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Published:Tuesday | July 6, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica's Sunshine Girls, who are currently preparing for respective two-Test series' in Australia and New Zealand, suffered a major setback in their build-up as one of their players, Ann-Kay Griffith, was denied...

Published:Tuesday | July 6, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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...

Published:Tuesday | July 6, 2010 | 12:00 AM

WORCESTER, England (CMC): Kevin Stoute and Darren Bravo stroked half-centuries, but West Indies 'A' crashed to their third straight defeat of the Tri-Nations Limited Overs series on Sunday...

Published:Tuesday | July 6, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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....

Published:Tuesday | July 6, 2010 | 12:00 AM

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP): Nigeria escaped a worldwide football ban yesterday after FIFA confirmed that the African country's government had withdrawn its threat to suspend the national team for two years within the required deadline...

Published:Tuesday | July 6, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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....

Published:Tuesday | July 6, 2010 | 12:00 AM

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP): One of Diego Maradona's assistant coaches with Argentina wants him to stay on following the team's devastating 4-0 loss to Germany in the World Cup quarter-finals....

Published:Tuesday | July 6, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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....

Published:Tuesday | July 6, 2010 | 12:00 AM

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP): Netherlands coach Bert van Marwijk is not planning on changing his tactics for today's World Cup semi-final against Uruguay, despite criticism about the lack of Dutch flair that has dogged his team throughout the tournament....

Published:Tuesday | July 6, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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...

Published:Tuesday | July 6, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Over two months of training by Jamaica's under-23 male team, the Young Reggae Boyz, yesterday came to nought as they will no longer participate in the Central America and Caribbean (CAC) Games. According to general secretary...

Published:Monday | July 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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...

Published:Monday | July 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): South Africa have reported combative West Indies left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn to the International Cricket Council (ICC).Proteas team manager Mohammed Moosajee...

Published:Monday | July 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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...

Published:Monday | July 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP):Germany have regained their place among football's elite, even if Joachim Loew's young team fails to win the country's fourth World Cup title.The players have reached that level with a flair rarely, if ever, seen in previous...

Published:Monday | July 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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...

Published:Monday | July 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

WIMBLEDON, England (AP):A year after knee problems prevented him from defending the title, Rafael Nadal has the Wimbledon trophy back in his hands. The top-ranked Spaniard swept 12th-seeded Tomas Ber-dych 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 yesterday to reclaim...

Published:Monday | July 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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....

Published:Monday | July 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP): Argentina's national squad returned home yesterday amid high security after an exit from the World Cup that many fans felt was humiliating and premature.The Aerolineas Argentinas flight arrived from South Africa...

Published:Monday | July 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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....

Published:Monday | July 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Santo Domingo, Dominica Republic:JAMAICA'S junior athletes saved their best for the final day of competition at the Junior Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Championships in Santo Domingo yesterday...

Published:Monday | July 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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...

Published:Sunday | July 4, 2010 | 12:00 AM

WIMBLEDON, England (AP):For the ninth time in 11 years, the name 'Williams' was etched on the green board inside the All England Club that lists the champions of the most famous tennis tournament in the world.Serena Williams pointed gleefully as her...

Published:Sunday | July 4, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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.

Published:Sunday | July 4, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The World Cup of football, arguably the greatest show on earth, is heading for the semi-finals, and after the quarter-finals over the past two days, it is down to the last four.Although there are usually surprises and upsets, disappointing teams and...

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