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Lille, France: Having missed out on the chance to build on last year's Youth Olympic 100 metres triumph at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France, through injury, Jamaica's Odean Skeen has no time to be distracted by disappointment and has fully recalibrated his focus on the 200m, an event in which he intends to medal.

Western Bureau: Champions Crystal will be aiming to make it two wins from two starts in the 2011 Hunger Busta/Impact Auto St James Netball Association (StJNA) Senior League when they oppose Zone A counterparts Starlight Juniors in...

HOUSTON (AP):Houston Rockets centre Yao Ming is retiring, according to a report by Yahoo! Sports.The 7-foot-6 Chinese star, plagued by lower-body injuries in the second half of his career, has informed the league office that his playing career is over...

NEWTON, Singapore:Jamaica's Sunshine Girls put on a clinical display, as they outclassed Caribbean rivals Trinidad and Tobago 79-42 in their quarter-final match at the Mission Foods World Netball Championship (WNC)...

Chanice Porter and Olivia James won Jamaica’s fourth and fifth medals of the World Youth Championships in Lille, France today.

Jamaica and Guyana will face off at the National Cricket Centre when the third round of the West Indies Cricket Board Under-15 Championship in Trinidad bowls off this morning.

Two Jamaicans will be competing for medals in the girls’ 400-metre final on today’s third day of the World Youth Championships in Lille, France.

SINGAPORE (CMC):Barbados withstood a 100 per cent shooting performance from Tharjini Sivalingam to prevail over Sri Lanka 63-59 in the World Championship yesterday.The Barbadians came under pressure in the final quarter, when the Sri Lankans forced them...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (CMC):Christopher Husbands led the way with a double on Wednesday's midweek eight-race card at Assiniboia Downs, which was dominated by Caribbean jockeys.The young Barbadian jockey now has nine wins for the two-month-old season and is...

The Newmarket July Cup meet continues today, but there is racing from a number of grade one courses, including Ascot and York.

Ahhh, the Jamaican anthem; it sounds so great, especially when it's ringing out from loudspeakers at a major international track and field meet. It's always good to see our athletes on the podium, especially when they are the ones singing the anthem that...

ROSEAU, Dominica, (CMC):Illness to Ravi Rampaul almost undermined West Indies, but typically rainy weather was again kind to them, and offered a temporary reprieve in the third and final Test against India yesterday.Rampaul fell ill, was vomiting...