annual Workshop and XXIII Annual...

REGGAE GIRL Siobhan Wilson will, for the remainder of the Women’s Championship season, play for Southampton FC after the two brokered a loan agreement announced on Friday. The versatile left-sided player, who has been with Birmingham since 2022,...

A DOMESTIC-BASED Reggae Boyz contingent is set to face Trinidad and Tobago in a pair of international friendlies for the third year in a row as the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) ramps up its preparations for the Concacaf Gold Cup Preliminaries...

Some of the medals from the Paris Olympics seem to be quickly losing their shine. The French mint told The Associated Press on Tuesday that it is replacing a number of medals from the 2024 Paris Games and Paralympics after athletes complained...