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Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 12:09 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

A FIERCE clash at the Mico University College field resulted in a 2-1 win for Calabar High School over Wolmer’s Boys’ School yesterday in ISSA/WATA Manning Cup Zone E playoff-round action. Franchesco Reid in the 30th minute and Dujaughn Martin in...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 12:09 AMKaren Madden/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA OLYMPIC Association President Christopher Samuda is among those paying tribute to multi-World Championships and Olympic medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce after the 38-year-old confirmed that she will be retiring from the sport of track and...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 12:08 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

RUDOLPH SPEID, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) technical committee chairman, has earned another feather in his cap, after being selected to be a member of FIFA’s technical development committee. Speid, also technical advisor to senior...

Published:Tuesday | October 7, 2025 | 10:46 AMKaren Madden/Gleaner Writer

Legendary sprinting icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has officially announced her retirement from the sport. Ahead of the National Championships in June Fraser-Pryce had revealed that it would be the final time she would be competing in the Trials and...

Published:Tuesday | October 7, 2025 | 12:12 AM

INDORE, India (AP): TAZMIN BRITS scored a century as South Africa beat New Zealand by six wickets yesterday with a turnaround batting performance at the Women’s Cricket World Cup. Brits hit 15 fours and a six in her 101 as the Proteas posted 234-4...

Published:Tuesday | October 7, 2025 | 12:12 AM

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC): THE WEST Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) has expressed condolences at the passing of Bernard Julien. Bernard Denis Julien, born in 1950 in Carenage, Trinidad, played for the West Indies between 1973 and 1983 and was part...

Published:Tuesday | October 7, 2025 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

WHEN THE 2025-26 high school track and field season gets under way, there will be a major coaching shake-up in the west. Garth Smythe, who has led the Muschett High School programme since 2020, has decided to take on a new challenge as head coach...

Published:Tuesday | October 7, 2025 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

TRAYVONE REID continued his excellent form for Harbour View this season, scoring the lone goal from the penalty spot as Harbour View defeated Dunbeholden 1-0 in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) at the Drewsland stadium yesterday. The win lifted...

Published:Tuesday | October 7, 2025 | 12:11 AM

THE YOUTH Football League’s Junior Cup Urban Championship marked its fourth consecutive year with resounding success, hosting Jamaica’s largest one-day, single-age group football tournament at the Constant Spring Football Field. The 2025 edition...

Published:Tuesday | October 7, 2025 | 12:11 AM

OVER THE past 23 years, corporate Jamaica has supported the Liguanea Lodge Red Blazer Charity Golf Classic, which has, in recent times, raised approximately $2 million for the Rotary Club of St Andrew North and its Education Foundation. The event...

Published:Tuesday | October 7, 2025 | 12:10 AM

AHMEDABAD, India (CMC): INDIAN CRICKET legend Sunil Gavaskar has launched a scathing critique of the West Indies’ dramatic decline in Test cricket, branding their current pace attack as looking “more like net bowlers” after a meek surrender to...

Published:Tuesday | October 7, 2025 | 12:10 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

FORMER CHAMPIONS Jamaica College (JC) and Vauxhall will renew their rivalry this afternoon in the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup’s Zone C. The game will be played at the JC Ashenheim Stadium, starting at 3 p.m. In the group’s other game, Camperdown will...

Published:Tuesday | October 7, 2025 | 12:10 AMKaren Madden/Gleaner Writer

THE COACH of Navasky Anderson, national record holder in the 800 metres, heads the list of coaches to be awarded by the Jamaica Track and Field Coaches Association (JATAFCA) as the body marked National Coaches Day yesterday. Tom Brumlik, who helped...

Published:Tuesday | October 7, 2025 | 12:10 AMKaren Madden/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA INTERNATIONAL Tyreek Magee has joined Jamaica Premier League (JPL) outfit Mount Pleasant Football Academy on a free transfer. The club made the announcement on Sunday, with Magee set to take the field once his registration process with the...

Published:Tuesday | October 7, 2025 | 12:09 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

THE RELENTLESS call for a national football philosophy and system of play is finally about to be answered says Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Technical Committee Chairman Rudolph Speid, after the federation recently assigned a list of local...

Published:Monday | October 6, 2025 | 12:11 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

In a fixture that was expected to showcase some amount of fireworks, the Portmore derby between hosts Portmore United and Racing United fizzled out to a drab 0-0 draw at the Ferdi Neita Sports Complex yesterday. The fans that came out to witness...

Published:Monday | October 6, 2025 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Nigerian striker Wisdom Ubani came off the bench to score two second-half goals to earn Molynes United a 2-2 draw with Spanish Town Police in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) at the Waterhouse Mini Stadium on Sunday. Goals from Jordan Elleston (...

Published:Monday | October 6, 2025 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

BOOTYLICIOUS and GET A PEPSI, running with the stands’ side track bias in their favour, yesterday won divisions one and two, respectively, of the Nigel B Nunes Memorial at five furlongs straight. BOOTYLICIOUS, drawn widest at post-position 10,...

Published:Monday | October 6, 2025 | 12:07 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer -

PORT ANTONIO, Portland: After releasing five blue marlin during the first two days of competition, the boat Nuh Reely maintained their lead to win the eighth staging of the Mayberry Investments-sponsored Superstars of Port Antonio International...

Published:Monday | October 6, 2025 | 12:07 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

WHEN the final set of play-off matches in Zone I of the daCosta Cup schoolboy football competition kicks off tomorrow, surprise team Kemps Hill High will be eyeing a third straight win. They will host Denbigh High at 3:30 p.m. After ambushing the...

Published:Monday | October 6, 2025 | 12:07 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

Tasked with the arduous role of preparing his team without a playing field on which to train, Fabian Swaby, head coach of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group team, said it was an overwhelming feeling to lift the Xpress Sports-sponsored Kingston and...

Published:Monday | October 6, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Oct 5, 2025 Race Results Race 1 Purse $800,000 REST.ALL III-NB5YO...

Published:Monday | October 6, 2025 | 12:06 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ANOTHER Sandals Travel Advisors tournament scored what is teeing up to be a game-changing hole-in-one for local golf and Jamaica’s sports tourist industry. A group of 40 American golfers are set to participate in an October 2026 pro-am in Montego...

Published:Monday | October 6, 2025 | 12:06 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Veteran cricket commentator, Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira believes that Cricket West Indies (CWI) erred by sending a West Indies senior team to play minnows Nepal instead of a developmental team. The regional side, led by Akeal...

Published:Monday | October 6, 2025 | 12:06 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Bernard Julien, the outstanding all-rounder and member of the West Indies team which won the 1975 Men’s Cricket World Cup, passed away on Saturday night in Trinidad. A family member confirmed that he died at Valsayn...

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