AS THE final chapter of World Under-20 shot put silver medallist Kobe Lawrence’s high-school journey starts, Calabar coach Julian Robinson says that he is excited for his future next year at the University of Oregon, a move he hopes will lead to...
WOLMER’S BOYS were walking wounded and held on for as long as they could against many-time ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup champions Jamaica College in their opening quarterfinal bout at the Ashenheim Stadium yesterday. But it was the dark blues that used...
THROUGH THE eyes of his grandchildren, the legacy of Gerald Claude Eugene Foster, better known as GC Foster, is still being discovered, explored and analysed. But as much as they are still finding out about their grandfather, Andrea Roberts,...
THERE MAY have been raised eyebrows after Jose Marti High held defending ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup champions Kingston College (KC) scoreless in the first leg of their second-round tie on Wednesday. But KC took just 20 minutes to lower those...
FOR THE last 20 years a place has been made for Barbados at the Netball World Cup. Last night the Gems ensured that there would be no change to their now expected tournament appearance with renewed optimism after a disappointing Commonwealth Games...
A DATE with last tournament’s hosts France, the fifth-best team in the world, as well as a rematch with South American giants Brazil, has left national senior women’s head coach Lorne Donaldson with the realisation that the team will have their...
WITH A benchmark set to move Jamaica Premier League clubs towards self-sustainability, Professional Football Jamaica Limited CEO Owen Hill is looking to new financial opportunities for this season and beyond. Hill was speaking at Thursday’s launch...
IN THE eyes of Titans track club head coach, Michael Frater, MVP track club hurdles coach, Brigette Foster Hylton, and Sprintec head coach, Maurice Wilson, world 200-metre champion Shericka Jackson’s first World Athletics Athlete of the Year...
SIMILAR TO their Roper Cup pre-season encounter two months ago, the long-awaited North Street Derby produced a goalscoring festival that teased the expectations of both Kingston College and St George’s College. But it was the Neville Bell-coached...
AFTER PREVIOUSLY serving alongside outgoing Americas Netball president Marva Bernard, Dr Bridget Adams, will have the chance to lead the charge of regional netball as its new president. Adams was elected at yesterday’s annual general meeting as...
TARRANT HIGH haven’t had much to celebrate in this ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup campaign. Thanks to an impressive performance from Ricky White, however, they were able claim only their second victory of the season, defeating Dunoon Technical 5-0 in...
HE MAY have the most unusual of nickname but Raniel Stephenson, better known as ‘Fish Head’ to his teammates, doesn’t mind the moniker, preferring instead to focus on being part of Waterford High’s push for second-round qualification in the ISSA/...
NATIONAL MIDFIELDER Adrian Mariappa’s Australian adventure has ended and the defender is making a return to England. Mariappa, 36, signed a short-term deal with English League One outfit Burton Albion, ending his 10-month stint with Australian A-...
HAPHAZARD PREPARATIONS as well as logistical issues with the adjusted kick-off times could have been a recipe for disaster for Charlie Smith. Instead, head coach Eugene Williams would end up praising the fighting spirit his team displayed in their...
AFTER FIVE months without any real news about the status of Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) general secretary Dalton Wint, the saga may be reaching its endgame. JFF president Michael Ricketts disclosed that the position of general secretary would...
DESPITE HAVING one international window less to prepare for next summer’s Women’s World Cup, national senior interim women’s head coach Lorne Donaldson says his mindset and plans for preparing the group have remained unchanged. Plans were made for...
THE NEWEST addition to the national senior coaching staff, led by head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson, is under no illusions about the task that he has in front of him. However, freshly minted assistant coach John Wall has a cautiously optimistic...
THE SHORT-TERM plans for Jamaica national senior men’s head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson will be focused on Argentina in their international friendly on Tuesday. However, Technical Director Wendell Downswell says that the 55-year-old, along with his...
THE REACTIONS to describe Norman Manley High School’s head coach Shane Gage were relief and a sense of satisfaction after their narrow 1-0 win over Tarrant High in their Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/Digicel Manning Cup football...
STRONG DEFENSIVE mind, risk-taker, smooth operator, team-oriented. These are only some of the traits used to describe the new senior men’s national team head coach, Heimir Hallgrimsson, by Icelandic journalist Guðmundur Ásgeirsson and Runólfur...
NATIONAL INTERIM women’s head coach Lorne Donaldson says that, despite Jamaica’s 1-0 defeat to South Korea in Saturday’s international friendly, he is more focused on how the team responds to unfamiliar situations in their preparations for the...
Jamaican winger Leon Bailey chose the perfect moment to score his first English Premier League (EPL) goal in almost a year, helping to stop his club’s poor form and deny Manchester City the top spot in the league in their 1-1 draw at Villa Park...
WORLD 200M Champion Shericka Jackson continued her strong 2022 campaign as she led Jamaica’s profitable medal haul on Day Two of the 2022 NACAC Championships in Freeport, Bahamas yesterday. Jackson won the women’s 100m, clocking 10.82 seconds in a...
IN THE absence of interim national senior men’s head coach Paul Hall, Merron Gordon says that taking charge of the Reggae Boyz for the upcoming four-team invitational tournament in Austria is as much an opportunity for him as it is for the players...
EUGENE, Oregon: IT WAS not gold for the Jamaican women in the 4x100m relays but they added another medal to their tally as the World Athletics Championships head into its final day. The team of Kemba Nelson, double sprint Olympic champion Elaine...
