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Published:Thursday | September 26, 2024 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

ST HUGH’S High School enjoyed a perfect start to their Urban ISSA Schoolgirl Netball campaign, defeating Ardenne High School in under-16 and under-19 action at the school yesterday. The junior team, led by national under-16 player Kheresha Peccoo,...

Published:Thursday | September 26, 2024 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Association (JABBFA) Audrey Allwood is expecting the Mayberry/Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) JABBFA National Senior Championships, which will be staged at the AC Hotel on Saturday,...

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2024 | 12:14 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

FOLLOWING LAST week’s preseason rally, action in the regular season of the ISSA urban and rural schoolgirl netball competition will get under way today. The Nardia Hanson-coached St Hugh’s will be involved in the feature matches of the urban...

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2024 | 12:13 AM

CAMPION COLLEGE head coach Newton Sterling said his team will be hoping to return to winning ways in the ISSA Manning Cup today when they play hosts to Penwood High. Campion were blanked 5-0 by Kingston College (KC) in their last outing in Zone C...

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2024 | 12:13 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

HEAD COACH of the Jamaica men’s netball team Shawn Murdock said while the sport is growing globally, the negative perception and stereotypes in Jamaica continue to be the greatest hindrance to development. Murdock said in his experience as a coach...

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2024 | 12:13 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

A CRUSHING 5-0 win over Grange Hill High School in their Zone C ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup game on their school grounds signals a job well done, says The Manning’s School’s coach Everton Tomlinson. Manning’s Jodon Grey opened the scoring for the winners...

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2024 | 12:13 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

WOLMER’S BOYS asserted their dominance in Zone E of the ISSA Manning Cup yesterday after defeating Tivoli Gardens 4-2 in a tightly contested top-of-the-table clash at the Mico University College field. Wolmer’s continued their imperious march in...

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2024 | 12:13 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): RETIRED NFL quarterback Brett Favre has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, he told a congressional committee yesterday. Favre made the disclosure as part of his testimony about a welfare misspending scandal in Mississippi....

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2024 | 12:12 AM

PRAGUE (AP): THE STORIED San Siro stadium cannot host the Champions League final in 2027, UEFA decided yesterday, opening the search for a new venue. UEFA had given extended time for the city of Milan to show the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza would be...

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2024 | 12:12 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

HARBOUR VIEW FC’s first points in the Jamaica Premier League came under difficult circumstances at the Montego Bay Sports Complex, coming from behind to clip Montego Bay United 2-1. In rainy weather, Harbour View had to navigate going behind in...

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2024 | 12:12 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): EXPLOSIVE WEST Indies all-rounder Andre Russell will not hang up his cricket boots until after the completion of the 2026 T20 World Cup, scheduled to be jointly held by India and Sri Lanka. In a change of heart, the...

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2024 | 12:10 AM

TAROUBA, Trinidad (CMC): OPENERS JOHNSON Charles and Faf du Plessis tore the Trinbago Knight Riders’ bowlers to shreds to help set up an emphatic 80-run victory for the St Lucia Kings in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) yesterday. Charles and du...

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2024 | 12:10 AM

TAROUBA, Trinidad (CMC): ANDRE FLETCHER’S run as the Caribbean Premier League’s (CPL) highest-ever run scorer lasted just two days, with Johnson Charles retaking the position yesterday. On Sunday, the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots’ nightmare of a...

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2024 | 12:13 AM

FOR THE first time in nearly a decade, Glenmuir High School’s netball teams will go into the Rural ISSA schoolgirl competition without mentor and key member of their coaching staff, Annette Daley. Daley, a former national senior coach, who has...

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2024 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

COACH OF Jamaica’s under-16 netball team, Nardia Hanson, is singing the praises of her girls after closing out the Island Vibes series against Trinidad and Tobago’s under-16s 2-0 on Sunday inside the National Arena. The Jamaicans won 42-16...

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2024 | 12:12 AM

THE JAMAICA Boxing Association staged a long-awaited 2024 fight card with four fights and an exhibition bout on Saturday at the Stanley Couch Gym in Kingston. It was an all-amateur fight card under the banner Gloves Over Guns Futures programme....

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2024 | 12:12 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

IN A game which was already won by the half-time whistle, Calabar High School were in cruise control as they dispatched Kingston Technical (KT) 8-1 yesterday in their ISSA/WATA Manning Cup game at Calabar High School’s field yesterday. Calabar...

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2024 | 12:12 AM

CHICAGO (AP): THE UNITED States will play their home leg of a CONCACAF Nations League quarterfinal in St Louis on November 18, the Americans’ first competitive match under coach Mauricio Pochettino. The game, announced yesterday, will be at...

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2024 | 12:12 AM

AP: EVERTON’S LONG-RUNNING takeover saga could soon be over after the struggling English Premier League team reached an agreement yesterday with the Texas-based Friedkin Group over the purchase of the club. “We look forward to providing stability...

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2024 | 12:11 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

EVEN THOUGH just three goals separate Spot Valley High from top-of-Zone-D’s William Knibb, coach Damion Nelson says his team are underdogs going into today’s ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup at William Knibb Memorial High School in Trelawny at 3:30 p.m. Both...

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2024 | 12:11 AM

TAROUBA, Trinidad (CMC): NICHOLAS POORAN rode his luck to hit a swashbuckling, unbeaten 93 from just 43 balls to help the Trinbago Knight Riders oust the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots from the Caribbean Premier League with a comprehensive seven-...

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2024 | 12:11 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

WHEN ST Jago travel to Edith Dalton James today for their ISSA Manning Cup Zone E game, the objective will be to turn around their poor start to the season. The Spanish Town-based school lost their opening two games of the competition, defeated 3-1...

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2024 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

WORLD 100-METRE hurdles champion Danielle Williams and Olympic Games 800-metre semifinalist, Natoya Goule-Toppin, will be two Jamaicans among 36 women who will compete at the inaugural Athlos meet in New York this Thursday. The meet, which will be...

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2024 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

PHILIP WILLIAMS, the former Dunbeholden coach, who resigned after two matches with the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) club, cited a conflict in schedule with his work as a teacher at St Andrew Technical High School and the St Catherine-based club, as...

Published:Monday | September 23, 2024 | 12:54 PM

Four of the eight Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Manning Cup games scheduled to kick off this afternoon have been postponed due to waterlogged fields caused by heavy rain across the Corporate Area. Three games are set to go ahead...

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