A winner in open overnight-allowance winners a month ago, PRINCE AMAAN has tumbled two levels lower to face $1.5-million claimers in Saturday’s fourth event at five and a half furlongs. Claimed at the level in May by Jason Dacosta from rival...
Glenmuir High School and St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) secured their places in the 2025 ISSA daCosta Cup final, after wins over Dinthill and Kemps Hill, respectively, in the semi-finals at Sabina Park yesterday. Glenmuir went a step...
Defending champions Wolmer’s Girls’ and Gaynstead High ruled supreme yesterday in the ISSA Urban Schoolgirl junior and senior netball finals at St Andrew High School, scoring exciting wins over their opponents. In the junior final, Wolmer’s edged...
Caribbean Champions Mount Pleasant Football Academy had their momentum in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) slowed by Racing United, who delivered a smash and grab at the Ferdi Neita Park in the absence of coach Anthony Patrick yesterday. Patrick,...
Technical Director of defending champions Mona High School, Donovan Duckie, says the institution is determined to retain their ISSA/Walker Cup knockout title this year for ailing head coach Craig Butler. Mona marched into the final of the...
Former Ben Francis Cup champions McGrath High School and Cornwall College are still hoping for silverware and have come increasingly close to achieving that. Last year’s beaten daCosta Cup finalists, McGrath, were disappointed to have been knocked...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): After leading the West Indies Under-19s to series wins over Sri Lanka and England, Joshua Dorne will captain the side at next year’s ICC Cricket World Cup. Cricket West Indies (CWI) made the announcement in a press release...
MIAMI, Florida (CMC): The curtains have closed on a thrilling 2025 Concacaf Caribbean Cup, concluding with Jamaica’s Mount Pleasant FA hoisting their maiden trophy. While the champions etched their name in history, individual brilliance shone...
DOHA, Qatar (AP): The inaugural Women’s Club World Cup will be staged in January 2028, FIFA said yesterday. No host nation has been confirmed, but the January 5-30 tournament will likely be staged in a country with a warm climate at that time of...
MANCHESTER, England (AP): The winners of the 2026 World Cup will receive a record jackpot of US$50 million, FIFA said yesterday. That figure is up from US$42 million in 2022 and US$38 million in 2018. But it is still less than half of what was on...
LONDON (AP): Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has been given a final chance to turn over the 2.5 billion pounds (US$3.25 billion) he promised to give victims of Russia’s war in Ukraine from the sale of Premier League club Chelsea, the British...
AP: Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz is parting ways with his longtime coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero, the man who guided him to the pinnacle of men’s tennis during a remarkably successful seven-year partnership. Alcaraz announced the decision to end their...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:13 AM
A brilliant strike from substitute Jordan Turner powered Manning’s School into the semi-finals of the ISSA Ben Francis Cup knockout competition, helping his team rally to a 2–1 victory over Christiana High at Manchester High playing field yesterday...
The ISSA daCosta Cup semi-finals roars into action today at Sabina Park with favourites Glenmuir taking on the dangerous Dinthill Technical and giant-killing newcomers attempting to overturn the marauding St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS...
Jamaica College, preseason favourites, and Excelsior High School, the darkhorses, will contest this season’s ISSA/WATA Manning Cup final after the two enjoyed similarly comfortable wins during yesterday’s semi-finals at the National Stadium....
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:13 AM
MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand (CMC): West Indies assistant coach Floyd Reifer has issued a blunt assessment of his batting unit ahead of the decisive third and final Test against New Zealand, starting today at Bay Oval. Trailing 1-0 in the series...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:12 AM
Mount Maunganui, New Zealand (CMC): New Zealand have recalled spinner Ajaz Patel and wicketkeeper-batter Tom Blundell to their squad for the decisive third Test against the West Indies, starting today at Bay Oval. The changes come following a hard-...
Denbigh High walked away with the junior ISSA Rural Schoolgirl Netball Competition title after upsetting defending champions Holmwood Technical 31-26 in overtime. Holmwood, however, held on to their senior crown after fending off a strong challenge...
Herbert Morrison Technical High School’s under-19 team has bulldozed its way through the first round of the ISSA Schoolboy Basketball competition, with head coach Levar Rose expressing the need for increased dedication for players to improve. Rural...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:11 AM
Mona Preparatory once again demonstrated their dominance in youth sport, retaining the Jamaica Independent Schools Association Under-12 Netball Championship for the third consecutive year. The school also won the championship in 2023 and 2024. The...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:11 AM
DOHA, Qatar (AP): After finally ending their wait for a Champions League title, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) can finish the year by adding a first Intercontinental Cup trophy as well. PSG takes on Brazilian club Flamengo, the South American champions...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:11 AM
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): The Desert Vipers’ unbeaten run came to a dramatic, nailbiting end at the Zayed Cricket Stadium last night as the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders, with West Indians Andre Russell, Jason Holder, Sherfane Rutherford,...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:10 AM
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): The 2026 Indian Premier League auction delivered seismic shocks and strategic steals, headlined by Kolkata Knight Riders, making Australia’s Cameron Green the most expensive overseas player of all time while the...
Jamaican coach David Riley’s appointment to the World Coaches’ Commission was not a lone achievement the veteran has said. The Excelsior, national coach, and founder of Technique Lab Sports Performance and Fitness Centre, on Monday, told The...
After a third straight defeat and five matches without a win, Waterhouse Football Club will part ways with coach Marcel Gayle, a member of the club hierarchy told The Gleaner after the team’s 2-1 defeat to bottom-of-the-table Spanish Town Police,...
