NYON, Switzerland (AP): UEFA handed Benfica midfielder Gianluca Prestianni a six-game ban yesterday for verbally abusing Real Madrid forward Vinícius Júnior in a Champions League game earlier this season. A UEFA statement said Prestianni’s comments...
FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia Jamaica College’s (JC) Michael Andrae Edwards and Joseph Salmon secured impressive victories in their respective events at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia yesterday. Edwards produced an outstanding performance to break...
FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia HYDEL HIGH completed five consecutive wins in the Championship of America high school girls’ 4x400 metres at the prestigious Penn Relays in Philadelphia yesterday. The Ferry-based school clocked a season’s best 3:32....
FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia COMPETING in her final year at high school, Clarendon College’s Marla Kay Lampart, who won the Championship of America shot put event at the Penn Relays on Thursday with a heave of 14.41m, was not surprised by the...
After 20 years of perseverance, Jamaican cricket umpire Christopher Taylor has been appointed to the International Cricket Council (ICC)/Cricket West Indies (CWI) International Panel of Umpires, effective April 1, 2026. The 45-year-old Taylor...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): Several of the region’s best coaches have thrown their full support behind Cricket West Indies’ (CWI’s) plans to develop a High-Performance Campus in Antigua. It was recently announced that the Antigua...
TORONTO, Canada (CMC): Legendary Barbadian jockey Patrick Husbands has officially announced his retirement. The 52-year-old Husbands, one of Canada’s most decorated riders, had been a cornerstone of Canadian Thoroughbred racing since 1994. Over the...
Arnett Gardens assistant coach Dicoy Williams said they are still confident of securing one of the top six spots for the playoffs and inspire a late charge for the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) title. Williams was speaking on Thursday after their 2-...
FOR three years, James Pearson, president of St Mary FA, thought it would never rain, now it pours, $1.5m in sponsorship for its rebranded McKay Security Major League, which kicks off tomorrow and a guarantee that the parish’s Under-17 league will...
JAMAICA Taekwon-do Association fighters returned home from Brampton, Canada, decorated with seven medals – three gold, three silver, and a bronze – won at the 2026 North American and Caribbean International Taekwon-do Federation (ITF) Championship...
Who knows, maybe last year’s history-making run to the title may be repeated by the youngest-ever champion, then 17-year-old John Issa. But whatever the outcome, this year’s ninth annual Jamaica Inn Foundation Backgammon Tournament promises to be...
SUNDAY’s AnyBet 12th Anniversary Trophy at six and a half furlongs has attracted a half-dozen runners, fillies and colts split equally, all aiming at a win before next month’s Portmore and Kingston, the last major prep races before June’s 1000 and...
POMONA, California (CMC): A historic chapter in sports was written Wednesday as construction officially began on a new cricket stadium at the Fairplex Grounds in Pomona, marking the sport’s triumphant return to the Olympic Games for the first time...
FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia Inter-secondary champions Edwin Allen High stole the show on yesterday’s opening day of competition for high-school girls at the 130th staging of the Penn Relays, in Franklin Field, Philadelphia. The Michael Dyke-...
MUMBAI, India (CMC): In a dominant display of all-round excellence, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) secured a comprehensive 103-run victory over Mumbai Indians (MI) in Match 33 of the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 at the Wankhede Stadium in...
FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia High school boys will be back in a familiar time slot when the second day of competition at the 130th staging of the Penn Relays gets under way today in Philadelphia. The boys who competed on the two opening days last...
MIAMI, Florida (CMC): The 2025/26 Concacaf W Qualifiers have concluded, with Costa Rica, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, and Panama booking their tickets to the upcoming Concacaf W Championship. While the region celebrated six qualified...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): The second round of the 2026 West Indies Championship served up a little bit of everything. When the dust settled, we had an innings-and-141-run demolition, a record-filled draw, and a scary abandonment that left everyone...
FIFA’s resale site has four tickets on sale for the World Cup final for just under US$2.3 million each. The US$2,299,998.85 seats for the July 19 match at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, are located behind a goal in the lower...
Having finished behind only Mouttet Mile winners, or runners-up, in her last three races, United States-bred SUPERNATURAL POWER has cashed in a conditions bye two classes lower, facing overnight-allowance runners in Saturday’s World Vet Day Trophy...
Hosts Jamaica Scorpions clung on for dear life in a nerve-racking final session against the Barbados Pride at Sabina Park yesterday, battling to 90 for four after being set a theoretical 40-plus overs to survive. After the Pride declared on a...
Molynes United took a major step towards securing Jamaica Premier League (JPL) football next season after they defeated Racing United 2-1 at Ferdi Neita Park yesterday, for a third straight win to move five points clear of the relegation zone....
Organisers of the inaugural Jamaica International Amateur Pickleball Tournament are promising an exciting three-day spectacle when the event serves off from May 1–3 at Pickle n Chill in Barbican. Director of Creative Sports and chief organiser,...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): One of the greatest West Indies fast bowlers of all time, Sir Curtly Ambrose, has described Barbados Pride batsman Kevin Wickham as a “special talent”. The 23-year-old has made a record-breaking start to the 2026 West...
Racing stars continue to align for Mouttet MIle-winning ownership group Cassiopeia Racing Inc Ltd, whose second acquisition, United States-bred FOREVER FIRE (Friesanfire-Foreverinmyheart), made a winning debut in Saturday’s eighth race for three-...
