Reggae Girlz head coach Hubert Busby Jr says said getting a win against Mexico in their opening game of the Concacaf Women’s Olympic qualifiers will be crucial to setting the tone for the qualifiers and he believes he has a squad capable of...
Former president of the Jamaica Basketball Association (JABA) Marland Nattie said the passing of former Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant, is ‘a sad moment in basketball history”. Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven other unidentified...
ISSA competition’s director George Forbes, who demits the position this April after 18 years of service, feels hard done by. Forbes says that he is being forced to make his exit on a technicality because of what he believes are the ‘personal...
Christopher Samuda, president of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), says the body’s 10 in 20 Olympic campaign, which targets qualification in 10 different disciplines for the 2020 Games set for Tokyo, Japan, is in full gear. Jamaica has so far...
Jamaica Table Tennis Association (JTTA) treasurer Darrington Ferguson says its Annual General Meeting (AGM) has been pushed back to accommodate the association’s audited report. This report will be the first done in the JTTA’s 74 year history....
After an impressive victory over Arnett Gardens last weekend, Portmore United followed that up with a controlled display in a 2-0 win over Molynes United in their Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) game at the Constant Spring complex yesterday. Head...
President of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), Christopher Samuda, said Tajay Grant and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are deserving winners of the 2019 RJRGLEANER National Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year awards, and expects both athletes to...
Reggae Girlz head coach Hubert Busby Jr said the team’s late start to preparation was the main reason highly-experienced and qualified coach David Gough was added to the coaching staff for the upcoming Concacaf Women’s Olympic qualifiers later this...
Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) director of football, Wendell Downswell, said the federation will make a number of moves this year aimed at improving the youth development mechanism of the country. Downswell said it will soon become compulsory...
Clarendon Football Association president Ewan Scott has dismissed accusations by former match commissioner Anthony Cooke that parish Football Association (FA) presidents are monopolising appointments for Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) games for...
Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) president Keith Wellington, does not believe local high schools are bending the association’s recruitment policies to suit themselves, when they enlist student-athletes from overseas. He does,...
As with the departure of former senior team head coach Hue Menzies, Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) general secretary Dalton Wint does not expect the resignation of national Under-20 women’s coach Lorne Donaldson to have any serious effect on the...
Dunbeholden manager, Andrew Christie, is hoping that the transfer of Waterhouse midfielder Tremaine Stewart can materialise before the end of the season. The Gleaner understands that Stewart, who is keen on making the move, had a misunderstanding...
Former chairman of the now-defunct Professional Football Association of Jamaica (PFAJ), Don Anderson, says Jamaica’s slow pace towards professionalising the nation’s top football league could have been indirectly responsible for the 9-0 drubbing...
Since returning to the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) in 2017, Cavalier have proven very difficult opponents for league leaders Waterhouse, at least at the preliminary stage of the competition. In eight regular season meetings over the last...
Jamaica’s football fraternity is still reeling from the 9-0 mauling the national under-22 team suffered at the hands of their Japanese counterparts in their Kirin Challenge Cup match at the Transcosmos Stadium in Nagasaki, Japan on Saturday. The...
For the sixth successive year, the One Law Christmas Day charity event, organised by Waterhouse defender Shawn Lawes, has not only put a smile on the face of the youngsters from Cockburn Gardens, and the homeless living in downtown Kingston, but it...
Vere United have spent the entire Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) season at the bottom of the standing and coach Andrew Isaac said they are looking to add an experienced centre back, midfielder and striker in January to boost their chance of...
Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) newcomers Vere United haven’t had much to cheer about so far this season. However, their outstanding performer of the season, midfielder Xahne Reid, wants them to be more clinical in front of goal. He says that the...
Portmore United will need to look for a replacement for Corey Burke in the January transfer window as the striker is now set for a return to Major League Soccer (MLS) in January. Burke was playing for Philadelphia Union in MLS last year when he...
Michael Lopez Castillo, commercial manager for Pepsi-Cola Jamaica, has great admiration for Jamaica’s sporting personnel and their achievement internationally and wants more local stars to endorse the brand in 2020. On Wednesday, Gatorade signed...
The funeral for late national senior women’s football team player Tarania Clarke will take place at Excelsior High School at noon tomorrow. Clarke’s former coach at Excelsior and member of the organising committee for the funeral, Xavier Gilbert,...
Premier League Clubs Association (PLCA) general manager Pat Garel says that there is no money set aside for teams demoted from the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL). Garel was responding to Molynes United president Herman Cruickshank’s comments in...
Jamaican international Peter Lee Vassell signed a one-year contract with Pepsi-Cola Jamaica to become a brand ambassador for the rehydration drink Gatorade. Vassell, who put pen to paper yesterday at the company’s offices at 214 Spanish Town Road,...
Lorne Donaldson, assistant coach for Jamaica’s senior national women’s football team, is the front-runner to land the vacant Reggae Girlz head coach job and is expected to lead the team in its final-round Concacaf Women’s Olympic qualifiers next...
