NATIONAL SENIOR women’s head coach Lorne Donaldson says the absence of captain Khadija Shaw from their upcoming Cup of Nations tournament provides opportunities for others to take the mantle and make a lasting impression in their bid to make the...
MVP TRACK Club head coach, Paul Francis, says while his athletes had every intention of competing at yesterday’s Queens/Grace Jackson Meet inside the National Stadium, a decision to pull them was in their best interest. A 30-minute delay yesterday...
AFTER A monumental 2022, World 200-metre champion, Shericka Jackson, says she is neither daunted nor feeling any pressure about repeating in 2023. Still, among her goals in 2023, is a matter of unfinished business, hitting the 10.60-second mark in...
JUST AS national senior women’s head coach Lorne Donaldson intended, the 24-player squad for next month’s Cup of Nations Tournament in Australia will feature a number of young players, with the opportunity to assess key positions that he hopes to...
THE FULL weight of what sprint hurdler Rasheed Broadbell achieved on Friday may not have sunk in yet. However, in the afterglow of his first Sportsman of the Year honour, the 22-year-old was grateful the work he has been putting in finally...
FORMER ST Andrew Technical High School and Tivoli Gardens player Warner Brown will get the opportunity to spread his wings in Europe, signing with Slovenian club NS Mura. Brown was unveiled on Monday, signing a two-year deal with the club until...
GRATEFUL AS she is for her fifth Sportswoman of the Year award, five-time world 100-metre champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce chose the moment to honour the other nominees in what she called an excellent year for Jamaican women in sport. Fraser-Pryce...
IN HIS role to increase corporate backing and to achieve the marketing goals of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), marketing chairperson Chris Dehring says he is committed to delivering a first-class experience that appeases all stakeholders to...
WITH THE World Cup months away, national senior women’s head coach Lorne Donaldson said that the impending move of national defender Allyson Swaby to French giants Paris Saint Germain (PSG) has come at the right time. His comments come as Swaby is...
THE OVERSEAS opportunity that national defender Tarick Ximines has worked towards is now official after the results of a medical on Monday and Belgian club Cercle Brugge’s announcement on Wednesday. The club has now confirmed that the 18-year-old...
IN ASSESSING the performances of the national teams this calendar year, the guiding light has been the senior women’s national team, who, despite challenges in the campaign, made history again. For the men, it has been a dismal year where...
World Aquatics rebrand from FINA, according to Aquatics Sports Association of Jamaica (ASAJ) president Martin Lyn, could come with some financial benefits, as the world governing body of swimming commits to increasing aid to smaller countries. The...
JAMAICAN YOUTH international Kameron Lacey will not have to travel far to begin his professional career in Major League Soccer (MLS). Lacey, a product of the FC Dallas academy, will play for the franchise after being drafted with the 82nd pick in...
As plans are being crafted for the 2026 World Cup cycle, Jamaica Football Federation general secretary Dennis Chung is hoping that their preparations for qualifications will include an invite to the 2024 Copa América tournament in two years’ time...
GREATER ACCOUNTABILITY and engagement with local football stakeholders are what Professional Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL) CEO Owen Hill and Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) president Keith Wellington are looking forward to the...
FORMER UNDER-20 world discus champion Kai Chang will be in new environs next year when he closes his chapter at The University of the West Indies and heads to the United States to the University of Florida. Chang’s commitment to the programme was...
THREE MANNING Cup finals against Jamaica College, three penalty shootouts, three defeats. St Andrew Technical High (STATHS) were snakebitten from the spot again. But after Jamaica College took home their 31st ISSA/Manning Cup title Friday night...
THE NAME ‘Whispering Death’ may have been made famous by West Indies fast-bowling legend Michael Holding but last night Kingston College’s (KC), Dujuan ‘Whisper’ Richards made it clear being quiet is as dangerous as anything you can imagine....
THE CHAPTER may be closed for Craig Butler and Mona High for their 2022 schoolboy football campaign, but the coach is adamant that what Jamaica has seen from the school over the last three months is the start of something great. Mona High’s ISSA/...
ONEIKA MCANUFF will have to be chalked up as another of Hydel High School’s super class one team to confirm this season will be her last. McAnuff will depart for the shores of the United States next year where she will be competing for the...
WITH THE World Cup kicking off today, the schoolboy football fraternity weighed in on who they thought would win it all and who the best player in Qatar would be. Who will win the World Cup? Maquan Aldridge, striker at Jamaica College “...
THE CONFIDENCE that Clarendon College (CC) head coach Lenworth Hyde had in his team manifested on the pitch, as his charges looked assured in the first game of their ISSA Champions Cup title defence. CC defeated Mona High 3-1 in their quarterfinal...
INJURIES IN football are not ideal in the best of circumstances. When it prevents you from playing on the sport’s biggest stage, the World Cup, it is a blow like no other, one that former national player Linval Dixon knows all too well. The 2022...
BRITISH VIRGIN Islands (BVI) Recreational Trust, Eustace Freeman, and sports psychologist, Dr Olivia Rose, hope that the seeds can be planted for the English-speakingCaribbean to expand its focus on mental health for athletes in a bid to provide...
UNTIL YESTERDAY,the Craig Butler-led Mona High could not be stopped. It took a member of his own Phoenix Academy, Kingston College’s Dujuan Richards, to finally end their winning run in the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup. In a game that could have been a...
