AUCKLAND, New Zealand (CMC): Mark Chapman bludgeoned a half-century while captain Mitchell Santer and Ish Sodhi came good with the ball as New Zealand recorded a nail-biting three-run win over the West Indies in the second T20I here on Thursday....
THE INDEFINITE suspension of the rural high schools daCosta Cup football competition is having a negative impact on some student-athletes in the west. High school sports were suspended by the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) after...
National senior triple jump representative Shanieka Ricketts, along with members of the St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) track and field team, have resumed training following the devastating passage of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, which...
The Mount Pleasant Football Academy team is banking on the unifying power of football and a strong sense of community to help in the Hurricane Relief Donation Drive which was launched on Wednesday during their Concacaf Caribbean Cup semi-final...
Theodore ‘Tappa’ Whitmore, head coach of Mount Pleasant Football Academy, and Devorn Jorsling, head coach of Defence Force, said it is important for Jamaican and Trinidadian clubs to be represented in the elite regional club competitions. Often...
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (CMC): WEST INDIES bowling coach Ravi Rampaul left Eden Park yesterday a pleased man after watching his side defend the lowest total ever at the ground to draw first blood against New Zealand in their five-match T20I series. “...
A STRONG performance is expected from Jamaica’s team to the Caribbean Women’s Basketball Championship (CBC) in Guyana despite an interruption in their training camp due to Hurricane Melissa. At least that’s the view of their coach, Oneil Brown....
DESPITE FALLING 0-1 to Trinidad and Tobago’s Defence Force yesterday in the second leg of the Concacaf Caribbean Cup semi-finals at the National Stadium, Mount Pleasant Football Academy advanced to the final, winning the tie 5-2 on aggregate....
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP): FORMER ZIMBABWE cricket captain Sean Williams won’t be selected for his country again after disclosing that a drug addiction was the reason he skipped some matches, the national federation said on Tuesday. Zimbabwe Cricket (...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP): LIONEL MESSI won’t have long-time teammate Luis Suárez alongside him for a match that could end Inter Miami’s season on Saturday. Suárez has been suspended for Saturday’s series-deciding play-off game against...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP): AMANDA ANISIMOVA reached the last four of the WTA Finals by beating second-ranked Iga Swiatek 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-2 yesterday. The 24-year-old American earned her second consecutive victory over Swiatek since losing to the...
ONEIL BROWN, head coach of Jamaica women’s basketball team, and Angelee LaTouche, coordinator of the Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL), have praised the local league’s impact on the national team. Ahead of the 2025 Caribbean Women’s...
AP: SUBSTITUTE ALEJANDRO Garnacho scored a second-half goal as Chelsea drew 2-2 at Qarabag in the Champions League yesterday. Chelsea’s Estevao, the man of the match, opened the scoring in the 16th minute, but the hosts from Azerbaijan rallied with...
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP): TENNIS GREAT Venus Williams plans to play for a 33rd straight season on the WTA Tour, starting in Auckland in January. Organisers of the ASB Classic in New Zealand said yesterday that the 45-year-old Williams would...
PARIS (AP): PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN (PSG) and Morocco right back Achraf Hakimi faces a race against time to recover from injury before the Africa Cup of Nations in his home country. PSG said yesterday that the defender would be absent for “several...
MIAMI (AP): FIFA HAS announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award at the draw for the World Cup on December 5 in Washington. The award, called the FIFA Peace Prize, will “recognise exceptional actions for peace”, football’s...
Mount Pleasant Football Academy suffered their first defeat in the Concacaf Caribbean Cup as they fell 1-0 to Trinidad and Tobago’s Defence Force in the second leg of the semifinals. Mount Pleasant advanced to the final, however, as they won...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): SHAMAR APPLE has been rewarded for his impressive performances at the Regional Under-19 and Under-17 level by being included in Guyana’s Harpy Eagles squad for the upcoming CG United Super50 Cup. The 16-year-old Apple was...
THE THOROUGHBRED Owners and Breeders Association of Jamaica (TOBA) yesterday announced Sunday, December 7, as the new date for its annual Mixed Sale, allaying fears that the event would have been cancelled this year, a fallout from the passage of...
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (CMC): SEVERAL KEY players are missing from New Zealand’s squad, which will face West Indies in a five-match T20I series beginning today. Injuries have ruled out Finn Allen (foot), Lockie Ferguson (hamstring), Adam Milne (...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): VETERAN FAST bowler Kemar Roach is among nine players who have been invited by Cricket West Indies (CWI) to take part in a two-week High-Performance preparation camp as part of the build-up to the three-match Test series...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP): DEFENDING CHAMPION Coco Gauff revived her chances of advancing at the WTA Finals with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Jasmine Paolini yesterday. Gauff also improved her serving, hitting only three double-faults — far fewer than the...
AP: VICTOR CONTE, the architect of a scheme to provide undetectable performance-enhancing drugs to professional athletes including baseball stars Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi and Olympic track champion Marion Jones decades ago, has died. He was 75...
LONDON (AP): WHEN IT came time to receive his knighthood, football great David Beckham knew what to do. He bent his knee like, well, Beckham. King Charles III tapped his shoulders with the blade of a sword and “Becks” was transformed into Sir David...
LIVERPOOL, England (AP): KYLIAN MBAPPÉ has been near-unstoppable this season. At Anfield yesterday, he hit a roadblock. Again. For the second year running, the Real Madrid forward had a night to forget at Merseyside as Liverpool won 1-0 in the...
