Coming off a podium finish in Minnesota last month, rallycross driver Fraser McConnell tasted victory for the first time this season in the fourth round of the 2022-23 Nitro Rallycross Championship series last weekend at the Glen Helen track in Los...
FINISHING HAS been one of the difficulties for Humble Lion last season and was evident in their season opener. Humble Lion head coach Andrew Price hopes they can be more ruthless in front of goal this season, starting with their game against...
Injuries, a red card and a penalty that had to be retaken three times. Everything that could have ended Mona’s stay in the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup was thrown at them, including Tivoli High’s hot start which put them under pressure. But the warrior...
The final international window of 2022 for Jamaica’s senior women’s team will see the return of two members of the 2019 core and the unleashing of young exciting talent, players that national senior head coach Lorne Donaldson hopes will blend as...
Haile Selassie High’s return to schoolboy football has been positive, encouraging and successful. The Linval Dixon-coached team will hope that it is not brief as they look for a quarterfinal berth. To do that they will have to get past Excelsior...
Veteran American basketball coach Bob MacKinnon Jr says that he is optimistic about the future of the sport on the island with a renewed emphasis on the grassroots level to improve not only the skills of young players but also in life. MacKinnon...
WITH THE first part of their Netball World Cup preparations complete, national head coach Connie Francis is not only been energised by the performances of her young team but is also imploring that they get the necessary backing for their continued...
FORMER NATIONAL striker Ricardo Fuller will be returning to English Football Championship side Stoke City to begin his coaching career. Fuller, 42, has joined the club as an academy coach as part of the Professional Player to Coach initiative...
While the prospect of claiming an Olympic Games medal has brought some late excitement for Kaliese Spencer-Carter, MVP Track Club president Bruce James says that she, as well as the team, remain cautious. They will await the final outcome of the...
Campion College have already made significant strides in this 2022 ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup season going further than they have done for three decades. However, they hope to take the first step of making a good season unforgettable when they face...
Jamaica’s Kaliese Spencer is poised to claim the first major global medal of her career after a Russian athlete, Natalya Antyukh, was stripped of her 2012 Olympic 400-metre hurdles title. The Athletics Integrity Unit today released a ruling that...
The intensity that Jamaican netballer Crystal Plummer shows on the court is only matched by the demands that she puts on herself to perform at her best. But it is that drive that has national head coach Connie Francis encouraged and optimistic...
Jamaican basketballer Christeina Bryan’s journey to the top division of college basketball has been defined by taking a leap of faith, a lesson she looks to apply as she continues to test herself against the best. Bryan is preparing for her first...
Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls have been powering through their Americas Netball Regional Qualifying fixtures as the squad of mainly young players looks to maintain their intensity. After yesterday’s 85-30 win over St Lucia at the National Indoor...
History was already made when Jamaica qualified for back-to-back Women’s World Cup in July. Now, former women’s coaches Andrew Price and Charles Edwards hope that the Reggae Girlz can take the next step in their evolution by qualifying for the...
THE CHARGE to Jamaica’s young netballers from head coach Connie Francis was improvement in intensity in the final quarter of games, an area she felt was lacking. Last night Francis’ youthful Sunshine Girls displayed that, dispatching the Cayman...
WITH THE baton of leadership passed to new Americas Netball president Dr Bridget Adams, outgoing president, Marva Bernard, hopes that the new executive is able to improve the one area that she says she wishes she could have done more in – umpiring...
So far, Grenada’s charge to end a 19-year wait for a Netball World Cup berth is going according to plan with an offence that has yet to be tamed at these Americas Netball Qualifiers. The Spice Girls won their third straight game, defeating Antigua...
Fuelled by a desire to see regional netball consistently represented among the best in the world, newly elected First Vice-President of Americas Netball Simone Forbes says she is ready to take up the challenge to raise the sport’s regional profile...
Transparency and putting Jamaica on the right path of football development are some of the key things that newly appointed Jamaica Football Federation General Secretary Dennis Chung said he is committed to fostering for the future during his tenure...
The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) has ratified the decision to appoint Dennis Chung as its new General Secretary. Chung confirmed to The Gleaner this evening that the JFF board approved the decision with discussions to take place this week on...
After a three-week wait, Kingston College and St George’s College finally get to lock horns against each other in an ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup clash with second-round implications this afternoon at Stadium East field at 3 p.m. The ‘North Street...
Ahead of another title run in the upcoming Major League Soccer (MLS) playoffs, national goalkeeper and captain Andre Blake secured himself nominations for the league’s top individual awards, including another chance at being the league’s best...
While SprinTec head coach Maurice Wilson and Titans Track club coach Michael Frater are making strong cases for five-time 100m World champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to be crowned 2022 World Athletics Female Athlete of the Year, both acknowledge...
National senior women's head coach Lorne Donaldson has finalised his contract extension, which will see him take charge of the Reggae Girlz for next summer's Women's World Cup. In a release this morning, the Jamaica Football Federation announced...
