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Published:Saturday | August 24, 2024 | 12:09 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Following his successful transfer from Arnett Gardens to English League One club Charlton Athletic, national forward Kaheim Dixon said yesterday that he is now the happiest man alive. The 19-year-old put pen to paper yesterday after a lengthy work...

Published:Saturday | August 24, 2024 | 12:09 AM

The late goals just keep coming for Bayer Leverkusen. The defending Bundesliga champions needed a goal in the 11th minute of injury time to beat Borussia Monchengladbach 3-2 yesterday after giving up a two-goal lead in the opening game of the...

Published:Saturday | August 24, 2024 | 12:09 AM

PARIS (AP): Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) seem to be doing just fine without Kylian Mbappe. PSG routed Montpellier 6-0 yesterday to make it two wins in two games in the French league as they start life without Mbappe, who left for Real Madrid this...

Published:Saturday | August 24, 2024 | 12:08 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Jannik Sinner fired his fitness trainer and physiotherapist because of his two positive steroid tests in March and said yesterday at his pre-US Open news conference – his first public comments on the matter – that he knew he was...

Published:Saturday | August 24, 2024 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica’s Rasheed Broadbell will be seeking to score back-to-back wins over American Grant Holloway when the two top sprint hurdlers clash in tomorrow’s Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial Diamond League meet in Poland. On Thursday Broadbell, the...

Published:Saturday | August 24, 2024 | 12:08 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

FORMER Clarendon College central defender Devonti Hodges will suit up for Harbour View in the upcoming Jamaica Premier League season. The 19-year-old, who featured in his debut season last year for Dunbeholden, has been brought in to strengthen...

Published:Saturday | August 24, 2024 | 12:08 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

With the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) daCosta Cup set to kick off on September 7, Manning’s School assistant coach Kevin Williams says his team will be ready to compete for the title despite their late start to the preseason....

Published:Saturday | August 24, 2024 | 12:06 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

Following the end of the 2023-24 National Tackle Football Association’s Secondary Schools Gridiron League (SSGL), Munro College’s Racheed McDonald headlines the lists of the season’s best players. The First Team and Second Team All-Jamaica rosters...

Published:Friday | August 23, 2024 | 12:13 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Barbados expectedly notched their third consecutive victory to successfully defend their CWI Under-17 Two-Day title when the competition climaxed here yesterday. Led by a superb bowling performance by left-arm spinner...

Published:Friday | August 23, 2024 | 12:13 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Overseas transfer students looking to participate in competitions run by the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) will be subjected to a waiting period of one year before gaining eligibility. High-school sports’ governing body ISSA, in...

Published:Friday | August 23, 2024 | 12:12 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) West Indies T20 captain Rovman Powell believes that the three-match T20 series against South Africa will serve as the perfect launchpad in the regional side’s build-up to the 2026 T20 World Cup. The West Indies take on...

Published:Friday | August 23, 2024 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Rasheed Broadbell produced a brilliant burst of speed after the final barrier to upstage Olympic Games champion Grant Holloway of the United States in the 110-metre hurdles event at the Lausanne Wanda Diamond League meet yesterday. Lausanne has...

Published:Friday | August 23, 2024 | 12:11 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

Kevin Cowan, agent of Jamaican international Renaldo Cephas, says the ensuing situation between his client and Turkish club Ankaragücü has become “incredibly unreasonable and unrealistic” amid interest in the transfer market. Cowan explained that...

Published:Friday | August 23, 2024 | 12:11 AM

A total of 120 schools, from both the rural and urban areas, will contest the 2024 Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Manning Cup and daCosta Cup competitions which are scheduled to kick off on September 7 at the Montego Bay Sports...

Published:Friday | August 23, 2024 | 12:11 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Defending Women’s Caribbean Premier League (CPL) champions Barbados Royals got off to a winning start in this year’s tournament with a thrilling one-wicket win over the Guyana Amazon Warriors at the Brian Lara Stadium...

Published:Friday | August 23, 2024 | 12:11 AM

MELBOURNE, Australia (CMC): Jamaican goal-shoot Shanice Beckford will again suit up for West Coast Fever in the 2025 season of the Suncorp Super Netball League after having her contract extended with the Western Australia side. The 29-year-old...

Published:Friday | August 23, 2024 | 12:11 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): President of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board, Azim Bassarath, is the sole candidate nominated for the position of vice-president of Cricket West Indies (CWI). With elections due to be held on September 20 to appoint...

Published:Thursday | August 22, 2024 | 12:13 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

A BREAKOUT season for Shanoya Douglas in the 200 metres this season culminates at the World Under-20 Championships in Lima, Peru, next week. Should Muschett High School athlete’s season end with a win in the half-lap event, it would mean that the...

Published:Thursday | August 22, 2024 | 12:13 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

JAMAICA’S SWIM team coach Gillian Millwood says she is proud of her charges’ accomplishments at the three-day Goodwill Swimming Championships in St Lucia recently. Jamaica finished fourth on the points table, a drop in position from its second-...

Published:Thursday | August 22, 2024 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

HAVING TO chase collateral damage – MAMMA MIA carrying 102lb and churning splits of 24.0, 34.3, 46.0, 58.2 and 1:11.3 – ATOMICA floundered under topweight 126lb in last month’s She’s A Maneater at a mile – giving way to FUNCAANDUN, who grabbed the...

Published:Thursday | August 22, 2024 | 12:12 AM

TAROUBA, Trinidad (CMC): WEST INDIES head coach Daren Sammy wants to transform the regional side from a series-winning team into a championship-winning outfit before the next T20 World Cup in 2026. Sammy, the white ball head coach, made his...

Published:Thursday | August 22, 2024 | 12:11 AM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): ALMOST TWO months after the completion of the 2024 men’s T20 World Cup, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has given a thumbs down to two of the pitches used in the competition. The ICC described the pitches...

Published:Thursday | August 22, 2024 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

COACH OF Frazsiers Whip Christopher Dowdy said their second-half meltdown, in their opening Group A Concacaf Women’s Champions Cup game against Costa Rican team Alajuelense, was due to the inexperience of their team and players at this level....

Published:Thursday | August 22, 2024 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

FORMER WATERHOUSE winger Revaldo Mitchell says he is ready for any challenge as he embarks on his first overseas professional stint with FK Rabotnički Skopje of the North Macedonian Premier League. With many Jamaican players failing to make the...

Published:Thursday | August 22, 2024 | 12:10 AM

THE RJRGLEANER Sports Foundation is saddened by news of the passing of sports aficionado, our beloved Kathleen ‘Kay’ Wilson, OD, a treasure that we have had the opportunity to share several of our awards’ functions with, since taking over the...

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