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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Estranged West Indies opener Chris Gayle will meet with West Indies Cricket Board chief executive Ernest Hilaire next Tuesday to hash out lingering issues that have kept the Jamaican out of the regional side.

Jacques Harvey produced the goods in the 100m on day two of the World University Games in Shenzhen, China, to secure Jamaica's first gold in the event at the games. Harvey, a student at the University of Technology (UTech), also ensured that Jamaicans...

Riding like a man inspired, champion jockey Omar Walker rode four winners at Caymanas Park yesterday, to put pressure on leading jockey Dick Cardenas, who was winless on the 10-race programme.Among his winners was 7-5...

Jacques Harvey and Carrie Russell won the 100-metre gold medals to put Jamaica top of the gold medal table on today’s second day of track and field at the World University Games in Shenzhen, China.

Roger Federer eased through to the third round of the Western & Southern Open in Ohio with a comfortable victory over Juan Martin del Potro today.

The West Indies selectors have named the Jamaican pair of all-rounder Stafanie Taylor and Shanel Daley in a 14-member women’s squad to face Pakistan on the upcoming tour of the Caribbean.

Usain Bolt has pulled out of the Diamond League meeting in Zurich on September 8, which takes place four days after the World Championships in South Korea end.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC):Barbados coach Dexter Toppin has praised his side's character after they rebounded from the disappointment in the three-day tournament to convincingly win the one-day title at the WICB Regional Under-19 Championship....

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP):Zimbabwe won their first one-day series over a major cricket nation in five years yesterday, holding off a brilliant fightback by Bangladesh wicketkeeper-batsman Mushfiqur Rahim for a dramatic five-run win at Harare Sports...

Western Bureau:With the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association's 2011 schoolboy football season now looming on the horizon, defending daCosta Cup champions Rusea's High School are among the many schools now harbouring lofty expectations."...

Western Bureau: Montego Bay United Football Club (MBUFC), the new entity that has replaced Seba United on the local football landscape, was officially launched in Montego Bay yesterday with its principals vowing to transform...

MONACO (AP): Every athlete at the upcoming IAAF World Championships is to undergo a blood test in what the sport's governing body says is an "unprecedented anti-doping programme."The IAAF says samples will be collected at a doping control station...