THE NATIONAL Stadium in Kingston is set to undergo a strenuous few months with a series of football and track and field events following closely behind each other. Still, general manager of Independence Park Ltd, Major Desmon Brown, believes the...
United States of America’s Alexis Holmes was the top athlete in the women’s 400 metres at the Jamaica Athletics Invitational inside the National Stadium tonight. Holmes stopped the clock at 50.31 seconds, while teammates Brittany Brown and Naasha...
Reigning World Championship bronze medallist Rushell Clayton scorched a world-leading 53.72 seconds clocking en route to winning the women’s 400 metres hurdles at the Jamaica Athletics Invitation at the National Stadium tonight. America’s Anna...
NATIONAL RECORD holder in the 800 metres, Navasky Anderson, is locked in to preparations for what would be his first Olympic Games in a few months’ time. While he’s going through his paces on the training field, Anderson shared that his lifelong...
HIGHLY RESPECTED and world-renowned track and field analyst, columnist, and reporter Hubert Lawrence was laid to rest yesterday at Meadowrest Memorial Gardens, following a church service at the Cathedral of St Jago de la Vega in Spanish Town, St...
REGGAE GIRLZ head coach Xavier Gilbert is expecting to see many of the players who held Brazil to a 1-1 draw at the World Cup last year back in the squad for the teams’ rematches on June 1 and 4 in Salvador. “We are very close to having them back,...
WEST INDIES Players Association (WIPA) president, Wavell Hinds, while happy with the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) decision to reduce Jamaica and West Indies’ opener John Campbell four-year ban to 22 months, he was still aggrieved at the...
EXCELSIOR HIGH School are a win away from grabbing a famous schoolboy cricket treble and the achievement isn’t far from their thoughts. Riding high on their massive 420-run victory against St Jago in the final of the ISSA First Global Bank Grace...
THE STATE of Jamaica’s cricket will take centre stage on Thursday, April 25 as 99 delegates will head to the polls to choose between incumbent president Wilford ‘Billy’ Heaven and Dr Donovan Bennett as the man to lead the Jamaica Cricket...
WIDELY REGARDED as the greatest batsman of all time, Brian Lara on Friday celebrated 20 years since his world record innings of 400 not out against England in the fourth Test at the Antigua Recreational Ground. Lara’s innings was done in a brisk...
ITALY-BASED COMPANY Mondo is busy fine-tuning the building of a vibrant purple track for the Olympic Games in Paris, France, from July 26 -11 August. Christopher Samuda, president of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), said the move is helping...
ONE COULD be forgiven if they thought former national record holder Maurice Wignall only represented Jamaica in the 110-metre hurdles. Backtrack to the year 1997 when he made his debut on the World Athletics Championship stage. Maurice Wignall, the...
WHILE IT’S already public knowledge that Melbourne businessman Aron D’Souza is adamant that his brainchild, Enhanced Games, will go ahead as planned in 2025, the criticisms are also gathering momentum. Christopher Samuda, president of the Jamaica...
St. Jago High’s Tiana South secured the gold medal in the Class Three girls' long jump at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championship at the National Stadium today. South on her first attempt achieved a Championship best mark of 5....
IN A repeat of last season’s Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL) final, defending champions Frazsiers Whip proved too strong for Cavalier, strolling to a 4-0 victory on the back of a Shaniel Buckley brace at the Alpha Institute football field...
WITH LESS than a week to go before the 2024 staging of the Inter-Collegiate Sports Association (Intercol) Track and Field Championships at G.C. Foster College on March 15, president of Intercol Paul Beckford is pleased that, despite a drop in...
ARNETT GARDENS were in sublime form as they thrashed Real MoBay 8-0 courtesy of a Briana Crosby hat trick in the Jamaica Women’s Premier League at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex yesterday. Arnett started their offensive onslaught in the 15th...
LAST SEASON’S beaten finalists Cavalier SC outmuscled Proven Girls FC 12-0, courtesy of a five-timer from the dangerous Shanhaine Nelson to open their account in the 2024 Sherwin Williams’ Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL). Cavalier opened...
FIVE-TIME NATIONAL champion Traves Smikle, was the toast of yesterday’s King of the Ring Championship at the Courtney Walsh Oval as he turned back the fellow throwers Fedrick Dacres and Chad Wright. Smikle, competing in the men’s discus open,...
AFTER AN enthralling day one of Davis Cup Group II tennis between host country Jamaica and Barbados, there will be all to play for when action starts later this morning at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre. The teams would end the day locked on one win...
ONE OF Jamaica’s brightest local tennis prospects, Jeremy Miller, is elated to be back on the national team and is fine-tuning preparation for Jamaica’s Davis Cup clash against Barbados on February 3 and 4 at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre. “It feels...
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Volleyball Association (JAVA), Jacqueline Cowan, believes her appointment to the board of the Olympic Programme Commission will have a positive impact on the growth and development of the sport on local soil. “I feel...
IF EVER there was a statement victory, it was witnessed on Saturday night inside the National Stadium as defending ISSA/Digicel daCosta Cup champions, Clarendon College (CC), retained their title, defeating parish rivals Glenmuir, 6-2, on the back...
FOLLOWING THE Jamaica Scorpions’ horrible performance in the 2023 Regional Super50 tournament, which saw them finishing bottom of the table with six losses and a no-result from seven matches, senior player Andre McCarthy has sought to shed light on...
LOCAL BODYBUILDER Duvaughn Dick is beaming with joy, not only because of his latest exploits at the recently concluded National Physique Committee (NPC) Atlantic Coast Championships in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he won a slew of medals in a...
