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Published:Wednesday | March 11, 2026 | 12:05 AM

KOLKATA, India (CMC): Cricket West Indies (CWI) has been forced to abandon plans for an ICC-organised charter flight and secure commercial travel for its squad members stranded in India, ending a nine-day wait that had become “increasingly...

Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2026 | 2:25 PM

Jamaica will not field a team in the women’s 4x400m relay at the World Athletics Indoor Championships after late withdrawals from the initial 32-athlete roster has scrapped the team’s relay pool. Jamaica listed an initial relay pool including...

Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2026 | 12:12 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

Racing United returned to winning ways in the Wray and Nephew-sponsored Jamaica Premier League (JPL) with a 3-0 win over Harbour View yesterday at the Harbour View Stadium. Giovanni Cunningham opened the scoring for Racing with a wonder strike in...

Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2026 | 12:12 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

President of Netball Jamaica Karen Rosen-Baugh says the organisation is not overly concerned about the Jamaica Sunshine Girls slipping in the International Netball Federation rankings, but admits there is significant work to be done as the team...

Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2026 | 12:11 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

Former World U20 200-metre champion Brianna Lyston will be part of the 32-member team the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) has named to compete at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships, scheduled to take place from March...

Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2026 | 12:11 AM

The GC Foster Classic will celebrate its 25th anniversary on Saturday at the historic G.C. Foster College campus. Over the past quarter-century, the GC Foster Classic has established itself as a critical fixture on Jamaica’s athletics calendar,...

Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2026 | 12:11 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

It’s do or die in the ISSA Schoolboy Rural Basketball Under-16 finals as defending champions Manchester High School and Herbert Morrison Technical High School collide in a decisive Game Three today to determine this year’s champion. The best-of-...

Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2026 | 12:11 AM

Youth football teams from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Cayman Islands and The Bahamas gathered in Kingston over the weekend for the 2026 staging of Soccer Feva, the regional six-a-side tournament hosted by the American International School of...

Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2026 | 1:47 PMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Olympian Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce on Sunday thanked the sponsors who enabled her foundation to stage the Pocket Rocket Foundation’s Six-A-Side Football Competition for a 10th year, culminating in an All-Star team of 13 players and two coaches being...

Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2026 | 12:10 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Sir Clive Lloyd, widely regarded as the greatest West Indies captain of all time, has called on Cricket West Indies (CWI) to provide head coach Daren Sammy with some much-needed help. While admitting that the regional team...

Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2026 | 12:10 AM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): All-rounder Jason Holder is the lone West Indian named in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Team of the Tournament for the 2026 Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup. The 34-year-old Barbadian was awarded for his...

Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2026 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

A new star was born at the Carifta Trials on Sunday when 15-year-old Markland Williams created history for himself and Denbigh High School, becoming the first athlete from the Clarendon-based institution to book a ticket to the Carifta Games after...

Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2026 | 12:10 AM

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC): Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange has revealed that Kingsmen Sports Enterprise is set to invest over US$3 million to establish new Jamaican franchises in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL)...

Published:Monday | March 9, 2026 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner

Holland High School’s Shanoya Douglas registered her second personal-best time of the meet on yesterday’s final day of competition at the Carifta Trials inside the National Stadium. On a day when several athletes produced personal-best times in...

Published:Monday | March 9, 2026 | 12:12 AM

PARIS (AP): Lens capped a fine week by beating Metz 3-0 yesterday to move one point behind Ligue 1 leaders Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in a tense title race. PSG’s 3-1 home defeat to Monaco on Friday opened the door for rivals Lens, who reached the...

Published:Monday | March 9, 2026 | 12:12 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

Tivoli Gardens pulled off a come-from-behind win in Wray and Nephew-sponsored Jamaica Premier League (JPL) action as they downed Dunbeholden 2-1 yesterday at the Edward Seaga Sports Complex to boost their chances for a play-off spot. Alton Lewis...

Published:Monday | March 9, 2026 | 12:11 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

The Jamaica Basketball Association (JaBA) has appointed Christopher Williams as the new chair of the National Basketball League (NBL) commercial arm ahead of the 2026 basketball season. In a press release, JaBA President Paulton Gordon confirmed...

Published:Monday | March 9, 2026 | 12:11 AM

BALTIMORE (AP): Lionel Messi scored in the 27th minute, and Inter Miami held on for a 2-1 victory over DC United on Saturday night in front of 72,026 at the home of the Baltimore Ravens. With interest in Messi obviously high, the game was held in...

Published:Monday | March 9, 2026 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

ONE of the big winners at the Carifta Trials over the weekend was Zachary Wallace in the boys’ under-20 400 metres. Now representing Elite Performance Track Club, the former Maggotty High athlete raced to a personal-best 45.77 seconds to capture...

Published:Monday | March 9, 2026 | 12:11 AM

LONDON (AP): This season’s FA Cup just keeps on delivering shocks. Third-tier Port Vale pulled off a massive upset yesterday by beating Premier League Sunderland 1-0 to advance to the quarter-finals of the historic competition. That was after...

Published:Monday | March 9, 2026 | 12:10 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Former West Indies captain Sir Clive Lloyd has expressed sympathy to members of the West Indies team, who have been stranded in India for the past week. The regional team was scheduled to leave the subcontinent after...

Published:Monday | March 9, 2026 | 12:10 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Coach Garth Smythe says world under-20 200 metres bronze medallist Shanoya Douglas is capable of challenging the national junior record this season, and he has predicted that the talented sprinter could run as fast as 10.8 seconds in the 100 metres...

Published:Monday | March 9, 2026 | 12:10 AM

AHMEDABAD, India (AP): India won the T20 World Cup for a record third time with a crushing 96-run victory over New Zealand yesterday, to the delight of more than 86,000 cricket fans at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium. India scored an imposing 255...

Published:Monday | March 9, 2026 | 12:10 AM

KOLKATA, India (CMC): Players and staff of the West Indies senior men’s team will have to wait just a few more days before they can return home from India. The regional team, which has been stranded on the subcontinent since March 1 due to the...

Published:Sunday | March 8, 2026 | 2:59 PM

AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — India won the T20 World Cup for a record third time with a 96-run victory over New Zealand on Sunday to the delight of more than 100,000 fans at the largest cricket ground in the world. India scored an imposing 255-5 in...

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