Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is a remarkable Jamaican. She is the best in the world at what she does and at the same time, she is a delightful personality with an inspirational story to tell. Her mission is simple: to be the best she can be. No one...
JAMAICA HAS won two gold, four silver, and four bronze medals at the Caribbean Mini and Pre-Cadet Table Tennis Championships in Guyana. On the event’s final day, on Tuesday, Ajani Spencer and Anthony Bird won the country’s second gold medal with a...
JAMAICA’S PLAYERS at the Caribbean and Pre-Cadet Championships have put a broad smile on the face of Andrew Lue, president of the Jamaica Table Tennis Association (JTTA). Competing in Guyana, the Jamaica contingent has already won gold, silver and...
Not even the most patriotic Jamaican track and field fan will contend that anyone other than American wunderkind Sydney McLaughlin is the female track and field athlete of the year. Her 2022 portfolio is just too good. Her sensational running in...
Ask Herbert Morrison High School sprint guru Claude Grant how he got into coaching and the memory will produce a throaty chuckle. Twenty-five years into his sojourn at the Montego Bay-based school, Grant still feels good about helping youngsters...
The year 2022 was going to be great for DeAndre Daley of Herbert Morrison Technical High School. Daley was almost unstoppable in March and April, but disaster struck at the National Championships in June. With that disappointment behind him, Daley...
THE INCOMPARABLE Usain Bolt has made an indelible mark on the world of sport and fans everywhere. Among them is former England international footballer Jamie Carragher who yesterday named Bolt among his top-three sportsmen of all time. Carragher,...
THE CARIBBEAN was well represented by Puerto Rico at the just-concluded World Team Table Tennis Championships in Chengdu, China. That’s the considered view of Peter Moo Young, a former Jamaica Table Tennis Association president. Moo Young was...
China thoroughly dominated the 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships, which ended on October 9, with crushing 3-0 victories in both finals. However, a stern challenge in the men’s semi-finals confirmed for some observers that the gap between...
There’s a good chance that the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) will continue with the new schedule introduced at the Boys and Girls’ Championships this year. Meet director Anthony Davis is about to recommend that it stays in...
WORLD ATHLETICS, the global governing body of track and field, is set to introduce a second-chance provision at the 2024 Olympics. This repêchage round might also surface at Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs) in the future. While Jamaica’s...
With Jamaican Aiko Jones making a sterling contribution, the University of Louisville surged forward in its defence of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) volleyball title on the weekend. Louisville smashed visiting Clemson University on Friday and...
NO CO-EDUCATIONAL institution has won the Manning Cup since 2006. Though the history of the urban schools’ football competition shows such victories are possible, those wins have been few and far between recently. The Cup has gone to a co-ed school...
The Titans Track Club went to Eugene, Oregon for this year’s World Athletics Championships, with Yohan Blake and Ackeem Blake being two of the nation’s three entries in the men’s 100 metres. The return of mere semi-final finishes for both was...
IF JAMAICA College (JC) wins the Manning Cup and Olivier Shield high school football competitions this year, the school will relive the accomplishment of its undefeated 1962 squad. For Norman McDonald, the left back on the 1962 team, the double...
TITANS TRACK Club head coach Gregory Little wants to rebuild Jamaica men’s sprinting in partnership with his friend Michael Frater. Their new project will be the continued development of Olympic relay gold medallist Briana Williams. Little believes...
With Jamaican Aiko Jones doing her part to steady the ship when needed, the University of Louisville rolled past two conference rivals last weekend. Jones served with deadly intent and blocked with purpose as Louisville swept both the University of...
Tobi Amusan of Nigeria; the Jamaicans, Rasheed Broadbell and Janieve Russell; and Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands have two things in common; all four were winners in hurdling events at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, and all...
Semifinalists last year, the University of Louisville are poised to make another deep run through the NCAA Volleyball women’s championships. Jamaica’s Aiko Jones is part of a stable core of senior players who have given coach Dani Busboom Kelly...
It isn’t out of the question that 110 metres hurdlers in black, green and gold could occupy two spots on the podium in Budapest, Hungary, at next year’s World Athletics Championships. So says the dean of Jamaican sprint hurdlers Maurice Wignall....
After a long break enforced by the COVID-19 pandemic, volleyball made a step back toward normalcy with the reintroduction of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) National Championship earlier this year. The next step in the sport’s...
Excelsior High School has geared its football programme not just to add to its tally of seven Manning Cup titles, but also to equip its players to play for Jamaica and to win scholarships. That’s the word from the school’s head coach, Xavier...
The headlines will rightly point to World Under-20 champion Kerrica Hill as the next great Jamaican 100 metres hurdler. However, her former Hydel High School teammate Oneka Wilson has a bright future ahead of her too, and she has taken her talents...
JAMAICA’S ADELLE Tracey isn’t a pacemaker by trade, but almost led Faith Kipyegon to a world record in Monaco last month. The fabulous Kenyan may have another crack at the record – three minutes, 50.07 seconds – this week at the Diamond League...
THE CLOSER we get to the end of the athletics season, the less talk there is about world records. At the Brussels Diamond League meet last week and Continental Tour meets in Padova and Berlin last Sunday, you could see the tired legs. Expectant ‘...
