Published:Monday | December 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMDr Paul Wright
The future of West Indies cricket is foremost in the minds of all the fans of this team that meant so much to this region in the past years of unparalleled dominance. As the team selected stumbles from series defeat to series defeat, journalists,...
Published:Monday | October 15, 2018 | 12:00 AMDr Paul Wright
Last week had the Jamaican sport fans experiencing the highs and the lows of supporting a team, any team. I stayed up on Saturday night to watch the second Test against India in Hyderabad, India. I didn't expect the Windies Test team to win. Very...
Published:Monday | September 3, 2018 | 12:00 AMDr Paul Wright
Jamaica's senior women's football team deserves our heartiest congratulations on the manner of their unbeaten run in the recent CONCACAF Caribbean Women's World Cup Qualifying competition at our National Stadium. These girls...
The administration of sports in Jamaica is a serious job. Whenever a vacancy for the post of leader in cricket, football, or netball, comes up, there is usually a well-documented fight for the position of top administrator.However, it is universally...
Published:Tuesday | December 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMDr Paul Wright
The fourth week of December every year is usually a busy one for the people who love and do 'sports'. There is a Christmas tradition of sport contests, worldwide, that ensures that the rest of us (sport fans) have family fun time either at a...
Published:Thursday | November 30, 2017 | 12:00 AMDr Paul Wright
Cricket, lovely cricket, on cable is where I saw it, is a paraphrase of a memorable calypso, of yesteryear when Test cricket was the game to watch.Recently, the advent and popularity of T20 cricket has caused many a "new" fan of the game to...
Published:Monday | October 30, 2017 | 12:00 AMDr Paul Wright
Jason Livermore is a decorated Jamaican track star. He has represented us in Track and Field at the World Relays and the Commonwealth Games. He has won a relay gold medal at the Commonwealth Games and an individual bronze medal in his pet event, the 200m sprint...
Published:Tuesday | August 29, 2017 | 12:00 AMDr Paul Wright
The news that athletics' legend and national icon Usain St Leo Bolt will miss the Manchester United Legends match in Barcelona on September 2 concretises the fact that his hamstring injury will really take weeks, if not months, for full recovery.It...
Published:Tuesday | March 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMDr Paul Wright
I have long held the belief that international sport should be the best of ours against the best of yours. Modern eligibility rules have made a mockery of my hope as national teams, in a fervent desire to win-at-all-costs, select athletes to...
Published:Tuesday | February 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMDr Paul Wright
By its very nature, sport is structured so that winning is the goal, the reason for playing. It is said that in youth sport, the effort to prepare and the desire to compete should take precedence over a comparative score. Children should be taught...
Published:Thursday | January 5, 2017 | 12:00 AMDr Paul Wright
As we usher in the new year, it is customary to reflect on the year that was. In sports, Jamaicans excelled, not only on the world stage, but locally.We, the fans, revelled in the performance of our fellow citizens, who overcame fantastic odds while...
Published:Tuesday | October 18, 2016 | 12:00 AMDr Paul Wright
Track and field athletes have been the most successful group of Jamaicans in international competition for over 50 years.The Olympics and, to a lesser extent, the World Championships, have been broadcast to an expectant nation in great detail and...
There were two very contrasting football results over the past weekend. Two matches were played at the National Stadium, one on Friday November 13 and the other the following Saturday. Both matches drew impressive crowd numbers and the results were...
As the world reels from disclosure after disclosure that the men who 'volunteer' for service as sport administrators have personal aggrandisement as the real reason for their service, the call for term limits to their reign becomes even more moot....
Alicia Ashley was born in Jamaica on August, 23 1967. On Friday, at the age of 48 years and 81 days old she won the World Boxing Council (WBC) Super Bantamweight championship title. Ashley is a world-champion athlete with the genetic makeup and...
The Flow Super Cup in schoolboy football is a good innovation. Now in its second year, it gives the local football fan a good look at under-18 footballers across the island. The format, which includes seeding the top-four Manning Cup teams and the...
The humiliating innings defeat in the first Test by Sri Lanka over the West Indies inside four days, came as no real surprise.The team of cricketers sent overseas by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) have been so discombobulated by strange and...
The World Championships in rugby enters its knockout stage this week, with the main stories focusing on the capitulation of the England team to Australia in a dramatic win-or-go-home match, thus becoming the first host to be eliminated from the...
The talent of Jamaicans when it comes to sports is undisputed. Our fellow citizens, men, and women excel when their raw talent and innate ability are harnessed, and coached, then compared with athletes from anywhere else on the planet in competition...
The school teams are now sponsored (some more than others) and it seems as if the other aspects of school life are now on the back-burner. The playing surfaces remain woeful and the prevailing drought conditions are definitely not helpful. In the...
As the 2015 athletic season winds down, the final race of the Diamond series and the World Athletics Championships did very little, in my estimation, to remove doubts about the veracity of some of the results posted.The general reaction of the...
Caymanas Track Limited (CTL) is losing money on a daily basis. The Government of Jamaica, the only shareholder, insists that the company will be divested. Timeline after timeline for divestment passes by with a regularity that defies logic.A "...
Jamaica's team to netball's World Championships, the Sunshine Girls, has been the fittest, best trained, best fed, best sponsored of all the previous netball teams to any international competition in living memory.The Girls have a new coach and an...
Experts in the fight against doping in sports have long discussed and recognised that governments and anti-doping organisations worldwide have very little incentive to discover and prove if any of its marquee names (in any sport) has used or is...
Jamaica's Gold Cup campaign has ended with a 3-1 defeat by Mexico in the finals on Sunday. The Reggae Boyz played well, and except for an inability to put the ball in the opponents' net during the first 30 minutes of undeniable ascendancy, and two...
