Published:Tuesday | August 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
The 2017-18 Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) season is all set to kick off on Sunday, September 3, with no change in the format."September 3 is slated for the start of the 2017-18 Red Stripe Premier League. We have done a draft of the fixtures but...
Published:Monday | August 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Roshede Bald captured the inaugural Lasco iDrade Cage Football Challenge national title when he defeated Kevin Kellyman 5-3 in the final at Mandela Park, Half-Way-Tree on Sunday evening.Bald used his strength and skill in the one-on-one challenge...
Published:Monday | August 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) has offered Theodore Whitmore a new contract as coach of the national senior men's team, after his contract ended at the conclusion of the Gold Cup last month.Whitmore was given an interim role by the late...
Published:Thursday | August 10, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Portmore United's coach, Shavar Thomas, has expressed satisfaction with his team's performance despite the penalty shoot-out loss to CD Plaza Amador in the CONCACAF League round-of-sixteen in Panama City on Wednesday night.After leading 1-0 in the...
Published:Tuesday | August 8, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Newly appointed Portmore United coach Shavar Thomas says his team will be looking to maintain its advantage against CD Plaza Amador in the second leg round-of-sixteen clash in the CONCACAF League tonight at the Estadio Rommel Fernandez in Panama...
Published:Tuesday | August 1, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Ricardo Chong, head coach of Jamaica's team, said they will need major support to prepare for round-three competition in the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World Championship Qualifiers.Jamaica advanced after finishing runners-up in the...
Published:Friday | July 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Coach of Jamaica's senior women's volleyball team Dr Ricardo Chong said the team was still not playing at full potential after they pulled off their second straight win in the CAZOVA Championships.Jamaica comfortably defeated Curacao 25-20, 25-20, 25...
Published:Thursday | July 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Coach of Jamaica's senior women volleyball team, Dr Ricardo Chong, admitted that his players were a bit nervous in the opening game of the CAZOVA championships but will improve.Jamaica defeated the US Virgin Island 25-16, 25-18, 25-17 for a 3-0...
Published:Tuesday | July 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
President of the Jamaica Volleyball Association (JaVA) Rudolph Speid said the local girls are ready to dethrone Trinidad and Tobago and become the number one ranked Caribbean country.Speid made his comments yesterday ahead today's start of the...
Published:Monday | July 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Jamaica will continue its quest for a place in the 2018 World Championship of Indoor Volleyball when it hosts the CAZOVA Senior Women Championships at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston, starting tomorrow until July 31.Eight Caribbean...
Published:Sunday | July 23, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
G.C. Foster College 800m runner Daniel Glave is urging the Jamaica Athletic Administrative Association (JAAA) and the private sector to put more interest in and to invest in distance running so it can be a success like the sprints and hurdles events...
Published:Thursday | July 20, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Nestle Jamaica Limited, under its Milo brand, has pumped $8 million into this year's staging of the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Under-13 and Under-15 leagues. The leagues kick off on July 30."Our sponsorship this year strikes...
Published:Friday | July 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Jamaica's captain and goalkeeper Andre Blake is looking to continue his outstanding performance when the team face-off against the region's kingpin Mexico in the CONCACAF Gold Cup semi-final tomorrow.The Reggae Boyz booked their spot with a 2-1 win...
Published:Sunday | July 16, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Head coach of Jamaica Women's Under-20 football team Xavier Gilbert is confident that his side can advance to the final round of the CONCACAF Caribbean Zone qualifiers.The team is scheduled to depart this morning for the Under-20 qualifiers in...
Published:Sunday | July 16, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Jamaica continued their unbeaten run in the CONCACAF Gold Cup when they battled to a 1-1 draw against El Salvador at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, yesterday.The Reggae Boyz, who had already qualified to the quarter-final knockout stage, ended...
Published:Thursday | July 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Jamaica's team leader for the sixth edition of the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG), Dalton Bailey, has said that the athletes are in high spirits ahead of today's departure to Nassau, Bahamas.The CYG is scheduled for July 18-23 at the Thomas Robinson...
Published:Thursday | July 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) board has appointed Wendell Downswell as acting director of football for two months.The position was made vacant when Vin Blaine resigned last month. Downswell's interim role was ratified by the JFF's board...
Published:Sunday | July 9, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Jamaica's senior men's football team will face Canada in a friendly international on September 2 at the BMO field in Toronto.The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) confirmed the game in a media release last weekend.The teams first met on March 13,...
Published:Friday | July 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Jamaica's number one ranked Under-12 and Under-14 tennis player, Daniel Azar, has his sights set on leading a three-member team to success at the Confederation de Tenis de Centroamerica Caribe (COTECC) 12 and Under championships in Dominican...
Published:Friday | July 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Jamaica Scorpions selected two overseas players in their 15-man squad at the 2017-18 Cricket West Indies Professional League draft announced yesterday at the Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston yesterday.They are Trevon Griffith of Guyana and Steven...
Published:Tuesday | July 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
President of the Jamaica Paralympic Association (JPA) Christopher Samuda said that it has been a hard journey but they are ready to compete at the two upcoming global championships. The JPA selected teams for the 2017 IPC London World Para...
Published:Sunday | July 2, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Sandals South Coast advanced to the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) for the first time when they held Cavalier SC to a 1-1 draw in the final round of the Magnum-Charley's JB-JFF promotion play-off series at Stadium East Complex yesterday.Cavalier,...
Published:Saturday | July 1, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Technical director of Cavalier Rudolph Speid has promised that he won't be easing up against Sandals South Coast in the final round in the Magnum/Charley's JB/JFF Premier League play-off series today at the Stadium East Complex, starting at 3:30 p.m...
Published:Thursday | June 29, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) has named nine players from local Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) clubs in the 23-man squad for the CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament to be staged in the United States next month. Among the local players are the...
Published:Tuesday | June 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Sports minister Olivia 'Babsy' Grange was among the many persons who attended the public viewing of the body of the late Jamaica Football Federation president Captain Horace Burrell at the National Arena yesterday.Captain Burrell, a retired army...
