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Published:Monday | September 16, 2024 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Mount Pleasant Football Academy coach Theodore Whitmore was a pleased man following his team’s impressive 2-0 win over Portmore United to start the 2024-25 Jamaica Premier League (JPL) season at Ferdie Neita Park yesterday. Suelae McCalla, with a...

Published:Monday | September 16, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-bred DIGITAL ONE finally won her first race as a three-year-old, sitting third in the catbird seat before pouncing on MONEY MARKET in yesterday’s stretch run of the Trevor McKenzie Trophy at five furlongs round. Out for the second...

Published:Monday | September 16, 2024 | 12:10 AM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Barbados’ top-ranked player, Darian King, convincingly won both of his singles matches to lift them to a 3-1 victory over Pakistan in their Davis Cup Group II tie here yesterday. In what was the first meeting between the...

Published:Monday | September 16, 2024 | 12:10 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP): Saleema Imtiaz became the first Pakistani woman to be nominated to the ICC international panel of development umpires, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said yesterday. Imtiaz’s nomination on the panel makes her eligible to officiate...

Published:Monday | September 16, 2024 | 12:10 AM

LONDON (AP): Arsenal left archrivals Tottenham’s stadium with a win for the third season in a row after Gabriel Magalhaes’ second-half header settled a feisty and physical north London derby in the English Premier League yesterday. Tottenham had...

Published:Monday | September 16, 2024 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’s Akino Lindsay, 29, is set to receive a special award in recognition of his impressive achievement of winning eight consecutive gold medals in two disciplines at the ISKA AMA World Championships, 2017-2023. “It is an ISKA world record,”...

Published:Monday | September 16, 2024 | 12:09 AM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Quinton de Kock scored the second century of this year’s Caribbean Premier League (CPL), as the Barbados Patriots returned to winning ways with a comfortable 32-run win over the Guyana Amazon Warriors at Kensington Oval...

Published:Monday | September 16, 2024 | 12:09 AM

Past The Finishing Post Sep 15, 2024 Race Results Race 01 Purse $780,000 REST. ALL. IV - NB4YO...

Published:Sunday | September 15, 2024 | 12:15 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

JAMAICAN ATHLETES failed to replicate the performances of Friday’s opening day of the Allanz Memorial Van Damme Wanda Diamond League final when Tajay Gayle and Ackeem Blake had wins. Ackera Nugent, Shiann Salmon, and Rajindra Campbell came closest...

Published:Sunday | September 15, 2024 | 12:15 AMGregory Bryce - Staff Reporter

AS DENHAM Town High fell to their second consecutive loss in the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup first round on Friday, head coach Marvin Tate said the threat of violence in the west Kingston community has severely hampered the team’s season. Tate has had to...

Published:Sunday | September 15, 2024 | 12:15 AM

BUKWO, Uganda (AP): THOUSANDS OF mourners in Uganda paid their respects yesterday to Rebecca Cheptegei, the Olympic athlete who died last week in Kenya after her partner set her on fire. The military funeral took place in a remote town near the...

Published:Sunday | September 15, 2024 | 12:14 AM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): THE TRINBAGO Knight Riders ended the Barbados Royals’ unbeaten streak in the Caribbean Premier League with a thrilling two-wicket victory at Kensington Oval on Friday. After Rovman Powell’s late assault propelled the...

Published:Sunday | September 15, 2024 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

DISPLAYING HER 2023 form of five wins from as many starts – albeit disqualified on Mouttet Mile Day – five-year-old American mare DESERT OF MALIBU yesterday dismantled Jason DaCosta’s tag team of MADELYN’S SUNSHINE and IS THAT A FACT to complete a...

Published:Sunday | September 15, 2024 | 12:07 AMAshley Anguin - Gleaner Writer

THE MANNING’S School thrashed former champions Godfrey Stewart 9-0 in their Savanna-la-Mar derby in Zone C of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup match at Manning’s yesterday. Godfrey Stewart’s Devonte Bernard scored an own goal in the third minute before...

Published:Sunday | September 15, 2024 | 12:06 AM

LONDON (AP): FORMER WORLD number-one Naomi Osaka has announced that she’s no longer working with coach Wim Fissette. Osaka had expressed frustration with her recent results after a second-round exit at the US Open just over two weeks ago. The 26-...

Published:Sunday | September 15, 2024 | 12:06 AM

MANCHESTER, England (AP): NOT GOOD enough. That was Arne Slot’s verdict after his first defeat as Liverpool manager yesterday. A shock 1-0 loss at home to Nottingham Forest in the English Premier League ended Slot’s perfect record since succeeding...

Published:Sunday | September 15, 2024 | 12:06 AMGregory Bryce - Staff Reporter

KINGSTON COLLEGE (KC) banished any doubts of their title contender status when they ran riot against Cumberland in a dominant 18-0 victory at Stadium East in the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup yesterday. Still wary after their shock draw against Penwood in...

Published:Sunday | September 15, 2024 | 12:06 AM

ONE OF the biggest surprises of Steve McClaren’s first Reggae Boyz squad was winger Norman Campbell, who fell from the radar since his move to Serbia in 2021. However, on the advice of assistant coach, Merron Gordon, the Englishman selected the...

Published:Sunday | September 15, 2024 | 12:06 AMLivingston Scott - Gleaner Writer

WHEN LAST season’s beaten finalists Mount Pleasant and Portmore United take the field this afternoon for their monster opening-day Jamaica Premier League (JPL) clash at Ferdie Neita Park at 4, many wonder which bench Davion Ferguson will be seated...

Published:Sunday | September 15, 2024 | 12:06 AMAshley Anguin - Gleaner Writer

NEW HEAD coach of Montego Bay United FC (MBU), Argentinian Rodolfo Zapata, says today’s matchup with Vere United won’t be easy. Still, the team is ready for its Jamaica Premier League (JPL) opener at the Wembley Centre of Excellence at 3:30 pm. “We...

Published:Sunday | September 15, 2024 | 12:06 AM

CARDIFF, England (CMC): BARBADIAN JACOB Bethell produced an impressive performance with the bat to help England defeat Australia by three wickets in the second T20I on Friday and level the best-of-three series at 1-1. After losing the toss and...

Published:Sunday | September 15, 2024 | 12:05 AM

MANY OF our contemporary sporting heroes have fond memories of playing their chosen sport at a high school in Jamaica. They eventually matriculated into more structure programmes that played a role in accelerating their overall development. Sports...

Published:Saturday | September 14, 2024 | 12:11 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

Ocho Rios High head coach Veron Peterkin says his team is aiming to remain top of the zone after they crushed Marcus Garvey Technical High 6-1 in their Zone I match of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup at Drax Hall Sports Complex yesterday. Kaneil Brown...

Published:Saturday | September 14, 2024 | 12:10 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

Defending champion Brac Rebel from Grand Cayman will be one of five boats from that island that will join their Jamaican counterparts at the September 23-28 annual Superstars of Port Antonio International Marlin Tournament. This prestigious event,...

Published:Saturday | September 14, 2024 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Much is being expected of Vere United in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) this season, largely due to their partnership with the Craig Butler-led Phoenix Academy, and with the JPL scheduled to kick off tomorrow, the veteran coach says fans can...

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