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NEWMARKET, England (AP):French-trained Makfi upstaged favourite St Nicholas Abbey to win the English 2,000 Guineas yesterday at odds of 33-1.Ridden by Christophe Lemaire and trained by Mikel Delzangles, Makfi charged through a gap in the 19-strong field...

Horace Reid, general secretary of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), said his association has benefited significantly from their friendly international game against World Cup hosts South Africa last Wednesday in Germany."I...

Displaying a high quality of play, Haile Selassie High took both the boys and girls trophies in Friday's finals of the LIME schools knockout badminton competition at the Constant Spring Golf Club's Racquet Complex.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP): Pau Gasol tipped in with half a second left to give the Los Angeles Lakers a 95-94 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday, clinching their NBA first-round playoff series 4-2.Gasol crashed to...

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, (CMC): An aggressive innings by debutant opener Murali Vijay and an incisive opening burst from left-arm seamer Ashish Nehra propelled India to a comfortable seven-wicket win over Afghanistan in their opening game of the World Twenty20 Championship at the Beausejour Cricket Stadium yesterday.

Thousands of track and field enthusiasts packed the National Stadium last night, for the seventh renewal of the JN-sponsored Jamaica International Invitational (JII) meet.With a host of the globe's top stars scheduled to feature at the IAAF Area Permit...

It's all systems go for what is expected to be a carnival of top-class track and field excitement, as the seventh staging of the JN Jamaica International Invitational gets under way later this evening at the National Stadium.

The track, which is similar in nature and make to the track used at last year's IAAF World Championship of Athletics in Berlin, Germany, was gifted to Bolt by German track manufacturers BSW Regupol for his outstanding achievements in Berlin and at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, in which he set new world records in his pet events.

The season's first two-year-old race, for the Starters' Trophy, is the feature event at Caymanas Park today.

Five-time Olympic medallist and reigning 200 metres champion, Veronica Campbell-Brown, has her sights set on improved performances in the 100 metres.

CLEVELAND (AP):Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James was voted the NBA's Most Valuable Player for the second straight year, a person familiar with the announcement told The Associated Press yesterday.

MEXICO CITY (AP):Nobody is picking Mexico to win the World Cup, although the country's national team has one thing going for it that few other teams can match.