After taking one gold and two silver medals in the opening session of Saturday's first day of the 40th CARIFTA Games in Montego Bay, Jamaica's traditional dominance at the annual junior championship was challenge in the subsequent sessions, but the local responded like true champions.
Jamaican pair Newton Sterling and Christopher Harvey have both signed to Antigua and Barbuda-based United Soccer League (USL) PRO League team Antigua Barracuda FC, for the club's inaugural season in the second-tier United States competition.
Kevin Garnett had 26 points and 10 rebounds, Rajon Rondo added 21 points and 12 assists, and the Boston Celtics swept their way into the Eastern Conference semi-finals, holding on for a 101-89 victory over the New York Knicks yesterday.
After some anxious moments yesterday during the qualifying session at the Dover Raceway, St Ann, the nation's top circuit racers will return to the track this morning for an intense and epic battle, which has already attracted hundreds of die-hard fans, from the nook and cranny of the motorsport fraternity.
Reigning Horse of the Year, MARK MY WORD, should resume winning ways at Caymanas Park today when he takes on five opponents in the $1.1 million Bonnie Blue Flag Trophy grade one feature over 1820 metres.
West Indies will face the difficult task of trying to win the second one-day international against Pakistan today at the Beausejour Cricket Ground, and level the five-match series.
Veronica Campbell-Brown gained a welcomed boost of confidence, when she won a 200m sprint on Saturday at the Kansas Relays. The reigning women's Olympic champion from Jamaica clocked 22.95 seconds with a 2.0m a second tailwind to prevail over American Porscha Lucas by 11-hundredths of a second.
Arsenal's slim hopes of winning the Premier League were virtually extinguished yesterday, conceding a last-minute goal by Bolton substitute Tamir Cohen to lose 2-1 at the Reebok Stadium.
Dylan Carter struck gold twice, including a dead-heat, to anchor defending champions Trinidad & Tobago to the top of the medal standings, after the opening day of the CARIFTA Swimming Championships on Saturday.
With the big guns idle today it will be left up to the lesser lights at the bottom of the table to fight it out and decide who survives and who perishes, with two sets of games to go before the curtain comes down on the 2010-2011 Digicel Premier League (DPL) season.
Karen Atkinson, captain of England's netball team, said her side will be pulling out all the stops to secure a 3-0 series victory over the Sunshine Girls, when both teams meet on Tuesday in their opening match of their three-Test Supreme Ventures Sunshine Series at National Indoor Sports Complex.
Manchester United edged closer to a record 19th English title by squeezing past Everton 1-0 yesterday while Fernando Torres ended his long scoring drought in second-place Chelsea's 3-0 win over West Ham that kept the defending champions in contention.
West Indies lacked the firepower to defend their moderate total and Pakistan capitalised to cruise to an uncomplicated eight-wicket win in the opening one-day international of the five-match series here yesterday.
Traves Smikle started Jamaica's bid to bag a rich haul of medals at the 2011 LIME Carifta Games when he won the boys' Under-20 discus, the nation's first gold medal, on yesterday's opening day of the 40th Carifta Games in Montego Bay, St James.
Champion trainer Wayne DaCosta saddled his 1,600th winner at Caymanas Park yesterday when the American-bred filly FLUFFY made all convincingly in the 3-y-o and up overnight allowance race over 1500 metres.
The third renewal of the Orville Edwards Memorial football festival will take place tomorrow at the Bell/Chung Oval. At 2 p.m., the Santos Under-20 team will play Real Mona Under-20, and in the feature match at 4 p.m. Santos Masters will play Real Mona Masters for the Orville Edwards Trophy.
Hosts Jamaica started the 40th edition of the LIME Carifta Games with a bang by garnering one gold and two silver medals by press time on yesterday's first day of the three-day championship, which is being staged at the Montego Bay Sports Complex in Catherine Hall, St James.
Minutes after the cricketers of the world breathed some new life into the game with an unforgettable tournament on the cricket fields of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and India, the ICC, the game's ruling body, for better or for worse, in one moment of...
Players union WIPA has lauded West Indies opener Chris Gayle as a "true champion" following the left-hander's superb, unbeaten century in the Indian Premier League on Friday.
Jamaica's top marksman, Lesgar 'Speedy' Murdock, continues to make strides in his sport despite receiving limited support, which has crippled his ability to train as much as he would like.
West Indies lost the opening One-Day International of the five-match Digicel Home series against Pakistan by eight wickets at the Beausejour Cricket Stadium in St Lucia today.
West Indies, electing to bat in the opening One-Day International of the five-match Series against Pakistan, reached 186 for six after 47 overs at the Beausejour Cricket Stadium in St Lucia.
The 40th staging of the CARIFTA Games opened this morning at the Montego Bay Sports Complex with host country Jamaica highly fancied to win their 27th consecutive title.
The One-Day International segment of the Digicel Home Series between hosts West Indies and Pakistan bowled off this morning at the Beausejour Cricket Ground in St Lucia.
The West Indies team has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during its seven-run victory over Pakistan in the one-off Twenty/Twenty International in St Lucia on Friday.
