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COACH Claude Chin said fantastic crowd support for the Busta Fighters, Jamaica's combined martial arts team, played a key role in the fighters winning a fourth straight World Continental Team-Fighting Championship at the National Indoor Sports Centre on Sunday...

EAST BOSTON, Massachusetts (CMC): Jamaican Winston Thompson landed a double at Suffolk Downs on Saturday evening, as he continued in the top three of the jockeys' standings at the north-eastern United States oval....

JOHANNESBURG (AP): Ravshan Irmatov and Viktor Kassai will referee the World Cup semi-finals, FIFA said yesterday. Uzbekistan's Irmatov will take charge of the Netherlands-Uruguay match at Cape Town today for his fifth match of the finals....

Jamaica's chess got a welcome shot in the arm when FIDE Master and number-one ranked Jomo Pitterson captured the Sub-zonal Regional Chess Championships in Nassau, Bahamas, and with it the title of international master....

BROOKLYN, New York (CMC): A hat-trick by striker Daniel Shaw powered defending champions Jamaica to a 5-0 mauling of the Dominican Republic, in the sixth round of the New York Digicel Caribbean Football Cup on Sunday...

JOHANNESBURG (AP): The last country to qualify for the World Cup, Uruguay are now hoping to be the last to leave."We gate-crashed the party, but now that we are here, we want to keep dancing as long as possible," veteran striker Sebastian Abreu said...

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa (AP): Spain expects the high-scoring Germany to be the perfect opponent in the World Cup semi-finals.Striker David Villa, whose tournament-leading fifth goal helped Spain beat Paraguay 1-0, said Germany's style will allow...

JOHANNESBURG (AP):One game away from a World Cup final, the Dutch are hoping that their notorious tendency to self destruct does not come back to haunt them.After five World Cup wins in a row, including a memorable 2-1 quarter-final triumph over...

Olympic gold medallist Beverly McDonald was implicated as a steroid user by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) at an arbitration hearing held for her husband, former Jamaica Olympian, Raymond Stewart....

Brazil coach Dunga and all of his technical staff have been dismissed after the side's quarter-final exit from the World Cup, the Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) announced yesterday....

A sublime century from Wavell Hinds, backed up by good bowling from Akeem Dewar and Dennis Bulli, guided Kensington to first-innings points over St Mary and with it, the 2010 Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) Senior Cup...

WIMBLEDON, England (AP):While Roger Federer is at the start of a two-week vacation he wasn't eager to begin, Rafael Nadal will be hard at work today, facing a new sort of challenge in the Wimbledon final.