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Published:Thursday | September 14, 2023 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

IN A bid to continue helping to shape Jamaica’s football growth through the development of youngsters playing the game, the 2023 Youth Football League’s Junior Cup competition goes into its sophomore staging this month. The age-group tournament...

Published:Tuesday | September 12, 2023 | 12:10 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

ELTHAM High were rewarded with a 3-0 victory and three points without kicking a ball in their opening Group C Manning Cup fixture against home team Denham Town High at the Edward Seaga Sports Complex yesterday after the hosts failed to produce an...

Published:Saturday | September 9, 2023 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

REIGNING ISSA daCosta Cup champions Clarendon College will begin their title defence today when they go up against parish rivals Lennon High in the curtain-raiser for the 2023 schoolboy football season. Match time is set for 3 p.m. at the National...

Published:Friday | September 8, 2023 | 12:02 PMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Jamaican International Demarai Gray has inked a four-year deal with Saudi Arabia club Al-Ettifaq. The deal, which is said to be worth €10 million, sees the winger departing English Premier League outfit Everton having scored nine goals in 67...

Published:Friday | September 8, 2023 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

AHEAD of Jamaica’s opening assignment against Honduras in the 2023 Concacaf Nations League tournament, Heimir Hallgrimsson, head coach of the senior Reggae Boyz team, believes his players are prepared for their rivals as they have spent a lot of...

Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 3:37 PMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Jamaica and Manchester City Striker Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw has been shortlisted for the 2023 women’s Ballon d’Or award. The 26-year-old Shaw finished second in last season’s Women's Premier League golden boot race, tallying 20 goals. England and...

Published:Tuesday | September 5, 2023 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

The Oniel Brown-coached Urban Knights are the 2023 National Basketball League (NBL) mid-season champions. On Sunday night at the National Stadium court, Urban Knights took top honours following a close 69-66 victory over Upper Room Eagles. The...

Published:Saturday | September 2, 2023 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Five-time national football champions Harbour View Football Club will start the new Jamaica Premier League season without the services of their dynamic duo, Colorado Murray and Timar Lewis, following overseas transfers. Murray will now be plying...

Published:Friday | September 1, 2023 | 12:10 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

THE Rudolph Speid-coached Cavalier SC got their first victory of the 2023 Scotiabank Concacaf Club Championships following a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Trinidad and Tobago’s Athletic Club Port-of-Spain at Sabina Park last night in matchday two of...

Published:Friday | September 1, 2023 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

AHEAD of the second staging of the Mayberry-sponsored Jamaica Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Association (JABBFA) Senior Championships set for tomorrow at the AC Hotel in New Kingston, Kirk Frankson, vice-president of the JABBFA, says the event...

Published:Thursday | August 31, 2023 | 12:10 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

FORMER JAMAICA Premier League champion and Reggae Boy Richard Edwards is basking in the excitement of launching his football academy, Touch of Class Academy in Canada. Edwards, who retired from football in 2012, is expanding on the idea behind...

Published:Wednesday | August 30, 2023 | 12:13 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

UPPER ROOM Eagles and Urban Knights will lock horns in the National Basketball League’s (NBL) mid-season final after ending the first half of the season in first and second place, respectively. The Eagles, who have won seven of their nine games,...

Published:Tuesday | August 29, 2023 | 12:10 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

The Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) has announced a special monetary award to Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls, bronze medal winners at the recent Netball World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa. In a release yesterday, the JOA said each player from the...

Published:Tuesday | August 29, 2023 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

FRESH off their fourth-place finish at the recently concluded 2023 Senior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Championships in the Cayman Islands, President of Jamaica’s Squash Association, Karen Anderson, said that work is already being done...

Published:Monday | August 28, 2023 | 2:40 PMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

The Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) has stepped in to help getting 22-year-old national netballer, Latanya Wilson, back on her feet. Wilson and her family had their lives turned upside-down last Thursday, when a fire decimated their Rum Lane,...

Published:Friday | August 25, 2023 | 12:10 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

FOLLOWING the devastating news that fire destroyed the home of national netball representative Latanya Wilson at Rum Lane in downtown Kingston on Thursday morning, both the government and Netball Jamaica (NJ) are said to be busy at work in a bid to...

Published:Wednesday | August 23, 2023 | 6:24 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Jamaica’s Andrew Hudson and Rasheed Dwyer punched tickets to the semi-final round of the men’s 200 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary this morning. Hudson, in heat two, looked smooth throughout a race he finished...

Published:Wednesday | August 23, 2023 | 5:27 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Shericka Jackson, Natalliah Whyte and Kevona Davis safely qualified for the semi-final round of the women’s 200 metres at the World Athletics Championships while teammate Ashanti Moore missed out. Jackson, fresh off her 100-metre silver medal...

Published:Wednesday | August 23, 2023 | 4:19 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Jamaica’s Adelle Tracey and Natoya Goule-Toppin secured spots in the semi-final round of the women’s 800 metres, both finishing second in their first-round heats at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Tracey had to run through...

Published:Monday | August 21, 2023 | 4:04 PMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Jamaica’s Fedrick Dacres had to settle for fifth place in the final of the men’s discus at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Dacres produced a championship best effort of 66.72 metres in an event won by Sweden’s Daniel Stahl...

Published:Monday | August 21, 2023 | 3:31 PMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Jamaica’s pair of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson mined silver and bronze medals respectively in the final of the women’s 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The silver-medal winning Jackson crossed...

Published:Monday | August 21, 2023 | 3:15 PMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Despite a sluggish start, Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment delivered the country’s first medal, a silver in the 110-metre hurdles, at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The fast-finishing Parchment took the silver medal in a time of...

Published:Monday | August 21, 2023 | 3:05 PMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Candice McLeod will be Jamaica's lone representative in the final of the women's 400 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. McLeod, competing in heat one, finished fourth in semi-final one in 50.62 seconds but...

Published:Monday | August 21, 2023 | 2:05 PMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Jamaica’s medal hopes in the men’s 110-metre hurdles at these World Athletics Championships will rest solely on the shoulders of Hansle Parchment, the Olympic champion the only survivor through to the final. Parchment’s teammate, Orlando Bennett...

Published:Monday | August 21, 2023 | 2:00 PMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Jamaica’s hope of securing a medal in the men’s triple jump was dashed earlier today with Jaydon Hibbert suffering a hamstring injury on his first attempt at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Hibbert had qualified for the...

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