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Published:Saturday | September 7, 2024 | 12:13 AM

MANCHESTER, England (AP): A new era for England’s football team begins today. How long it will last is unknown. Interim head coach Lee Carsley takes charge of his first game against Ireland – the country for which he played 40 times, including at...

Published:Saturday | September 7, 2024 | 12:13 AM

DUBLIN, Ireland (CMC): Cricket West Indies’ (CWI’s) outgoing High Performance Manager, Graeme West, will take up a new role as Cricket Ireland’s director of high performance. Cricket Ireland made the announcement on Thursday, revealing that West...

Published:Saturday | September 7, 2024 | 12:12 AM

NORTH SOUND, Antigua (CMC): The Antigua...

Published:Saturday | September 7, 2024 | 12:12 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

General secretary of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Dennis Chung agrees with Technical Committee chairman and Cavalier sporting director Rudolph Speid that the six-day rest rule imposed by the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA...

Published:Saturday | September 7, 2024 | 12:12 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

Ian Forbes, vice-president of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), says they found no errors in the decisions made by the Paris Olympics race officials surrounding the close finishes involving Kishane Thompson and Rasheed...

Published:Friday | September 6, 2024 | 9:10 PMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica were held to a 0-0 draw by 10-man Cuba in their Group B, League A Concacaf Nations League game at the National Stadium earlier tonight. Cuba were reduced to 10 men when Yunior Perez was ejected after denying a clear goal-scoring...

Published:Friday | September 6, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

POWER FROM ABOVE should benefit from a torrid pace in Sunday’s Kenneth Mattis Memorial, which should leave the nine-furlong and 25-yard route race at the mercy of the closer. Void of early pace but packing turn of foot in the stretch run, POWER...

Published:Friday | September 6, 2024 | 12:07 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

CORNWALL COLLEGE assistant coach Hector Wright says preparations for the upcoming daCosta Cup season are going well and they are ready for the task ahead. “We have gone through pre-season in terms of endurance, strength, speed training and a lot...

Published:Friday | September 6, 2024 | 12:07 AM

Reggae Boyz captain Andre Blake has committed $500,000 to his former school, Clarendon College, to renovate the football field at the school. The donation was made in the presence of the principal and the daCosta Cup team at a handover event at...

Published:Friday | September 6, 2024 | 12:07 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Shiann Salmon led the way with a personal best (PB) 52.97 seconds win in the 400 metres hurdles as Jamaica picked up three victories at yesterday’s Weltklasse Zurich Diamond League meet in Switzerland. Roshawn Clarke (400m hurdles) and Wayne...

Published:Friday | September 6, 2024 | 12:07 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

With his first game as head coach for the Reggae Boyz slated to get under way today at the National Stadium against Cuba in the Concacaf Nations League, Stephen McClaren said the Boyz will be able to adapt to any opponents under his guidance....

Published:Friday | September 6, 2024 | 12:07 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

Reggae Boyz head coach Stephen McClaren will be keeping it simple when he steps into his first competitive game at the helm of the national programme against Cuba in the Concacaf Nations League at the National Stadium today. The former Manchester...

Published:Thursday | September 5, 2024 | 8:45 AM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated after 80% of her body was burned in an attack by her partner. She was 33. The country's sports minister said...

Published:Thursday | September 5, 2024 | 12:13 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

WHILE MANY stakeholders believe the new Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association’s (ISSA) rule, which allows schoolboy players to participate in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) and parish Major Leagues during the schoolboy football season is a...

Published:Thursday | September 5, 2024 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SENSATIONAL MOVE appears too good to be true in Saturday’s overnight allowance at five furlongs straight after being caught at six furlongs by Canadian ATLANTIC CONVOY on August 17. Seemingly having all the boxes ticked for a return to the winners...

Published:Thursday | September 5, 2024 | 12:12 AM

JAMAICA WOMEN’S Premier League (JWPL) champions Frazsiers Whip face another difficult task today when they play away to Monterey of Mexico in their second game of the Concacaf Women’s Champions Cup at the Estadio BBVS at 9 p.m. Although coach...

Published:Thursday | September 5, 2024 | 12:12 AM

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC): FORMER WEST Indies wicket-keeper/batsman Carlton Baugh Jr has taken on a new role in his cricketing journey, joining the Windward Islands Volcanoes as their assistant coach. Baugh began his duties on September 2 under...

Published:Thursday | September 5, 2024 | 12:12 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): CRICKET WEST Indies (CWI) has announced the appointment of Rupert Hunter as its new chief commercial officer. Hunter, who previously held the position of head of Brand partnerships at the International Cricket Council (ICC...

Published:Thursday | September 5, 2024 | 12:12 AM

ZAGREB, Croatia (CMC): JAMAICA’S ROJE Stona, reigning Olympic discus champion, is set to headline the men’s discus throw at the 74th Boris Hanžeković Memorial, where he will face some of the world’s top athletes in the sport. Second time out since...

Published:Thursday | September 5, 2024 | 12:12 AMAdrian Frater/Gleaner Writer

Western Bureau: EVERTON TOMLINSON, president of the Westmoreland Football Association, says his former Reno FC teammate, former national midfielder Boysie ‘Bengeleng’ Nicholson, who died yesterday after battling Parkinson’s Disease for several...

Published:Thursday | September 5, 2024 | 12:11 AM

KHADIJA SHAW is still in the running for the Ballon d’Or after the list was cut to 30. Shaw has been racking up accolades after she scored 21 goals from 18 appearances for Manchester City in the Women’s Super League (WSL) last season. The tally,...

Published:Wednesday | September 4, 2024 | 6:27 PM

ZURICH (AP) — Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Armand Duplantis beat good friend Karsten Warholm in an exhibition 100-metre sprint on Wednesday, crossing the line in 10.37 seconds at Letzigrund Stadium. Duplantis, a Louisiana-born Swede...

Published:Wednesday | September 4, 2024 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

THE HIGH cost of travel and accommodation has left Frazsiers Whip three squad players short for their Concacaf Women’s Champions Cup game away to Monterey of Mexico tomorrow, leaving coach Christopher Dowdy calling for corporate support. Dowdy...

Published:Wednesday | September 4, 2024 | 12:11 AM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP): JOSEPH Ceptegai says he is praying for justice for his daughter, Olympian Rebecca Cheptegai, after a domestic dispute left her in hospital, sedated, and with burns to 75 per cent of her body. Trans Nzoia County Police Commander...

Published:Wednesday | September 4, 2024 | 12:11 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

THE RETURN of Shijo Saiko Martial Arts Academy on Saturday has come with a sense of nostalgia for Montegonians who will have first-class access to karate training 25 years after the institution’s original closure. The academy’s grand reopening and...

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