SUNSHINE GIRLS head coach, Nardia Hansen, wants a fully fit team ahead of the World Fast5 Netball tournament slated for November 9 and 10. Hansen was speaking during preparation games against at the National Indoor Sports Centre on Friday night. “...
IN A bid to fine-tune preparations ahead of their four-match Test series against the England’s Vitality Roses, Jamaica’s senior Sunshine Girls were locked in an intense training session against the Jamaica Suns (Men’s Netball team) on Friday night...
CALABAR SURGED to the top of Zone D as they eked out a 1-0 victory over St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) in a top-of-the-table clash yesterday at the Calabar field. The Andrew Price-coached team started slowly but gathered momentum as the...
HIGH SCHOOL sports’ governing body the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), through a press release, explained that cancelled matches in the ongoing schoolboy football season will resume tomorrow following a decision by the Jamaica...
THERE WERE no devils lying in wait for the Craig Butler-coached Mona High School, as the defending ISSA Manning Cup champions kept their perfect run in Zone B going with a 3-0 win over Charlie Smith High School at the Anthony Spaulding Sports...
MOUNT PLEASANT coach Theodore Whitmore will start life in the 2024-2025 season of the Jamaica Premier League with a very familiar face by his side. According to Paul Christie, sporting director at Mount Pleasant, the club pushed to reunite Whitmore...
AHEAD OF the 2024-25 Jamaica Premier League season, former champions Waterhouse have bolstered their offensive line with the acquisition of striker Nicholas Hamilton. The experienced player joins the club after winning the title last season with...
NOTED SPORTS medicine specialist Dr Paul Wright feels the career of Ronald Levy may very well be over and doesn’t believe that there can be any excuse for the types of drug the hurdler was banned for. The former Commonwealth Games gold medallist...
FORMER CALABAR High School track standout Daniel England is gearing up for the fifth staging of his Student-Athlete Summit set for October 16 and 18 in Kingston and Montego Bay, respectively. The summit, which began in 2019, is geared towards...
FORMER JAMAICA batsman, Mark Neita, believes that a lack of sufficient cricket at the first-class level for Kirk McKenzie before taking on England in the Richards-Botham series just recently was a recipe for disaster. McKenzie, who averaged just 5....
JAMAICA CYCLING Association head coach, Carlton Simmonds, says there is direct correlation between the Olympic qualification system and the country’s decline in the sport. Simmonds explained that the nature of qualification requires significant...
EXPERIENCED LOCAL coach Phillip Williams is happy to be part of the restructuring of 2022-23 beaten Jamaica Premier League (JPL) finalists Dunbeholden in the capacity of head coach. “I’m elated to join the Dunbeholden family, they’re undertaking a...
THE YEAR 2023 was possibly one of the most testing times for national netball representative Latanya Wilson. The highly rated player lost the majority of her personal belongings when her Rum Lane home was ravaged by fire. One year later, the now 23...
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW SAYEED Bernard, one of four lawyers along with Emir Crowne, Jason Jones, and Matthew Gayle, representing judo athlete Ebony Drysdale-Daley, is disappointed with the way the Jamaica Judo Association (JJA) is treating his client. “We...
CRICKET WEST Indies (CWI) announcement that it will be employing new selection processes in tandem with the non-renewal of contracts for chief selelctors, Desmond Haynes and Ann Browne-John, has led to speculation that the organisation will be...
FRESHLY MINTED national sprint champion Kishane Thompson revealed that his world lead time of 9.77 on Friday at the National Stadium was merely a test to see how well his training programme had been going. According to Thompson, his coach, Stephen...
HEAD COACH of Jamaica’s under-17 Reggae Boyz, Altimont ‘Freddy’ Butler, has revealed that a recent incident in Florida, Port St Lucie, could have turned sour if he didn’t act quickly to properly identify himself. The former national striker, while...
WELL-TRAVELLED COACH Davion Ferguson believes his vision and that of Jamaica’s most successful club, Portmore United, are in alignment. Ferguson, who will be calling the shots from the sidelines in the upcoming Jamaica Premier League (JPL) season,...
MINISTER OF Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange has confirmed that the new lights for the National Stadium have arrived on the island. The issue of lighting at the stadium has been a huge discussion point and was amplified after...
IN THEIR heyday, the rivalry between Jamaica’s Asafa Powell and America’s Justin Gatlin served up mouth-watering encounters and jaw-dropping times. “From 2003 to around 2007, there was only one individual I had to worry about, and that was Asafa...
IN THE absence of regular Reggae Boyz captain, Andre Blake, Damion Lowe was given the armband against the Dominican Republic in a World Cup qualifier on Thursday inside the National Stadium, a responsibility the hard-tackling defender is only too...
JAMAICAN INTERNATIONAL Morgan Green is enjoying life in Mexico’s top-flight women’s basketball league for the red-hot Fuerza Regia. The Carlos Alonso-coached team are the current league leaders, boasting a record of seven victories and one defeat...
AHEAD OF the highly anticipated summer Olympics, set to be hosted in Paris, France from July 26 to August 11, Laure Beccuau, Paris’s chief prosecutor, is urging caution to the expected 16 million tourists to venture to the country to witness the...
JAMAICA WILL have no boxing representative at the upcoming Paris Olympics, after hopes went up in flames following defeats to Sanji Williams and Tevoy Barrett at the final global qualifier in Bangkok, Thailand last week. Speaking with The Sunday...
AN UNBEATEN 71 from St Elizabeth Technical High School’s (STETHS) Odane Binns propelled his team to an eight-wicket victory over a game Tacky High School in the ISSA/TVJ T20 final at the Sir P Oval yesterday. Tacky, who racked up 159 for nine from...
