Uruguay striker Diego Forlan was awarded the Golden Ball as the World Cup's best player yesterday, and Germany forward Thomas Mueller won the Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer with five goals.
Carla Borrego had a good game as the Adelaide Thunderbirds produced a dominant effort to win the 2010 ANZ Championship, with a 52-42 victory over Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic in the Grand Final yesterday in Australia.
HEUSDEN-ZOLDER, Belgium (CMC): Jamaicans Mario Forsythe and Shereefa Lloyd gained confidence-boosting victories on Saturday at the Night of Athletics meet in Belgium.The 24-year-old Forsythe ran a lifetime best 20.43 seconds to win the men's 200 metres,...
For the second year running, Manchester Lions were crowned champions of the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) Super League after defeating Melbourne Kangaroos on first innings in their seventh and final round clash at Courtney Walsh Drive yesterday...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (CMC): Jamaica failed in their bid to reach the semi-finals of the Centrobasket Championship nd earn a place at the 2011 FIBA-Americas Championship, when Panama prevailed 55-51 in their final Group A match on Saturday...
Captain Horace Burrell, president of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), said he will be making an urgent plea to Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Minister of Sports...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): The Dutch were bent on showing that they could win ugly for their first World Cup title, but they only got the ugly part right. With eight yellow cards, one red and endless arguing that even spilled over beyond the final whistle...
JOHANNESBURG (AP):A fan ran onto the field and tried to grab the World Cup trophy yesterday, moments before the Spain and Netherlands players were due to walk out at Soccer City for the tournament's final match.The fan ran in from a corner of the...
Daniel Harris crowned himself in glory by capturing both the boys' Under-16 and Under-18 titles, at the Pan Caribbean All-Jamaica Junior Tennis Championships, at Tennis Jamaica yesterday. The third-seeded Harris first overcame...
ADELAIDE, Australia (CMC): Carla Borrego found her radar again, as the Adelaide Thunderbirds produced a dominant effort to win the 2010 ANZ Championship, with a 52-42 victory over Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic in the Grand Final yesterday...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Nelson Mandela waved to the crowd and Shakira had fans dancing in their seats as South Africa began saying farewell to the 2010 World Cup in emotional and pulsating fashion.The anti-apartheid icon had kept a low profile during...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Uruguay striker Diego Forlan was awarded the Golden Ball as the World Cup's best player yesterday and Germany forward Thomas Mueller won the Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer with...
Blaise Bicknell and Iesha Sterling captured PanCaribbean All Jamaica Junior boys' and girls' Under-10 singles titles respectively at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre yesterday.Bicknell recorded an easy 6-2, 6-1 victory over Rueben Pinchas while Sterling...
It is still anybody's game heading into today's second and final day of the seventh and final round of matches in Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) Super League with defending champions Manchester Lions, Melbourne...
Surging into the lead from early in the straight, MARK MY WORD won his date with destiny yesterday, becoming the 10th Triple Crown winner at Caymanas Park, thanks to a decisive victory in the season's final classic, the RJR Jamaica St Leger over 2000 metres.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP):West Indies spinner Sulieman Benn has been suspended for one Test by the ICC, after entering South Africa's changing room during the third Test in Barbados last month and taunting the...
GROS-ISLET, St Lucia (CMC):A stroke-filled innings from Jermaine Blackwood ensured defending champions Jamaica came away with a draw against Trinidad & Tobago in the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge yesterday.
JOHANNESBURG (AP):Spain midfielder Xavi Hernandez expects today's World Cup final against the Netherlands to be more than just a midfield battle despite the two teams holding perhaps football's best collection of players for that position.
GATESHEAD, England (AP):The first big 100-metre clash of the year was won by American Tyson Gay by 0.02 seconds against Jamaica's Asafa Powell at the British Grand Prix yesterday.
JOHANNESBURG (AP):As a veteran with only one more game left in his legs, Netherlands captain Giovanni van Bronckhorst wants to live the boyhood dream of tens of millions of kids: lifting the World Cup.
PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (AP):Sami Khedira scored a late goal yesterday to give Germany a 3-2 victory over Uruguay and third place for the second straight World Cup.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CMC): History will be made whether Spain or the Netherlands win the final of the 2010 World Cup today at Soccer City Stadium.
When the World Cup began a month ago in Johannesburg, on June 11 to be exact, almost all of Jamaica was betting that today it would be Brazil, and another team, contesting the final, and that Brazil would easily walk away with the title.
While Spain and Netherlands battle for world football supremacy today, the Johnnie Walker Polo Players Championship will crown its own heroes at the Caymanas Polo Club.
