The absence of a fully functional national football academy to aid the development of the country's best junior players has been one of the biggest criticisms the Horace Burrell-led Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) administration has faced in...
Jamaica College's Miguel Coley, the winning Oliver Shield coach for the past four seasons, says the trophy still stands as the symbol of supremacy in schoolboy football.The Sydney Oliver Interscholastic Challenge Shield, or the Oliver Shield, has...
Published:Thursday | December 8, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott
Night matches will be played at Waterhouse mini-stadium for the first time this season when the Drewsland-based club tackles high-riding Tivoli Gardens in a 6 p.m. game on Sunday.Late games at the Drewsland complex were suspended last season when...
Published:Wednesday | December 7, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott
Despite her excellent post-Olympic form to date, Jamaican swimmer Alia Atkinson had to settle for the silver medal in the 50m breaststroke at the FINA World Short Course Championship in Windsor, Canada, yesterday.Atkinson, who went into the final...
Tivoli Gardens FC's Jermaine 'Teddy' Johnson rolled back the years on Sunday with a vintage performance against arch-rivals Arnett Gardens in their Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) clash at the Edward Seaga Complex.The former Jamaican international...
An inspired performance from Jermaine 'Teddy' Johnson, who had a brilliant solo goal and an assist, carried Tivoli Gardens to a come-from-behind 3-2 win over arch-rivals Arnett Gardens in yesterday's Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) match at the...
Jamaica Basketball Association (JABA) president, Dr Mark Broomfield, expects the National Basketball League (NBL) could return next year, after a four-year absence.Speaking to The Gleaner at the recent Jamrockers Classic final, Broomfield said local...
Published:Thursday | December 1, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott
J Wray and Nephew will sponsor the 2016-2017 KSAFA Super and Major League competitions under the Magnum brand.Last season, the competitions were sponsored under the Charley's JB Rum label, but at Tuesday's official launch of the new season at the...
Published:Thursday | December 1, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott
Kingston College's (KC) 16-year wait for a major schoolboy football trophy ended at the National Stadium yesterday when goals from Fabian Grant and Andre McCathy saw them to a 2-0 win over rivals Jamaica College (JC) in the final of the ISSA-FLOW...
Published:Tuesday | November 29, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott
Guyana Jaguars' coach, Mark Agard, has heaped praise on the Jamaica national basketball team, the Jamrockers, after the local players defeated the visitors 82-67 in the final of the Jamrockers Classic at the National Indoor Sports Centre on Monday...
Glendon 'Admiral' Bailey is the new head coach of struggling Red Stripe Premier League Club Waterhouse.In a release yesterday, the club said they had parted ways with Martvin Tate 'on mutual agreement.'Donovan White, president of Waterhouse FC said...
Newton Sterling's 85th-minute strike saved Arnett Gardens from a third successive defeat in the Red Stripe Premier League at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex yesterday.The 2014-2015 champions, who were still smarting from back-to-back 2-0...
Wolmer's Boys will go in search of their first Manning Cup title in more than 20 years when they square off against three-time defending champions Jamaica College at the National Stadium this evening at 6 o'clock.Both teams scored easy wins in the...
Published:Wednesday | November 23, 2016 | 6:34 PMLivingston Scott
Miguel Coley, the coach of defending Manning Cup champions Jamaica College and his counterpart, Vassell Reynolds of Wolmer's Boys, are both confident that their sides will be at their optimum when the two schools face off for the ISSA/FLOW Manning...
Portmore United's stay at the top of the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) was even more short-lived than that of previous leaders Humble Lion, who spent one week at the top.The St Catherine team's lead lasted just four days after they went down 1-0...
Published:Saturday | November 19, 2016 | 4:53 PMLivingston Scott
Another Jamaican basketballer has moved closer to becoming an NBA player after former Vere Technical High student and NCAA rebounding phenom Shevon Thompson was drafted by the Orlando Magic affiliate team Erie BayHawks as their second round 11th...
Published:Thursday | November 17, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott
The fate of West Indies cricketer Andre Russell could be decided in the next two to three weeks following final submissions from Russell's and JADCO's representative in the allrounder's whereabouts hearing at the Jamaica Conference Centre yesterday....
Published:Wednesday | November 16, 2016 | 6:52 PMLivingston Scott
Just over a week after reclaiming the top spot in the Red Stripe Premier League, Humble Lion surrendered their place at the summit to Portmore United, who clipped former leaders University of West Indies (UWI) 1-0 at UWI Bowl.Humble Lion fell 1-0 to...
After netting his second goal in three games for the Reggae Boyz, former Rivoli United frontman Cory Burke says he is ready to carry the mantle as the country's main goal-getter from now on.Burke, netted the all-important goal in Jamaica's Caribbean...
Head coach Theodore 'Tappa' Whitmore was left satisfied with Jamaica's all-important win over Suriname in their Caribbean Football Union qualifier last night in front of less than 1,000 fans inside the National Stadium.Playing with ten men after...
Published:Saturday | November 12, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott
The last time Jamaica met Suriname in a Caribbean Cup football encounter, 20 years ago in Trinidad and Tobago, the South Americans surprised their Jamaican 3-1.Now, the present group of Reggae Boyz have an opportunity to avenge that defeat when they...
A leader by nature, national senior team goalkeeper Andre Blake, who was appointed captain for Jamaica's crucial Caribbean Cup qualifying match against Suriname at the National Stadium tomorrow at 6 p.m., says he is not the least bit fazed by the...
Published:Wednesday | November 9, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott
Since bursting on the scene in the 2013-14 Red Stripe Premier League season, where he bagged a brace to back up Dino Williams' hat-trick in Montego Bay United's 5-2 win over Waterhouse in the final, Owayne 'Turkle back' Gordon has slowly captivated...
Published:Wednesday | November 9, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott
Anthony 'Baba' Nunes' three year-old colt, BIGDADDYKOOL, announced his arrival on the big stage earlier this year, when he captured the Lotto Classics for the Governor's Cup in May.A month later the young horse was second in the Jamaican derby after...
Captain Je-vaughn Watson and Kemar Lawrence have been ruled out of Jamaica's crucial Caribbean Cup qualifier against Suriname at the National Stadium this Sunday.Watson has been sidelined for six to eight weeks after doing an operation on his hernia...
