Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) President Keith Wellington says they will continue to keep a close watch on the adverse weather affecting the island while confirming that some daCosta Cup matches were granted the greenlight to go...
If the decision had been left to new Reggae Boyz head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson, he would not have chosen the Lionel Messi-led, two-time World Cup champions Argentina for his first assignment. The Jamaican senior men’s team will face the South...
St George’s College’s sports teams, clubs and societies will now be riding in style and comfort to various events, courtesy of two buses donated by old boy Phillip Wong on Thursday. The school now has new a luxury 32-seater and a smaller 16-seater...
JAMAICA COLLEGE (JC) came from a goal down to beat Holy Trinity 4-2 in their Group B Digicel/Manning Cup football match at the Bell/Chung Oval yesterday. However, JC coach Davian Ferguson believes his team is lacking conviction and must improve...
JAMAICA’S SUNSHINE Girls are set to face New Zealand Silver Ferns in the second game of their two-match series early this morning for the Tiani Jamison Trophy, with a vastly depleted squad and their backs against the wall. Despite losing the first...
ROMAINE WALTERS scored the game’s only goal as St Catherine turned back St Jago 1-0 in their ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup Spanish Town derby at Prison Oval yesterday. Walters headed home from a set-piece in the 37th minute, in a game of very few...
The Sunshine Girls coaching staff will only have seven players to choose from when they take on hosts New Zealand (NZ) for the Taini Jamison trophy in the opening ‘Test’ match tomorrow. Five members of the squad could not make the trip to New...
Former national and St George’s College Manning Cup footballer Christopher Ziadie is dead. Ziadie died yesterday in the United States after a long illness. He was 55 years old and is survived by a daughter and a son. Local football coach Andrew...
Walker Cup champions St Catherine High held last season’s beaten finalists, Jamaica College (JC), to a 0-0 draw in their Group A ISSA-Manning Cup match at the Spanish Town Prison Oval yesterday. St Catherine dominated the game for the first hour...
OLYMPIAN AND renowned high school track and field coach, John Mair, is calling on big sport goods manufacturing companies to stop offering contracts to young and emerging high-school track and field athletes. The St Jago High School coach says he...
JOSHUA FRAZER’S connections are promising to step up his training regime with world-class talent in their efforts to strengthen his boxing craft and build his ranking. The Jamaican welterweight fighter added Mexican Estaban Villalba to his knockout...
Group C favourites Charlie Smith High School will kick off their ISSA Manning Cup season away to Haile Selassie High School in one of five matches scheduled in the urban area competition this afternoon. In other Group C games, Edith Dalton James...
St George’s College and the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) are tight-lipped on the circumstances under which members of the St George’s College Manning Cup team had items stolen from their changing room at Sabina Park on Saturday...
Although his coach Dewith Frazer has labelled Ricardo Brown’s eight-round heavyweight fight against Carlos Carreon tonight at the CAA Centre in Brampton, Canada, as the Jamaican’s biggest test to date, Brown is confident the Mexican will meet the...
Harbour View Football Club’s general manager, Clyde Jureidini, believes the Jamaica Football Federation should move away from Paul Hall as head coach of the Jamaica men’s senior national football team, the Reggae Boyz. Hall has club commitments...
Although Calabar High School’s Manning Cup coach Andrew Price is charged with rebuilding the Red Hills Road school’s football programme and putting it on a firm footing in three years, the veteran coach is still aiming high this season. Price...
Jamaica Premier League (JPL) champions, Harbour View, take on a Caribbean All Stars team at the Old Boys High field in New York today at 5 p.m. and although they had to cut the players’ holidays short to get ready for this game, coach Ludlow...
FOR OVER two decades, the Sports Development Foundation (SDF) has been instrumental in developing many community sports grounds and facilities, which now exist islandwide. However, due to improper management and maintenance, many of these once-...
A QUARTET of youth Guyanese players have been recruited by St Jago High School for this season’s Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Manning Cup football competition. Brandon Solomon, Antwone Vasconcellos, Rajan Ramdeholl and Marcus...
Dewith Frazer, coach of Jamaican boxers Joshua Frazer and Ricardo Brown, says the two fighters are progressing faster than anticipated and he expects the pair to improve their perfect pro records when they fight on September 9 in Brampton, Canada....
After taking Mona High School to the quarterfinals of last season’s Manning Cup, coach Craig Butler says they are a much stronger unit this season, and he believes they have a real shot at the title. Although he was quick to point out that...
Footballers will wear some attractive jerseys during next season’s Manning Cup and daCosta Cup football competitions. The display was one of the features of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association’s (ISSA) schoolboy football launch on...
New Mount Pleasant sporting director, Paul Christie, says he is looking forward to working with former national coach Theodore Whitmore at the St Ann-based club. Christie disclosed that he and the 1998 World Cup hero have a long-standing...
SUNSHINE GIRLS head coach, Connie Francis, said that she will continue helping Jamaica to win a gold medal at netball’s biggest showcase. Francis has expressed an unwavering commitment, work ethic and led Jamaica’s senior women’s netball team to an...
