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West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul will join Lancashire this season as one of two players drafted in to replace Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara.

Edwin Allen High’s Ristananna Tracey handed Jamaica their first medal on today’s opening day of the 116th edition of the Penn Relays at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Venus Williams has withdrawn from the US squad for this weekend\'s Fed Cup semi-final against Russia because of a knee injury.

Sprint phenomenon Usain Bolt will highlight the 116th edition of the Penn Relays when the event gets underway today at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

The Jamaican pair of Stafanie Taylor and Shanel Daley turned in good performances yesterday to lead West Indies Women to a six-wicket victory over Sri Lanka Women in the opening of three 20/20 Internationals at St Mary’s Park in St Kitts.

The Jamaica Netball Association Berger Super League continues today at the Leila Robinson Courts with two games beginning at 6.50 p.m.

Juan Antonio Samaranch, a reserved but shrewd dealmaker whose 21-year term as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was marked by both the unprecedented growth of the Games and its biggest ethics scandal, died yesterday at a hospital. He was 89.

Jamaica's 16-and-under girls team won two and lost two matches to take sixth place (out of 14 countries), while the boys equivalent defeated Bermuda to finish ninth (of 15) in the junior Davis Cup/Fed Cup competitions which concluded on Sunday at the Complejo Deportivo in San Salvador, El Salvador.

The passing of former Inter-national Olympic Committee (IOC) president, Juan Antonio Samaranch, has been marked as a sad day for the international sporting fraternity by some of the island's top sporting administrators

Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man over the 100m and 200m, will face off against compatriot and former 100m world-record holder, Asafa Powell, as Jamaica is set to place two teams in the USA vs The World 4x100m relay at the Penn Relays, which begins today at the University of Pennsylvania, Franklin Field, in Philadelphia.

JAMAICA's senior men's and high school teams will be looking to unleash golden performances at the Penn Relays - arguably the leading track and field event in North America

West Indies all-rounder Kierron Pollard fired the Mumbai Indians into the Indian Premier League final with a sizzling all-round display that shocked Royal Challengers Bangalore and sent them crashing to a 35-run defeat today.