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Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP):Uruguay won the Copa America for a record 15th time after beating Paraguay 3-0 yesterday from two goals by Diego Forlan and another from Luis Suarez.Suarez scored in the 12th minute while Forlan hit the target in the 42nd...

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Veteran player Karen Anderson took the women's title for a record 12th time and young Chris Binnie blew through the field to win the men's crown as the 2011 Allied Insurance Brokers All-Jamaica Senior Squash Championships wrapped up yesterday....

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica's Cecil Fletcher was last week elected the new president of the West Indies Cricket Umpires Association (WICUA) during the 25th staging of the Biennial Convention of the WICUA in St Lucia.Fletcher was unopposed after outgoing president, Steve...

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

It was close, very close, but in the end, preliminary-round runaways, Advantage Generals, obliged in the final of the 2011 Lime Cup golf tournament. They defeated JustBet Springs and, in the process, grabbed top honours ...

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC):Reigning men's champions Jamaica kicked off their defence of the CARICOM Championship with a 92-78 victory over Antigua and Barbuda on Saturday.Hosts Bahamas made home-court advantage count when they crushed Cayman Islands 94-41 ...

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

"This is a dream come true," said an elated Alicia Ashley yesterday, as she savoured her Saturday-night victory over Texan Christina Ruiz, at Hunts Point in the Bronx, New York. Jamaican-born Ashley defeated Ruiz by unanimous decision in the 10-round fight to take home...

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Today, The Gleaner begins a photographic review of the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Germany.

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

MIRAMAR, Florida; Ashinia Miller broke his own national junior record in the shot put to mine gold for Jamaica on the final day of the Pan American Junior Championships in Miramar, Florida, yesterday. The Calabar High student...

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC):A match that promised so much delivered very little, leaving hosts Guyana to question their own country's fickle weather which reduced their top-of-the-table clash with Jamaica to a no decision in the WICB Regional Under-19...

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

In addition to occasional unfavourable weather conditions and embarrassingly poor organisation, Jamaica's management team at the 2011 Junior Pan American Championships, which ended yesterday, was also put to the test...

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Host nation Jamaica had mixed results on yesterday's opening day of the Ocean Spray Wata/Pan Am Junior Badminton Championships, which is being staged over eight days at the National Indoor Sports Centre. Jamaica's junior...

Published:Sunday | July 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Friday, June 24 was the date she experienced a horror moment she had never been through before in her athletics career.

Published:Sunday | July 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Fresh off her recent 100-metre silver-medal run at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Puerto Rico, Jura Levy leaves for the United Kingdom (UK) this week, confident but knowing that she needs to improve ...

Published:Sunday | July 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM

ZURICH, AP:Mohamed bin Hammam's downfall from being one of football's most powerful men to a disgraced outcast was completed yesterday when FIFA banned the Qatari official for life for his role in a bribery scandal.

Published:Sunday | July 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM

MIRAMAR, Florida:WITH the female sprint hurdlers in their worst form in several years, it is the men who are expected to steal the spotlight at this year's IAAF World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South...

Published:Sunday | July 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The very best of sportsI have been blessed with watching sports all over the world, every day I thank God for the opportunity given me, and the more I see, even on television, the more I love sports.

Published:Sunday | July 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The vastly improved American filly DANCE SO SWEET scored a popular victory over her former stable-companion and howling favourite RONRON in the $1.1 million graded stakes feature for the Eileen Cliggott Trophy over...

Published:Sunday | July 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM

England's Stuart Broad (right) celebrates taking the wicket of India's Sachin Tendulkar (left) caught in the slips by Graeme Swann during the third day of the first Test at Lord's cricket ground in London.

Published:Sunday | July 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC):Play Has been abandoned without a ball bowled for the second straight day in the second round WICB Regional Under-19 Championship match between Guyana and Jamaica at Bourda yesterday.

Published:Sunday | July 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The Ocean Spray Wata/ XX Pan American Junior Badminton Championships, the premier junior badminton event in this region, serves off at the National Indoor Sports Centre today.

Published:Sunday | July 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Miramar, Florida:Kimberly Williams took bronze in the girls' high jump to give Jamaica's contingent their only medal on yesterday's second day of the Pan American Junior Championships in Miramar, Florida.

Published:Saturday | July 23, 2011 | 6:04 PM

Jonathan Reid, Kimberly Williams and Peter-Gay Reid are now contesting finals for Jamaica in the evening session of today’s second and penultimate day of the 2011 Pan American Junior Championship in M

Published:Saturday | July 23, 2011 | 6:01 PM

DANCE SO SWEET, with title-chasing jockey Dick Cardenas, scored an easy six-and-a-half-length victory over his former stable companion, the outstanding filly RONRON in the Eileen Cliggott Trophy, the

Published:Saturday | July 23, 2011 | 6:00 PM

Former FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam has been banned from football for life after being found guilty of attempted bribery.

Published:Saturday | July 23, 2011 | 1:55 PM

The eighth Caribbean Men’s Junior Volleyball Championship begins today at the Alfred Sangster Auditorium at the University of Technology in Kingston with hosts Jamaica starting against Guadeloupe.

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