The selection of a Brazilian-born player for Italy's national football team is fuelling a debate with racial and xenophobic overtones in a country that has supplied millions of immigrants to other nations but struggles to integrate its own.
Kendall Jagdeosingh and Keon Daniel are the only two overseas-based players named in a Trinidad & Tobago squad for an international friendly against Jamaica tomorrow.
With the major players in the betting sector expressing satisfaction at their returns, following the staging of the recently concluded FIFA World Cup in South Africa, it appears that the local sports betting fraternity is truly on a rise.
Jamaica's Sunshine Girls will be aiming to level their best-of-three series against top-ranked Australia when both teams meet in the second match in Sydney tomorrow starting at 4:30 a.m. (Jamaica time).
The Commonwealth Games organising committee has fired one of its top officials as it investigates alleged irregularities in funding for an event in London, local media reported yesterday.
Those high-flying slam dunks and long-distance 3-pointers are going to mean a lot more to the London crowd next year when the NBA plays its first regular-season games in Europe.
Martin O'Neill surprisingly resigned as manager of Aston Villa yesterday, just five days before the start of the Premier League season. Villa announced the decision on its website, but gave no reason for the sudden departure.
Jamaica’s national senior footballers are scheduled to depart the country this afternoon at 2.05 p.m. for Trinidad and Tobago to face the host country in a friendly international on Wednesday.
Reigning champions Barbican recorded their first victory in the new season of the Sherwin Williams Women’s Premier League following a 2-0 win over archrival Harbour View in the second game of a double-header at the Harbour View Mini Stadium yesterday.
Jamaican Nesta Carter clocked a personal best 9.86 seconds to win the 100-metre at yesterday's Spitzen Leichathletik, an Outdoor Permit Meeting in Switzerland.
The Commonwealth Games organising committee has fired one of its top officials as it investigates alleged irregularities in funding for an event in London.
ST LOUIS, Missouri (CMC): Glengoffe Johnson of Jamaica lost his International Boxing Federation light-heavyweight title fight when Tavoris Cloud of the United States earned a unanimous decision on Saturday night...
World Championships 200m finalist, Anneisha McLaughlin, posted her fastest time over the distance this season, with a 22.63 clocking at the Norrvidden Sundsvall Wind Sprint meet in Sweden yesterday.McLaughlin's MVP Track Club team-mate, Stephanie...
MELBOURNE, Australia (CMC): Jamaica's under-strength side got an early wake-up call on their tour of Australia, when the reigning World champions dismissed them 59-38 in the first Test yesterday.The Jamaicans have travelled Down Under for a series...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP): Justin Gatlin won his second race in a week at the Ergo Games in Tallinn, Estonia, yesterday during his low-key return to track after a four-year doping ban.The 28-year-old former Olympic champion finished in 10.17 seconds...
KIEV, Ukraine (AP): The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced yesterday that it was slashing spending to stave off financial problems as a result of the economic crisis.IAAF President Lamine Diack said the governing body...
Jamaican boxing star Nicholas Walters received a bonus from the World Boxing Association (WBA) recently, when he was moved into the Top 10 in their world ratings.Walters, who was formerly rated No.12, moved up two places...
As Jamaica's 19-man Reggae Boyz squad gets ready to depart the island later this afternoon for Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president, Captain Horace Burrell, is expecting his team to get...
Nesta Carter yesterday assumed the position as the third fastest Jamaican, when he ran a smart 9.86 seconds to win the men's 100-metre dash in Lucerne, Switzerland.Carter, who has run sparingly this season because of injury...
WEMBLEY, England (AP): Javier Hernandez scored a clumsy debut goal yesterday as Manchester United beat Chelsea 3-1 in the Community Shield and left the defending Premier League champions looking vulnerable a week...
Nelson double - WINNIPEG, Manitoba (CMC):Tyrone Nelson and Rohan Singh completed doubles, as Caribbean jockeys won half of the 10-race card on Saturday at Assiniboia Downs.Jamaican Nelson cemented himself in fifth place on 29 wins...
Premier League champions Harbour View and Boys' Town made light work of Seaview Gardens and August Town, respectively, as Group B action got underway in the Claro KSAFA Champions Cup yesterday.In the curtain raiser...
