HARD-HITTING Melbourne Cricket Club opening batsman Leroy Lugg says he is mentally prepared and is eyeing a fruitful Caribbean Premier League (CPL) debut season with the St Lucia Kings, when the CPL tournament bowls off later this summer....
VETERAN Jamaican athletics mentor, Wayne Jolly, who currently provides mental health advice to some of Jamaica’s elite college athletes, is of the belief that the current collegiate programmes being offered to local athletes in the United States...
Jamaica’s lone representative in the men’s 400m final at the World Athletics Championships, Christopher Taylor, finished seventh in a time of 45.30 seconds as the United States’ Michael Norman finally found his way to the top of the podium. Norman...
Bahamas’ double Olympic gold medallist, Shaunae Miller-Uibo, has finally added a World Championship title over 400 metres after dominating a strong field at the Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon earlier this evening. Miller-Uibo stopped the clock in...
Jamaica’s Natoya Goule has qualified for the final of the Women’s 800m final at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Goule, who competed in the second of three semi-finals, finished second in a fast 1:58:73 seconds. The race was...
Jamaica’s quartet of Ackeem Blake, Kemar Bailey-Cole, Conroy Jones and Jelani Walker scraped into the final of the men’s 4x100m at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Jamaica finished fourth in heat two of two in a time of 38.33...
Jamaica’s quartet of Briana Williams, Natalliah Whyte, Remona Burchell and Kemba Nelson are through to the final of the women’s 4x100m at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Running from the outside lane in heat one, Jamaica...
FORMER St Catherine High School star athlete Julien Alfred is at the centre of an online attack against her country’s athletics federation. The 21-year-old St Lucian, a student of the University of Texas, entered the World Championships as the...
JEFF MILLER, chief executive officer (CEO) of two-time Caribbean Premier League (CPL) champions, Jamaica, believes in the team his staff has picked to take on the 2022 edition of the competition. During the recently held CPL Draft, it was...
BAHAMIAN SPRINTER Anthonique Strachan was having a breakout season, her best in almost a decade, until disappointment struck during the heats of the women’s 200 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Monday. Strachan,...
FORMER TWO-TIME national long jump champion Ramone Bailey says he was pleased with the efforts of first-time senior representative Wayne Pinnock, despite a ninth place in the finals of the men’s long jump at the 2022 World Athletics Championships...
Jamaica’s lone Women’s representative in the discus, Samantha Hall, throwing from Group B of the first round, failed to progress to the final of the event after finishing 14th. Hall, a two-time national champion, could only manage to muster a...
Charokee Young and Kemba Nelson have become the latest Jamaican athletes to sign deals with German-based sports giants PUMA. Young, who is making her first senior team, finished third in the Women’s 400 metres at the JAAA National Senior and...
TWO-TIME World Championships representative Julian Forte has, for the first time, explained the sub-par season he has had and the reason he is not one of those donning the Jamaican colours in Eugene tomorrow. The 29-year-old Forte, on his YouTube...
THE GLEANER could not go into this week’s World Athletics Championships without finding out what our neighbours thought about Jamaica’s medal chances. Many have focused in on the women to sprint the country’s way towards something resembling the...
FORMER JAMAICAN International and Harbour View FC captain Richard ‘Shortman’ Edwards says Harbour View winning the 2022 Jamaica Premier League title couldn’t have come at a better time. The good timing Edwards speaks about has much to do with the...
JOURNALIST ‘DOWN Under’ are fuming at track and field legend Usain Bolt after the multiple Olympic and World Championships gold medallist and 100- and 200-metre world record holder made disparaging comments about the Australian A League. During a...
FIVE-TIME Olympian and six-time Caribbean swimmer of the year, Alia Atkinson, has been elected chair of the International Swimming Federation’s (FINA) new gender and discipline-balanced Athletes’ Committee. The committee comprises athletes from...
WORLD Championships triple jump silver medalist Shanieka Ricketts produced a first-round effort of 14.27 metres to lift her to a fourth national title at last weekend’s JAAA National Senior and Junior Championships at the National Stadium, and...
CRICKET WEST Indies (CWI), in collaboration with the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), has unveiled a new 60-ball cricket format set for launch later this summer, dubbed ‘6ixty’. While speaking with Gleaner Sports, CWI President Ricky Skerrit called...
FORMER REGGAE Boyz skipper Rodolph Austin says the attitude of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) to the latest controversy to surround the organisation leaves much to be desired. The midfield strongman, who now plays centre half for Jamaica...
FORMER ASSISTANT national coach Winston Nevers believes the Sunshine Girlz squad, while strong, is missing an integral piece. After finishing third at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, the World-number-four-ranked Sunshine Girls will be looking to not...
WITH GOLD Cup qualification out of the way, Reggae Boyz interim head coach, Paul Hall, now has time to look at those off-the-field matters that threatened to derail the progress of the team in the Concacaf Nations League. That progress was marked...
FORMER TRINIDAD and Tobago defender-turned-analyst, Brent Sancho, believes Aston Villa and Jamaica winger Leon Bailey has all the tools for success despite a sub-par season for the English club and spotty performances for the national team. “I...
Jamaica’s Young Reggae Boyz, having seen failure upon failure after qualification back in 2001, are determined to make a difference when the 2023 Under-20 World Cup takes centre stage, and this time around, the dream isn’t just a pie in the sky....
